Once, in a Paris Café, a group of surrealist artist lead by André Breton was reunited, they had concealed and came to a decision – they had decided to expel Salvador Dalí from the surrealist movement. Many argue that this was due to the artist’s neutral political positions (since surrealist artist had begun embracing leftist […]
Author: Truman Hopper
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Charles Chaplin vs Buster Keaton: Who Is The King of Silent Comedy?
Thomas H. Ince was responsible to conceive the production system adopted by Hollywood during its Golden Age. In 1912, “Inceville” was the first studio to test the following filmmaking method: a number of production units, each headed by a director, who had the responsibility of supervising a team of writers who delivered shooting scripts to […]
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7 Reasons Why Watching Silent Films Is Essential To Any Film Student
Before going to film school a lot of people think that whatever there is to be learned about filmmaking can be taught through books and classes – types of shots; editing style; narrative economy; storytelling… Well in part it can and students can learn all about that in theory, but true knowledge only comes with […]
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15 Great Movies Influenced by the Paintings of Michelangelo Caravaggio
In July 1597, a barber named Luca testified in court in a case of a missing dagger and cloak, he said: “This painter is a stocky young man…with a thin black beard, thick eyebrows and black eyes, who goes dressed all in black, in a rather disorderly fashion, wearing a black hose that is a […]
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20 Great Movies Inspired by Edward Hopper’s Paintings
Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) is considered by many as the painter with the cinematic eye. Born and raised in a bourgeois New York neighborhood, the painter took an early interest in depicting American Life. Starting with early black and white etchings and finishing with paintings that took a prominent place in American culture, the […]