Fear is the key
Hindu (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Though many write them off as B-grade films, the genre of horror films has been the main stay for the film industry world over
Georges Méliès
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'Unreleasable' Che finally goes on release
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
ReelNews »'Unreleasable' Che finally goes on releaseMichael Dwyer on filmFour months after its world premiere at Cannes, Steven Soderbergh's Che finally has been acquired for US release. IFC Films will give the two-part, 262-minute film, starring Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara, a one-week run in New York and Los Angeles in December to qualify for Oscar nominations. It will then release Che across...
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Piercing the Realm of Glamour
Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Experimental filmmaking has a lineage that goes back to the starting point of the medium. Those first Georges Melies shorts, devoid of story but rich in cinematic fantasy, could be said, in a stretch, to be the first experimental movies. In fact, non-narrative moviemaking has been around long enough and produced enough variety that the terminology itself has expanded to define the different sub-genres...
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"The Glimmer Palace": soapy history in pre-Hitler Berlin
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The historical novel "The Glimmer Palace" by Beatrice Colin attempts to re-create the society that could have produced and supported Adolph Hitler, with mixed results.
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Silent Sunday: Early Jesus
goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1902-1905) is one of the earliest feature-length films, although it's not much of a "film" by modern standards. It's a series of scenes, or tableaux, of the life of Jesus, from the Annunciation...
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A Short History Of Animation Films
robertoms2003 | 07/26/2008
To animate is to infuse life into something that is inanimate or without life. An animation film breathes life into painted or sketched characters. The hero and heroines are not real life movie stars or animals and birds. Animation films involve the quick display of a series of images to give the illusion of movement. It is a kind of optical illusion of movement. The phenomenon is known as vision persistence.
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Let's hear it for the old devils
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Arts & entertainment: Is film a young man's game? Three of this season's most intriguing movies are by directors well past 70
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The 10 greatest sci-fi films never made
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Since Georges Melies' 1902 'Trip to the Moon' cinema has been in love with science fiction. The romance has been rocky though, with many potential classics lost to spiralling budgets or studio whim. David Hughes the author of a new book, The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, shares his favourites with us
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Paprika: the stuff of dreams for filmgoers
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Paprika, directed by Satoshi Kon and part of BFI Southbank's upcoming Anime Now weekend, is a gripping thriller whose psychiatrist heroine treats patients by delving into their dreams
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Review: At Paris cemetery, reminders of art's immortality
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
I watched Heddy Honigmann's documentary "Forever" a day before I heard about the death of director Sydney Pollack - and the loss of this great filmmaker brought home Honigmann's quiet message about the eternal nature of art.
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MIND MELD: Which Medium is Driving Science Fiction...Books or Film/TV?
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Science fiction presents itself to us through different mediums, most notably through the written and visual. Have you ever wondered who owns it? Lou Anders has, and he submitted the following question: Q: Although science fiction was born on paper, sci-fi presented through visual media (film and television) has significantly higher audiences. Which medium, then, is the driving force behind what science...
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Georges Méliès
Phantasmaphile (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I just watched Méliès the Magician , a collection of 15 short films by cinematic wunderkind, Georges Méliès. Whimsical and brilliantly inventive, his films were light years ahead of their time in terms of special effects and optical tricks. Disembodied...
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Georges Méliès, Magicien du Cinema
PARIS /moleskinecity.com (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
As if you needed another reason to visit Paris, Cinémathèque Française features a new exhibition “Georges Méliès, Magicien du Cinema.” Author, actor, set designer, producer, Méliès is credited with creating cinematic special effects. This extensive exhibition covers his life, background, work and influences, and many exhibits which have never been seen in public before. There [...]
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The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
http://www.avclub.com/content/dvds/the_adventures_of_baron_munchausen The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen: 20th Anniversary Edition (Sony) Reviewed by Nathan Rabin April 23rd, 2008 Sarah Polley has said that making 1988's Adventures Of Baron Munchausen was "traumatic." After watching The Madness And Misadventures Of Munchausen—a riveting, brutally candid making-of documentary included on Sony's new...
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Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896–1913) - Silicon Valley's Metro
Fun Share Blog (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Silicon Valley's Metro Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896–1913)Silicon Valley's Metro, CA - 1 hour agoBy Michael S. Gant Cinema's first special-effects genius, filmmaker Georges Méliès, learned his tricks as a magician on the stages of France's fantasy … Related PostsHARINGEY: Cinema sale threat to cheap ticket prices - This is Local London HARINGEY: Cinema sale threat to cheap [...]
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A Short History Of Animation Films
robertoms2003 | 07/26/2008
To animate is to infuse life into something that is inanimate or without life. An animation film breathes life into painted or sketched characters. The hero and heroines are not real life movie stars or animals and birds. Animation films involve the quick display of a series of images to give the illusion of movement. It is a kind of optical illusion of movement. The phenomenon is known as vision persistence....
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