Barry freezes up on Munich!
It was the 11th week of shooting Munich. We had converted an abandoned hockey rink in Budapest into the Olympic Village set. The building was almost entirely underground and we were oblivious to night and day. Focused. Alongside shooting, young Arab and Israeli actors were into their second week of stunt training for the Olympic assault sequence, which was a kind of peace process in of itself. It was at this point, as the person who had assembled and edited …
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Kickstarter update from Stuart
Hi kickstarter people and everyone else, Just want to say hi. I’ve been laying quite low, leaving other to adminstrate this whole process. Last night I went through the names of all the contributors. I was surprised to see how …
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Update from Barry
Hello All! A little update as we hit the halfway mark in the Kickstarter campaign. Stuart is off taking walks around the City and the neighboring countryside, his last chance to daydream on the script for a spell. Meanwhile, we …
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We launch our Kickstarter campaign
Hi guys It does indeed seem that the possibility of making the film is getting closer. I said to Barry, the producer of God Help The Girl, that I needed to make the film in summer 2012. It would just …
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Stuart's favourite actors - top 10
10 Humphrey Bogart Bogart’s so iconic that he features in two if my favourite films that he’s not even in! His character from Casablanca is Woody Allen’s ‘mentor’ in Play it Again, Sam, and he’s an inspiration to Jean Paul …
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Stuart's top 50 actors - 30 to 11
30 Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi is memorable in pretty much whatever he does. He’s played amazing character roles in such films as Ghost World and The Big Lebowski, but he can totally carry a film too, as he does in …
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Stuart's top 50 actors - 50 to 31
Yes, so as promised here’s some of my favourite actors. I put them in a sort of an order; couldn’t really help myself. I am an indie man after all. Though my kitchen is in disarray, my pole of thespians …
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03/10/2011 - So, the process of making a film.
I always say to folk that there is an exact parallel in making a record. In fact, I said the other day to someone that if there wasn’t an exact parallel to making a record then I was ‘f*cked, basically’. …
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21/7/2011 - Hello Everyone
It’s been a while, but welcome back to the God Help The Girl website. We’ve been going at it with the duster somewhat, a little bit of shake ‘n’ vac, a touch of Pledge, and here we are. I feel …
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