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Brooks reminisces about the making of Young Frankenstein in 1974. From his first viewing of the original Frankenstein when he was six, to his collaboration with Gene Wilder and the rest of the cast and crew, Brooks provides behind-the-scenes anecdotes, photos, interviews and more.
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"This will be a humorous and pithy guide to the craft of writing a screenplay and the business of being a screenwriter. The stage at Hollywood's Dolby Theater is lit. Movie stars abound in tuxes and gowns, and Bradley Cooper slowly opens the sealed envelope, glances to the audience, and reads "And the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay goes to ..." You kiss your guest on the cheek, shake hands with Spielberg, and head for the stage. Winning an Oscar...
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In this fast-paced and funny debut mystery, movie stars are in Santa Barbara for the film festival, and powerful business interests are at stake. Detective Nola MacIntire and her partner, Tony, must untangle the complicated web behind three seemingly unrelated deaths in this idyllic beach town.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol.
Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day), the film shows how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season...
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"Man, I believe the older generation doesn't want the younger generation have any fun," complained one Arizona high school student in the midst of what has often been called "The Fabulous Fifties." For the first time in history, thanks to a booming post-war economy and an emerging middle class, teenagers had money to spend. They developed their own culture, language and fashion and by 1957 it was their music coming out of the radios and the jukeboxes,...
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"Junior Bender is a burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now Junior is being blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into taking on a new freelance job. Junior is to act as a private investigator on the set of the porn movie Trey's producing, which someone keeps sabotaging. If Junior can't keep the movie on track,...
7) The Voices
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In the scorching summer of 1976-the hottest since records began-Christopher Norton, his wife Laura, and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking...
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Based on author David Grann's nonfiction bestseller, The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett...
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El libro presenta una compilación de 57 películas cuidadosamente seleccionadas donde los protagonistas son personas próximas a jubilarse o jubiladas. Representa el primer paso para la promoción del ocio a través del cine en personas que se encuentran en el retiro laboral. El listado de las películas que se ofrece es un recurso valioso porque orienta a las personas jubiladas sobre las siete etapas que se vivien durante la jubilación y muestra...
11) Master Shots Vol 1: 100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get An Expensive Look on your Low Budget Movie
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Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget because the director is forced to compromise at the last minute. Master Shots gives you so many powerful techniques that you'll be able to respond, even under pressure, and create knock-out...
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Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution. Nicholas Rombes considers Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), and The Ring (2002), among others. Haunted by their...
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"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.
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St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the barefoot monk from Assisi undoubtedly had the courage that comes from deep faith and was able to transcend the oppressiveness of the time. In this Italian/British-produced...
15) Pauls Case
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Young working-class Paul, dreaming of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh, .steals some money and lives the life in glamorous New York City…until reality comes crashing down around him. Based on the Willa Cather classic.
16) Closed Season
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Structured through flashback and a German student's search for his biological father in 1970s Israel, Closed Season is Albert's story (Christian Friedel): a Jewish boy fleeing Nazi persecution during WWII. Traveling through the mountains of the Black Forest and unable to cross the heavily patrolled Swiss border, he finds shelter with a farmer, Fritz (Hans-Jochen Wagner), and his wife Emma (Brigitte Hobmeier). Fritz and Emma, who have been unable to...
17) Swing Kids
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It's 1939 and Nazi Germany has declared war on freedom, demanding conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves SWING KIDS rebel with their "swing" music from America and dare to stand up against the powerful forces around them. Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale deliver gripping performances as two friends who must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. Also featuring Barbara Hershey, SWING...
19) Almos' A Man
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A 15-year-old boy from a family of poor sharecroppers in the 1930's Deep South finds a way to buy a pistol to prove his manhood and earn respect. But when the gun overpowers the boy's body and he loses control and his young life forever changed.
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