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The other side of movie celebs… Quentin Tarantino Jack Nicholson Heath Ledger & Christian Bale John Candy & Bill Murray Justin Timberlake & Ryan Goseling The Fresh Prince With Hugh Hefner, Carlton & Hillary Wilt Chamberlain, Arnold & Andre The Giant Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Tupac & Mickey Rourke Sigourney Weaver Eating A Hot Dog Sean Connery Clint Eastwood Steve… Read more »
As one of the most beloved American director, Stanley Kubrick made films that have been worshiped and studied by generations of cinephiles. Through all his classics, we knew he’s a perfectionist at work. But what about life(yes, he did have life)? How much do you know Kubrick as a person? Here’s 10 insights that reveal the other side of Kubrick…. Read more »
Have you had the moment in your life that when you were re-watching a favorite movie of yours, then you suddenly recognize some Hollywood star in a scene and said to yourself :” Gee, XXX is in this, how could I not find it out before?” Yes, you have seen the movies, but you didn’t realize whom you were seeing…. Read more »
YouTube may be the place to go if you feel like watching a cat get stuck in a box or a goat screaming, but it’s also the means through which many creative individuals have built up their fan-bases and developed their careers, turning them from talented people into overnight online sensations. Here are just a few of the people to… Read more »
What’s the secret of becoming famous overnight in Hollywood? Right now, the new Oscar Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence is probably the most eligible person to answer this question: You need supreme acting talent, down-to-Earth behaviour and general likeable klutziness. Here’s 20 facts about the biggest star in Hollywood that might also give you some clues to her overnight success. … Read more »
Movie makers have sought inspiration from the world of literature since the inception of film, but there are a number of authors whose success as writers has been inextricably linked to the world of cinema. Here are some of the big hitters. Stephen King There was a time when the trivia question, “The Shawshank Redemption” was based on a novel… Read more »
Al Pacino as Travis Bickle? Jack Nicholson as Michael Corleone? Robert De Niro as Jack Torrance? These are not fansy dreams but the cast that almost became reality. For different reasons, great Hollywood stars have regrettably turned down some legendary roles. Now we may re-imagine these classic characters played by another actor, would it be better or worse? We never know. Below are the “regret lists”… Read more »
Max Von Sydow. Marcello Mastroianni. Toshiro Mifune. LivUllmann. These names may not ring a bell with the majority of American filmgoers, but devoted cinephiles know them as four of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen. Of course, they were far more well known within the international cinematic circle, given that they worked with directors the likes of… Read more »
Vertigo beats Citizen Kane to the top in Sight & Sound “The Greatest Films Poll” is no doubt one of the biggest news among cinephiles in the last couple of months,but a fact many people don’t know is that Yasujiro Ozu‘s Tokyo Story has silently climbed to the top in the Director’s Poll,and it seems the greatness and importance of this… Read more »
For this blog-a-thon started by Nostra of My Filmviews, it’s about listing the 10 best actors ever where on person passes on that list to another where they can remove one actor in that list and insert a new one. It’s a simple contest but given that there’s so many actors, it’s a very difficult thing to do. Here’s what Nostra… Read more »
Last time I compared 15 pairs of classic films on this blog,this time I decide to go one step further with a director poll,another 15 matchups are carefully chosen and wait for your votes.The longer you stuck here,the more struggles you have,the happier I am,it proves that the pairing works.As usual,I am the first person to accept the torture,below are… Read more »
When I began watching films,I always had the wrong impression that if the image of a film is beautiful,it is the director’s credit.Of course I figured that out lately and found that it is the cinematographer who does the execution of the shooting,as I watched more and more films,I noticed more magic in the film cinematography,the color,the composition,the lighting,the camera… Read more »
Stanley Kubrick, the film God, is my all time hero. It’s impossible to compare directors since they make different types of films, but Mr. Kubrick had some quality that is so rare to be seen on other great directors. As one of his biggest worshipers, I summarized 10 pretty convincing reasons why this man, not Bergman, not Welles, not Kurosawa… Read more »
We fans always wish that every director can make films in the speed of Woody Allen,but unfortunately some of them make films in the speed of Stanley Kubrick.Among the directors I’m gonna mention below,some of them really kept us waiting for a looong time,like Wong-Karwai(5 years),Paul Thomas Anderson(5 years),Leos Carax(13 years),and some of them just impressed us with their latest… Read more »
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Who is Jack Cardiff ?? If you know the word “technicolor”,you should have heard of Jack Cardiff,he was the greatest cinematographer during the technicolor era,and his most famous films are Red Shoes and Black Narcissus(Both title contain a color name),I hope you have seen them before. I had seen many technicolor films before Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s Red Shoes,but… Read more »
