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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:

 

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>     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

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