drugs, greed and violence were seemingly made for film. It all started in 1932, when the original "Scarface," directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes, hit the big screen. Censors demanded the subtitle “The Shame of the Nation” be added so filmgoers wouldn’t view the ...
Bruce Lee, Jet Li and henceforth. And of course, I will also try to give preference to good plot lines and quality filmmaking, rather than picking the films which just fill the runtime with action sequences. Here is the list of top Chinese action movies ever made....
The previous chapter discussed the presentation of the Western as a world of the past, figuratively distant and difficult to access. This chapter begins by discussing recent examples in which this distance is made literal by connecting the Western genre to spaces outside the USA. InBlackthornandTh...
Outlaws, professional killers, dangerous chameleons, suicidal gamblers, cocky gigolos, elusive thieves, and crooked cops returned to remind us that they have always been around and their stories are told in some of the best films ever made. Read more | Comments (8) | Blu-ray, 4K The ...
skip to main content hollywood’s 100 favorite films hollywood insiders were asked to pick their favorite movies of all time, providing us with a ranked list of 100 of the best movies ever made. john travolta and samuel l. jackson in pulp fiction, 1994. courtesy of miramax/courtesy everett...
By the way, Chasing Amy had the distinction of being easily my least favorite of Kevin Smith's movies for the original stint up until he made Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which makes it look like a masterpiece. It just doesn't bring the same energy as the other films and isn't as qu...
bar. The generated high harmonics are detected by a homemade flat-field soft x-ray spectrometer. In the one-color experiment, the harmonic signals measured at different time delays [Fig.1d and Supplementary Fig.2e] are used to identify the multiple orbitals effect in HHG. In the two-color ...
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Next, I correlated the pixels in next-adjacent frames (nandn + 2) within each shot, and then I averaged the correlation values within a shot.Footnote5No comparisons were made between frames across cuts. Shot averages were then assigned to the bin in which the shot began and, if that...
Watts made her film debut in a small part in an Australian romance,For Love Alone(1986). Her career did not truly begin, however, until 1991, when she appeared in the boarding-school romanceFlirting(with Kidman and Thandie Newton) as well as in two television series. She had parts in th...