30 days ago by Sabrina

Inspired to Gogol’s short story entitled ‘The Nose’ from the Petersburg tales, Yi has written her latest short film about the absurd story of the loss of an ear. The ear is actually the key element of the film, shot in RED and partly to be made in 3D animation. Throughout the film, the ear and inner ...

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47 days ago by zrks_77

this is not an elaborated explanation of the terms constructivism but it is more a clarification of the term that nowadays bifurcates in two. from one side we have the Social Constructivists that support the view that reality is always social mediated and mind-dependent and Radical contructivists th ...

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61 days ago by jedimoonshyne

Shoe-Shine aka Sciuscià | Vittorio De Sica, 1946 There is a strange twinship between the two films - The Children are Watching Us ( I Bamini ci Guardano) and Shoe-Shine ( Sciuscià) – made by Vittorio De Sica during the forties. The former deals with Rome in its pre-war state, 1942, whereas the latte ...

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95 days ago by BlogMasterPg

DINO DE LAURENTIIS, 90 years old tomorrow, is one of most important movies producers of the world. Borns in a poor family in Torre del Greco, near Naples, starts to make actor on 1937 for few scenes in a ‘B movie’, but he understands the career of actor wasn’t right for him, but Dino loves cinema an ...

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102 days ago by David Crumm

We may think that World War II and the Holocaust are fading into obscurity. But for millions of older American veterans, whose memories of the war are returning late in life, and for the millions of people around the world whose lives were changed forever by the Holocaust's legacy—this era is as fre ...

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120 days ago by John Greco

Luchino Visconti’ first directorial effort “Ossessione” was made in 1942 and released in 1943. That we still have Visconti’s first feature film to watch today is an amazing story in itself. Filmed during World War II while Italy was still under the control of Mussolini’s deteriorating fascist govern ...

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125 days ago by Ismail Lagardien

I started out with two books as required reading for the course, Islam Under Siege by Akbar S Ahmed (Polity Press ISBN 978-0-7456-2210-0), and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma by Peter Mandaville (Routledge ISBN 0-415 31769-X), but because the latter would not reach campus booksto ...

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157 days ago by adambatty

Perhaps the most notable film of the neo-realist movement, Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves is as emotionally involving as its story is simple. Enormously successful upon its release, being that it achieved huge commercial and critical success outside of its native Italy, the film has remained ...

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158 days ago by Guest Author

Author: Peter Van Ness George W. Bush has bequeathed to President Obama two unwinnable wars, a global financial crisis, problems of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, and a record of doing nothing about climate change. When the President invites advice from his experts about how to deal ...

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161 days ago by E. Sempé

I watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte this morning, and it reminded me of how much I love to watch Monica Vitti on screen. While the film is centred around characters played by Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau, I found myself anticipating every next scene where Vitti would appear. She ha ...

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