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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Godard and war: How 20th-century armed conflicts triggered a revolution in cinema

War profoundly influenced Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic work, shaping his artistic vision and thematic exploration throughout his career.
Paris food
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

Cannes Film Festival Head Thierry Fremaux on the Past and Future of Movies

Thierry Frémaux plays a crucial role in film programming and history, connecting past cinema with contemporary selections.
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Thierry Fremaux on Why 'Today, We Never Trust Images We See' - but We Can Trust the Lumiere Brothers and 'Apocalypse Now'

The invention of the Cinématographe was ready right away. The process of the invention was longer, and there were a lot of inventors before Lumière.
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Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Manure dryers and devil dancers: the British empire's attempt to use photography to control India

British colonialists used photography between 1855-1920 to classify and categorize Indian people as ethnic types, advancing imperial control rather than celebrating individuals.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.

Atsushi Nishijima, an on-set stills photographer, has documented major films over the past decade and a half, capturing candid moments between takes on sets directed by prominent filmmakers.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
18 years ago

A DeMille classic, restored

Cecil B. DeMille's historic Laughlin Park estate, featuring connected Beaux Arts mansions including the former Chaplin House, is listed for $26.25 million after comprehensive 2001 renovation.
Independent films
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

The Library of Congress restored Georges Méliès's lost 1897 film Gugusse and the Automaton, featuring what may be cinema's first robot and earliest on-screen warning about technology dangers.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack

The Library of Congress restored a lost 1897 Georges Melies film depicting an early robot, representing probably the first robot captured in moving image.
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fromColossal
3 weeks ago

Lost for More Than a Century, the First 'Sci-Fi' Film Ever Made Resurfaces

A lost 1897 Georges Méliès silent film resurfaces after over a century through a family collection, now digitally restored and publicly available in 4K.
fromApaonline
1 month ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics draws upon Africana anticolonial philosophy-especially the work of Frantz Fanon and two of his most influential interpreters, Eldridge Cleaver and Sylvia Wynter-to develop a basic analytical model for doing anticolonial political theory. I wanted to show that there is something distinctive, something special, to be found in this tradition of thought that has not been fully appreciated by philosophers and theorists in other fields.
Philosophy
fromwww.npr.org
4 weeks ago

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

The inquiry was like thousands of others. Somebody had potentially cool films they thought might interest the Library of Congress. But it was brand new for Jason Evans Groth... In September, he stepped outside the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, to meet Bill and Mary McFarland, who had driven from Michigan with about 40 strips of celluloid that had once belonged to Bill's great-grandfather.
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fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Melies Film from 1897

Georges Méliès' rediscovered film 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema's earliest known robot, predating modern science-fiction cinema by over a century.
Film
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'Train Dreams' Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Explains Why Digital Cameras Were the Key to Period Accuracy

Train Dreams presents a meticulously crafted, immersive period character study whose natural, low-light cinematography by Adolpho Veloso creates timeless authenticity and visceral emotional depth.
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Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96

Frederick Wiseman, a pioneering documentary filmmaker, created nearly 50 observational films exploring public institutions with naturalistic technique and intensive editing.
Photography
fromFrenchly
2 months ago

In 2026, France Celebrates 200 Years of Photography - Frenchly

Niépce's 1826 heliograph from Le Gras inaugurated photography; France will mark its bicentenary with a nationwide yearlong program (September 2026–September 2027).
Film
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Erich von Stroheim's Spectacular Art Is Back

A new reconstruction of Stroheim's unfinished 1929 film Queen Kelly reveals his curtailed yet influential directorial vision and significance in silent-film history.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

How Nouvelle Vague captures the formidably cool Breathless and its impact on cinema

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies

Films about working people and immigrants in New York City reveal poverty, social exclusion, and diverse cultural experiences across more than a century of cinema.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
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fromVulture
2 months ago

The Best Parts of Period Dramas Are the Sheep

Sense and Sensibility uses abundant livestock imagery—especially sheep—to emphasize 19th-century British rural economics and Austen's themes linking love and money.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

A Tech Writer's Appreciation of Scott Macaulay

Digital technologies and the internet democratized filmmaking, enabling indie filmmakers with low-cost equipment and new distribution platforms, reshaping production, post-production, and exhibition.
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