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A skeletal fortress built for Lawrence of Arabia, an American gas station used for a forgettable horror film now inhabited by an old shepherd and his dog; entire fake villages have been left behind by Hollywood to be battered by the sands of the south moroccan deserts. Photographer/ filmmaker Ra Di Martino sets the cameras rolling once again [...]
Young people in the neighborhood had never known a time when the doors of the old Louxor Movie Palace were ever open. Barricaded behind wooden boards, possibly the oldest surviving movie palace in Paris was abandoned for more than 20 years, gathering dust and standing lifeless and ignored at a busy cross-section in Barbès, a [...]
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that can’t afford the printers needed for making movie posters, let alone the legal rights to actually screen blockbuster Hollywood films. As a result, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings… First let’s take [...]
Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 adaptation? As eager audiences pile into cinemas this year however, there’s one Gatsby we won’t be making any comparisons to. Very few are even aware of the original screen adaptation of F. [...]
The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village, [...]
If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I instantly get dramatic; widening my eyes, dropping my jaw with a gigantic gasp and other over-the-top gestures. It’s obviously a pretty obnoxious reaction but one that I feel is apparently appropriate for describing how I feel about [...]
That famous business card scene as the director really intended it… ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
I‘m not claiming to have flawless taste in film, here are just a few of my favorites, a few I’m interested in seeing, and I’m hoping it’s useful in inspiring your Monday night movie rental… Ghost World (2001) In a nutshell: A quirky comic book adaptation about social outsiders. Why should you care: Scarlett Johansson, [...]
Woody Allen never quite moved on from the typewriter he bought we he was sixteen. Every single sketch, essay or screenplay, from Annie Hall to Midnight in Paris was composed on this little machine. How endearingly primitive of him … From Robert B. Weide’s 2011 PBS film Woody Allen: A Documentary via Open Culture If the Youtube [...]
When our favorite movies would end and the credits rolled, we couldn’t help but continue dreaming about the stories and the characters. Where filmmakers had skimmed over small details, we dove in and swam around in a sea of untold scenes. I’ve recently stumbled upon a literary treasure trove online called Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency [...]
One of his artworks is counted amongst the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold ($100 million
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Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that
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A member of the Reddit community recently had his bike stolen but got quite the surprise when it
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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in
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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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Our first letter comes from Frank in 1976, addresed to the Chicago Daily News writer, Mike Royko,
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If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I
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I‘m not claiming to have flawless taste in film, here are just a few of my favorites, a few
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I‘m the kind of person that would go to the cinema and watch two movies back-to-back (because
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One of my favorite things in life is finding someone who hasn’t seen one of my favorite
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The woman who practically invented the romantic comedy, the woman who brought us Sleepless in
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Ah, sex scenes. Those precious few minutes of a film (or HBO series) when parents decide to walk
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I sat with my gal pal in the shelter of a café for lunch today as the rain battered the down
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