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A great movie that gets some of its history wrong is way better than an accurate film that puts people to sleep.
The final scene of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola deploys a technique known as parallel montage to great and rhythmic effect.
The first time computer-generated characters interacted with humans on a movie screen was 25 years ago, in ‘Jurassic Park.’ Since then, technology has improved, giving directors more choices.
To some, superhero films are the equivalent of fracking. But they offer audiences transcendence, mystery, a moral compass, and even the hope of salvation.
Netflix’s Chief Content Officer has said the streaming service is the future of film. But cinemas have survived many other threats to their dominance.
Interactive cinema and the arts are at the forefront of research into brain-computer interaction.
Not everyone can escape to the ocean’s depths to avoid the Trump presidency, but we can escape to the movies. ‘The Shape of Water’ reminds audiences of the humanity of those who are marginalized.
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy’s famous novel, may be unfilmable – not because of its gruesome violent tale of U.S. imperialism in the Southwest, but because its religious vision is terrifying.
Scores of Depression-era films depicted a pattern of sexual harassment that sounds all too familiar.
Only recently did it come to represent the dream of fame.
Throughout its history, the Academy Awards has picked some questionable winning films. But there are signs the Oscars are more often recognizing quality filmmaking.
Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
Seeing black lead characters who are accomplished scientists could be just the thing to help inspire future generations to follow in their footsteps.
Daniel Day Lewis makes his last appearance in Phantom Thread as master of a fashion house disturbed by his relationship with a waitress.
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.
In 1983, a made-for-TV film about the consequences of nuclear war was watched by 100 million people – and became a cultural lightning rod.
Spike Lee’s updated his breakthrough movie, She’s Gotta Have It, and made a more political drama for the times.
Sometimes a work of art is characterized by a string of failures, but nonetheless ends up being a gorgeous freak accident of nature.
Disney’s veneer of innocence shouldn’t distract people from recognizing the danger of giving one conglomerate the power to control so much information.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor. Cinema Arts, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
