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Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era (many films noir were adaptations of such novels) and the gritty style of 1930s horror fiction. In the United States, a major literary influence on film noir came from the hard-boiled school of detective and crime fiction, featuring writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask. This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir   (2315 words)

Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The problem is exacerbated by the trend towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987). Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film   (3866 words)

Film Noir - Films Film noir is a distinct branch, sub-genre or offshoot of the crime/gangster and detective/mystery sagas from the 1930s (i.e., Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)), but very different in tone and characterization. The themes of noir, derived from sources in Europe, were imported to Hollywood by emigre film-makers. Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience. www.filmsite.org /filmnoir.html   (1857 words)

PRODUCTION DICTIONARY However, because of the aperture masks in film, the angle of view for a given lens is generally described in terms of the height and width of a lens. A film splicing machine of precision construction in which portions of a film are overlapped, cemented, then warmed and dried by a heating unit. A signal recorded on the edge of film in a camera to match a signal recorded on a magnetic recording which is used as a fast means of synchronizing film and sound workprints. www.filmland.com /glossary/Dictionary.html   (10438 words)

Film-Philosophy The annual London Palestine Film Festival runs from the 22nd of April until the 6th of May 2005, and is organised by films that begin with an ongoing event or action, representations of the act of writing, films which predict the future, the appeal and effects of popcorn cinema, films that deal with genocide, post-gaming interactive 'uncinema', Antonioni and the aesthetic of boredom, and definitions of 'pretentiousness'. emotions and ethics of Dogme films, cinema and psychiatry, interpreting interpretations, zombie films, "freaks" in film, children in film, headaches in film, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the theoretical and institutional dimensions of film criticism. www.film-philosophy.com   (1441 words)

Variety.com - %dept% The refrain from theater chains has been "It's the films that matter" -- just what one might expect from an industry that has spent 100 years learning to show movies, sell popcorn and not much else. In a year that saw arguably the most numerous and varied mainstreamed movies ever with lesbian, gay, bi and transgendered characters, the feature film nominees for this year's GLAAD Media Awards also run the gamut of box office success. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=dept_main&dept=Film   (481 words)

Howstuffworks "How Photographic Film Works" Despite its long history, film remains the best way to capture still and moving pictures because of its incredible ability to record detail in a very stable form. People have been using camera and film for more than 100 years, both for still photography and movies. In this article, you'll learn all about how film works, both inside your camera and when it is developed, so you can understand exactly what is going on! science.howstuffworks.com /film.htm   (97 words)

Welcome To Twitch. Spreading the News On Strange Little Films From Around the World. I selected thirteen films from the program this year which, given the total of 46 features in competition for the ‘silver scream’ award and a few side-programs, is a small number. Micahel is the man who keeps sending us stellar coverage from the San Francisco International Film Festival this year and is also a major fan of Latin American film, which is an area I have long wanted us to cover more here but have lacked anyone with the expertise. Filmstalker's Richard Brunton has been a good friend to Twitch from the very early days. www.twitchfilm.net   (4299 words)

Technorati Tag: film NETFLIX Film Rentals - Only $9.99/Month NETFLIX official site, no late fees, over 60,000 titles to choose from. Film Shop eBay for anything and everything - from specialized gifts to custom clothing. Graduate Schools for Film Gradschools.com is a comprehensive and informative directory of graduate and postgrad programs. www.technorati.com /tag/film   (456 words)

Film on the Web The Asian Film Connections seeks to create a deeper awareness and understanding of Asian cinema byproviding immediate and comprehensive information about films from Asia, especially the cinemas of China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has always been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. FilmTalent.com aims to be the biggest directory of talent in the film industry and the ultimate source for industry employers. www.zeroland.co.nz /film_movies.html   (693 words)

WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price A brilliant new film by Robert Greenwald tells the real story of the corrosive effects that Wal-Mart wreaks upon the communities in which it operates and the men and women it employs." -Rob Reiner Learn more about the film, watch the trailer, and own the DVD. SHARE THE FILM by giving it to family, friends, neighbors and colleagues. www.walmartmovie.com   (290 words)

