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Shine a Light.
The joke that Martin Scorsese seizes on throughout his megawattage Rolling Stones concert movie, Shine a Light, is that the band's members have been asked 'How much longer can you stay together/productive/alive?' every year since Mick Jagger was a so...
Dear Film Noir Fans,
Our latest update must begin on a sad note, as we observe the passing of two men important to the legacy of film noir.The first is Richard Widmark, who died last month after 93 years of wonderful accomplishments.Widmark was one of those actors whose ...
Simon Pegg confirms potential 'Star Trek' sequels
In news that will turn every Trekker a nice shade of cerulean blue, Simon Pegg confirmed in an interview with MTV Movies Blog that he's signed on for three Star Trek movies.In fact, the concept of signing on for multiple movies caused him some trepid...
What is the biggest money-making foreign language film of all time?
Director Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ is the biggest non-English language film at the box office. The movie, spoken entirely in Aramaic, made over $370 million at the box office domestically. The Chinese action movie Crouchgin Tig...
5 Important Video Codecs You Must Know
video codec is a device or software that enables video compression and/or decompression for digital video. Digital video codecs are found in DVD (MPEG-2), VCD (MPEG-1), in emerging satellite and terrestrial broadcast systems, and on the Internet.Belo...
Continuity in non-narrative films
Non-narrative movies demand a very different approach to narrative. They require that you embed continuity as a part of the whole structure of the film, not as an afterthought during filming.Non-narrative movies such as music videos, abstract movies ...
