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The Hammer Collection De Daniel Frenette

The Hammer Collection De Daniel Frenette, aka “La Passion De La Hammer Films”, is a homage of Daniel Frenette to the Hammer Film Productions. The site tells the story of the Hammer films and the companies that bet in the … Continue reading

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Sergei M. Eisenstein

The Russian / soviet cinema made a huge contribution to cinema language with its theories, developed in the 1920′s. Universal cinema learned a lot with the edition of the experimental documentary films of Dziga Vertov, specially with The Man with … Continue reading

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25 Most Shameless Paycheck Grabbing Roles in History

Tears come to my eyes when I imagined Orson Welles’ voice in The Transformers: The Movie. The man that made history reading The War of the Worlds at the radio, that concept and realized “Citizen Kane“, that had a remarkable … Continue reading

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Scream Queens

The first time I heard the expression “Scream queen” was in the documentary about horror films history, 100 Years of Horror, hosted by Christopher Lee, which, by the way, I highly recommend. But what is a scream queen? It is … Continue reading

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Rashomon in Public Domain

Some people said the best film in public domain available at Internet Archive is Fritz Lang’s M (M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder). I don’t know, I love the Einsenstein’s masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin). And now there is … Continue reading

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Movie Posters Links

From time to time Rashomon posts links to cinema posters sites. I save them and forgot to post after. Not it’s time to post some of those cool stuff that he finds. 1920′s 1930′s Horror Sci-fi Lobby Cards is just … Continue reading

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Wong Kar-Wai calendars

The Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai has many fans. A kind of fans that create sites (wongkarwai.net and Chasing The Metaphysical Express) forums and calendars. If you don’t know his works you should do. Start with the Guardian interview, read … Continue reading

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Sherlock Holmes’ films

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. Conan Doyle wrote … Continue reading

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Ray Harryhausen Creature List

Do you know Ray Harryhausen, the special effects creator? Maybe you don’t remember of his name, but of his work at Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. His techniques, specially the dynamation, … Continue reading

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Lobby Card Invasion

The Lobby Card Invasion site, specialized in American lobby cards, has tons of original lobby cards from many different countries, of new and old films. Browse by subject, genre, actors or try the search to enjoy all of them. The … Continue reading

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