Clip joint goes through the looking glass to find film's fairest mirror moments
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is this the most hackneyed Clip joint opening line of them all?
Perhaps so, but there's no doubting the cinematic power of reflection – a tested trope and nifty technical manoeuvre that's been used in many stand-out scenes in movie history.
In an art form to which the visual is crucial, a glance in the mirror can be a window into the soul – an expression of self-doubt, a moment of realisation or perhaps the communication of internalised pain. It can be just plain funny, too. It all depends on who's looking in the glass.
Mirrors have proved a powerful tool in horror films, as well. Don't believe me? Go and stand in front of one and say "Candyman" five times.
Here are a few of my favourite mirror moments. Read, reflect and tell...
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is this the most hackneyed Clip joint opening line of them all?
Perhaps so, but there's no doubting the cinematic power of reflection – a tested trope and nifty technical manoeuvre that's been used in many stand-out scenes in movie history.
In an art form to which the visual is crucial, a glance in the mirror can be a window into the soul – an expression of self-doubt, a moment of realisation or perhaps the communication of internalised pain. It can be just plain funny, too. It all depends on who's looking in the glass.
Mirrors have proved a powerful tool in horror films, as well. Don't believe me? Go and stand in front of one and say "Candyman" five times.
Here are a few of my favourite mirror moments. Read, reflect and tell...
- 12/8/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Alluring Australian actor best known for her role in The Wicker Man
Such is the superficial nature of fame that the Australian-born actor Diane Cilento, who has died of cancer aged 78, was best remembered as the wife of Sean Connery from 1962 to 1973, during the height of his fame as James Bond. The attractive, blonde, husky-voiced Cilento would be more fittingly recalled for her roles in a dozen or so British films in the 1950s and 60s, to which she brought a dose of much-needed sexuality. However, her best-known part was in the cultish The Wicker Man (1973), her last British picture before returning to her homeland.
Born in Brisbane, she was the daughter of Sir Raphael and Lady Phyllis Cilento, both physicians. Much to their initial disappointment, Diane decided against following them into the medical profession. After winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, at the age...
Such is the superficial nature of fame that the Australian-born actor Diane Cilento, who has died of cancer aged 78, was best remembered as the wife of Sean Connery from 1962 to 1973, during the height of his fame as James Bond. The attractive, blonde, husky-voiced Cilento would be more fittingly recalled for her roles in a dozen or so British films in the 1950s and 60s, to which she brought a dose of much-needed sexuality. However, her best-known part was in the cultish The Wicker Man (1973), her last British picture before returning to her homeland.
Born in Brisbane, she was the daughter of Sir Raphael and Lady Phyllis Cilento, both physicians. Much to their initial disappointment, Diane decided against following them into the medical profession. After winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, at the age...
- 10/7/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Diane Cilento, a tall, voluptuous, sometimes blonde/sometimes brunette beauty best remembered for her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1963 Oscar winner Tom Jones, died in Cairns, in the north of Queensland, according to an online report in the Australian publication The Newsport/Port Douglas Daily. The report says Cilento was 81; as per the IMDb, she had turned 78 yesterday. The cause of death, "after a long battle with illness," hasn't been disclosed. Born to a family of doctors on Oct. 5, 1933, in Brisbane, Queensland, Cilento began her film career in British and British-set Hollywood productions of the early 1950s. By mid-decade, Cilento was already getting cast in leads and semi-leads, in mid-level fare such as Roy Ward Baker's Passage Home (1955), opposite Anthony Steel and Peter Finch, and Alan Bromly's The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1956), in the title role as an angel who, in order to fulfill her mission on Earth,...
- 10/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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