"What is a cult film? A cult film is one that has a passionate following, but does not appeal to everyone. James Bond movies are not cult films, but chainsaw movies are. Just because a film has become a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some are very bad; others are very, very good. Some make an awful lot of money at the box office; others make no money at all. Some are considered quality films; others are exploitation movies. One thing cult movies do have in common is that they are all genre films - for example gangster films or westerns. They also have a tendency to slosh over from one genre into another, so that a science fiction film might also be a detective movie, or vice versa. They share common themes as well, themes that are found in all drama: love, murder and greed." - of the British TV film slots accompanied by an introduction perhaps the
most celebrated is
Moviedrome, running between 1988 and 2000 and presented first by Repo Man director
Alex Cox and then film critic
Mark Cousins.
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posted by Artw
on Aug 3, 2012 -
88 comments
Orlando, FL - 10 ac, 90K sq ft, 13 bed, 30 bath, 20 car garage, 3 pools, 2 tennis cts, bowling alley, skating rink -
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posted by Egg Shen
on Jul 28, 2012 -
140 comments
Woody Allen's 2011 movie
Midnight in Paris tells the story of a modern-day character repeatedly finding himself in the 1920s, in a kind of temporary time travel. As it turns out, this is a real-life phenomenon known as a
time slip. Perhaps the most famous documented case was from 1901, at the Palace of Versailles.
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posted by mark7570
on Jul 21, 2012 -
73 comments
35 full-length Viennese Actionist films 1957-1969. *NSFW* (Extreme graphic & scatological situations.) "The term
Viennese Actionism describes a short and violent movement in 20th century art that can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop 'action art' (Fluxus, Happening, Performance, Body Art, etc.)." Previously:
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posted by Skygazer
on Jul 14, 2012 -
29 comments
Classic movies in miniature style. It all started 2 years ago with an experiment to blend traditional ‘oriental’ (Ottoman) motifs and contemporary ‘western’ cinema. After a positive response to "Ottoman Star Wars", I decided to take the theme further, and developed more film posters using the same technique.
posted by shakespeherian
on Jul 11, 2012 -
19 comments
In May, YouTube
announced they would be hosting a lineup of original video channels, in a possible attempt to compete with network and cable television. Among the new offerings was
WIGS, the (
NSFW) brainchild of director/producer/writers Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia, of original, scripted dramatic series and short films exploring female characters.
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posted by zarq
on Jun 27, 2012 -
14 comments
The wonderful, and fairly rare, 13-part documentary series from 1980 -
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - is narrated by James Mason for Thames Television. Episode One -
The Pioneers -
[52 mins] [the rest are linked inside] shows:-
"the evolution of film from penny arcade curiosity to art form, from what was considered the first plot driven film, The Great Train Robbery, through to The Birth of a Nation, films showing the power of the medium. Early Technicolor footage, along with other color technologies, are also featured. Interviews include Lillian Gish, Jackie Coogan and King Vidor.*"
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posted by peacay
on Jun 18, 2012 -
19 comments
Jack Foley was the first
Foley Artist. A
Foley Artist's
job is to
physically create the subtler
sound effects for
most of the action in a film — usually,
everything but the dialogue. Sometimes that involves
smearing peanut butter on someone's face and recording the sound of a cow licking it off. • Here's the split-screen classic short,
Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound, and its
Doppleganger, plus a similar tribute,
replacing the sounds on a 1962 public domain film. •
A couple of Porn Foley parodies [NSFW of course] and a murder-filled parody • Here's the process in detail for marking, recording, and editing Foley for 35mm film: Part 1 (excerpted), Part 2 • Technically, Foley only covers sounds you can tailor-make in the recording studio; other sounds (engines, explosions, etc) are the domain of the Sound FX person. If you don't have your own means, though, Sounddogs.com has an extensive collection of samples.
posted by not_on_display
on Jun 14, 2012 -
47 comments
A chance of a lifetime for aspiring filmmakers:
Kevin Spacey stars in three scripts from the Jameson-sponsored First Shot contest. In the phenomenal
The Ventriloquist a ventriloquist and his dummy are having a hard time relating to each other and humanity; in
The Envelope, a Russian man's hobby fulfills his purpose; and in
Spirit of a Denture a mild-mannered dentist faces off with a difficult patient.
posted by jocelmeow
on Jun 8, 2012 -
18 comments
