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From El Dorado to Lost Horizons by Ken Windrum;
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Ken Windrum;

Your Parents’ (Self-Conscious) Naughty Sex Comedy In 1972, as the period was ending, the Neil Simon adaptation The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Gene Saks) and Billy Wilder’s Avanti! ...
( Category: Direction & Production March 14,2020 )
Clarence Brown by Gwenda Young
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Gwenda Young

19 Back to the Formula Wife vs. Secretary, The Gorgeous Hussy, and Love on the Run When Brown left Grafton, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1935, it was with a ...
( Category: Classical March 14,2020 )
Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky by Bartig Kevin;
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Bartig, Kevin;

One who did sniff was the oft-dyspeptic composer Arthur Berger, who complained generally about the popularity of Soviet works with American audiences. “Some undertakings,” he carped, “are easily eclipsed by ...
( Category: Ethnic & International March 13,2020 )
The Coen Brothers' America by M. Keith Booker
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:M. Keith Booker

2. Bergan, The Coen Brothers, 128. 3. Quoted in Levine, The Coen Brothers, 101. 4. James Mottram, The Coen Brothers: The Life of the Mind (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2000) 87. ...
( Category: Individual Directors March 13,2020 )
Thomas Vinterberg's Festen by Thomson Claire C.;
epub |eng | | Author:Thomson, Claire C.;

Conclusion The first rule of the Dogma 95 Vow of Chastity insists that the film be shot on location and that props and sets must not be brought in. This ...
( Category: Cinematography March 13,2020 )
George Cukor: A Double Life by McGilligan Patrick
epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:McGilligan, Patrick [McGilligan, Patrick]

For A Double Life, the Kanins took as their premise a seasoned actor playing Othello who gets into his role not wisely but too well. The actor, Anthony John, becomes ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 13,2020 )
Hong Kong Horror Cinema by Gary Bettinson Daniel Martin
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Bettinson,Daniel Martin

CHAPTER 8 Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema Kenneth Chan Introduction: Transfiguring Genre In this chapter’s examination of the Chinese supernatural-martial arts film (wuxia ...
( Category: Direction & Production March 13,2020 )
The Invention of Robert Bresson by Burnett Colin;
epub |eng | 2016-03-12 | Author:Burnett, Colin;

A New Auteur, A New Language If we examine it in light of the postwar cultural market, the story of Journal d’un curé de campagne’s adaptation becomes one of reciprocal ...
( Category: Individual Directors March 13,2020 )
The Movies That Changed Us by Nick Clooney
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Nick Clooney

11 THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK 1944 DIRECTOR: PRESTON STURGES STARS: EDDIE BRACKEN, BETTY HUTTON, DIANA LYNN RUNNING TIME: 1 HOUR, 39 MINUTES Trudy Kockenlocker lives in the small town ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2020 )
Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record by Gregg Mitman & Kelley Wilder
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Gregg Mitman & Kelley Wilder [Mitman, Gregg & Wilder, Kelley]

Epilogue What are the consequences of reanimating the life of the Harvard expedition footage, which had long been dead and forgotten? In 2012, I traveled to Liberia with the expedition ...
( Category: History of Technology March 13,2020 )
Latin Hitchcock by Kercher Dona;
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Kercher, Dona;

In his cameo in Open Your Eyes, Amenábar laughs at César (Eduardo Noriega) and the line Amenábar’s co-scriptwriter Mateo Gil has just said (‘Fix your face’) as César exits the ...
( Category: Direction & Production March 13,2020 )
The Cinema of Errol Morris by Resha David
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Resha, David

▪ Style Ever since his first film, Morris has wanted to provide the impression that his interview subjects were making eye contact with the audience. Morris’s desire for eye contact ...
( Category: Individual Directors March 12,2020 )
Elvis Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Hollywood by Paul Simpson
epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Paul Simpson

Lizabeth Scott’s career was hurt by insinuations that she was a “baritone babe”—code for lesbian in 1950s scandal sheets. Onscreen, her rapport with Presley is one of the strongest aspects ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2020 )
Dreams and Dead Ends by Shadoian Jack;
epub |eng | 2003-03-11 | Author:Shadoian, Jack;

The genre in the fifties has an almost fanatical tightness. The films are extended statements of rigidly interlocked parts. No one can speak a line without it echoing with significance. ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2020 )
Make My Day by J. Hoberman
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:J. Hoberman

* Spielberg and Capshaw were married in 1991. Forget John Glenn. Later that summer, Newsweek would compare Ronald Reagan to Indiana Jones and conjure the Conquest of Grenada: “Rather than ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 12,2020 )

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