Pages

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Close up: More blockbusters please, we're British (Guardian)

Film's favourite PM, David Cameron, stepped in to give his views on what sort of features deserve lottery funding – the big ones

Colin Firth King's Speech
Royalty cheques ... The King's Speech

The big story

What sort of British films do we want? Or, more specifically, what sort of British films does David Cameron want? More commercial, big-box-office ones it seems, as the prime minister carefully primed the media for the publication of the government's film policy review. His "remarks" were fed to the press overnight, in advance of his visit to the James Bond studios at Pinewood – leading to immediate suggestions that garlanded veterans like Mike Leigh were "finished". More films like The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire, please, said Cameron – but, as Peter Bradshaw pointed out, when politicians meddle in film-making, disaster is never far away. Perhaps Cameron could reflect on what might happen to a film he claimed to admire, Lindsay Anderson's If..., if it had it been around today


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/12/close-up-blockbusters-david-cameron?newsfeed=true


No comments:

Post a Comment