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  • The Film Director Prepares

    A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv

    • Insider author gives no-nonsense advice• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in filmFrom script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, The Film Director Prepares offers practical insights on filmmaking, using real-life examples directors won’t learn in ... Read more

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  • Manila by Night: A Queer Film Classic

    by Joel David ...
    Joel David: Joel David is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Inha University, Korea. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at New York University. The author of several books on Philippine cinema, he had won the Manila Critics Circle’s National Book Award for Film Criticism, among other prizes. He was founding Director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute. ... Read more

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  • The British Film Catalogue

    The Fiction Film

    Edited by Denis Gifford ...
    The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the silent cinema to the present day. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, ... Read more

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  • Casablanca, l’aventure du film

    by Tito Topin ...
    Qui ne connait pas Casablanca ? La célèbre formule “Play it again Sam” lancée au pianiste du Rick’s Café, les adieux déchirants du couple mythique Ingrid Bergman-Humphrey Bogart sur le tarmac embrumé, la musique “As Time Goes By” qui résonne encore dans toutes les mémoires, le film est devenu avec le temps un véritable objet de culte.Casablanca, l’aventure du film nous prouve pourtant que le chef ... Read more

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  • The Griffith Project, Volume 10

    Films Produced 1919-1946

    No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions ... Read more

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  • Mother India

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema.In her insightful study of this classic, Gayatri Chatterjee draws on new research in the Mehboob studio archive to outline the film's eventful production history, the ambitious vision of its director, and the performances of its stars. Rooted both in ... Read more

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  • The Dollar Baby (2022)

    Reviews & Interviews

    Discover Stephen King stories you’ve never heard of, adapted by students and emerging artists. In this book, I review 115 Dollar Babies and interview 47 filmmakers involved with them. The term “Dollar Deal” refers to an arrangement between King and them. For a dollar, they were granted permission to adapt one of his short stories, novellas, or poems.Dollar Babies cannot be shown publicly outside ... Read more

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  • Les Valseuses de Bertrand Blier

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Les Valseuses, un chef-d'oeuvre de Bertrand Blier.Les Valseuses est assurément une date dans le cinéma français d'après 1968. Le film frappe encore aujourd'hui par la crudité de ses dialogues, son apparente misogynie, la franchise provocante avec laquelle les rapports sexuels sont représentés.Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le ... Read more

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  • Ascenso y caída del padre

    Una historia de la figura paterna a través del cine

    Series series Conexiones
    Ascenso y caída del padre propone la siguiente pregunta… ¿Qué es ser un padre? Un recorrido por la historia del cine en busca de respuestas.Desde sus inicios, el cine imaginó soluciones posibles para el binomio padre/hijo. El lugar y el rol que cumplen los padres y los hijos no se encuentran prefijados de antemano, sino que se transforman según los cambios históricos. Cada época y cada periodo ... Read more

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  • Le Ruban blanc de Michael Haneke

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Le Ruban blanc, un chef-d'oeuvre de Michael Haneke.Splendeur du noir et blanc, puissance de l'évocation historique, dénonciation de la violence : trois qualités du Ruban blanc, le dixième long-métrage de Michael Haneke, palme d'or du festival de Cannes 2009.Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches ... Read more

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  • Mulholland Drive de David Lynch

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Mulholland Drive, un chef-d'oeuvre de David Lynch.Si le film connut une faveur critique extrême, provoqua un enthousiasme débordant chez les cinéphiles et se révéla être une excellente opération commerciale, le mystère de sa naissance ne manqua pas de se répercuter sur sa réception.Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Mulholland Drive de ... Read more

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  • Bigger Than Blockbusters

    Movies That Defined America

    by James Roman ...
    Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger Thornhill in the middle of nowhere, or Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace's unforgettable dance at Jack Rabbit Slim's - they are all cinematic moments that forever changed the psyche and viewing experience of ... Read more

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  • The Art of Movies

    Movie is considered to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences.Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as — in metonymy — the field in general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion ... Read more

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  • The Fashion of Film: How Cinema has Inspired Fashion

    From Amber Butchart, host of BBC 4's A Stitch in Time.**Karl Lagerfeld drew inspiration from the dystopian vision of Metropolis. The picture-perfect worlds of Wes Anderson's films echo in Miuccia Prada's collections. From historical epics and romantic dramas to sci-fi blockbusters and arthouse cool, the world's most creative fashion designers have long taken their inspiration from screen idols - ... Read more

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  • Spider de David Cronenberg

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Spider, un chef-d'oeuvre de David Cronenberg.Monsieur Cleg (Ralph Fiennes) a été surnommé « Spider » – l'araignée – par sa mère lorsqu'il était enfant, comme si elle avait voulu le doter d'une identité ambiguë et multiple, programmatique en quelque sorte de son avenir troublé et troublant. C'est dans ce labyrinthe que nous sommes invités à pénétrer.Les grands films ... Read more

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  • La Règle du jeu de Jean Renoir

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur La Règle du jeu, un chef-d'oeuvre de Jean Renoir.Une affaire de rendez-vous manqué : entre la marquise et son bel aviateur, entre la contrainte sociale et la liberté amoureuse, entre le film et son public. Ce n'est pas la faute de Renoir (1894-1979), et l'on peut bien penser, avec Truffaut, qu'« aucun autre cinéaste n'a mis autant, et le meilleur de lui-même, dans un ... Read more

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  • A Filmography of Cartomancy and Tarot 1940-1979

    A Filmography of Cartomancy and Tarot 1940–1979 (50 films, numerous colour illus. and spread diagrams, indexes) is a catalog of such classics as The Wolf Man (1941), Nightmare Alley (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The Magus (1968), Soylent Green (1973), Live and Let Die (1973), The Duellists (1977... ... Read more

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  • Monty Python's Flying Circus

    An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References

    by Darl Larsen ...
    In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a total of 45 episodes. Despite the show's very English humor and allusions to many things British, the series developed a cult following outside the U.K., particularly in the United States. Known for its ... Read more

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  • Inglourious Basterds de Quentin Tarantino

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Inglourious Basterds, un chef-d'oeuvre de Quentin Tarantino.Avec Inglourious Basterds (2009), Quentin Tarantino se confronte à l'Histoire par le biais de l'histoire du cinéma et réciproquement, en jouant à la fois de la reconstitution de la France occupée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la représentation que le septième art (hollywoodien comme français) en a ... Read more

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  • Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    The Relationship between Text and Film

    by Samuel Crowl ...
    Series series Screen Adaptations
    Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are ... Read more

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  • Barton Fink. Le rêve de feu des frères Coen

    Series series Analyse filmique
    Consacré par trois prix dont la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes en 1991, Barton Fink, quatrième film des frères Coen, inscrit son propos dans une filiation multiple : film de cinéma sur le cinéma, dans le prolongement de Boulevard du crépuscule de Billy Wilder ; film de cinéma sur le théâtre et le jeu de masques qu’est la vie, dans le prolongement de Persona d’Ingmar Bergman ; film sur la folie, ... Read more

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  • Falling in Love at the Movies

    Rom-Coms from the Screwball Era to Today

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    Prepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film's most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com.Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swept aside in film history, these movies are thought of as ... Read more

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  • The Comic Genius of Louis De Funes

    by Marcus Vert ...
    If you've ever heard a room of French people burst into laughter at a film from the 1970s, chances are Louis de Funès was on screen. He didn't need crude jokes or clever wordplay — though he could do both. All he needed was a twitch of his eye, a puffed cheek, or a furious rant delivered in machine-gun French. In just a few seconds, he could turn anxiety into absurdity, authority into buffoonery, ... Read more

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