Except for his hair that's anachronistically gelled upwards, Cesar Montano's Bonifacio is so well-portrayed that I wouldn't bother for him to have more screen time than Aguinaldo himself. Granted, "El Presidente" is quite sophisticated with its cinematography and action
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The two childhood friends from the south side of Boston, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, wrote a script together that some might say is the greatest piece of writing ever done for a film. The two of them sold the script and turned it into a movie that appeared in 1997 and became the start of their fame that initiated the assent from small time actors into well-known movie stars and screenwriters. “Good Will Hunting,” directed by Gus Van Sant, centers around the life of Will Hunting (Damon). Will is
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with a friend. That was when he knew he would like to work in the film business. He started filming things at around 10-11 years and slowly built more films as he got older. He was recently hired at Utah Valley University (UVU) as part of the cinematography department. The other parts of the department seem to have taken to him since he taught last semester. He has worked as a director and producer and his most recent work or film is called "Superpowerless". It's about a superhero losing his powers
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Modern cinema described both Staley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock as the pioneers of their genres and professions. Social culture on the other hand named Kubrick an undeniable genius, free-spirit and in a biography of Stanley Kubrick, a “talented shit” (Baxter) and Hitchcock “The Master of Suspense” and what I gather to be mainly just a sick, obsessive pervert. That all being said, these men faced the new world that was emerging in film. It was the early 1960’s and the Hollywood Studio System collapsed
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Director Brillante Ma Mendoza is a living national treasure of the Philippine alternative cinema.The first Filipino to win the most coveted Best Director Award for his film “Kinatay” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Dubbed by the world’s film critics as an ultra neo-realist for his films. Brillante’s films depict social realities about the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situati ons against the backdrop of issues that plague the country. Director Brillante Ma. Mendoza was
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hindler’s ListA CRITICAL ANALYSIS In 1993, the greatest filmmaker of our time did exactly what we expected, and then he turned around and surprised us. That year, for the third time in his career, Steven Spielberg broke the record for the highest-grossing film of all time. Big, grand, and exciting, with dynamite special effects, Jurassic Park was a typical Spielberg film. But while Jurassic Park was breaking records, we heard that Spielberg was in Europe filming, of all things, a black-and-white
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An XXL problem? Or a deceptively clever piece of fiction? Andrew Morgan’s globally accredited phenomenon, ‘The True Cost’, sheds light on the chilling details swept under the carpet by media outlets and corporates alike – the story of our seemingly unblemished fashion industry. In the eyes of Morgan, this industry is dysfunctional; a rapacious machine of exploitation. But has Morgan truly cracked the code? Or are his sincere intentions merely a mask overshadowing a common Hollywood thread: to document
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For Harrison Killian, a sixteen year old student in the High School Equivalency Program at Sullivan BOCES, the Arts have been a driving force behind his passion and ability to make his mark in the Stop-motion Animation/Film Industry. Harrison first got interested in movies when he was a small boy playing with his brother in the backyard creating movies. By the time Harrison was nine; he was playing in a band and writing short stories. When he was 12, he started working with a camera and using
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“New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is a nonprofit membership organization for professional women in film, television and digital media. A champion of women’s rights, achievements and points of view in the film and television industry, NYWIFT is an educational forum for media professionals, and a network for the exchange of information and resources. NYWIFT brings together more than 2,000 professionals including EMMY and Academy Award winners, who work in all areas of the entertainment
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more. The movie was nominated for numerous awards at the 1939 Academy Awards even though it wasn’t released until January 1940. The movie ran away with eight of those nominations, winning Supporting Actress, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Color Cinematography, Art Direction, Editing, and Best Picture (Ten Films that Shook the World). It has been said that if the income for the movie was adjusted for inflation, it would be the most successful movie of all time. The films begins with the chronicling
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