Cinephilia and Beyond: Archive

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Everything you missed and everything you’d want to revisit, in one place — Best of Cinephilia & Beyond 2012. Enjoy, and may 2013 be inspired in every possible way. (NOTE: For educational purposes only)

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Anonymous asked: Thanks for every ounce of hard work you put into running this blog. It's an absolute treasure trove of knowledge and information that is both educational and entertaining in equal measure. The images, videos and texts & photos that you find are startling and I have no idea how you do it, who you do it with and where you find it ~ like cinema itself this website is magic. Thank-you very...

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“The sharp contrasts in this picture, that was strictly my invention, and...”

– The same year Gitt debuted his presentation, Preston Neal Jones published Heaven & Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter, a book about the making of the film that is largely a compilation of interviews with the cast and crew and a nearly scene-by-scene summary of the...

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Edward Artemiev talks about working on soundtracks for Tarkovsky’s films.

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Polanski’s first completed student short at the State Film School in Łódź, Poland. Murder (1957) presents the viewer with just one scene: a man walks into an apartment and stabs another man who is sleeping. Reminiscent of a particularly violent moment from a fifties film noir, the sheer audacity of the piece is remarkable. Completely silent, without even musical accompaniment, the viewer...

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“Ssaki”, Roman Polanski (1963)

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Walter Murch: The ‘Rule of Six’ in Film Editing. Is it emotional? Does it advance the story? Those are two of six questions editor Walter Murch argues that editors must ask themselves for every cut. The other four? That’s the deep stuff. Watch the video to find out.

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What Does the Camera Do? The second installment in a three-part video lecture on film for IArt 117, an online course at Ohio University. By Max Tohline. What Does the Editor Do?

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Walter Murch: ‘Three Fathers of Cinema.’ Detailed analysis on the beginning of cinema. The possibilities of film-making as a languaje, exposed from the perspective of the great editor (and first to be referred as ‘Sound Designer’).

Dec 27th

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aliofbabylon asked: Hello, I'm a film student at USC Cinema School, and I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put into this blog. I consider these incredible posts as an important part of my film education, and a great supplement to what I receive or don't receive in the classroom. Keep up the great work, an entire generation of cinephiles who seek this knowledge on the internet are thankful for...

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A pearl of cinematic memorabilia: Dean Martin Celebrity Roast — Dean Martin (1976) with Orson Welles, Paul Lynde, Joe Namath, Barry Goldwater, Angie Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Stewart, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Hubert Humphrey, Charlie Callas, John Wayne, Joey Bishop, Rich Little, Ruth Buzzi, Tony Orlando, Georgia Engel, Nipsey Russell, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, and...

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