simon.conder

I love film, it has always fascinated me. The how the hell...did they do that moment never fails to move me. Be it the first time I saw the space hostess walk up the wall in 2001 in 1968, or seeing Superman fly for the first time in 1978 or being scared sh@@less when Franklyn gets it in the TCM.

I am a qualified stockbroker and for a number of years I was intimately involved with the funding of some significant feature films (mostly American) and the design on evolutionary non-tax driven funding structures in the UK.

As for what makes a great film or a bad one for me? Surely its all down to personal taste but frankly bad acting and a stupid/banal script crosses all taste boundaries. As for the commercial realities of film production here in the UK, having films like Gravity called British makes me furious. The real British film industry (yes industry as it is a business and NOT a lifestyle) needs to work massively harder to produce the kinds of films that the world and particularly America wants to pay money to go and see: films with great actors, great stories and great photography but with our own distinct style.

Ohhh and yes I post under my own name and not behind a veil of secrecy.