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Almost the same as not being there…
Further to yesterday’s touristy theme, from the ever-interesting folks at Strange Maps, a guide developed in 1927 by Paramount Pictures, advising producers where to look for foreign locations… without...
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Deja vu all over again…
Movie: InceptionActor: Joseph Gordon-LevittLocation: Paris, FrancePhotographer: Jazz Gabriel How does one combine one’s loves of movies and travel? Allen Fuqua created Movie Mimic. Movie: Vicky...
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And in conclusion…
The final image in Russ Meyer’s epic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Monte Patterson has done us the terrific service of creating The Final Image, a Tumblr that collects– yes!– the final images of films....
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Traduttore, traditore…
Over at the always-fascinating Langage Log, Victor Mair responds to an amusing– but as he points out, slightly misleading– piece in The Daily Mail. In “Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs...
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Hair today…
This outrageous display of facial hair configurations made an appearance at the 4th Annual National Beard and Mustache Championships in New Orleans earlier this month. Luckily Las Vegas-based...
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“He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams”*…
From Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period. But his influence extended well beyond the Soviet...
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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion...
From The Great Train Robbery, 1903 In 1888, Thomas Edison wrote that “I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and...
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“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the...
Christian Marclay’s “Telephones” (1995), a 7 1/2-minute compilation of brief Hollywood film clips that creates a narrative of its own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable...
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“Film lovers are sick people”*…
email readers click here for video An overview of how film works, the different types of film, and its place in the world of modern digital storytelling… * François Truffaut ### As we tell truth at...
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“I think all great innovations are built on rejections”*…
Screenwriters sending scripts to Essanay Studios, a Chicago company that produced silent films between 1907 and 1917, received this form rejection letter in response to their submissions. Here...
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“Drive-ins were actually playing a difficult game from the start; the...
Photographer Lindsey Rickert was just seven or eight years old when she went to her first drive-in movie. Looking back now, what she remembers most is magic of the experience itself, “laughing and...
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“Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it....
They are sketched out, improvised, or placed in scenes by the fate of logic, existing to serve the performances or action around them. But while iconic movie props make us laugh, gasp, scream, and/or...
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“The most beautiful sight in a… theater is to walk down to the front, turn...
The magic lantern was basically a seventeenth-century slide projector: a light source (a candle), an image (a piece of painted glass), and a lens. It was an ever-evolving object, and revolutionized...
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could...
Someone went through a great deal of effort to stitch together a montage of dance scenes from some 300 feature films… More (including a list of all of the films featured) at: Dancing in Movies: A...
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it”*…
A tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by John Keats At least as far back as the ancient Greeks, poets and philosophers have struggled to define the nature of beauty. More recently—that...
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“Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle...
Widescreen feels cinematic. When black bars come down and a show goes into widescreen, it feels more like a movie. More intense. More epic. The shape of a screen changes how we feel about it, and...
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“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter”*…
The term “film noir” is typically credited to French critic Nino Frank, who apparently coined it in a 1946 essay published in the magazine L’Écran français to describe four American crime films:...
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“I don’t think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don’t say, ‘I...
A reprise of a sort… If you were going to pick just one silent era stop motion short to watch–just one!–I’d happily recommend an early work by Ladislas Starevich: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)....
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“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”*
In “Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove,” Kristan Horton imitates the glorious satirical film Dr. Strangelove, using common household objects to re-create the world created by Kubrick—silverware become...
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“What’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater?”*…
Arman Cinema / Viktor Konstaninov, architect. Almaty, Kazakhstan 1967 “Eastern Bloc Architecture: 50 Buildings that Defined an Era” is a collaborative series by The Calvert Journal and ArchDaily...
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