Kenneth Anger talks about making Lucifer Rising (1966): “I used a bit of deception to film it in Egypt. I said I was doing a documentary on ancient Egyptian beliefs and needed to film in the actual settings: in front of the Sphinx, at Karnak, along the Nile […]
Explore the mysteries of the lost Egyptian city of Thonis (aka, Heracleion)! (via @TrashFilmGuru)
Peter Gutiérrez looks at the pop culture propaganda of Ender’s Game, Pacific Rim and G.I. Joe marketing campaigns. “The interesting, if obvious, thing about these marketing posters is that they seem to rely on the viewer’s familiarity with propaganda. Does that mean that the audience for blockbuster movies […]
Steven Heller writes about Maurice Sendak and treating “children like the intelligent little animals that we know they are.”
A history of the aspect ratio. “John Hess traces the evolution of the screen shape from the silent film days through the widescreen explosion of the 50s, to the aspect ratio of modern digital cameras.”
The High Tower Apartments and Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Raymond Chandler’s The High Window.
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