It's a satire on 1920s Hollywood, made by people who obviously spent their younger days gazing in wonder at the silver screen - its pastiche silent films are beautiful, if silly. Putting it on stage loses the lovely self-mockery of a movie about movies.Anderson, Zoe...
eliminating a lot of hearty belly laughs. You kinda get the feeling you've seen some of the scenes before from The Three Stooges. The funniest thing about the movie was the weird totally different look of the 3 main characters, with Mel Funn's sailor outfit, Marty Eggs' aviator gear, ...
About 90 percent of all silent films have been lost. One of the main reasons for this is that the chemicals used to make many of the early films broke down over time. ”What that means is that these movie cards are the only proof that these films even existed, Cleveland said. Cleveland...
9.The Player(1992) Robert Altman’s satirical black comedyThe Playeris as in-the-know as films about Hollywood come. It’s packed with 65 celebrity cameos and tons of insider jokes. The story follows studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) after he receives a death threat by postcard....
silent era, he was a young veteran, full of youthful enthusiasm and ideas. He uses point-of-view camera positions, not just to show off but to add vitality to a formulaic story. James Murray (the ill-fated star ofThe Crowd) and Barbara Kent star in this slickly made yarn about a ...
The rediscovery and restoration of silent film Mania: The History of a Cigarette Factory Worker gives modern audiences the chance to be mesmerised by the melodrama of its Polish starThe tragedy of silent cinema is that we have so little of it. Of all the films made in the silent era, no...
A. directing music accompaniments of silent movies B. composing special music of a special movie C. composing music for all kinds of concerts D. showing directions how to get to a place4. What can be inferred from the passage about the majority of films made after 1927? A. They were ...
after all, some real significance. Despite the entreaties of countless editors, authors and websites, I decline to make lists of the best comedies, horror films, Christmas films, family films, Westerns, musicals, political films, silent films, films about dogs, and so on. That way madness li...
I mostly enjoy writing about films that fit into the category 'Cult' in one way or another. It's, frankly, where my comfort zone lies. I'm in my early forties, I spend a lot of time in front of a TV or movie screen and I'm an avid collector of physical copies of movies and ...
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