Now viewed nostalgically as a relic of a long-gone Hollywood, Gone with the Wind was itself a…
History of Cinema
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Scripted by reporter Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker follows the story of a three-man US…
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In the early 1990s, a movie fanatic and video-store clerk named Quentin Tarantino, originally from…
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It is 1976, and there are around 7.8 million people living in New York City.…
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All science fiction is about the unknown, but few movies have embraced it as fully…
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Francis Ford Coppola’s movie The Godfather changed the gangster-movie genre entirely, with its depiction of…
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Méliès and Porter The shift in consciousness away from films as animated photographs to films as stories,…
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Edison and the Lumière brothers Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and it quickly…
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Origins The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and…