Sean Glass

The second is the form in which Boyle injects this dynamic. The entire form of the film is based on putting us inside Ralston’s head. He uses mixed mediums and many different shooting styles to achieve this, aided by Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle’s ingenuity with small handheld cameras. Boyle employs POV subjective camera work, Ralston documents his situation with a video camera and talks to the camera, we go into Ralston’s fantasies, sometimes they are obvious, sometimes ambiguous until the end.

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Beaufoy had a difficult task at hand when it came to this assignment. Before he came on board, he was given a six-page treatment written by director Danny Boyle, hence the co-writing credit. Beaufoy, along with another Slumdog Millionaire collaborator, producer Christian Colson, were very apprehensive about taking on the project until reading this treatment, as they knew the story to be about a man stuck in one place for the entire time.

Last night Stake Land opened Film Society of Lincoln Center’s fourth annual “Scary Movies” festival. The festival is rather unique as it blends some of the familiar classics, such as Hellraiser, Carrie, Dead of Night, with some rarities like Jack Cardiff’s The Mutations and Legend of Hell House to new flavors such as Australia's The Loved Ones, Triangle and last night’s opener, the TIFF Midnight Madness Audience Award winner, Stake Land.

Nuremberg, the documentary film based on the 1945 World War II Nazi trials in Nuremberg directed by Stuart Schulberg and completed in 1948 is the official document of the 1945 Nuremberg Trial as commissioned by the United States. It's a sin that Nuremberg has never been released until now.