Mindjack Film It isn't even that his films are profoundly naturalistic (although they do tend to tilt that way), just that he wants his worlds to have depth and breadth instead of existing for the sole purpose of advancing the plot. The Squid and the Whale (Sony) was one of 2005's smartest, non-messagey films, and Keane was one of its most underrated. Like this magazine, many of Cronenberg's films are concerned with the blending of technology and society, the organic with the synthetic — only he deals with these issues in a much more visual and visceral manner. www.mindjack.com /film   (4559 words)

Cinematical The fact remains, however, that films that take water polo as their subjects are few and far between, at least in part because of the great difficulty of making the sport interesting to an audience beyond its participants. While some feel this year's crop of popcorn flicks are a bit smarter than previous years, like with every summer, we're bound to walk away from it sad, lonely and depressed because that one film we were anticipating so much left an awfully sour taste in our mouths. In addition, 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep, which details the difficult past and present of the Pamir Kirghiz people, is a pretty wonderful film, sure enough of its approach and subject matter to have a charming, gangly confidence that is all too rare in film, documentary or otherwise. www.cinematical.com   (3649 words)

south by southwest festivals + conferences The uplifting film was quite a crowd-pleaser at SXSW 2005, and the subject, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, paid his first ever visit to Texas; traveling all the way from West Africa to participate in the SXSW screenings. With nearly 200 films and dozens of daytime panels, the hardest part is fitting it all in. The section is dedicated to either first or second-time feature directors using their film to break new barriers and craft new ways to tell a story. 2005.sxsw.com /film   (2047 words)

TheOneRing.net™ Lord of the Rings Movie News and Rumors Along with their appearance a lot more is happening with guests from film and TV, stage talks and much more. The Newport Beach Film Festival has something for everyone, features, shorts and documentaries from around the world. Copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, articles, and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law. www.theonering.net   (994 words)

The Film Encyclopedia, Biography Of these three films, the most interesting is the documentary-style The Sound Barrier/Breaking Through the Sound Barrier with a memorable performance from John Mills. He entered British films as a tea boy at Gaumont in 1927; later served as a claperboy and messenger, and worked his way up to editor of newsreel footage in 1930 and of feature films in 1934. Lean began his career as a director in 1942 with an excellent war film, In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with Noel Coward. www.davidlean.com /books/katz_biography.html   (305 words)

/FILM - Movie News and Movie Reviews! Indeed, and it going to be even more so in the next couple of weeks, with more than 200 films from all over the world. If you're even thinking of seeing the film on Friday, you might want to check out the first 10 minutes online first (not that the first 10 minutes are any indication, if you can't excite the audience in the first ten, then you're dead in the water). Actually, in my opinion, there hasn't been a good film yet (Mortal Combat and Resident Evil were passible at best, just because you are the best of the worst doesn't mean you're good). www.slashfilm.com   (1495 words)

Guardian Unlimited Film This archive of films produced under the post-war Labour government is part of an online exhibition from the UK's National Archives. As Lisa Kudrow's film Happy Endings opens the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, she talks to Gareth McLean about sex, the state of US TV and a Phoebe comeback. Our cinemas seem of late to have been happy to explore one issue or another, but no films squared up to questions of public morality quite like the state-sponsored public information films of yore. film.guardian.co.uk   (992 words)

indieWIRE Solomon's film is adapted from the 1997 novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting and is based on true events of a family haunting in Tennessee during the 1800s. The eight-month-long film series is based on indieWIRE's annual list of the top 15 films from major festivals around the world that have yet to find a theatrical distributor, and is presented in association with the California Film Institute. Lu's previous film, 2002's "The Missing Gun" was a more direct flirtation with genre filmmaking, yet still a flirtation nonetheless; one always got the sense that his mind was elsewhere, and that the peripheral moments were telling the real story. www.indiewire.com   (3020 words)

Movie Reviews, Movie Critics - Metacritic.com This horror film centers on a paralyzed man who is trapped in a remote cabin and must save a group of college students vacationing nearby from a killer Sasquatch. Artist Matthew Barney's latest experimental film co-stars (and features music by) his girlfriend Bjork. But if for some reason you find this kind of thing "entertainment," this effort does boast the highest production values of the three films. www.metacritic.com /film   (536 words)

