Posted in Favorite Movies on Jan 24th, 2010
This article was written by Nathan Chase. “Since our public launch in September, we’ve grown to well over 40,000 users, and garnered a total of more than 60 million rankings. As we approach the close of the year, and the start of a new decade, we thought we might take a moment to showcase the [...]
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Posted in Favorite Movies on Jun 9th, 2009
“From Slumdog Millionaire shantytown tours to ‘slumdog’ pitching and grittier approaches to telling traditional stories, Paul MacInnes finds out how Danny Boyle’s film is transforming art and business in Bollywood.” Read this article from The Guardian. ———- Sign up now for your own FREE monthly subscription to “The Director’s Chair” filmmaking ezine and get: (1) [...]
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This article is from In From the Cold. “As Leo Grin of National Review reminds us, today marks an important anniversary in the history of the American cinema. Seventy years ago, on March 1, 1939, director John Ford released Stagecoach, arguably the greatest western ever made, and one of the most celebrated films of Hollywood’s [...]
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Posted in Favorite Movies on Jan 4th, 2009
This series of videos is from the website, Smashing Magazine “We all know that first impressions are important, right? Well, the same goes for film. The opening title sequence of a film is that film’s opportunity to make a good first impression on you, the viewer. A well-crafted title sequence introduces the audience to the [...]
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Posted in Favorite Movies on Dec 20th, 2008
“In the Heat of the Night” This film still holds it own after 40 years. I saw this film when I was a teenager and I still remember feeling the heat of the night oozing from the big screen. The acting is so perfect – a Rod Steiger tour-de-force! (A must for all directors and [...]
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