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And how the classic western High Noon became a response to the wave of extreme anti-communism which swarmed the American film industry. What we mean by Red Scare? National Geographic summarises it very well here and below: The Red Scare…
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TF10 is a channel devoted to analysing The First Ten Minutes of significant movies, which is when the audience needs to be seduced and the story basics flawlessly laid out. During the first key 10-15 minutes of any movie, the…
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How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror. Jason Zinoman‘s Shock Value is a seminal book on modern horror films if ever there was one. In the same way that I would recommend you…
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Movie posters are complex entities. Occasionally they are works of art, but this is not their main goal. The mission of a film poster is another: to sell a concept, an image, a title, a tag line, a movie to…
Today we are going to travel in memory lane, but we’ll do so real, real fast. The 70s was a great time for car chases in American movies. Possibly the film with the most famous car-chase ever, though, was made…
Film blocking and staging mean choreographing the actors and the camera in a given scene in a way which develops and pushes the film narrative forward. It’s never guided solely by aesthetics, and if it is, it’s wrong, That’s why…
Like the books they are based on, the film adaptations of Frank Herbert’s Dune are an ever-expanding story in themselves. At the very beginning, they were a few mild shots at adapting Dune, which involved names like David Lean (because…
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Peter Mayhew rehearsing a scene on the Star Wars‘ set, aboard The Millenium Falcon, and having a laugh. Alec Guiness , our beloved Obi-Wan, is there too, but he seems to be thinking “What the…
A Master of Physical Comedy. Comedy always helps in times of distress. This being the case, why not revisit (or visit for the first time) a genius of the trade? Buster Keaton was one of the very top masters of…
A quick post to say goodbye to a guy who has shown us what acting can do. Extensively. Max Von Sydow is one of the actors whose work has made a bigger impression on me. Not only his very renowned…
