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Modern Spirituality In Movies
Christianity is not the new kid on the block anymore. Lots of new concepts in spirituality are blooming all the time. Best part is, art & artists are inspired by them. I made a handy list of alternative holiday movies to keep things bright.
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The View: A "Back-to-the-Camera Shot" Montage (New Version!)
A collection of "back to the camera" shots. The character stands center frame (most of the time), looking out at some epic landscape. MUSIC: "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby.
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Dismembrance of the Thing’s Past
Notes on John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” Dave Tompkins rewatches the avant-garde horror classic.
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The Phantasmagoria of the First Hand-Painted Films
How the silent screen burst to life with color. By Joshua Yumibe.
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Bibliophilia – Books in the Films of Wes Anderson
A video-essay by Luís Azevedo.
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William Ash: The cooler king
World War Two threw up many extraordinary characters. But even among this exalted company William Ash - the model for the character played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape - stands out, writes the author of a new biography, Patrick Bishop.
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The Movies of My Youth
There were years when I went to the movies almost every day, around the time of my adolescence. Those were years in which cinema was my world. By Italo Calvino.
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Empire of the Sunglasses: How 'They Live' Took on Republicans and Won
John Carpenter's underrated sci-fi horror movie did more than skewer yuppies — it gave us the last word on the Reagan era
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In Hyperspace
Fredric Jameson reviews “Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative” by David Wittenberg.
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When Disney got adult – and trippy
At one time the animation mogul’s films veered toward radical, experimental art. These works still appealed to children even if they also went over their heads.
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The Feminine Grotesque
A Unified Theory on Female Madness in Cinema and American Culture.By Angelica Jade.
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The Art of Flying in the Movies
A cinematic history of going airborne. By A. O. Scott.
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Star Wars' Abrams leads move from CGI to reality
JJ Abrams, director of the new Star Wars movie, is among the high-profile film-makers going back to using traditional means of scene-setting instead of relying on the relative ease of CGI.
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28th December 1895 - First commercial movie screened
The world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
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‘Pan’s Labyrinth’: A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation
The 2001 gothic horror film was set in Spain, in 1939, and the picture, which del Toro allegedly considers his most personal film ever, is an exceptionally crafty and compelling portrayal of that specific dark period of European and world history.
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The terrifying rejected ‘Exorcist’ soundtrack the director literally threw out a window
Composer/conductor, Lalo Schifrin. This score was used in an advanced trailer which some have called the “banned trailer.”
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William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’
Cautionary Tales Have Rarely Taken Such an Amazing Artistic Form
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Stanley Kubrick: The Cinematic Experience
Lewis Bond
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The Childhood of a Leader review – stunning origins story for a future fascist
First-time director Brady Corbet’s story of a privileged, petulant 10-year-old fated to become a fascist dictator exerts a lethal grip. By Peter Bradshaw. (Aug. 18, 2016)
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John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’
One of the Best Ghost Stories and Its Clever Warning to Us All
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