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Bah humbug! (Ebenezer Scrooge)
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), a well-known English novelist, journalist and short story writer, has had...
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- Jun 4
- 3 min
Jules Verne and cinema: an old story
From the moment when filmmakers like Georges Méliès showed that animated images could go beyond the simple reproduction of real images,...
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- Apr 30
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‘Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’ Doc Brown
I’m sure most of us have said to ourselves ‘If only I could go back in time, I would make a different decision!’ If only, but in...
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- Apr 5
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THE SOUND OF SILENCE: disability in cinema
“Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me”. Marlee Matlin As an industry of the imagination, Hollywood generally...
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- Mar 3
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To screen or not to screen – a question for debate!
What is contentious in one country or area of the world is perfectly normal in another, profanities are part of everyday language in some...
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- Jan 30
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Travel through time with a camera: the Peplum
The term Sword-and-sandal or Peplum to describe a certain kind of film was invented by French film critics, from ‘Cahier du Cinema’ and...
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- Dec 19, 2023
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“I’ll sleep better knowing my good friend is by my side to protect me” – Blondie *
Cowboys, gunfights, loan riders (usually bounty hunters), bandits riding through the hot, dusty desert! What can we be describing other...
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- Nov 7, 2023
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Do not step in my spotlight!
Artificial intelligence continues to expand in cinema and in other media: editing, special effects, dubbing, all the way to production...
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- Oct 4, 2023
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“Don’t blame me, blame Mattel. I don’t care.” -Weird Barbie
“Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him.” -Narrator. Imagine living in a world where women...
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- Sep 12, 2023
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“The corporate greed has made it very difficult for people to have lives,” Susan Sarandon
On August 10, Hollywood screenwriters had already been on strike for 100 days, they were followed by actors in mid-July, which made this...
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- Aug 1, 2023
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“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” — Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones in The Temple of Doom promotional photo via Disney The heat of a Cypriot summer has just hit us and sitting in a cool dark...
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- Jun 27, 2023
- 8 min
Impact d'un rôle sur une actrice
Action! Un mois de vacances aux Etats-Unis et une obsession collective sur la platforme Netflix USA: In The Dark, une série télévisée...
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- May 24, 2023
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"I suppose I think of myself as a film maker" Kathryn Bigelow
If approximately 50% of the world’s population is female, why is it that less than 3% of women directors have ever received an Oscar! ...
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- Apr 11, 2023
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Underground cinema: "a creature of publicity and mutual congratulations on artistry" Pauline Kael
Underground cinema is radical in form and usually operates out of the mainstream cinema either in style, genre or financing. It can also...
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- Mar 1, 2023
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The city buried under the dunes
‘As a boy, I used to look upon hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures’ Cecil B. DeMille Amazingly, one hundred years ago in 1923,...
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- Feb 7, 2023
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Film conservation and its impact on our modern societies
The Film Foundation is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the exhibition of restored and classic...
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- Dec 14, 2022
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“The thing women still have to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.” *
Does it surprise you to learn that the actors with the most nominations and the one who has been awarded the most Oscars are both women? ...
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- Nov 1, 2022
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The essence of Bollywood: “Those who don't fulfill their own dreams fulfill others’ dreams”
Bollywood, the Hindi-language sector of the Indian moviemaking industry that began in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1930s developed slowly...
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- Oct 25, 2022
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“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.” - Hayao Miyazaki
Recently, we have been sorting through the ICFFCY collection of films that were once screened at our children and youth film festival. ...
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- Sep 5, 2022
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Do or do not. There is no “try.” – Yoda, Star Wars
‘That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.’ Up How do you feel after you’ve watched a movie?...
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