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Digital Rocks - Issue 42 of N+1

June 16th, 2022

Digital RocksHow Hollywood killed celluloid David Maljkovic, Temporary Projections (version 2). 2012, inkjet print on archival paper with collage element. 39 × 59". Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers.Hollywood is to the cinema what the United States is to the world. Its power is outsize. India, China, Nigeria, Russia—among many other countries—each release more movies annually than the five-member studio syndicate based in Los Angeles. But no other film sector carries more influence, ge...

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Most Memorable Characters In Horse Racing Movies

June 8th, 2022

Most Memorable Characters In Horse Racing Movies Phar Lap Horse racing is one of the sports with the richest tradition that dates back hundreds of years. With such long history of professional horse racing, there are plenty of incredible stories that managed to survive over the years thanks to books and movies. Many of us found our passion for the so-called Sport of Kings through movies inspired by this incredible sport. A long-running tradition that is c...

Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

June 4th, 2022

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

Landscape and the Moving Image

June 2nd, 2022

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines commitment to ecology. Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists ...

The Death of Me Yet (1971)

May 31st, 2022

Exploring a zippy premise from offbeat narrative angles, telefilm   The Death of Me Yet   is more a compendium of promising ideas than a fully realized dramatic statement, but an engaging leading performance and solid supporting turns help make the piece as palatable as it is befuddling. The movie is about a KGB sleeper agent living a seemingly normal life in California until circumstances cause him to question his allegiance to Mother Russia. While much the plot comprises the twi...

Mirror-less camera (thing) by The Debutante - Everything2.com

April 29th, 2022

Mirror-less camera (thing) See all of Mirror-less camera, no other writeups in this node. There are lots of different types of camera out there, from pinholes that you can make yourself using a cardboard box, to large format cameras that use one sheet of film per exposure, via instamatics and 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. Recently, however, there has been a trend towards 'mirror-less cameras'. They are commonly seen as a bridge between compact cameras and SLRs, but there's a b...

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Filippo Fimiani, Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques - PhilPapers

April 14th, 2022

Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques Filippo Fimiani Parigi, Francia: Mimesis (2021) Authors Filippo Fimiani Università degli Studi di Salerno Abstract The paper leans on a movie cult from the 1960s, Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni, of which a famous sequence is often mentioned, the one in which the protagonist, the photographer Thomas (considered here as a "conceptual character"), repeatedly enlarged the photographs he made in a park, in order ...

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10 Actors Who Portrayed Vincent van Gogh

April 12th, 2022

Vincent van Gogh is one of history’s most beloved artists. Thanks to his well-known masterpieces such as Starry Night, Sunflowers, and The Yellow Room, it’s hard to believe that the Dutch artist sold only a couple of paintings during his lifetime. He was a prolific artist who created over 850 paintings and over 1,300 sketches in his unique style. While creating this immense body of work, the Dutch artist suffered through waves of mental illness. His popularity soared after his death and it on...

Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as Science Fiction Characters

April 5th, 2022

IEEE websites place cookies on your device to give you the best user experience. By using our websites, you agree to the placement of these cookies. To learn more, read our Privacy PolicyAccept & Close Your Engineering Heritage: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as Science Fiction Characters Your Engineering Herit...

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The Soviet Sci-Fi Classic That Inspired Annihilation

April 2nd, 2022

The Soviet Sci-Fi Classic That Inspired Annihilation Paramount By Witney Seibold/March 31, 2022 10:15 am EDT Based on the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Alex Garland's 2018 film "Annihilation" is a contemplative and trippy sci-fi fable about a team of scientists who infiltrate an area — nickn...

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10 most influential robots from science fiction works - Interesting Engineering

March 9th, 2022

Are robots just robots?  Today, we're building all kinds of drones and robots with the help of emerging technology trends. But technology has never been able to move as quickly as our imagination; even before we actually got to building tangible robots, we imagined what it would be like being around them.  We first mentioned robots in written fiction all the way back in the mid-1800s before they reached the screen around the 1920s. While all sci-fi works have their charm, some of th...

How Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' questioned ethics and morality in the science-fiction genre - Far Out Magazine

February 1st, 2022

In 1818, a 19-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein while engaging in a friendly gothic horror writing contest with her peers. Her story, later published as a novel, subsequently became the cornerstone to the science fiction genre, dubbing Shelley as the creator of the same. Although the term was popularised much later in 1929 by Hugo Gernsback. Curious and bright, Shelley was always intrigued by the intricacies of science and was way ahead of her time while writing the nove...

