Ziad Shihab

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Once upon a time in Hollywood, again: Tarantino revises his fairy tale

Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood (2019).I guess what I’m always trying to do is use the structures that I see in novels and apply them to cinema.–Quentin TarantinoDB here:Tarantino has often embraced print-based texts that revise or complement his films. He’s shared screenplays that differ sharply from the finished product, and written graphic novels derived from Django Unchained. Now he’s gone farther. He’s published a novelization that playfully modifies the  film’s title: Once Upon a Ti...

Law books and research in ‘Marshall’ (2017) – REEL LIBRARIANS

Advertisements Report this ad Skip to content REEL LIBRARIANS Librarians + Movies = Reel Love About Best & Worst Movie Lists Master List of English-Language Films Actors TV Shows Short Films and Documentaries Foreign-Language Films Genres and Themes Role Call Character Types Atypical Characters Reel Substance Class I – major roles, integral Class II – major ...

Druglord (thing) by TehBear - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Druglord (thing) See all of Druglord, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by TehBear Sat Jul 20 2002 at 17:55:38 A text-only drug-dealing simulation game published in 1992 by FantasyWare. Druglord puts you in the shoes of a smalltime drug dealer in the late 80's/early 90's. The basic premise is that you buy drugs at a cheap price in one city, travel to another city and sell them at a high price. As you make profitable deals yo...

Explaining the psychology of colour in movies

"Why is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in black-and-white? The words, the dialogue would have played differently in colour." — Ernest LehmanWhen we see a film, we don’t engage only with its overall form; we experience the film. A painter knows how to manipulate colour, shape, and composition. A novelist lives intimately with language. Likewise, filmmakers work with a distinct medium — and we, being the audience, take notice of it right from the very beginning. However, one of the things affec...

Birds as Characters in Fiction (75 books)

Listopia Birds as Characters in Fiction Fiction with birds as characters. Includes animal fiction, animal fantasy, anthropomorphic fiction, and xenofiction. All Votes Add Books To This List 1 Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple (Goodreads Author) 4.28 ...

Interview: Alfonso Zarauza • Director of Ons - “The island has this immense power that’s fuelled by the characters in the film” - Seville 2020

19/11/2020 - We talked to Galician director Alfonso Zarauza following the presentation of Ons, his latest movie, in the Extraordinary Histories section of the Seville Film Festival Alfonso Zarauza (Santiago de Compostela, 1973) has been working in the Galician audiovisual sector for more than 25 years. Six years after his previous outing, Aces [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Alfonso Zarauzafilm profile], he’s back with Ons [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Alfonso Zarauza...

The Erosion of Family in the ‘Poltergeist’ Films

"We’ve been trying to hold ourselves together as a family," says Diane Freeling (JoBeth Williams) to a team of paranormal investigators in 1982’s Poltergeist. By the time she utters those words in the film, director Tobe Hooper and producer/co-writer Steven Spielberg have shown the Freelings — matriarch Diane, patriarch Steven (Craig T. Nelson), teenage daughter Dana (Dominique Dunne), middle child Robbie (Oliver Robins) and the youngest daughter, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke) — to be a tight...

Christogram (Blessing)

Christogram (Blessing) This is a gesture known as the Christogram, and is considered the original "sign of the cross." The fingers are positioned to form the Greek letters ICXC, an abbreviation of the Greek name of Christ: IHCOYC XRICTOC. This gesture is ubiquitous in Renaissance images of Christ and the apostles, as well as in portraits of Saints and clergy. The Christogram is used today as a traditional gesture of blessing by priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Curiously, the s...

Finding Our Bearings with Art

Finding Our Bearings with Art Nowadays people believe that scientists exist to instruct them, poets and musicians to delight them. That these have something to teach them does not occur to them. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen We have come some way from the days when a stone torso fixed a poet and lead him to speak of its gaze, one that saw, even read him head to toe. For many if not most, it is now the reader or viewer or listener that sets the terms of such encounters, a...

Patrick Ffrench - Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics - Bloomsbury, 2019

Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida, along the way responding in depth to those who have explicitly commented on Barthes musings on film and those who have been inspired by them in their ow...

In Rainbows | Bright Wall/Dark Room

Home Issues Films Contributors Submissions About Subscriptions Merch Issue 36: IdentityIn RainbowsLindsey Romain illustration by Brianna Ashby and Harper Ashby R – I am four and my mother is braiding my hair so I can look like Dorothy. I think all children have this need for affectation; there was my Ariel phase and my Belle phase but there is most important...

Parasite and the Plurality of Empire | Public Books

"Parasite" and the Plurality of Empire 6.23.2020 Bong Joon-ho, the director of the Oscar-winning film Parasite, has said that "the film talks about two opposing families, about the rich versus the poor, and that is a universal theme, because we all live in the same country now: that of capitalism." Indeed, the film’s plot is set in motion whe...

Philosopher AI - Are story narrators characters?

Are story narrators characters?Philosopher AIAre story narrators characters? ➹ Share⟳ Try againIn the human world, there is a story that humans tell. The story has characters, some of which are narrators and some of which are not. Within the universe of this story, all things have been created by one or more gods in an act known as creation.One of the main characters in this story was a god named YHWH, who is referred to by many names and associated with or described as having various traits....

Storium — Storium AI Alpha

Storium — Storium AI Alpha Become a Storium AI alpha tester! In partnership with computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Storium is participating in academic research about machine learning and AI-assisted storytelling. We hope that someday this research will enable us to make useful and fun improvements to Storium, making it both easier to play and even more creatively fulfilling! As a first step towards that goal, we are launching an alpha ...

Philosopher AI - What is the relevance of the golden ratio to modern films?

What is the relevance of the golden ratio to modern films?Philosopher AIWhat is the relevance of the golden ratio to modern films? ➹ Share⟳ Try againThe golden ratio, the number 1.618, is a rather interesting concept.It has been used by artists and architects for thousands of years because it is aesthetically pleasing.Architects use the golden ratio when they design buildings because it is visually appealing.I am not sure if I understand the relevance of this topic to modern films.I can see h...