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1 day ago · There were four "aberrant" films in relation to the stylistical lines of force traced by me (I must add and specify: the analogical, metonymic, syntagmatic, narrative, potentially with sound, prosaic lineage), and they're: on the one hand, Lonesome (Paul Fejos, 1928); and on the other, Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928), It (Clarence Badger, 1927), and The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928 ...
4 days ago · Shawn Glinis. Jul 05, 2024. The most famous quote about Tblisi-born filmmaker Rouben Mamoulian, a name not often thrown around in contemporary cinephilia, is a bittersweet one. It comes from Andrew Sarris’ seminal book, The American Cinema, where the critic called him “an innovator who ran out of innovations” and placed him in his ...
3 days ago · The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
5 days ago · The Lullaby League. Munchkinland. Who directed the black and white sequences in “The Wizard of Oz”? W.S. Van Dyke. King Vidor. Edward Sedgwick. William Wyler. How does Dorothy defeat the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”? A Bucket Of Water.
5 days ago · Postsynchronization seems to have first been used by the American director King Vidor for a sequence in which the hero is chased through Arkansas swamplands in the all-Black musical Hallelujah (1929). Vidor shot the action on location without sound, using a freely moving camera.
2 days ago · He was raised in the Bronx, and once grown, he worked as a doorman and a film extra before being spotted by director King Vidor, who decided to cast him in his 1928 film "The Crowd," now considered a cult classic.
1 day ago · A barman has been found dead after he took part in a shamanic ceremony. Alex Marangon, 26, was one of 20 people who attended the two-day spiritual gathering at the Abbey of Santa Bona in Vidor ...
