Film Education Manager, Programmer, The Dukes Cinema, Lancaster, BA Art History with Film Studies; MA Museum Curatorship, Tim has written on the subject of feature films in education and has a particular interest in post-war European film.
"As an individual, Krzystof Kieslowski represents that curious hybrid:
an artist who matured as he worked both within and eventually against communist
rule in Poland during the 1970's and 80's and who then moved into pan-European
co-production a reunited continent during the 1990's. As a filmmaker he moved
from politically committed documentary work early in his career to ornate and
highly formalised works, as realised in the majestic Three Colours trilogy.
The turning-point was the ten Decalog films (1988) which concerned themselves,
not now with politics, but the myriad complexities of human beings, the subject
he was to pursue to such perfect extremes in the trilogy. With the exception
of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos (Eternity and a Day), Kieslowski
was the last of the great post-war European directors. The final trilogy as
an utterly appropriate epitaph for him"
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Hill. The author of twenty books on cinema and recently a contributor to a forthcoming volume on Shakespeare, the Millennium and Film to be published this year.
Neil Sinyard is giving two illustrated talks on aspects of Shakespearean interpretation on film. The first is on foreign language versions of Shakespeare, with particular reference to films by Kurosawa and Kozinstev. He will discuss Kurosawa's version of Macbeth, Throne of Blood, in terms of how the director finds visual imagery to correspond with Shakespeare's poetic language. He will also consider how Kozinstev's focus on the political dimension of Hamlet might have particular reference to the director's perception of the contemporary Soviet situation.
The second talk will focus on Al Pacino's Looking For Richard. It will consider how Pacino astutely utilises imagery and situations from The Godfather to give a modern slant to Richard III. It will particularly discuss how the unusual form of the film suggests new ways of approaching Shakespeare for the new century.
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