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...Buck and her associates meticulously recondition reels of acetate celluloid in a facility that used to recondition firearms...
...those engaged in illegal file-swapping is hardly a revolutionary step for the film industry. For decades, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has fought piracy in many forms, embracing new technologies and movie formats while addressing the challenges these new developments bring—whether on celluloid, television, cable, satellite, videocassette or DVDs...
Most funny class moments are never captured on celluloid, destined to live forever after only in anecdotes. Richard Wragham and Marc Hauser keep the students of Science B-29: Evolution of Human Nature amused with a steady stream of witty banter and PowerPoint depictions of baboon...
Armageddon: The state of contemporary American cinema is morphed into an apocalyptic nightmarescape in this 1998 film from famed Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay. Some of the most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and Ben Affleck crying. One sequence, however, stands out as eliciting a primordial fear in literally every audience member. In the scene, Affleck playfully animates an animal cracker “crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we?...
...found in McGann a perfect celluloid soul mate to explore these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly...