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...have always been entertainment sanctuaries: dark rooms, comfy chairs, a cozy environment devoid of annoying commercials. Oops! Scratch the part about the commercials. Premovie ads, which used to draw boos when one or two would pop up before the coming attractions, seem to be multiplying by the week. National Cinema Network, a company that places commercials on a third of U.S. movie screens, reports a 48% increase in prefilm-commercial sales over the past year. The ads, which run from 15 to 90 seconds, are the current darlings of the ad world, in part because they seem to sink...
Students in Latin American Studies 71, “Latin American Film,” are hoping to cut classes for 10 days and fly to Havana, to attend the 24th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema...
...persists. The mainstream success of Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry briefly brought anti-transgender violence into the media spotlight. But the spotlight is fickle, and a month later some other name supplanted Boys Don’t Cry on the cinema marquee. The Day of Remembrance is our commitment to not just moving on. We owe it to the victims whom we remember today to remind the media about the persistence of anti-transgender violence. Brandon from Boys Don’t Cry isn’t the only one we?...
...remembers. Tamahori was 13 when he saw From Russia with Love at a Wellington, New Zealand, cinema. He loved the "great, filthy stuff" in that film--not just the sexiness but also the classic fight scenes and the feel of a true thriller--and says he's trying to deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost...
...first-hand look into the making of significant films, The Conversations would be of interest to cinema-lovers only. But as a passionate love-letter to creativity in its subtlest forms, it appeals to anyone interested in what we nobly call...