Afilm is a form ofvisual art that simulates experiences and communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through moving images. Since the 1930s, most films have been produced assynchronized sound works and may include music, dialogue, and other sensory elements.
Films may be created by recording real scenes usingcameras or produced throughanimation, digital imagery, orspecial effects. They consist of a sequence of individualframes which, when projected rapidly—commonly at 24 frames per second—create the illusion of continuous motion. This effect is attributed topersistence of vision and cognitive phenomena such as thebeta movement, which make a stream of still images appear fluid and moving. (Full article...)
Image 13TheBabelsberg Studio nearBerlin, the earliest large-scale film studio complex (founded 1912). Today its one of the major film studios worldwide. (fromHistory of film)
Image 17TheBabelsberg Studio nearBerlin was the first large-scale film studio in the world (founded 1912) and the forerunner toHollywood. It still produces global blockbusters every year. (fromFilm industry)
Image 20Theater ticket sales revenue has declined since the mid 2010s. Theater revenue did not fully recover from declines during theCOVID-19 pandemic when many theaters were closed. (fromFilm industry)
Image 37Flyingpelican captured by Marey around 1882. He created a method of recording several phases of movement superimposed into one photograph (fromHistory of film technology)
Image 41Don Juan is the first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. (fromHistory of film)
A16 mm spring-woundBolex H16 Reflex camera, a popular introductory camera infilm schools. Bolex cameras were particularly important for early television news, nature films, documentaries and the avant garde, and are still favoured by manyanimators today.
... that most of the films produced by theHuaju Film Company starred its co-founder and his girlfriend?
... that former adult actressSuzumi Suzuki's bookGifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
... that when a prospective funder called the script for his horror filmAll You Need Is Death "weird and confusing",Paul Duane got the phrase tattooed on his arm and funded the film himself?
Cecil Blount DeMille (/ˈsɛsəldəˈmɪl/; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959), often known in popular culture asMr. DeMille, was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, bothsilent andsound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father ofAmerican cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history, with many films dominating the box office three or four at a time. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
Born inAshfield, Massachusetts and raised in New York City, DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later began to write and direct stage plays, a few with his older brotherWilliam de Mille, and some withJesse L. Lasky, who was then avaudeville producer. DeMille's first film,The Squaw Man (1914), was the first full-length feature film shot inHollywood. Its interracial love story was commercially successful, and the film marked Hollywood as the new home of the U.S. film industry. Based on continued film successes, DeMille founded Famous Players Lasky which was later reverse merged intoParamount Pictures with Lasky andAdolph Zukor. His first biblical epic,The Ten Commandments (1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for 25 years. (Full article...)
Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian actor, producer and television personality who works inHindi films. He began his acting career by playing a soldier in theDoordarshan seriesFauji (1988), a role that garnered him recognition and led to starring roles in more television shows. He soon started receiving film offers and had his first release with the romantic dramaDeewana (1992). Khan subsequently played villainous roles in the 1993 thrillersBaazigar andDarr, box office successes that established his career inBollywood. In 1995, Khan starred oppositeKajol inAditya Chopra's romanceDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, that became the longest running Indian film of all time. He continued to establish a reputation in romantic roles by playing oppositeMadhuri Dixit inDil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kajol in theKaran Johar-directedKuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) andKabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001).
In 1999, Khan collaborated withAziz Mirza andJuhi Chawla to start a production company, Dreamz Unlimited, whose first release was the comedy-dramaPhir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) starring Khan and Chawla. The film was a commercial failure as was their next production,Aśoka (2001), leading to a setback. His career prospects improved in 2002 when he starred alongside Dixit andAishwarya Rai inDevdas, a period romance that garnered him critical acclaim. In 2004, he collaborated with his wifeGauri Khan to launch another company,Red Chillies Entertainment, whose first feature was the box office hitMain Hoon Na (2004). Khan's popularity continued to increase in the 2000s as he played the romantic lead oppositePreity Zinta, inKal Ho Naa Ho (2003) andVeer-Zaara (2004). He also played againsttype as aNASA scientist in the dramaSwades (2004), a hockey coach in the sports filmChak De! India (2007), and anautistic man in the dramaMy Name Is Khan (2010). (Full article...)
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Moonlight is a 2016 Americandrama film directed byBarry Jenkins. It is an adaptation ofTarell Alvin McCraney's playIn Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. Produced byDede Gardner,Jeremy Kleiner, andAdele Romanski, it focuses on the life of Chiron, an African-American homosexual man struggling with his sexuality and identity while growing up in Miami, Florida.Moonlight starsTrevante Rhodes as Adult Chiron andAndré Holland as Adult Kevin, Chiron's closest friend.Naomie Harris,Mahershala Ali, andJanelle Monáe feature in supporting roles as Paula (Chiron's mother who suffers with drug addiction), Juan (a drug dealer), and Teresa (Juan's girlfriend) respectively.Moonlight premiered at theTelluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016. It also screened at theToronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016, and theNew York Film Festival on October 2, 2016. The film is the first produced byA24, which provided an initial limited release on October 21 before expanding to a wide release on November 18 at more than 600 theaters. It grossed a worldwide total of over $65 million at the box office on a $1.5 million budget.Review aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes surveyed 392 reviews and judged 98% to be positive.
Despicable Me 2 debuted in Australia on June 5, 2013, and was released in the United States on July 3. Produced on a budget of $76million,Despicable Me 2 grossed $970.8million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as thethird-highest-grossing film of 2013. On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 75% based on 185 reviews. (Full article...)
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Basshunter during the concert inHalmstad, 20 April 2008
From his second albumLOL (2006), Basshunter released music videos for the singles "Boten Anna", "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA", "Vifta med händerna" and "Jingle Bells".Carl-Johan Westregård and Kim Parrot directed the music videos for "Boten Anna" and "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA". A second version of the music video for the former was made. In 2007, a music video for the reissue of "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" titled "DotA" was released. (Full article...)
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TheGrammy Award for Best Music Film is an annual accolade for performers, directors, and producers of quality videos or musical programs. It is presented at theGrammy Awards, a ceremony established in 1958 when it was called the Gramophone Awards. (Full article...)
Selma premiered at theAFI Fest on November 11, 2014, in Los Angeles.Paramount Pictures initially provided the film a limited release on December 25 before a wide release at over 2,100 theaters on January 9, 2015.Selma grossed a worldwide total of over $66 million on a production budget of $20 million.Rotten Tomatoes, areview aggregator, surveyed 301 reviews and judged 99 percent to be positive. The film garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, Oyelowo's portrayal of King, and the song "Glory" byJohn Legend, and Common. At the87th Academy Awards,Selma won forBest Original Song for "Glory" and also received a nomination forBest Picture—the first film directed by a black female director to achieve this feat. The film received four nominations at the72nd Golden Globe Awards, winning theBest Original Song award for "Glory". DuVernay's nomination forBest Director was the first for a black female director. (Full article...)
Skyfall debuted at theRoyal Albert Hall on 23 October 2012, and was released on 26 October in the United Kingdom and on 9 November in the United States. Produced on a budget of $150–200million,Skyfall grossed $1.109billion worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as thesecond-highest-grossing film of 2012 and theseventh-highest-grossing film of all time; it ranked as Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film from December 2012 to August 2019. On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 388 reviews. (Full article...)
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things -- because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.
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