Posts Tagged ‘films’
March 8, 2022
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Studios are intent on streaming their films, and COVID only intensified that. But big movies still come out in theaters first. A Vox video by Edward Vega.
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November 12, 2021
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When a movie wants to inspire fear, unease, or anxiety, a film’s composers and sound designers use the “drone of dread ” to introduce a sense of impending doom. A Quartz video.
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August 19, 2021
We’ve has some alleged “Pro-America” rallies lately, but the pattern was set at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Not by the MAGA crowd, by the Bund. A Night at the Garden , a film by Marshall Curry .
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July 4, 2021
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“America,” composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim , from the 1961 film West Side Story . Rita Moreno (Anita) and George Chakiris (Bernardo) are the principal singers in the movie; their roles were originally created on Broadway by Larry Kert and Chita Rivera in 1957.
“Life is all right in America, if you’re all white in America”
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June 11, 2021
“Gun Shop,” a short 2019 film by Patrick Smith. 2,328 guns in 90 seconds @24 frames per second. There are 393 million firearms owed by civilians in the US, 1.2 guns per person, children included. It would take a bit longer to show them all.
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March 23, 2021
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In the early 1900s, New York film companies searched for a warm-weather home, and they looked at Jacksonville, Florida, down the East Coast. J’ville’s town fathers recoiled at the thought of film actors running wild through Florida’s sunny streets, so the film folks decamped for far-off California. A Vox video by Phil Edwards.
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January 6, 2021
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Justin Lin describes five breathtaking movie car chase scenes (including of one his own) and explains what makes them so effective. A New York Times video.
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December 19, 2020
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“Christmas Comes But Once a Year,” Fleischer Studios , 1936. Voice actors: Jack Mercer and Mae Questel. Director : Dave Fleischer . Animation: William Henning , Seymour Kneitel . Music: Bob Rothberg , Tot Seymour , Sammy Timberg .
Related:
“A Very Fleisher Christmas,” FleischerStudios.com
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September 1, 2020
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Social distancing in an integral part of Wes Anderson ‘s filmmaking vocabulary. A supercut video by Luis Azevedo.
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July 4, 2020
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“America,” composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim , from the 1961 film West Side Story . Rita Moreno (Anita) and George Chakiris (Bernardo) are the principal singers in the movie; their roles were originally created on Broadway by Larry Kert and Chita Rivera in 1957.
“Life is all right in America, if you’re all white in America.”
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