amazing tornado vid

Posted: February 12th, 2009

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just finished

Posted: February 4th, 2009

american cinema in the 60’s. an influential era in cinema. films in this time period are really something else: the way colors were used, types of shots were introduced, twisting/engagding scripts, playful agressive production…autuers in the making. how television changed film, how the assisnations that happened in that decade affected movie makers. love it! not the fact that people died, but the things that came out of it all. how come they don’t make movies close to this anymore? though this is suppose to be about american cinema it goes into heavy detail in french new wave, swedish, british films. courtesy of my roommates who gave this to me as a gift. thanks!

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book covers for films

Posted: February 4th, 2009

courtesy of spacesick. thanks!!

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death race 2000

Posted: January 27th, 2009

1975 - death race 2000

omfg, this movie is outrageous. you’ve got to see this movie. based on a short story called the racer, this movie depicts america in the year 2000. the racers travel around and accumulate points for running over/killing people that volunteer. wtf?!!?! it’s good, trust me.

read about it here or watch it and talk about it here.

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down by law

Posted: January 15th, 2009

1986 - down by law

funny, slow, jailbreak film. directed by jim jarmusch.

read about it here or watch it and talk about it here

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la nuit américaine

Posted: January 14th, 2009

1973 - day for night

françois truffaut is amazing. a film about filming, a film for movie lovers.

read about it here or watch it and talk about it here

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psycho show scene facts

Posted: January 5th, 2009

“Motion picture decency standards in the 1960 didn’t allow for things like nude women being stabbed to death in showers. Consequently, Hitchcock was forced to create the impression of nudity and violence without actually showing a breast, a buttock, or a knife puncturing skin. The result is a terrifying masterpiece of a montage. And even though it’s probably the most analyzed (and parodied) 45 seconds in film history, we’re willing to bet the following tidbits slipped past you.

Forget the bloody corpse in the bathtub: what really got “Psycho” censors worked up was the toilet. Just before stepping into that fateful shower, Marion tears up an incriminating note and flushes it. Hitchcock’s close-up of the swirling commode water was the first ever allowed in an American film.

What looks like blood funneling down the drain is actually Bosco chocolate syrup. Hitchcock thought it looked more real in black-and-white than the fake stuff. Tastier, too.

The scene is composed of more than 90 shots seen in 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks.

The woman who played Janet Leigh’s body double in about half of the shower-scene shots was named Myra Jones. In a sad case of life imitating art, Jones was stabbed to death in 1988. Her killer? A mentally disturbed handyman who targeted older women. He’d murdered at least one other before her - that police know about.

After the release of “Psycho,” Hitchcock received an irate letter from a man whose daughter had refused to take baths after seeing the French thriller “Les Diaboliques” (in which a man is drowned in a tub). After seeing “Psycho,” she refused to take showers as well. Hitchcock’s reply? “Send her to the dry cleaners.”

Although popular with most audiences, “Psycho” was reviled by ophthalmologists. Eye doctors everywhere pointed out that a corpse’s pupil dilate, yet - in a stark close-up of her face after her supposedly deadly shower - Janet Leigh’s eyes remain contracted. Ever the obsessed technician, Hitchcock listened, using dilating eyedrops for stiffs in all future films.” -mentalfloss

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