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700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen appeared first on…
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Bullet to Beijing is another Harry Palmer installment of the series that started with The IPCRESS File back in the 1960s. It was the first Palmer film in 30 years. Unfortunately, it’s terrible. It was supposedly filmed for theaters then released direct-to-video because it was so bad. Michael Caine…
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Less a movie and more an encapsulation of toxic masculinity via 70s grindhouse. I know it’s important historically but god damn you know?
From Kagi Small Web
I counted the cuts in 8,770 films from the last century to find out how many shots a movie has now, and how fast we are cutting.
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Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood
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The Day of the Jackal from 1973 is the original film version of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel. It shouldn’t be confused with a couple of remakes — one in 1997 with Bruce Willis (just called The Jackal) and a TV version in 2024 with Eddie Redmayne. It’s quite good, in an unique kind of way. There’s…
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A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.
From The Public Domain Review
Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey…
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A trick film in the peepshow vein, involving magnification and mites on a block of cheese.
From The Public Domain Review
I had seen The Rehearsal season 2 going in, so I was aware of Nathan Fielder’s general shtick, which is why I was not sure I could actually watch this movie: But I had a day off last week and decided I wanted to see it in the theater. And I’m glad I did – … Continue reading "You Can See Everything…
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