The document provides an overview of the efforts by various individuals to locate the original director's cut of Orson Welles' 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons. It details how the film was significantly edited against Welles' wishes, with the original negative destroyed, making it one of cinema's great lost films. It then profiles several "Ambersons hunters" who have spent decades searching archives and tracking leads in hopes of finding the elusive original cut, including Fred Chandler who discovered lost footage from other Welles films, and Josh Grossberg and Dominic Ow who investigated leads while researching in Brazil.
16) The Hollywood Art Read The Movie Part INick Zegarac
1) The document discusses the challenges of adapting great works of literature into films. While some literary adaptations were very successful during Hollywood's Golden Age, like those produced by MGM, Shakespeare and other authors have often proven difficult to bring to the screen.
2) In the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood largely abandoned literary adaptations and focused on cheaper genres like horror films and comedies. Some exceptions included Forman's Amadeus in 1984, which helped revive the costume drama genre.
3) Other films in the mid-1980s like Merchant/Ivory's A Room with a View and Lean's A Passage to India also helped audiences warm up to literary adaptations again. This paved the way
Horror films originated in Europe in the 1890s as amateur "monster movies" but gained widespread popularity starting in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Universal Studios created iconic Gothic horror films like Dracula and Frankenstein. Psychological horror became popular in the 1960s through directors like Hitchcock and Powell. Occult horror rose in the 1970s with films like The Exorcist and The Omen. Gore films also emerged in the 1970s, while the 1980s saw the slasher genre and postmodern self-aware films like Nightmare on Elm Street. Horror remains a lucrative genre today.
Horror movies have evolved significantly from their early beginnings in the late 19th century. Advances in technology have allowed for more realistic special effects and gore. Early films were based on literary works and focused more on monsters and creatures. Later films explored psychological horror and serial killers. The 1980s saw a focus on special effects and slasher films. Modern horror incorporates many genres and continues to push boundaries with new technologies and ideas.
The document discusses Will Brooker, a film and cultural studies expert who impersonates famous musician David Bowie by adopting Bowie's mannerisms, visiting places Bowie frequented, and dressing in Bowie's iconic costumes from different eras of his career. Brooker is currently living in the persona of Bowie's 1974 Philadelphia soul period, wearing thick blue eye shadow and orange hair. The summary identifies David Bowie as the persona Brooker is impersonating based on the provided context and image.
The document contains 10 questions about films, directors, actors, and books. Each question provides clues about a film, director, actor, or book (labeled X, Y, or Z) and asks the reader to identify what X, Y, or Z refers to based on the clues provided in the question. The questions cover films and directors such as Christopher Nolan, Ben-Hur, Tsotsi, Cat's Eye, Gangster, Ayn Rand, Andy Warhol, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kamal Haasan, Guru Dutt and his film Pyaasa.
Steven Spielberg is directing War of the Worlds, a big-budget adaptation of H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel. On the film's set, Spielberg is inspecting a scene and giving notes to add more sky and special effects. While aliens have appeared as benign creatures in his past films, Spielberg aims to make the aliens in War of the Worlds truly terrifying. The film is meant to recall 1950s sci-fi films and tap into post-9/11 fears, portraying an American family turned into refugees from a coordinated alien attack. At 58, Spielberg remains passionate about storytelling and drawing from his childhood love of science fiction.
The quiz is about movies. It asks movie-related trivia questions and provides the correct answers. The document contains 22 trivia questions about movies and directors, and the movies and people referenced include The Woman in the Dunes, Jaws, Solaris, Kitchen Sink Realism, and others. The questions cover topics like plot details, directors, awards, and film theories.
16) The Hollywood Art Read The Movie Part INick Zegarac
1) The document discusses the challenges of adapting great works of literature into films. While some literary adaptations were very successful during Hollywood's Golden Age, like those produced by MGM, Shakespeare and other authors have often proven difficult to bring to the screen.
2) In the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood largely abandoned literary adaptations and focused on cheaper genres like horror films and comedies. Some exceptions included Forman's Amadeus in 1984, which helped revive the costume drama genre.
3) Other films in the mid-1980s like Merchant/Ivory's A Room with a View and Lean's A Passage to India also helped audiences warm up to literary adaptations again. This paved the way
Horror films originated in Europe in the 1890s as amateur "monster movies" but gained widespread popularity starting in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Universal Studios created iconic Gothic horror films like Dracula and Frankenstein. Psychological horror became popular in the 1960s through directors like Hitchcock and Powell. Occult horror rose in the 1970s with films like The Exorcist and The Omen. Gore films also emerged in the 1970s, while the 1980s saw the slasher genre and postmodern self-aware films like Nightmare on Elm Street. Horror remains a lucrative genre today.
Horror movies have evolved significantly from their early beginnings in the late 19th century. Advances in technology have allowed for more realistic special effects and gore. Early films were based on literary works and focused more on monsters and creatures. Later films explored psychological horror and serial killers. The 1980s saw a focus on special effects and slasher films. Modern horror incorporates many genres and continues to push boundaries with new technologies and ideas.
