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Tribeca Film Festival - HOME Tribeca Film Festival Rize (Full Frame) "Rize" is an intimate, completely fresh portrayal of inner city youth who have created art - and often family - where before there was none. Surrounded by drug addiction, gangs and impoverishment, they have developed a completely unique style of dance that evolves on a daily basis. Through tremendous spirit and creativity, they manage to rise above. DVD Introduction with Cast and Director David LaChapelle; Filmmaking Insight with Director and Director of Photography; New Dancer Interviews; Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with Cast; Dance Moves by Dancers; New ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
American Festival Film J Music - HOME American Festival Film J Music Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States's--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited ...
Tribeca Film Festival - HOME Tribeca Film Festival Rize (Full Frame) "Rize" is an intimate, completely fresh portrayal of inner city youth who have created art - and often family - where before there was none. Surrounded by drug addiction, gangs and impoverishment, they have developed a completely unique style of dance that evolves on a daily basis. Through tremendous spirit and creativity, they manage to rise above. DVD Introduction with Cast and Director David LaChapelle; Filmmaking Insight with Director and Director of Photography; New Dancer Interviews; Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with Cast; Dance Moves by Dancers; New ...
Festival Film Howard Stern - HOME Festival Film Howard Stern Pollock (Full Frame) Ed Harris's "Pollock" is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world fame in the last 15 years of his life, and his subsequent surrender to the bottle which brought his death in 1956. In its best moments, "Pollock" shows Krasner (a strong, dynamic, and fascinating Marcia Gay ...
Festival Film Howard Stern - HOME Festival Film Howard Stern Pollock (Full Frame) Ed Harris's "Pollock" is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world fame in the last 15 years of his life, and his subsequent surrender to the bottle which brought his death in 1956. In its best moments, "Pollock" shows Krasner (a strong, dynamic, and fascinating Marcia Gay ...
Sundance Film Festival Review - HOME Sundance Film Festival Review Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made by Kenneth Turan, Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. "Sundance to Sarajevo "is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the "Los Angeles Times, "writes about the most unusual as well ...
2007 Festival Film Review Sundance - HOME 2007 Festival Film Review Sundance Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made by Kenneth Turan, Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. "Sundance to Sarajevo "is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the "Los Angeles Times, "writes about the most unusual as ...
Saskatchewan Music Festival Association - HOME Saskatchewan Music Festival Association The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians by Jon Pruett, X Covering 600 music festivals worldwide, this guide offers lively descriptions of festivals of all manner, size, and form. A resource for the committed festival attendee, it offers dates, locations, scheduled events, web sites, and lists of recent performers. Accommodation information is also featured alongside price guidelines and camping details. Also a vital handbook for the performer, it provides contact information for booking agents, deadlines for submissions, and, in some cases, practical tips about how to ...
Short Film - HOME Short Film Writing Short Scripts by William H. Phillips, This is an updated edition of the first book to help the beginning writer enter the burgeoning world of short films from travelogues to animated shorts. William H. Phillips has extensively revised and updated to include three new and recent original short screenplays and detailed descriptions and photographs of two award-winning short films. Focusing on visualization, dialogue, settings, characters, structure, and themes, Phillips provides a guide to writing scripts for films of less than thirty minutes, from gathering and organizing materials to ...
I Film - HOME I Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Newport Beach Film Festival - HOME Newport Beach Film Festival Pauline At The Beach (Widescreen) Come take a leisurely, relaxing trip to the sun-soaked, sandy beaches of Brittany in this "bewitchingly funny yet profoundly wise comedy" (Vogue) from acclaimed French writer/director Eric Rohmer. Winner for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival, Pauline at the Beach is "delightful...a film of summer sunlight, bare skin and escalating amorous misunderstandings" (Newsweek). Young and beautiful Pauline is spending the end of the summer with her older and sexually alluring cousin Marion on the stunning Atlantic coast of France. ...
Newport Beach Film Festival - HOME Newport Beach Film Festival Pauline At The Beach (Widescreen) Come take a leisurely, relaxing trip to the sun-soaked, sandy beaches of Brittany in this "bewitchingly funny yet profoundly wise comedy" (Vogue) from acclaimed French writer/director Eric Rohmer. Winner for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival, Pauline at the Beach is "delightful...a film of summer sunlight, bare skin and escalating amorous misunderstandings" (Newsweek). Young and beautiful Pauline is spending the end of the summer with her older and sexually alluring cousin Marion on the stunning Atlantic coast of France. ...
Film - HOME Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as configuring ...
Woodstock Festival - HOME Woodstock Festival Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 Woodstock: History of an American Town by Alf Evers, Few small towns in America have as colorful a history as that of Woodstock, New York. Long before it was put on the map by the Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgur's Sullivan County farm in the summer of 1969, Woodstock was established as a haven for freethinkers driven to the "earthly paradise" to pursue their vision of a Utopian, self-sufficient community. In this captivating history, All Evers shows how this community ...
Film - HOME Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as configuring ...
