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The public remains fascinated with seeing behind the scenes. Problem is that many of the special features you get on a disc or online are such dull puff pieces. These, however, are much more fascinating than cast and crew members sitting in a chair and delivering platitudes about their project. 10. Dangerous Days/Blade Runner While [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged American Movie, Ben Affleck, Blade Runner, burden of dreams, cult films, dangerous days, documentary, dusk till dawn, Film festival, fitzcarraldo, from dusk till dawn, full tilt boogie, Matt Damon, Quentin Tarantino, Sundance Film Festival, Werner Herzog
Whether it was Marty McFly, Gordon Gekko, the Terminator, Jake La Motta, the working girl (Melanie Griffith), or sharp-shooter Jimmy Chitwood, the 1980’s was a memorable decade of iconic heroes, novel advances in technology, and the cementation of blockbuster culture at the movies. Hollywood has always been a fast-moving town with new sets of winners [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged American film directors, Back to the Future, Barry Levinson, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, brazil, Crimes and Misdemeanors, David Lynch, Dead Poets’ Society, Do the Right Thing, film, gandhi, Gordon Gekko, Jake La Motta, James Cameron, Jimmy Chitwood, Martin Scorsese, Marty McFly, Mel Brooks, Melanie Griffith, Monty Python, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Platoon, Richard Attenborough, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Ebert, Romancing the Stone, Spike Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, The Abyss, The color Purple, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Time Bandits, Twin Peaks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, woody allen
10. First Synchronization of Sound and Film The Photo-Drama of Creation (1914) The Photo-Drama of Creation was an eight hour long film that documented the Christian creation story. Funded by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, the film depicted Christian history until the supposed end of Christ’s 1,000 year reign. Taking two [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, Music · Tagged A Walk on the Wild Side, Academy Award, Al Jolson, Alan Crosland, America, Bernard Herrmann, Billy The Kid, Blade Runner, bob dylan, composer, Creation, digital audio technology, digital technology, director, Elmer Bernstein, Entertainment_Culture, Fantasia, Fantasound, Fantasy films, film, film firsts, Film score, films, first Academy Award, Frank Churchill, Hugo Risenfeld, influential soundtracks, Jazz Singer, John N. A., Jonathan Demme, Kong, Kris Kristofferson, Legendary film score writer, Leigh Harline, Leonard Maltin, Max Steiner, Murray Spivak, Musical films, Nathaniel Hood, New York, New York City, Olympic Chamber Orchestra, Pat Garret, Paul Smith, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Orchestra, prince, RKO sound department head, Sam Peckinpah, Silent film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sony, Sony Corporation, Sound, sound engineer, Sound film, Sound-on-film, soundrack firsts, Stop Making Sense, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Jazz Singer, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Walt Disney Company, top 10 movie soundtracks, top 10 soundtracks, TopTenz, United States, Vitaphone, walt disney, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, William E. Garity
You may have seen this Dave DeVries artwork on other sites, but there are a few new pieces he has added for this top 10 list. Dave DeVries has been realistically rendering kid drawings for 12 years now under the name The Monster Engine. These twisted creations are part of an art/interview book that is on [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, June 18, 2010 at 1:41 am
Filed under Art, Comics · Tagged An Inconvenient Truth, Art, artist, artwork, Blade Runner, children, Dave DeVrie, Dave Devries, kids, monster, monsters, paintings
The dictionary defines a dystopia as a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror. These scenarios have been the inspiration for countless novels and movies. They reflect our darkest fears and sometimes, actual elements in the modern world. THX 1138 George Lucas made his name [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:02 am
Filed under Literature, Movies, Television · Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Big Brother, Blade Runner, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, Controversial, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, dystopia, fahrenheit 451, film, films, George Orwell, Harrison Ford, metropolis, Nineteen Eighty-Four, orson welles, Richard Burton, stanley kubrick, the handmaid's tale, The Terminator, The Trial, thx 1138