The document discusses Will Brooker, a film and cultural studies expert who impersonates famous musician David Bowie by adopting Bowie's mannerisms, visiting places Bowie frequented, and dressing in Bowie's iconic costumes from different eras of his career. Brooker is currently living in the persona of Bowie's 1974 Philadelphia soul period, wearing thick blue eye shadow and orange hair. The summary identifies David Bowie as the persona Brooker is impersonating based on the provided context and image.
The document contains 10 questions about films, directors, actors, and books. Each question provides clues about a film, director, actor, or book (labeled X, Y, or Z) and asks the reader to identify what X, Y, or Z refers to based on the clues provided in the question. The questions cover films and directors such as Christopher Nolan, Ben-Hur, Tsotsi, Cat's Eye, Gangster, Ayn Rand, Andy Warhol, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kamal Haasan, Guru Dutt and his film Pyaasa.
Steven Spielberg is directing War of the Worlds, a big-budget adaptation of H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel. On the film's set, Spielberg is inspecting a scene and giving notes to add more sky and special effects. While aliens have appeared as benign creatures in his past films, Spielberg aims to make the aliens in War of the Worlds truly terrifying. The film is meant to recall 1950s sci-fi films and tap into post-9/11 fears, portraying an American family turned into refugees from a coordinated alien attack. At 58, Spielberg remains passionate about storytelling and drawing from his childhood love of science fiction.
The quiz is about movies. It asks movie-related trivia questions and provides the correct answers. The document contains 22 trivia questions about movies and directors, and the movies and people referenced include The Woman in the Dunes, Jaws, Solaris, Kitchen Sink Realism, and others. The questions cover topics like plot details, directors, awards, and film theories.
James 'Whitey' Bulger inspired the character Frank Costello portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 2006 film The Departed. He provided information to the Boston FBI on his gang's main rival, the New England Mob, and was finally captured after 16 years on the run. The Droste effect is named after a cocoa powder brand and refers to the visual effect of infinitely looped images.
1) German expressionist films of the 1920s like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu helped establish the horror genre with their dark and stylistic visuals that portrayed twisted versions of reality.
2) Early horror films were influenced by Gothic literature of the 18th-19th centuries and dealt with themes of monsters, madness, and the supernatural. Universal Studios popularized the genre in the 1930s with films like Dracula and Frankenstein.
3) Through the mid-20th century, horror evolved to address new societal fears through genres like sci-fi, psychological thrillers like Psycho, and slasher films of the 1970s-80s that featured graphic violence and serial
NIT Silchar Quiz Fest 2015 - Maut ka Kuan - The MELA Quiz - FinalsSandipan Goswami
Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar.
Winners:
1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal
2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli
3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das
Roman Polanski, the celebrated but controversial film director, turns 80 years old. Polanski's career directing classics such as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown has been overshadowed by his fleeing the U.S. in 1977 after being charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. He grew up in Poland during World War II and experienced great tragedies, including the loss of his mother in the Holocaust and his wife Sharon Tate in the Manson murders. Polanski has had a prolific directorial career spanning over 50 years, but remains in exile in Europe due to the unresolved criminal charges in the U.S.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors and provides brief descriptions of several directors. It begins by discussing David Lynch as the most important current filmmaker known for surreal films that take audiences to strange worlds. It then briefly profiles Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, and others known for their unique and influential directorial styles across different genres and countries.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors. It provides information on several notable directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Lynne Ramsay, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Aki Kaurismaki. It analyzes their film styles and influences, and ranks them among the most important directors currently working in the film industry.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors. It provides information on several notable directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Lynne Ramsay, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Aki Kaurismaki. It analyzes their film styles and influences, and ranks them among the most important directors currently working in the film industry.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors and provides brief descriptions of several directors. It begins by discussing David Lynch as the most important current filmmaker known for surreal films that take audiences to strange worlds. It then briefly profiles Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, and others known for their unique and influential directorial styles across different genres and countries.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about movies, books, music and pop culture. There are 26 total questions covering topics like famous authors, films, songs, and celebrities. The questions test knowledge of details about novels, films, characters, events and more from popular culture and entertainment.
1. The movie quiz included 23 questions about films with categories ranging from identifying movie titles to actors' roles.
2. The participants were Vinamra and Shreyansh with rules including scoring systems for correct and incorrect answers.
3. The questions covered topics like early controversial films, international movie title translations, actors' roles and films, and connections between certain movies.
The document discusses the origins and development of social realism in British film and television from the 1930s-1960s. It began with documentary films of the 1930s showing working class lives. In the late 1950s, "kitchen sink" dramas emerged depicting working class people in gritty domestic situations and exploring social issues. John Osborne's influential 1956 play "Look Back in Anger" was a key work, as were 1960 films like "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" which adapted novels depicting working class life. These works influenced other plays and films into the 1960s that used a documentary style to represent working class stories and controversies.
