History & Criticism
epub | | 2014-05-25 | Author:Visionary Filmmakers after MTV

Figure 4.2: Hua Yang De Nian Hua: close-up of Zhou Xuan. movie—comes with a high, long-held note on the verbal image of a warm, all-encompassing embrace with the motherland (“Ah, ...
( Category: Theory June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Michael Z. Newman

From the 1950s to the 1990s, video developed in multiple directions, performing various functions and producing a number of perceived effects and consequences. Its identity was contingent on its uses ...
( Category: Film & Video Art June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-09 | Author:Charlie Chaplin

This may be eminently beautiful but I do not enjoy that kind of poetry in the theatre. Moreover, I dislike Shakespearean themes involving kings, queens, august people and their honour. ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:James Curtis [Curtis, James]

Without Hepburn to contain him, Tracy ran amok in New York for the better part of a week, sometimes in the company of Charles Newhill, who was devoted to him, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Alan Goldsher & Robert Englund [Goldsher, Alan & Englund, Robert]

CHAPTER 6 NIGHTMARE #6: While catnapping in the hour before dawn during the filming of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, I was awakened by rapping on my trailer ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Blount Jr., Roy

Whenever the teacher left the room, the Irish boys, according to Harpo, would throw him out the window. One day he just stayed out, for good. We know that Harpo, ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 17,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Normanton, Peter [Normanton, Peter]

Retired detective Big Bob Carter (Russ Grieve) and his family are holidaying in a trailer in the arid vastness of the same desert. When they the stop at an isolated ...
( Category: Guides & Reviews May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Stefan Kanfer [Kanfer, Stefan]

iii Writer and, later, director Richard Brooks maintained that Humphrey’s renunciation of the First Amendment committee signaled an end “to the illusions of life, that everything is going to be ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Robert Hofler

CHAPTER TEN Spring 1970, Kisses John Schlesinger decided not to attend either the Golden Globes or the Academy Awards, even though he’d been nominated as best director by both confabs. ...
( Category: Theory May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Vern [Vern]

CHAPTER 20: TODAY YOU DIE “And I thought I was ignorant. This one crazy motherfucker.” Behind Today You Die’s opening titles is a sound we haven’t heard in a while: ...
( Category: Action & Adventure May 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-28 | Author:Roderick Flynn & Patrick Brereton

Although many of the committee recommendations were not acted upon, the one exception to this related to a national film institute, in part because other actors took a hand in ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:David Hughes [Hughes, David]

PERCHANCE TO DREAM The title character of Neil Gaiman’s critically acclaimed comic book The Sandman visited Hell. Unlike the film version, however, he made it back “The Sandman movie is ...
( Category: Reference April 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Howard Blum [Blum, Howard]

In the days that followed, McManigal and McNamara remained hidden away while Billy waited with increasing impatience for the extradition writs from Los Angeles. He tried to convince himself that ...
( Category: Anarchism April 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Doherty, Thomas

Weimar set melodrama I: confronting a clueless home front, a combat veteran (Andy Devine) is forced to surrender his water pistol to his former high school instructor (Al Sheen) in ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

dream of Harry's, which seemed to be the way to preserve it within the film…. When you have restricted material you're going to have to restructure things from the original ...
( Category: Direction & Production April 12,2014 )