Dick Powell’s Radio Detectives

January 12th, 2022

I don’t know about you, but I get into classic star moods. Lately my obsession is Dick Powell’s voice on the radio. It’s much easier for me to work listening to old-time radio programs than it is to try to watch movies and so here I am to share a collection of Dick Powell radio detectives. I say this often when I pay tribute to a star whose voice is smooth as silk…it is made for radio. That is true of Dick Powell who brings a sharp delivery and a wonderful deep noir lilt I cannot get en...

Screwball Comedy - history

January 8th, 2022

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Twentieth Century A common misconception about 1930s Hollywood cinema is that escapism was the trend du jour. The ubiquity of genres like historical melodramas and musicals indicates that rationale may be true to an extent, but even the most fantastic films were grounded in some semblance of social realism. And how could they not be? With ...

Invasion: Every Season 1 Alien Easter Egg & Reference - Screen Rant

December 13th, 2021

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Apple TV+'s Invasion. Apple TV+'s Invasion season 1 is packed to the gills with Easter eggs, references, and homages to classic sci-fi alien movies. The epic Apple TV+ sci-fi series takes a decidedly human stance on the story of an alien invasion seen through different cultures' perspectives from around the world. This is not to say that there is not a significant alien narrative presence pervading Invasion, however, with almost every other episode referen...

Winchester ’73

November 25th, 2021

Take Seven: Object Lessons The Myth Maker Justin Stewart on Winchester ’73 Firearms—and the violence they both enable and wreak—are as fundamental to American cinema as they are to the history of a land stolen and colonized at gunpoint and a nation whose independence (and later, union) was purchased with oceans of shed blood. When moral superintendents throughout American film history have seen fit to protect delicate sensitivities through censorship, government review, and ratings b...

Beelzebub’s Blockbuster: Why ‘The Exorcist’ Terrified Audiences in 1973 - Film School Rejects

November 17th, 2021

Warner Bros. By  Meg Shields  · Published on November 17th, 2021 Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about why William Friedkin’s 1973 horror film The Exorcist was so scary to audiences in 1973. There are certain films with a reputation that proceeds them; infamous offerings of pop culture of history that radiate a certain ominous energy...

Predictions from sci-fi movies that became reality

September 30th, 2021

(MENAFN- BreezyScroll) How weird is it to believe that fiction can turn into reality? Well, as absurd it sounds there are certain predictions made by sci-fi movies that did become reality. Here are 5 predictions from sci-fi movies that are now a reality. 5 predictions from sci-fi movies that are now a reality 1. Space travel — ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune,’ 1902 Space travel — ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune,’ 1902 – Well, we can’t put our finger on who inspired or initiated space tra...

Revisiting the science-fiction brilliance of Mamoru Oshii film Ghost in the Shell

September 17th, 2021

(Credit: Manga Entertainment) Revisiting the science-fiction brilliance of Mamoru Oshii film 'Ghost in the Shell''Ghost in the Shell' - Mamoru OshiiTo conjure the realms of a brand new universe, being, or landscape whilst being limited to the physical implications of live-action filmmaking is no easy feat. It’s often why some of the most impressive fantasy projects reject live-action entirely, turning to the vibrant, dynamic world of animation instead. Celebrating over 25 years of existence, ...

The little apparatus - 100 years of 9.5mm film

September 17th, 2021

Apologies for cross posting. Just a reminder about the below CFP. The deadline for proposals is 17 October 2021. CALL FOR PAPERS The ‘little apparatus’: 100 years of 9.5mm film 16, 17, 18 June 2022 University of Southampton An international conference hosted in person and online by the Department of Film Studies’ ‘Centre For International Film Research’ at the University of Southampton. December 1922 will mark the centenary of the introduction of 9.5mm film to the French cinematograph...

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Day the Earth Caught Fire - The

September 17th, 2021

Hello!We give thanks this summer Tuesday to CineSavant’s keenly curious associate Gary Teetzel, who has come through with another of his interesting and popular Trade Paper search expeditions. The main subject this time around is Val Guest’s 1962 sci-fi hit The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Or at least we were always told that it was a hit. The trades catered to exhibitors all across America, and what was reviewed as hip and exciting in NYC could fall flat on its face out in the sticks somewhere...

1980s Sci-fi Movies That Did and Did not Age Well

September 16th, 2021

Given how quickly the world of science and technology evolves, it comes as no surprise that science fiction over the decades has transformed just as quickly. And, while most people might expect sci-fi films from the 80s to seem incredibly dated, there are actually a number of greats that still hold up really well. RELATED: 15 Scariest Episodes Of The Twilight Zone, Ranked But obviously, not every movie becomes a classic. For every unforgettable 80s movie, there is another that aud...

Black Film Archive

September 13th, 2021

Black Film Archive BLACK FILM ARCHIVE Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. ABOUT BLACK FILM ARCHIVE Black Film Archive celebrates the rich,...

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