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“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema – Bruce PosnerRead More »
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“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema – Bruce PosnerRead More »
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A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.Read More »
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“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage dance into a unique ciné-dance could only be possible in cinema – Bruce PosnerRead More »
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Four nude girls prance about in a small clearing in a dense wood or green garden. Two stay coyly to the left, one dances in the front with a flowing, flimsy veil, and another, far right, mimics the dancer’s movements.Read More »
Again not much info about Lépine, another director of the Pathé studio with a very limited career, again mostly fantasy stuff, to be noted is ‘Le tour au monde d’un policier’ lovely work.Read More »
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It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Golden Globe winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice) stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military’s most ferocious bio-mechanical combat droid. It is cunning, cruel and can reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn….and no flesh shall be spared. Stacey Travis (Ghost World) co-star – along with appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motorhead and much by Ministry and Public Image Ltd. – in the kick-ass sci-fi thriller from Richard Stanley (Dust Devil) that Fangoria calls “gritty, trippy and frightening….Hardware is one of the best horror movies you’ve never seen!”Read More »
This stunning example of Edwardian cut-and-paste creativity, powered by magical scissors and Hunts Fish Glue, is part of the origin story of British animation. Former stage magician and special effects pioneer Walter Booth was one of the pioneers in adding stop-motion filming frame by frame to make static objects and still images appear to move to the filmmakers armoury.Read More »
Felicity Rash wrote:
During the war years, film developed as a novel and effective vehicle for primary and secondary war propaganda. Visual images of a heroic Self and a terrifying enemy Other were a popular means of conveying a nationalist message and boosting patriotic sentiment. […] In Der Heimat Schützengraben (1916) a farmer newly returned from the East Prussian front tells of the horror he experienced when fleeing from Russian soldiers. His story brings him sympathy from a group of villagers from whom he is requesting a loan. At the end of the film, children are shown opening up their piggy-banks. An old man makes an emotional speech to the villagers, and hence the film’s audience, telling them to lend money to the state …Read More »