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A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations. Hollywood Will Never Give Up Making Hardboiled Movies. 'Cold Blue' Shows the B-17 Bomber Like You've Never Seen It Before. The 20 Best Speeches in The History of Crime Cinema. Crime cinema is not known for its long-winded monologues.

The 20 Best Speeches in The History of Crime Cinema

Quite the contrary: snappy dialogue and moody interludes, with no words spoken at all, have characterized the various forms of the genre since its inception. But every once in while, we get to the point in a crime film where someone’s got to defend something—maybe that’s their crimes, or their ethical dilemmas, or their quest for justice—and that’s where the monologue gets its due. Noir films, when they do have speeches, tend to aim their monologues in one of two directions—either calling out hypocrisy, or making the case for justice.

This mirrors the general ambivalence of the genre: either the world is terrible, or the world deserves better, but you’d be hard-pressed to find an opinion between those extremes. The one thing all these monologues share in common is that either explain or justify that which is difficult to explain or justify. ?? default filename tv ?? Bill Murray and Adam Driver Head up Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die" 10 Bizarre Documentaries That Are Stranger Than Fiction. Documentaries have grown considerably more ambitious since Fred Ott’s Sneeze, an 1894 clip that documents the irritated sinus cavities of its subject in just five seconds.

10 Bizarre Documentaries That Are Stranger Than Fiction

They can inspire, as in the case of 2019’s Academy Award-winning Free Solo, about bold mountain climber Alex Honnold. They can shine a light on cultural overachievers like Fred Rogers, the subject of 2018’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? And they can parse political history, with films like 2003's The Fog of War shedding light on decisions that shaped the world. Other documentaries set out to chronicle true stories that, were they presented as a fictitious, might be hard for people to believe. 【英国】The Laughing Prisoner 1987_哔哩哔哩 (゜-゜)つロ 干杯~-bilibili. 投稿 【英国】The Laughing Prisoner 1987 娱乐明星2017-02-09 16:41:28 --播放 · --弹幕.

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Dušan Makavejev (1932 - 2019) Saturday Matinee: Repo Man. Scientists Have Determined the Most Influential Film of All Time. C&L's Chiller Theater: Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939) 40 still frames from Nicolas Roeg’s film Walkabout. Nineteen still frames from Tarkovsky’s Solaris. 37 Things to Look for the Next Time You Watch Back to the Future. Fans of pop culture have undoubtedly watched the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown countless times before.

37 Things to Look for the Next Time You Watch Back to the Future

They’ve pored over each time Michael J. Fox’s quintessential 1980s teen travels back in time to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean created by Christopher Lloyd’s bumbling mad scientist. They’ve memorized all the lines in director Robert Zemeckis and co-screenwriter Bob Gale’s indelible (and Academy Award-nominated) script. But they might not have noticed these tiny details, which you should look out for next time you watch Back to the Future. The Prevailing Winds. C&L's Sat Nite Chiller Theater: Nightfall (1957) Stéphane Audran (1932 - 2018) Watch Gruesome Trailer for Stephen King Adaptation '1922' - Rolling Stone. A marital dispute leads to grisly murder in the new trailer for 1922, a Netflix film based on a Stephen King novella.

Watch Gruesome Trailer for Stephen King Adaptation '1922' - Rolling Stone

The film comes out on Netflix October 20th, just in time for Halloween. Thomas Jane – who appeared in previous film versions of King's work like The Mist and Dreamcatcher – plays Wilfred James, a farmer with a light drawl who is content to work the land until the end of his days. "A man's pride was a man's land," he says in the teaser. But his wife Arlette (Molly Parker) has other plans: she wants the family to move to the city. When James refuses, she asks for a divorce and threatens to take their son to the city with her.

Saturday Matinee: A Short Vision. The Night Ed Sullivan Scared a Nation with the Apocalyptic Animated Short, A Short Vision (1956) Source: Open Culture On May 27, 1956, millions of Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show, expecting the usual variety of comedians, talents and musical guests.

Saturday Matinee: A Short Vision

What they weren’t prepared for was a short animated film that Sullivan introduced thusly: Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers — I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ‘cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated — but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes, wrote a thing which they called “A Short Vision” in which they wondered what might happen to the animal population of the world if an H-bomb were dropped.

The Man on the Roof - Wikipedia. The plot follows a police officer Martin Beck and his colleagues trying to solve the murder of a senior policeman, known for his brutality against others.

The Man on the Roof - Wikipedia

While the investigation is ongoing, a well-armed man climbs up on a roof in Stockholm. The film won two Guldbagge Awards in 1977, for Best Film and Best Actor (Håkan Serner).[1] Plot[edit] Boy (1969 film) - Wikipedia. Boy (少年, Shōnen) is a 1969 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Tetsuo Abe, Akiko Koyama and Fumio Watanabe.

