Upcoming,
That was in relation to a talk he was giving as part of a Sir Ken Adam Retrospective, as Sir Christopher is an authority on Ken Adams along with film, culture and history.
He is the man who who explained that Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is actually pronounced Dr Jeekle and Mr Hyde as in Hide and Seek. An English professor, who when knighted (for Services to Art and Design Education) decides that his badge is a Saguaro Cactus and the motto to adorn his coat of arms will be:
Perge, Scelus, Mihi Diem Perficias"
Translated by the College of Heralds to mean:
"Proceed, varlet, and let the day be rendered perfect for my benefit"
- a man with such wit and deep passion for film should be blogged about every day. But a man who can so succinctly deliver insight into a challenge of the arts that has been on my mind a lot lately, should surely be revered?
I explained that my teaching and my writing were crucially concerned with the ‘neogeneration’ of artists, designers, writers, and filmmakers: at a time when most commercial filmmakers are concerned with making films about films about films, I try to ask why there is this obsession with referring to other peoples' work in an explicit way.
Could it be that the artist's experience is increasingly limited to experience of other artists? Was it always like this?”
- Sir Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling's career is immense; spanning academia, consulting, broadcasting and presenting. He epitomises the word doyenne.
Yet he has found the time to author a staggering number of insightful books (between 18 – 20 depending on who you ask) across a vast variety of interests including translating the stories of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon Wrote Fiction) through Strange Landscape: A Journey Through the Middle Ages via On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus up to Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond and landing with The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film.
Frayling has written 3 books about Sergio Leone and the Italian Western genre; Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (1981), Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death by Christopher Frayling (2000), Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy (2005) as well as a Clint Eastwood biography (1993). So he knows something about the Western genre, the Italian spin off and particularly the great Sergio Leone.
With Leone's Dollars or the Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)) having just passed it's 50th anniversary and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West turning 50 this year.
And knowing that Sir Christopher belie
And knowing that Sir Christopher believes it’s one of the greatest films ever made - it makes sense that Christopher Frayling's long awaited fourth book looking at the final of Sergio Leone's Westerns - Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece is on our mind this month.
Everything you always wanted to know about Once Upon a Time in the West, but were afraid to ask... And I mean everything...!”
- Sir Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling Once Upon A Time In The West Shooting a Masterpiece
Sir Christopher Frayling's Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece
I must confess to some shame on my part, despite many posts knocking on about great books delving into the making of film I discovered that I have only included mention of Sir Christopher Frayling only once.That was in relation to a talk he was giving as part of a Sir Ken Adam Retrospective, as Sir Christopher is an authority on Ken Adams along with film, culture and history.
He is the man who who explained that Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is actually pronounced Dr Jeekle and Mr Hyde as in Hide and Seek. An English professor, who when knighted (for Services to Art and Design Education) decides that his badge is a Saguaro Cactus and the motto to adorn his coat of arms will be:
Perge, Scelus, Mihi Diem Perficias"
Translated by the College of Heralds to mean:
"Proceed, varlet, and let the day be rendered perfect for my benefit"
- a man with such wit and deep passion for film should be blogged about every day. But a man who can so succinctly deliver insight into a challenge of the arts that has been on my mind a lot lately, should surely be revered?
I explained that my teaching and my writing were crucially concerned with the ‘neogeneration’ of artists, designers, writers, and filmmakers: at a time when most commercial filmmakers are concerned with making films about films about films, I try to ask why there is this obsession with referring to other peoples' work in an explicit way.
Could it be that the artist's experience is increasingly limited to experience of other artists? Was it always like this?”
- Sir Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling's career is immense; spanning academia, consulting, broadcasting and presenting. He epitomises the word doyenne.
Yet he has found the time to author a staggering number of insightful books (between 18 – 20 depending on who you ask) across a vast variety of interests including translating the stories of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon Wrote Fiction) through Strange Landscape: A Journey Through the Middle Ages via On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus up to Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond and landing with The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film.
Frayling has written 3 books about Sergio Leone and the Italian Western genre; Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (1981), Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death by Christopher Frayling (2000), Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy (2005) as well as a Clint Eastwood biography (1993). So he knows something about the Western genre, the Italian spin off and particularly the great Sergio Leone.
With Leone's Dollars or the Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)) having just passed it's 50th anniversary and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West turning 50 this year.
And knowing that Sir Christopher belie
And knowing that Sir Christopher believes it’s one of the greatest films ever made - it makes sense that Christopher Frayling's long awaited fourth book looking at the final of Sergio Leone's Westerns - Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece is on our mind this month.
Everything you always wanted to know about Once Upon a Time in the West, but were afraid to ask... And I mean everything...!”
- Sir Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling Once Upon A Time In The West Shooting a Masterpiece
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