Category: cinema...

• having your novel or play adapted for the movies
• being an extra in a Woody Allen movie
• taking in a movie by yourself now and then
• free movie passes or rentals
• independent films, Sundance, Cannes
• home movies, sharing popcorn, holding hands
• uplifting or funny films
• a romantic film to watch by a blazing fireplace
• Life is like a B movie. (A. DiFranco)
• A director only makes one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. (J. Renoir)
• The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion, and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life. (Carl Jung)
• It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream. (F. Fellini)
• flickers of light and shade upon a screen that has no depth save what we give it in our imaginations
• magic lantern and shadow puppet shows
• Thomas Edison's belief that motion pictures would not grow beyond parlor amusement, so he did not bother to pay for an international patent
• dissolves, superimpositions, fast and slow motion, and stop-motion animation
• Hollywood's genesis by independent filmmakers who wanted to escape the monopoly of the Motion Picture Patents Company, based on the east coast
• the Golden Age of Hollywood and Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, RKO, and Twentieth Century Fox
• action-driven narratives fueled by mechanical and special effects
• all the visual elements that go into composing a shot: camera angle, lighting style, set design, props, position of the character in a frame, costumes, makeup

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