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Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director’s chair. While most of the public is content with engaging themselves with the off-screen antics of actors and actresses, it is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:00 am
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As one of the most influential directors of all time, many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films have become permanent classics of the cinema. Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds are just some of his most popular titles. Audiences all over the world know his movies, but few people know just how many [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 12:01 am
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There are certain phrases that are thrown around too often in today’s world so that they lose their original impact. When somebody is referred to as the “greatest of all time” or the “most influential,” we usually take it with a grain of salt. But there are times when such phrases are not only valid [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 12:01 am
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