Boy (1969 film) - Wikipedia

Carrie Brownstein Is Ready to Rock the Hollywood Patriarchy. A person might be lucky to look back and know their work resonated widely even once.

Carrie Brownstein Is Ready to Rock the Hollywood Patriarchy

Then there are careers like Carrie Brownstein’s. She has reinvented herself enough times to affect an entire constellation of creative fields, from pioneering feminist punk rock to satirical sketch comedy to acting to memoir-writing and, now, TV and feature-film directing. 'Logan Lucky' Trailer - Steven Soderbergh's New Heist Movie Is the Opposite of 'Ocean's Eleven' Far away from the neon adult playground of Las Vegas, Steven Soderbergh's next heist film moves from the casino to a North Carolina speedway.

'Logan Lucky' Trailer - Steven Soderbergh's New Heist Movie Is the Opposite of 'Ocean's Eleven'

Logan Lucky, from the Ocean's Eleven director, stars Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, and Daniel Craig as they try to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway ahead of the Coca-Cola 600. As Soderbergh told Entertainment Weekly of the movie, "It's the complete inversion of an Ocean's movie. It's an anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie. A Scanner Darkly (film) The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater and stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder.

Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the executive producers. A Scanner Darkly had a limited release in July 2006, and then a wider release later that month. The film was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[4] and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, and nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2007. The US has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful drug causing bizarre hallucinations, has swept the country. The 10 Food Documentaries Every Guy Should See.

Before you sit down with any of these movies, it’s highly recommended you get a bowl of popcorn, plenty of Milk Duds, and perhaps a ribeye steak or two. Basically, you’re going to be hungry. But besides making you salivate, each film will spin the tale of some interesting corner of the culinary world. While there are a ton of great food documentaries out there that deal with the issues of our modern food system and our unhealthy diets, we chose to focus on simply unique stories. Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories: 'Here There Be Tygers' & 'There Will Comes Soft Rain' Sergei Bondarchuk directed an 8-hour film adaptation of War and Peace (1966-67), which ended up winning an Oscar for Best Foreign Picture.

When he was in Los Angeles as a guest of honor at a party, Hollywood royalty like John Wayne, John Ford, Billy Wilder lined up to meet the Russian filmmaker. But the only person that Bondarchuk was truly excited to meet was Ray Bradbury. Bondarchuk introduced the author to the crowd of bemused A-listers as “your greatest genius, your greatest writer!” Ray Bradbury spent a lifetime crafting stories about robots, Martians, space travel and nuclear doom and, in the process, turned the formerly disreputable genre of Sci-Fi/Fantasy into something respectable.

635 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. Watch 4,000+ movies free online. Before You See 'The Counselor': Watch 1977 Film 'The Gardener's Son,' Cormac McCarthy's First Produced Script. How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood - Alexis C. Madrigal. 50 Best Horror Movies of All Time. Come on in, the blood's fine Horror movies aren’t for everyone. Alain Badiou: Cinema (2010/2013) Hollywood Planning Remake Of 'Sands of Iwo Jima' LOS ANGELES, CA — Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumors that it has begun pre-production on a remake of the John Wayne classic film, Sands of Iwo Jima. Panicked Studio Delays ‘Man Of Steel’ To Get More Shots Of People Looking Up In Awe. LOS ANGELES—Citing a dire need for additional reshoots, visibly panicked officials at Warner Bros. studios announced Wednesday that they had decided to delay the release of the upcoming Superman film Man Of Steel in order to get more footage of people looking up in wonder and awe.

A Better Tomorrow II and Hard Boiled. Lost Films: Hitchcock, Gatsby and Oscar-winning Movies that Vanished. A Die-Hard's Guide To 'Die Hard': 25 Years Of Sweat, Dirt And Blowing Stuff Up : Monkey See. Stanley Kubrick Never Won Best Director, and Here's Why That Doesn't Matter - Hollywood Prospectus Blog. Last week I went to the L.A.

County Museum of Art to check out its Stanley Kubrick exhibit, an exhaustive collection of props, concept art, scripts, correspondence, set photos, costumes, and other cinematic footnotes that has been on display since November. It was originally scheduled to run until the end of January, but was extended through the end of June due to popular demand. Alien Universe Timeline - Alien Anthology Wiki - The Alien and Prometheus resource. ‘South Park’ Creators Fortify Their Content Empire. Teaser Trailer: ‘Wyrmwood’ Most Citizens of the Star Wars Galaxy are Probably Totally Illiterate. Nick Hurwitch: So You Created a Time Loop: A Time Traveler's Analysis of Looper. Interview: Keanu Reeves on “the end of film” “Lawless” and the GOP’s fever dream of the past. Brian Eno — Imaginary Landscapes.

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