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3 days ago · Why do people watch Mondo films? Mondo movies are exploitative pseudo-documentaries that aim to shock audiences with real footage of taboo and gruesome subjects. They often use voiceover narration and juxtapose scenes from different parts of the world. Mondo cinema became popular after the success of Mondo Cane in 1962.
May 28, 2024 · Jean-Paul Belmondo (born April 9, 1933, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France—died September 6, 2021, Paris) was a French motion picture actor who embodied the antiheroic spirit of the French New Wave in his early performances and later starred in and produced many commercially successful films that highlighted his graceful agility and ...
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May 13, 2024 · history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 1830–1910 Origins. The illusion of films is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first of these causes the ...
2 days ago · Berlin was its center with the Filmstudio Babelsberg, which is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. The first Expressionist films made up for a lack of lavish budgets by using set designs with wildly non-realistic, geometrically absurd angles, along with designs painted on walls and floors to represent lights, shadows, and objects.
May 23, 2024 · Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of ...
4 days ago · Why It's Worth Watching: 28 Days Later made one big change to its zombie lore that breathed new life into the genre: the infected are now fast and aggressive, as opposed to the lumbering zombies of the George Romero movies. Their speed and homicidal urges make for edge-of-your-seat viewing.
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May 26, 2024 · The first full film movie ever produced in the world is “The Story of the Kelly Gang” which opened at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne on Boxing Day 1906. It is a multi-reel, feature-length film that caused controversy by presenting the Kelly gang sympathetically.
