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Slow Film Festival

2007-07-28 13:48:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Film-Philosophy salon ( newsletter , subscription required), Alan Fair from the UK suggested a slow film festival which relates pretty well with the topic of our blog Hi all I wonder sometimes if Sokurov is trying this single shot in revolt against the fragmentation of time and space implicit in what Bordwell has called, if I remember...
 
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Short Film Week, Day 1: Five short films

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2007-12-02 23:36:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema , in association with Culture Snob Todd Haynes' first film was the controversial Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story , his mock-documentary account of the Carpenters lead singer's rise to stardom, battles with anorexia, and untimely death, with reenactments performed by a cast of...
 
Tags: short film, film, short film blog-a-thon, film consists, film condenses, film moves, original film, white soviet film, film aficionado
 
 
 
 
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LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ANNOUNCES NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY SELECTIONS FOR 2007

2007-12-29 01:14:38 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...films and art objects from all over the globe Explore the Librarys award-winning Web site at www.loc.gov The selections were made as part of a program aimed at preserving the nations movie heritage. Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act of 1992, each year the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the National Film...
 
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NOIR CITY 6: CHARLES McGRAW: BIOGRAPHY OF A FILM NOIR TOUGH GUYThe Evening Class Interview With Alan K. Rode

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2008-01-23 21:31:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Film Festival where I discovered thatalong with "Czar of Noir" Eddie Mullerhe was one of the key forces behind the Film Noir Foundation and the festival proper. During the course of our conversation I learned he was working on a biography of noir heavy Charles McGraw . Admitting I was fairly new to noir and not familiar with McGraw, Rode took...
 
Tags: film noir, film noir foundation, film noir classic, noir, film noir iconicity, film noir festival, film noir style, noir realism, foundation
 
 
 
 
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Films about Film: Observations and Thoughts on Godards Contempt (1963)

2008-04-02 22:00:38 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...films that blew me away from the first frame. It was my first experience of a Jean-Luc Godard film and really nobody warned me about anything about this iconic film. Godard brings forward a sort of fearlessness that no one else can. Contempt was the first commercial venture for Godard, having built a notorious reputation as a ruthless new...
 
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FILM ON FILM FOUNDATIONThe Evening Class Interview With Carl Martin

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2008-04-22 09:45:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Film on Film Foundation ("FOFF") now offers a discriminating calendar alerting Bay Area audiences to which venues are projecting their programs on film. It reminded me that I've been meaning to speak with FOFF's founder Carl Martin for some time As FOFF's mission statement asserts: "FOFF promotes film as a living art form by screening works...
 
Tags: film, film foundation, excellent film presentation, film calendar, carl martin, vital film culture, film programs, distinguishes film, cannes film festival
 
 
 
 
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TCM: Race and Hollywood: Asian Images In Film

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2008-05-17 15:15:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...film with Race and Hollywood: Asian Images In Film . The festival comes on the heels of TCM's highly successful 2006 look at African-American images in film and its 2007 examination of gay images in film Joining TCM's Robert Osborne to host Race and Hollywood: Asian Images In Film will be Dr. Peter X. Feng , editor of Screening Asian...
 
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ANSWERS TO O'BLIVION PART 2: IMPORTANT FILM COMEDIES, WORST TITLE EVER, REASONS TO BLOG, BLASPHEMY, DEATH and MORE DIFFICULT-TO-IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES

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2008-07-07 23:31:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...film comedy? And what is to you the most important film comedy of the last 35 years The most important film comedy of the last 35 years is Kirby Dick's This Film is not yet Rated . (Peter Nellhaus It Happened One Night pretty much invented the road trip movie which is still so popular today so I'll go with that one. Last 35 years takes us...
 
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ANSWERS TO OBLIVION PART 3: PROPRIETARY PICTURES, DIRTY SECRETS, FILM CRITICISM, more DIFFICULT-TO-IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES and THE FILIPINO PERSPECTIVE

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2008-07-08 21:11:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...film. (Weeping Sam 27) Name a movie you think of as your own (Thanks, Jim They're all big productions but due to eerie similarities in my life and relationships I have always taken Dodsworth, Brief Encounter & Manhattan very personally and I don't care to watch them with anyone else who won't understand why they get it all so exactly right...
 
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