The 2010’s A Decade in Review With best of the decade lists popping up all over the place and me needing a quick post that could go up between awards notes updates, I decided to throw this together. It’s true that I’m missing a lot of major films from this year, but hey, these kind […]
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A Century of Film Comedies The Genre “As America’s principal purveyor of entertainment, Hollywood packaged comedy in many forms. In 1929, Variety surveyed the major studios and classified production trends into seven categories. Comedy was divided into two – comedy drama and comedy. The types subsumed under comedy drama consisted of society, rural, city, mystery, […]
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A Century of Film RKO The Studio A first note that the picture of the logo above, as always, comes from here and again there is an excellent piece on the history of the logo. “[David] Sarnoff and Boston financier Joseph Kennedy created RKO back in 1928. They merged several film companies into a fully […]
The 91st annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2019. The nominations were announced on 13 January 2020 and the awards were held on 16 February 2020. Best Picture: Parasite Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Little Women 1917 Jojo Rabbit Marriage Story Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Joker Most Surprising Omission: The Two Popes Best Eligible Film […]
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Astonishing X-Men (4 volumes or two larger volumes or one omnibus) Author: Joss Whedon Artist: John Cassaday Published: 2004-2007 Publisher: Marvel Comics Pages: 656 First Line: “Mommy is screaming.” Last Lines: “You take what you can get. Cause it’s here, and then gone.” Film Version: none, although elements from the first volume were used in […]
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A Century of Film Film History Through 1929 I’m certainly not going to discuss all of film history through 1929. That has been done in numerous books in far more detail than I could ever discuss here. There are some important dates that should not be ignored like 1912 (the release of Richard III, the […]
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Hulk Director: Ang Lee Writer: James Schamus / Michael France / John Turman Producer: Avi Arad / Larry Franco / Gale Anne Hurd / James Schamus Stars: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas Studio: Universal Award Nominations: VES Length: 138 min Genre: Action (Comic Book – Marvel) MPAA Rating: PG-13 Release […]
A Century of Film Original Screenplay It’s a bit difficult to write the history of original screenplays on film. First of all, it’s been hard to determine, a lot of times, over the years, if a film truly is original or not. When the old oscars.org site existed they listed films by a source author […]
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A Century of Film Adapted Screenplay It didn’t take long for screenwriters to realize that what had been successful in other mediums could be successful in film as well. After all, what is probably the first great film, A Trip to the Moon, came from H.G. Wells before Melies visualized it.
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This is the story of Georges Danton leading up to his execution. CAST LIST: NARRATION – DIANA FRANZ Marat – 1 – GENE ABELA St Just – 1 – THOMAS FOURMIER Robespierre – 11 – SEAN BALLANTYNE — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, […]
First Scene Screenplay Festival 