The document provides information about analyzing movie trailers and discussing science fiction films. It includes activities where students work in pairs to discuss film trailers and descriptions, match films to topics, identify quotes from a trailer, and generate a list of the top five sci-fi films. The document aims to develop students' English skills through activities analyzing visual media and having conversations about films.
The document provides summaries and comparisons of film adaptations of three novels: REC, Judge Dredd, and Lolita. For REC, it summarizes the plot of the original Spanish film and its sequels, and explains why it was popular and inspired an American remake. For Judge Dredd, it summarizes the original 1995 film starring Sylvester Stallone and the 2012 remake, noting improved technology and merchandise sales as reasons for the remake. For Lolita, it summarizes the plots and differences between the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation and the 1997 Adrian Lyne version, noting the latter was more faithful to the novel but less critically acclaimed.
This document appears to be a quiz containing questions about various works of fiction including manga, novels, films and comics. Some of the questions ask for titles of works or characters that were inspired by other works or people. Others ask the participant to identify authors, characters or works based on clues provided in the questions. The document tests knowledge of the influences and connections between different fictional narratives across media.
Este documento presenta la Ley 34/1988, de 11 de noviembre, General de Publicidad en España. La ley establece las disposiciones generales sobre publicidad, define los tipos de publicidad ilícita como engañosa, desleal o subliminal, y distribuye la ley en cuatro títulos sobre disposiciones generales, publicidad ilícita, contratos publicitarios y normas de sanción y represión de publicidad ilícita. La ley sustituye la anterior Ley de Publicidad de 1964.
This document summarizes research on the connection between respect for civil and political rights and political and economic stability. Several studies are discussed that find violations of rights like freedom of expression and discrimination correlate with increased risks of instability, such as civil war or unrest. Case studies of countries like Benin, Bangladesh, Laos and Equatorial Guinea provide specific examples where limitations on civil rights preceded political instability, which sometimes then led to economic issues as well. The document argues this research challenges justifications for restricting civil liberties in the name of security and stability, as respecting human rights may actually be the best path to achieving those goals.
James 'Whitey' Bulger inspired the character Frank Costello portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 2006 film The Departed. He provided information to the Boston FBI on his gang's main rival, the New England Mob, and was finally captured after 16 years on the run. The Droste effect is named after a cocoa powder brand and refers to the visual effect of infinitely looped images.
1) German expressionist films of the 1920s like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu helped establish the horror genre with their dark and stylistic visuals that portrayed twisted versions of reality.
2) Early horror films were influenced by Gothic literature of the 18th-19th centuries and dealt with themes of monsters, madness, and the supernatural. Universal Studios popularized the genre in the 1930s with films like Dracula and Frankenstein.
3) Through the mid-20th century, horror evolved to address new societal fears through genres like sci-fi, psychological thrillers like Psycho, and slasher films of the 1970s-80s that featured graphic violence and serial
NIT Silchar Quiz Fest 2015 - Maut ka Kuan - The MELA Quiz - FinalsSandipan Goswami
Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar.
Winners:
1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal
2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli
3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das
Roman Polanski, the celebrated but controversial film director, turns 80 years old. Polanski's career directing classics such as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown has been overshadowed by his fleeing the U.S. in 1977 after being charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. He grew up in Poland during World War II and experienced great tragedies, including the loss of his mother in the Holocaust and his wife Sharon Tate in the Manson murders. Polanski has had a prolific directorial career spanning over 50 years, but remains in exile in Europe due to the unresolved criminal charges in the U.S.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors and provides brief descriptions of several directors. It begins by discussing David Lynch as the most important current filmmaker known for surreal films that take audiences to strange worlds. It then briefly profiles Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, and others known for their unique and influential directorial styles across different genres and countries.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors. It provides information on several notable directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Lynne Ramsay, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Aki Kaurismaki. It analyzes their film styles and influences, and ranks them among the most important directors currently working in the film industry.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors. It provides information on several notable directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Lynne Ramsay, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Aki Kaurismaki. It analyzes their film styles and influences, and ranks them among the most important directors currently working in the film industry.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors and provides brief descriptions of several directors. It begins by discussing David Lynch as the most important current filmmaker known for surreal films that take audiences to strange worlds. It then briefly profiles Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, and others known for their unique and influential directorial styles across different genres and countries.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about movies, books, music and pop culture. There are 26 total questions covering topics like famous authors, films, songs, and celebrities. The questions test knowledge of details about novels, films, characters, events and more from popular culture and entertainment.
1. The movie quiz included 23 questions about films with categories ranging from identifying movie titles to actors' roles.
2. The participants were Vinamra and Shreyansh with rules including scoring systems for correct and incorrect answers.
3. The questions covered topics like early controversial films, international movie title translations, actors' roles and films, and connections between certain movies.
The document discusses the origins and development of social realism in British film and television from the 1930s-1960s. It began with documentary films of the 1930s showing working class lives. In the late 1950s, "kitchen sink" dramas emerged depicting working class people in gritty domestic situations and exploring social issues. John Osborne's influential 1956 play "Look Back in Anger" was a key work, as were 1960 films like "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" which adapted novels depicting working class life. These works influenced other plays and films into the 1960s that used a documentary style to represent working class stories and controversies.
The document provides information about analyzing movie trailers and discussing science fiction films. It includes activities where students work in pairs to discuss film trailers and descriptions, match films to topics, identify quotes from a trailer, and generate a list of the top five sci-fi films. The document aims to develop students' English skills through activities analyzing visual media and having conversations about films.
The document provides summaries and comparisons of film adaptations of three novels: REC, Judge Dredd, and Lolita. For REC, it summarizes the plot of the original Spanish film and its sequels, and explains why it was popular and inspired an American remake. For Judge Dredd, it summarizes the original 1995 film starring Sylvester Stallone and the 2012 remake, noting improved technology and merchandise sales as reasons for the remake. For Lolita, it summarizes the plots and differences between the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation and the 1997 Adrian Lyne version, noting the latter was more faithful to the novel but less critically acclaimed.
This document appears to be a quiz containing questions about various works of fiction including manga, novels, films and comics. Some of the questions ask for titles of works or characters that were inspired by other works or people. Others ask the participant to identify authors, characters or works based on clues provided in the questions. The document tests knowledge of the influences and connections between different fictional narratives across media.
Este documento presenta la Ley 34/1988, de 11 de noviembre, General de Publicidad en España. La ley establece las disposiciones generales sobre publicidad, define los tipos de publicidad ilícita como engañosa, desleal o subliminal, y distribuye la ley en cuatro títulos sobre disposiciones generales, publicidad ilícita, contratos publicitarios y normas de sanción y represión de publicidad ilícita. La ley sustituye la anterior Ley de Publicidad de 1964.
This document summarizes research on the connection between respect for civil and political rights and political and economic stability. Several studies are discussed that find violations of rights like freedom of expression and discrimination correlate with increased risks of instability, such as civil war or unrest. Case studies of countries like Benin, Bangladesh, Laos and Equatorial Guinea provide specific examples where limitations on civil rights preceded political instability, which sometimes then led to economic issues as well. The document argues this research challenges justifications for restricting civil liberties in the name of security and stability, as respecting human rights may actually be the best path to achieving those goals.
Este libro trata sobre modelos constitutivos en mecánica del medio continuo. Presenta varias ecuaciones constitutivas como la hiperelasticidad, plasticidad, viscoelasticidad, termoelasticidad y termoplasticidad. El libro está dirigido a estudiantes de doctorado e investigadores, y proporciona detalles sobre las demostraciones matemáticas de los modelos.
Este documento resume las formas evocadoras y operaciones creativas. Explica que las formas evocadoras son cualquier cosa que puede inspirar ideas creativas, como nubes, piedras o objetos cotidianos. Describe 18 operaciones creativas como aumentar/disminuir tamaño, sumar/restar elementos, y dar nuevos usos. También analiza cómo artistas como los surrealistas y William Carlos Williams lograron la excelencia a través de formas sencillas.
We want to contribute to the local economy by developing products, expanding the market and producing value added local products constantly to increase the income of farmers and our union.
Whitepaper 'How Value Driven Sourcing enables you to increase IT Value to the...Co van Leeuwen MBA RM
This document discusses how IT departments can increase their value to the business. It proposes a 3x3 approach: 1) Driving IT excellence to reduce costs, 2) Identifying initiatives that add real business value, and 3) Managing the integration of 1 and 2 through transformation. Outsourcing IT services can reduce costs by 10-50% at each stage, with savings reinvested to multiply value for the business by 10 times through digital transformation and process improvements. The future state is described as a retained IT organization that partners with external providers to deliver services aligned with business strategy and processes, focusing investment on using IT to improve performance.
This document contains the resume of Robert A. Sipes, who has over 20 years of experience in quality management. He has held director and manager level positions at several companies in industries such as medical devices, defense contracting, and manufacturing. Sipes has expertise in areas such as quality systems, process improvement, auditing, and project management. He holds certifications as a Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Auditor from the American Society for Quality.
This document summarizes a study on laser cutting of different textile materials. Two experiments were conducted using a CO2 laser to cut single and multiple layers of various textiles. The first experiment analyzed laser power from 100-500W and cutting speeds from 60-600 mm/s on kerf width, side line length, circular diameter, and percentage overcut of cotton, chiffon, silk, jessy, and satin materials. Results showed higher laser power and lower speeds increased kerf width and overcut. The second experiment analyzed these parameters on cutting depth and side line length of multiple textile/board layers, finding higher powers and moderate speeds were needed to cut all layers. Overall the study evaluated laser cutting
El documento describe las tradiciones y costumbres del Día de Muertos en México. Explica que es una celebración mesoamericana que honra a los difuntos el 1 y 2 de noviembre, coincidiendo con festividades católicas. Una tradición clave es la ofrenda de altares con comida, bebida, flores y velas para los muertos.
Este documento presenta el caso de un paciente de 80 años llamado Marcos. Describe su situación de salud, estilo de vida y necesidades identificadas a través de una valoración. También incluye un plan de cuidados enfermeros con intervenciones para mejorar su dieta, medicación y nivel de actividad física, con el objetivo de mejorar su salud y calidad de vida.
Here are some fictional theories based on the prompts:
- The Theory of Bokanovsky's Process: This theory, proposed in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, suggests that through advances in artificial wombs and cloning techniques, a single ovum could be stimulated to develop into multiple viable embryos through a process of budding and proliferation, allowing for mass production of human beings optimized for various predetermined roles in a highly regimented caste system.
- The Theory of Relativity: Proposed by Albert Einstein, this theory suggests that the passage of time is experienced differently depending on relative motion and the effects of gravity. An astronaut traveling at near light speed to a distant planet would age only a small amount due to
The Golden Age of Hollywood from 1927-1948 saw the rise of the studio system and major film genres like musicals and film noir. The Big Five studios - Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO - dominated Hollywood and produced classic films. Some of the most popular movies of this era included The Jazz Singer (1927), the first talking picture; Gone with the Wind (1939); The Wizard of Oz (1939); and Citizen Kane (1941). The Golden Age ended with the decline of the studio system in the late 1940s due to antitrust action and the rise of television.
The document provides summaries for 10 classic films that are often considered among the greatest films ever made: Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Rules of the Game, The Godfather Part I, Tokyo Story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Battleship Potemkin, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 8 1/2, and Singin' in the Rain. It summarizes the plot of each film in 1-2 sentences and provides some background information about each film's accolades, directors, years of release, and other relevant details.
The document provides a history of horror films from the 1920s-1970s, focusing on some of the most influential early films and directors. It discusses Lon Chaney's iconic role in the 1925 Phantom of the Opera and how Bela Lugosi came to play Dracula in 1931. The document also covers the impact and controversy of Frankenstein (1931) and James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein. In later decades, it summarizes the rise of Hammer Films and influential American films like Night of the Living Dead that reflected social issues of their time.
This document provides information about an entertainment quiz called the M.E.L.A. QUIZ FINALS. It includes details about the written round, which involves identifying guns from famous movies, and an infinite pounce round with points awarded or deducted based on clockwise or counterclockwise spinning. It also includes several passages providing context for movies, actors, novels, and other entertainment-related trivia that may be referenced in quiz questions.
The document discusses the history and evolution of Western films over time. It describes how early Westerns from the 1900s-1930s established the genre but had basic storylines and silent films. Westerns grew in popularity in the 1930s-1950s as sound and color were added. The 1960s saw a rise in "spaghetti Westerns" produced in Italy. More recent Westerns from the 1980s onward have experimented with new genres and storylines, including sci-fi, LGBT themes, and aliens. The genre has adapted to changes in technology and audiences over 100+ years.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors as ranked by an unknown publication. It provides brief summaries of the careers and styles of directors ranked in the top 10, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, and Terence Davies. It continues discussing and summarizing the careers of directors ranked 11 through 33.
The document discusses the world's 40 best directors. It provides information on several notable directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Abbas Kiarostami, Errol Morris, Hayao Miyazaki, David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Lynne Ramsay, Bela Tarr, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Aki Kaurismaki. It analyzes their film styles and influences, and ranks them among the most important directors currently working in the film industry.
The document is a quiz containing 35 questions about music, entertainment, literature and arts. It includes questions about movies, books, songs, artists and more. The questions range from identifying actors in film roles to naming songs and albums. The document provides clues and details to help identify the correct answers to the trivia questions.
Paul Strand directed the 1934 Mexican film Redes over the course of a year in the town of Alvarado. The film was financed by the Mexican government's education department and intended to be the first in a series of educational films. Strand collaborated with many individuals, both Mexican and foreign, on the production, though there were also personal conflicts over credit. Redes was acclaimed upon its release but faced challenges in production due to Strand's inexperience with filmmaking and conflicts with others over his directorial approach.
Orson Welles was a famous American actor, director and producer best known for his 1941 film 'Citizen Kane' and his 1938 radio dramatization of 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells which convinced some listeners of an actual Martian invasion. Welles directed the radio play to sound like a news broadcast, using music, reporters describing events and a scientific explanation. While some saw it as a hoax, others panicked due to the realism of the broadcast and tensions around a potential World War II, illustrating the power of radio to influence audiences. The broadcast remains both controversial and influential to this day.
This document discusses the history and characteristics of film noir. It describes how the genre developed in the 1940s and 1950s, influenced by German Expressionism and American crime fiction. Key characteristics include bleak storylines about morally ambiguous characters, use of flashbacks and voiceovers, and expressionistic cinematography using low-key lighting and shadowy sets. Examples discussed include Double Indemnity, In a Lonely Place, and Citizen Kane. The document also covers the end of the studio system practice of block-booking in 1948 and the emergence of neo-noir films influenced by the original genre.
The MELA Quiz (Prelims)- NSIT Quiz Fest 2013nsitqc
The document provides details about 20 questions for a quiz fest. It provides clues and context for identifying people, movies, songs, artists and other topics represented by X in each question. The questions cover a wide range of topics including spaghetti westerns, Iron Maiden, David Lynch films, authors, movies posters, composers, Arabic pop music albums and more.
The history of horror films spans over a century, beginning with early silent films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and Nosferatu (1922). The 1930s saw the rise of iconic characters like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy in films such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Horror films declined in popularity during the 1950s but emerged with a new realism in the 1960s and 1970s in films like Psycho, The Exorcist, and Halloween. The 1980s featured graphic violence and monsters in films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser. The 1990s explored serial killers realistically in films like Se7en and referenced past genres through films like Scre
This document contains miscellaneous information on various topics with no clear theme. It includes:
- Details about an Indian royal footman named Badar Azim who announced the birth of a royal baby.
- Background on the 19th century paleontologist Mary Anning and the origin of the tongue twister "She sells seashells by the sea shore."
- Identification of the characters X, Y, and Z from the Pink Panther films as Inspector Clouseau, The Pink Panther franchise, and Steve Martin respectively.
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quipped that, "I started at the top and have
been working my way down ever since."
Though still in his early twenties, Welles was
already a star when he arrived in Hollywood
during the late 1930s. He had established a
reputation as an actor-director of note on
both the stage and radio, to such a degree
that he was able to wrangle a contract that
gave the first-time director total control
over whatever he came up with. The result
was 1941 's Citizen Kane, a masterpiece of
intelligent, stylised filmmaking - one that
also fatefully satirised powerful newspaper
tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
As Hearst blustered and controversy
raged, Welles started work on an adaptation
of Booth Tarkington's acclaimed novel The
Magnificent Ambersons, which Welles
had previously adapted for radio. Tracing
the decline of a once-great Midwestern
family, it echoed Welles' own privileged
upbringing. Indeed, Tarkington had
known Welles' parents, and Welles liked
to claim that one of the novel's main
characters had been based on his own
inventor father. By the time Ambersons was
complete, though, the Kane controversy
had dealt its damage, and after completing
an almost two-and-a-half-hour cut of the
film, Welles saw it wrestled away from him
and hacked down to 88 minutes. Then, with
the film-stock's nitrate needed for the World
War II effort, the movie's studio, RKO,
ordered the negative to be melted down.
Today, The Magnificent Ambersons is
widely regarded as one of cinema's great
lost films. And it was a blow from which
the man himself never recovered. "[The
studio] destroyed Ambersons, and the
picture itself destroyed me," Welles would
tell the BBC years later.
But is that original version truly lost?
Around the world are dotted a number of
enthusiastic Ambersons hunters: people
who have spent decades trying to track
down that fabled director's cut, committed
themselves to reassembling it, or otherwise
simply piecing together exactly what it is
that happened to this missing masterpiece.
THE ARCHIVE RAIDER
One of the earliest Ambersons hunters is
Fred Chandler, today the Executive Vice-
President of Post Production at 20th
Century Fox. During the 1980s, Chandler
was working at Paramount, which had
bought out Welles' former studio, RKO.
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He was tasked with clearing out a room at
the studio, which had been found sealed up
like a vault. It turned out to be the very room
in which Welles had edited both Citizen
Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.
"I was told that everything needed to
be cleaned up and tossed," Chandler says.
"Only I found something immensely
valuable in there. And that's how I came
to be introduced to Orson."
What he discovered wasn't The
Magnificent Ambersons, rather the fine-
grain negative for a later Orson Welles film,
The Trial. Chandler contacted cameraman
Gary Graver, who'd worked with Welles
at the time, and told him that he wouldn't
give the negative to anyone except Orson
himself. A meeting was arranged.
"It was very mysterious," Chandler
remembers. "I was given a place to go to,
and when I got there Gary was waiting,
and he took me in a separate car to meet
Orson, who was in his editing room."
Welles was impressed, and asked
Chandler if he might be able to find
Ambersons. Chandler returned to the
Paramount lot and continued his search.
It was painstaking work, since many
films were mislabelled or stored in the
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he unearthed another Welles creation:
309 cans filled with lost footage from an
unreleased Welles documentary called
It's All True. Then Chandler hit upon a
promising lead, finding the contact details
for a former RKO employee named Hazel
Mar hall. Only for her to tell him that it
was she who'd incinerated the Ambersons
negati'e and that she knew of no other. For
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THE BRAZIL BOYS
There is another intriguing strand to the
Magnificent Ambersons mystery. After
Welles wrapped the film on January 22,
1942, he and editor Robert Wise headed
to Miami. Over an exhausting three days
and nights, they edited together a rough
cut which ran to three hours. Welles then
headed to Rio for his next job, directing It's
All True for the US State Department.
The plan was for a copy of the
Ambersons negative to be sent there for him
to work on. It arrived on March 15, 1942.
More than half a century later, a pair
of preppy American students named Josh
Grossberg and Dominic Ow flew to Brazil
on their own dime, determined to track
down this still AWOL negative. "The lost
print of The Magnificent Ambersons is
one of the greatest mysteries in the history
Above left: Tim
Holt, Anne Baxter,
Joseph Cotten and
Dolores Costello in
the studio cut of the
sweeping family epic.
Above: Costello
and Holt as mother
Isabel Amberson and
meddling son George.
Left: The poster for
the RKO release,
which was in fact far
from "Orson Welles'
The Magnificent
Ambersons".
of cinema," says Grossberg, today
a writer and filmmaker himself. "How
could we not go and look for it?"
For five days, the friends lodged with
Brazilian film director and Ambersons fan
Rogerio Sganzerla, who introduced them
to an archivist who worked for 30 years in
the Rio Cinemateca archives. He recalled
seeing original film canisters during the
1960s, belonging to Orson Welles. The
label on them had read "RKO Films".
"Although it's been reported that the
film canisters were shipped back to RKO,
one of the things we were told was that in
Brazil, private collectors would often make
copies of the different prints that came
into the country," Grossberg remembers.
He and Ow were given the names of three
prominent film collectors in the area who
might fit the description. Two of them
are now dead, while the other appears to
have never existed in the first place. The
students returned to the United States
empty-handed, but they still don't feel
their search is over. "It's possible that
The Magnificent Ambersons was spirited
away to some collector's vault," says
Grossberg, "and that even today they
don't realise what they have." >
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6. THE GREATEST
FILMS NEVER
MADE
THE OTHER WELLES
MOVIES THAT REMAIN
(MOSTLY) MIA
HEARTOF DARKNESS
Before Citizen Kane, Welles planned
a movie adaptation of Joseph Conrad's
Heart Of Darkness novella, which later
formed the basis for Francis Ford
Coppola's Apocalypse Now.The 24
year-old Welles planned to shoot the
wholefilm in a single, continuing shot,
from a first-person perspective, but
the project fell apart - partially over
budgeting issues.
THE LIFE OFCHRIST
Not one of Welles· major unfinished
works but among his most intriguing,
The Life Of Christ was onepossible
project to follow Citizen Kane. It would
have drawn all its dialogue from the New
Testament, but thesetting moved to the
Old West. Welles wrote a script and
scouted locations for his Jesus Western
- although it never materialised.
IT'SALLTRUE
Welles left Ambersons during post-
production to work on this South
American documentary, which was
itself never completed. Years later,
some of the surviving footage was made
available in the 1993 documentary It's
All True: Based On An Unfinished Film
by Orson Welles.
DONOUIXOTE
Rather like Terry Gilliam more recently,
Welles spent years trying to bring the
story of chivalrous dreamer Don Quixote
to the screen. The film was initially
conceived in 1955, and Welles worked
on it intermittently for the remaining
30 years of his life.At one point he got
so fed up of being asked about it, he
considered renaming the film When
Are You Going To Finish Don Quixote?
THE OTHERSIDE OFTHEWIND
A mockumentary about the death
of Old Hollywood and the arrival of the
avant-garde directors of the 1970s, The
Other Side Of The Wind was meant to
mark Welles· comeback as afilmmaker,
but legal problems stopped its release...
Until soon as, excitingly, it is finally set
to come out this year.
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THE RECREATIONIST
Not every Ambersons hunter has taken
the same approach. "I became a fan of
Welles in my early teens because of the
showmanship displayed in his films,"
says filmmaker and Welles aficionado
Roger Ryan. "The tracking camera, the
expressionistic lighting, the dynamic edits
and the overlapping dialogue felt akin to
a magic act." Growing up outside Detroit,
Michigan, Ryan could easily relate to
Ambersons' story of a Midwestern US
city changed forever by the arrival of
the automobile and industrialisation.
But Ryan didn't realise how much
Ambersons itself had been changed
until one Christmas he was given a book
about Welles featuring the film's original
editing instructions. "What shocked me
was that, contrary to my belief at the
time, it wasn't just the ending of the film
that got changed," Ryan says. "If you
look at the cutting instructions for the
complete version, and you compare it
to what we have on screen in the publicly
released version, only nine out of a total
of 48 scenes in the released edit are
exactly as Welles intended them. The
film just got mutilated."
Ryan had editing equipment, but
obviously no access to the original
workprint of Ambersons. So he figured
he could do the next best thing: reconstruct
it to Welles' specifications. He called in a
group of friends who helped him perform
the dialogue from the shooting script.
Then he obtained a copy of composer
Bernard Hermann's original score,
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after a disagreement with the studio. In
lieu of footage, he gathered a number of
unseen publicity stills which had been
produced for the picture and which
revealed almost every scene that had been
cut. He then pieced it all together to create
an impressionistic approximation of
Ambersons as its creator bad imagined it.
·'It was just a homemade project," he says,
modestly. "My idea was only ever to make
omething that I could watch myself."
However, word got out about Ryan's
project and he was soon inundated with
requests to screen it. Copyright laws make
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Left: Orson Welles
on the Ambersons set.
Top:Welles with
cinematographer
Gary Graver in 1972.
Above: Historian
Joseph McBride
sketches out his
memory - from
'7Ds publicity stills
- of the original
version's last shot.
an official release impossible, although
the film has been shown at festivals. The
result is, by definition, amateur - but the
fact that it plays so well regardless is a
testament to the power of Welles' vision.
"Roger did an amazing job of
integrating stills, dialogue and music
from the missing scenes to give us a fuller
sense of how dark and disturbing and rich
this film was before RKO went at this
masterpiece with a lawnmower," says film
historian Joseph McBride, author of What
Ever Happened To Orson Welles. "As
a result, Roger is a hero of mine and
should be to all lovers of film history."
THE EXPERT
"We joke that we're still working for
Orson Welles, because he left so much
unfinished business for us to take care
of," says Joseph McBride. "Right now I'm
working on several Orson Welles projects.
And perhaps the biggest of those is trying
to find The Magnificent Ambersons."
Most Ambersons hunters are motivated
by the sheer mystery of the original cut's
disappearance, or by their appreciation of
Welles himself, whose legend looms large
even today. But McBride's passion is
located in something quite different. His
great uncle was producer Bryan Foy -
known at Warner Bros. as "the keeper of
the B's" - who played a significant part
in Ambersons' destruction. Although not
an employee of RKO, Foy had been called
in to advise on how Ambersons could be
salvaged. His answer? Chop it in half. "He
said it was 'too fuckin' long'," McBride
recalls, sadly. "You could say I feel a family
obligation to make amends for that event."
Today, McBride refers to Ambersons
as not only his favourite Welles film, but
his favourite film, period. He has spent
decades not only trying to get to the
bottom of the missing print mystery, but
also educating people about Welles and
his lost masterpiece. He has not only
guided other Ambersons hunters, but has
traced most of the weird tangents that
plagued the picture's rediscovery. For
instance, during the 1970s, McBride was
one of the first people to see the publicity
stills that would later prove so useful to
Roger Ryan. At the time there were more
than 50 of them. Today, there are far fewer.
Many have disappeared - including the
original final scene of the film:an overhead
shot of one of the principal characters'
cars driving down a road, banked on both
sides by enormous factories, belching
acrid black smoke into the sky. It is a
sombre and hellish ending, showing how
the Ambersons' idyllic slice of America
succumbed to industrialisation. At this
point, Welles' voice would appear on
the soundtrack, saying, "Ladies and
gentlemen, that's the end of the story."
If the director's cut couldn't be found,
McBride resolved to find these, at least,
for posterity's sake, and he tracked them
to a storage locker in Los Angeles, where
he found them amid a pile of junk. But
it turned out that the locker had recently
been broken into. The missing items:
a few surfboards, and the last shot of
one of the greatest films never released.
"It'sjust another tragedy in the history
of Ambersons," McBride sighs.
Today, The Magnificent Ambersons
isn't Welles' only lost - or, indeed,
'complicated' - movie (see sidebar,
facing page). Throughout the rest of his
career, he found himself at loggerheads
with Hollywood and distributors, with
films unceremoniously sliced and diced as
a result. But there is hope. Occasionally
Welles enthusiasts will be rewarded by
some fresh discovery. A few years ago, the
unfinished nitrate workprint of one of
Welles' earliest lost films - shot several
years before Citizen Kane - was found in
an Italian warehouse by the staff at a local
cinema. Titled Too Much Johnson, the
short film starred a 23 year-old Welles, and
was intended to be part of a stage play
that flopped. Then, this year, audiences
will finally get their chance to see The
Other Side Of The Wind: a mammoth
unseen project which consumed Welles
from 197 l until his death in 1985.
This is the dream for The Magnificent
Ambersons: the possibility that, one day,
a complete copy may turn up in some
sealed vault in the Hollywood hills,
or in afave/a in Brazil. Strangely, Welles'
reputation has only grown through his
status as an artist wronged by the
Hollywood machine. The digital age has
made us expect 'findability'. In an age
of Amazon, iTunes, eBay and YouTube,
nothing feels rare anymore. And with so
many DVD extras, deleted scenes and
directors' commentaries on offer, that an
hour of a movie by such a lauded director
should disappear seems almost impossible.
"Orson Welles continues to enthrall
anyone who loves movies," says Fred
Chandler, who today keeps a framed
photo of the man, circa The Magnificent
Ambersons, above his desk at 20th Century
Fox. "He was an absolute master of the
medium. A genius. Is it any wonder that
people wouldn't want to give up on finding
what could have been his greatest movie?"
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