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[from amaah] Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film

On the adaptation of a hardboiled poem to a film noir... The Set-Up was a suitably cynical work but the original poem was even bleaker. Hollywood.

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[from amaah] Readers of the Lost Ark

Addressing the story of Noah's ark and its recent modern reinterpretation in Evan Almighty. via Nate B.

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[from amaah] Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality

On the physics of ghosts, zombies and vampires.... Who said that science wasn't relevant? "We conclude that vampires cannot exist, since their existence would contradict the existence of human beings."

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[from amaah] The Stasi on Our Minds

One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination with the darkest evils of the two worst political systems of the most murderous century in human history. On the lives of others

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[from amaah] When There's Too Much of a Not-Very-Good Thing

profiles Nigerian film industry, which has declared hiatus because of plethora of films; movies, shot on video, are low-budget and marketed to home audience through rental shops and streetside video clubs Note: no mention of "Nollywood", March 2002

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[from amaah] A Filmmaker's Attempt To Peel Off the Labels

"Quick question: Are there more black men in college or in jail?" Man in green shirt: "Jail." Man in brown shirt: "Jail." Man in blue shirt. "Jail." Morton thanks them, then calls over the waiter: "Hey, R.J.! Are there more black men in college or in jail

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[from amaah] "It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief ": Crime and the American genre film

The thief has been a central figure in films about crime, in the American genre film, and in film noir. In a sense, there is also a link between the idea of the genre film and theft, for insofar as it's a repetition of certain patterns and characters, the

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[from amaah] Waiting for 'Action!'

That the story of the most important social and political moment in this country's history has gone untold in its dominant narrative art form is shocking on any number of levels (one being that among the movement's most effective tactics was creating medi

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[from amaah] Ousmane Sembène, 84, Dies; Led Cinema’s Advance in Africa

Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker and writer who was a crucial figure in Africa’s postcolonial cultural awakening, has died at his home in Dakar, Senegal. A life in full, from les bouts de bois de dieux to Moolade, we mourn him

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A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema

A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members

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Girl Japanese Little

Brandi surprises her friends

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YouTube - The Disney Trap: How Copyright Steals our Stories

"This video was written and realized by Monica Mazzitelli, member of the Wu Ming Foundation's reading group iQuindici [TheFifteen], whose mission is to read as-yet-unpublished novels and short-stories in order to give feedback to their authors, as well as

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YouTube - The Disney Trap: How Copyright Steals our Stories

"This video was written and realized by Monica Mazzitelli, member of the Wu Ming Foundation's reading group iQuindici [TheFifteen], whose mission is to read as-yet-unpublished novels and short-stories in order to give feedback to their authors, as well as

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Elephants Dream

The world's first opensource movie

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