----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David Reviewers are provided with "press kits" to assist them identify cast & credits, to provide them with background to the film etc. These kits generally run to about 12 to 16 pages. N Neil Pollock Australian Film Television and Radio School On Wed, 8 Feb 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Finally! Heavenly Creatures has arrived in Switzerland. It's been a > long time since I was so emotionally involved in a film. The terribly > sad scream with which the film ends would seem to describe the pain > caused by the severing of such a beautiful intense friendship very > well. I seem to remember something like that ... A part of me, albeit a > foolish, reckless part, cannot accept that such a powerful friendship > could be severed by common law, given that they seemed to have lived by > their own rules until the real world started to intrude. > > My curiosity about the 'true' story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker > led me to search for the last 100 references to the film in the press. > As could be expected, the range of qualitative crticism is broad. But I > was quite surprised to find a few discrepancies in the facts about the > film, at least as far as my recollection of the narrative goes. So how > do film reviewers/ critics get all of the facts, such as character > names, actors, producer, cinematographer etc., for their articles? Do > they take notes whilst watching the film, dodging round the heads of > people standing up to leave as the credits roll, or are leaflets > distributed before or at the showing? Or do the reviewers, rather like > the girls in Heavenly Creatures, snuggle up to the poster outside for > the details? > > David Moon >