I Film - HOME I Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Film X - HOME Film X Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Six Film - HOME Six Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Six Film - HOME Six Film Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Independent Film - HOME Independent Film Blackframes: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema by Mbye Cham, The emergence in recent years of a significant corpus of highly-acclaimed films by people of African descent in different parts of the world heralds a new era in the history of film. This collection of eight original essays by noted scholars, critics, and practitioners of independent Black cinema offers a rare global and systematic examination of what is unique and what is common to the making of films in English-speaking ("Anglophone") Africa, in the United States, and in ...
Berlin Cinemas Showcase - HOME Berlin Cinemas Showcase Weather in Berlin by Ward Just, For decades, film director Dixon Greenwood has lived the Hollywood life -- the studio intrigues, the abrupt rise and fall of careers, grand aspirations come and gone. Dix"s own fame rests on his one great work, SUMMER, 1921, an antiwar classic that has become a cult film. Now he believes he has lost his imagination and genius for reading the times. His audience has vanished. So, on a kind of personal rescue mission, he embarks on a three-month journey to Germany, the birthplace, as he sees it, of the twentieth century. ...
2007 Film Review Sundance - HOME 2007 Film Review Sundance Film Review (2002-03) by James Cameron-Wilson, Now in its 58th edition, the Film Review is the world's longest-running film annual. A definitive, up-to-date reference guide to the year in cinema, it includes: reviews, cast lists, and credits for all the year's new releases; a review of the top ten box office stars, plus new faces of the year; details on the major awards and film festivals; comprehensive coverage of the year's video releases; and the best soundtracks and web sites. ...
Indian Film Review - HOME Indian Film Review Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema." It tracks the rise of "designer ...
Film X - HOME Film X Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen, Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as ...
Independent Film - HOME Independent Film Blackframes: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema by Mbye Cham, The emergence in recent years of a significant corpus of highly-acclaimed films by people of African descent in different parts of the world heralds a new era in the history of film. This collection of eight original essays by noted scholars, critics, and practitioners of independent Black cinema offers a rare global and systematic examination of what is unique and what is common to the making of films in English-speaking ("Anglophone") Africa, in the United States, and in ...
Short Film - HOME Short Film Writing Short Scripts by William H. Phillips, This is an updated edition of the first book to help the beginning writer enter the burgeoning world of short films from travelogues to animated shorts. William H. Phillips has extensively revised and updated to include three new and recent original short screenplays and detailed descriptions and photographs of two award-winning short films. Focusing on visualization, dialogue, settings, characters, structure, and themes, Phillips provides a guide to writing scripts for films of less than thirty minutes, from gathering and organizing materials to ...
Indian Film - HOME Indian Film Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema." It tracks the rise of "designer cinema," ...
Indian Film - HOME Indian Film Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema." It tracks the rise of "designer cinema," ...
Bollywood Film Music - HOME Bollywood Film Music 100 Bollywood Films Bollywood is breaking out of its cultural closet and into the mainstream. With movies and musicals like Bride and Prejudice and Bombay Dreams playing to mainstream US audiences, this screen guide reveals the beauty, vibrancy and fascination of the very best Hindi movies. Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga An encyclopedia of Bollywood films, this book takes readers from the silent era films to the latest box-office hits of the current year. Written by two of the finest film journalists, this lavishly illustrated title features some ...
Movie Film - HOME Movie Film Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music by Fred Karlin, Music has been an essential part of virtually every movie ever made. In the words of the great director D. W. Griffith, "The music sets the mood for what your eye sees; it guides your emotions; it is the emotional framework for visual pictures". Or, as composer Bernard Herrmann said, "Movies need the cement of music". Listening to Movies is the lay person's guide to the exciting world of film music. Featuring 100 photographs, including ...
Film Independent Music - HOME Film Independent Music Marketing and Selling Your Film Around the World: A Guide for Independent Filmmakers by John Durie, The various overseas film markets, especially Europe and parts of Asia, have always been financially important outlets for American films, but never more than they are now. The current worldwide hunger for American movies seems insatiable, and foreign sales are an indispensable economic element of almost every American film, large or small. It is not a rare occurrence for movies that do not play well to the domestic audience to recoup their expenses ...
Movie Film - HOME Movie Film Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music by Fred Karlin, Music has been an essential part of virtually every movie ever made. In the words of the great director D. W. Griffith, "The music sets the mood for what your eye sees; it guides your emotions; it is the emotional framework for visual pictures". Or, as composer Bernard Herrmann said, "Movies need the cement of music". Listening to Movies is the lay person's guide to the exciting world of film music. Featuring 100 photographs, including ...
Roger Ebert Film Review - HOME Roger Ebert Film Review Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. This yearbook also contains interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes. Crumb (Special Edition) David Lynch ("Blue Velvet") presents one of the most critically acclaimed films ever made. A hilarious and mysterious journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession, "Crumb" is a wild ride through the mind of Robert Crumb; ...
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DVD: Festival Express : Set in 1970 - and consisting largely of footage that has never been seen since - Festival Express documents ...
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