U B U W E B : Film The following films are presented for educational and non-commercial use only and are presented with permission of the artists. Most of these films are extraordinarily large and should be downloaded rather than streamed. As such, UbuWeb is not responsible for the quality of the films. www.ubu.com /film   (825 words)

Channel 4 Film - film reviews, dvd, cinema listings, interviews and clips from Channel4.com/film gives you a summary of the times all the major television stations will be showing films. Also if your favourite channel is not showing a TV listing film for the day you are currently looking at the navigator allows you to click on the next day in the week to be quickly presented with previews for the subsequent days. With the database of some 10,000 films in the Channel4.com/film website its easy to see the films being shown on TV at any given time, read or even watch previews, then navigate to another station and see their TV listing. www.channel4.com /film   (760 words)

Bookstore: Film Books 1 >> German-Hollywood Connection But Siodmak made more films noirs than any of his fellows, and the 10 he directed...are regarded by many film scholars as the quintessence of the genre." - More about this title from Amazon.com. From Amazon.com: “For all those fans who wonder where their favorite movies were filmed or what it would be like to visit the sites, this book is the ultimate resource. ISBN: 0-80651-647-X. From Amazon.com (Library Journal): “The brief but numerous entries in this work cover nearly 900 film or television show locations in 48 states (North Dakota and Idaho are left out). www.germanhollywood.com /cinebook.html   (1841 words)

Independent Online Edition > Film Film Studies: We could all do with the silent treatment Film Studies: You keep churning out the flops, Jeff - and we'll keep lapping them up Film Studies: If only Sharon could get back to basics enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film   (94 words)

The Film Reference Library The Canadian Film Encyclopedia, the CFE, is an online reference project from the Film Reference Library, a leading educator and research and information resource for Canadian film. Some of the other key features you’ll discover are the Canadian film Bibliography section, a useful list of print and electronic resources specially selected by the FRL staff, and the Image Credits, where you’ll find valuable descriptive and source information matched with thumbnails of images from the CFE and FRL web pages. The CFE also includes original writing from Canadian film critics, professionals, academics and theorists. www.filmreferencelibrary.ca /index.asp?navid=14   (328 words)

Greatest Films Being a film buff since more than 35 years I have to say that your site and IMDb.com are the best of the best. Ebert has also written this about Greatest Films: "The site offers many ways of looking at important films, but the centerpiece is his series of 100 long reviews of classics, including downloadable still photos, highly extensive plot summaries, and a lot of quotes... This site is useful for film students or others seeking an entry point into film history. www.filmsite.org   (397 words)

Comics2Film "I'm definitely going to be borrowing from the films, but one thing that they really didn't do from the films is we're going to be borrowing from the comic books as well," Jones said in an interview during a break in filming on location in this Vancouver suburb. - Check out the new photos from the Spider-Man 3 2nd Unit filming in the city... Batman is dark and adult and that is clearly the benchmark for this type of film (Batman Begins, that is)... www.comics2film.com   (1145 words)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Trivia: When Ford and Arthur drink at the pub early in the film, a middle-aged blonde can be seen watching them. The film only says because he won an election. According to the DVD commentary, this actress played Trillian in the London stage version of the story - a fact the director was unaware of until the day of shooting. www.imdb.com /title/tt0371724   (802 words)

FILMMAKING.COM: The Filmmaking Portal - The Film and Video Industry's Most Trusted Resource - All about Filmmaking, Digital Video Production, Moviemaking, Digital Filmmaking, Film and Video Production Services and more! The fact that I usually don't have a client with film work doesn't necessarily make it easier from a creative standpoint. I do know that with the few short films I've written and directed it's been a real challenge but one that has really excited me. I think it's all about editing. I cut to a playlist and the music I choose very much influences the tone and pacing of the film. www.filmmaking.com   (862 words)

Disc film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The film was discontinued in 1998, though the cameras had disappeared from the market long before. The film was in the form of a flat disc, and was fully housed in a plastic cartridge. Disc film was one thick sheet of film, so every part of the negative was flat. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disc_film   (265 words)

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