Images: My Life in Film

THE MAGICIAN (1958) - (The Criterion Collection - #537) [DVD9] [2010] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at Oct. 20, 2010

Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician (Ansiktet) is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white.

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Treasures From American Film Archives (4 Volumes) [12 DVD9s] (2000-2009) Movies

Posted by mook45 at Feb. 13, 2010

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City of Life and Death (2009) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 9, 2011

The scars that have devolved on succeeding generations from the Japanese Imperial Army’s “Rape of Nanking” on the eve of World War II have gained prominence in the news of recent years. We recall how the Japanese government has only been able to go so far in recognizing a national culpability. A book of that title written by Iris Chang came into prominence three times at least – the first time upon publication in 1997, on the suicide of its author in 2004, and again at the release of an incendiary documentary inspired by her book in 2007, the year that it was at last published in a Japanese translation. Given raw feelings are on both sides 70 years after the destruction of the city, the prospect of a mainstream feature film dealing with that period is likely to be met with concern and trepidation. The wonder is that director Lu Chuan finds humanity in the suffering on both sides, and has made a film both impossible to watch and yet hypnotically seductive.

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Channel 4 - Warsaw Ghetto: The Unfinished Film (2010) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at April 13, 2017

The Warsaw Ghetto housed 440,000 Polish Jews and Roma during World War II. Typhus, starvation and random murders killed over 100,000 of the ghetto's residents even before the Nazis began the massive deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp. Yet the Nazis created a mysterious propaganda film that juxtaposed meticulously staged scenes of Jews enjoying a life of luxury in the ghetto with other, chilling images that required no staging at all.

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Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at Nov. 30, 2023

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The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films eBooks & eLearning

Posted by readerXXI at May 28, 2020

The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films
by Salvador Murguia
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1442269057 | 825 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB

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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism eBooks & eLearning

Posted by robin-bobin at Feb. 3, 2009

Patricia Hill Collins "Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism"
Publisher: Routledge 2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0415930995 | PDF | 2 MB

Caricatures of Black sexuality saturate American popular culture in bootylicious rap videos and paternity tests on the Jerry Springer show. Blacks have been cast as hypersexual animals in Western culture since a scantily clad "Hottentot Venus" was displayed in a cage in Paris in the 1800s…

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Audiophotography: Bringing Photos to Life with Sounds eBooks & eLearning

Posted by AvaxGenius at Jan. 10, 2020

If you read the history of any new communication medium such as the cinema, television or radio, it always happens to be bound up with advances in some underlying technology. For example, cinema was born out of the rapid projection of a series of still images on a celluloid film strip. The difficulty of synchronizing sound recordings with the resulting moving images led to about 30 years of silent films - until such time as the technical problems were solved.

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Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (1990/2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 16, 2024

Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (1990/2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,48 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 609 Mb | 04:25:18
Progressive Rock | Label: Chocolate Frog Records

‘Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors,’ Fish’s first solo album post-Marillion, originally released in 1990, has been remixed by Calum Malcolm for 2024. This new remix breathes fresh energy and dynamics into the album, giving it a new lease on life. The remix highlights fan-favorite tracks like ‘Cliché’ and ‘The Company,’ and celebrates the album’s enduring legacy as Fish embarks on a new chapter.

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Aural Float - Moving Images (2007) Music

Posted by gribovar at July 9, 2015

By their first DVD release in the more than 10 year history of Aural Float, the ambient project founded by Alex Azary, Gabriel Le Mar and Pascal Feos, the three pioneers of the electronic music scene have set a multimedia-based benchmark once again. Finally, they are moving with the continuity of the origins of the project at the beginning of the nineties. Then, Azary and Le Mar hosted the legendary Sunday Chill Sessions in the Frankfurt cult club XS, Germany's first ambient club where they already worked with visuals quite intensively. From this germ cell, the Aural Float story did not only lead to their revelled debut album 'Introspectives' in 1995, but to the founding of the exclusive label platform Elektrolux as well…

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