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Stringer vacancy in New Delhi Television Limited

noreply@blogger.com (Nk) — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:34:00 +0000

We have seen an announcement for Stringer vacancy in New Delhi Television Limited website. Here are the details as given in the website.

Read full and find the link to apply directly. We are just providing an information to our readers. Please note that we are not an agency, or recruitment firm.

Position : Stringer
Company : New Delhi Television Limited
Department :
Job Description

* Consistently cover all major news stories.
* Developing existing news sources.
* Well versed with the local area.
* Ensuring that the channel gets news / pictures first on air.
* Work in close coordination with the representative assigned by the channel.
* Delivering breaking news and exclusives and Ensuring high editorial integrity.

Requirements:

* Require to work as and when called to.
* Domain Knowledge of the subject matter.
* Good English communication skills.
* Initiative & forward planning.

Personal Attributes:

* Passionate towards news and journalism.
* Meticulous & detail oriented.
* Independent, intellectually curious, self-motivated.
* Creativity.

Education : Graduate in Journalism
Location : Bhubaneswar

Click here to apply for the post of Stringer in NDTV

Femina Miss India 2015 Apply Now

noreply@blogger.com (Nk) — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:50:00 +0000

Miss India 2015 is India's most renowned and credible beauty pageant, owned by Times of India Group and in its 52nd year explores young talent for the fashion, lifestyle and entertainment industry.

Read full to find the link and apply direct.

The 52nd year of MISS INDIA will be touring across 20 cities divided into following:
12 city auditions
3 Regional Auditions
2 City Pageants and
Mumbai Final round of auditions

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Height (5'6" and above) and 18-25 of age (as of 31st December 2015)

Single, Unmarried and Not Engaged

Indian Passport Holder/Overseas Indian Citizen/ Non Resident Indian

The applicant should be between 18 - 25 years of age as on 31st December 2014.

Click here to Apply and read full details of Miss India 2015

Read full details direct from Times of India group

Associate/ News Editor, Content English News in NDTV India

noreply@blogger.com (Nk) — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:26:00 +0000

NDTV India one of India's most renowned Television channel now announced the post of Associate/ News Editor, Content English News.

The following are the details provided them in their website. I hereby pasting it exactly for better understanding by all readers. Also click on the link given below to reach the page to apply.

Job Description:

- Writing news stories and original content for the website
- Ideate on headlines, original content and display

- Actively research viable content through internal and external resources

- Focusing on making the site more interactive, especially by incorporating elements in on-air programming on NDTV 24x7

- Ensuring search engine optimization

- Establishing quality benchmarks and produce optimal content

- Tracking news, monitoring competition

-Ensuring news team meets page view and unique targets

Skills Required:

Domain Knowledge of the subject matter
Keeping abreast of current developments
Content Management System
Writing scripts
Proficiency in English language
Time management
Personal Attributes:

Meticulous & detail oriented
Independent and self-motivated
Good Communication
Creativity
Open to working in shifts.

Education: Graduate / Post Graduate
Experience (From-To): 0-10 Year
Type: Permanent
Other:
Department: Content English News
Location: Delhi

How to Apply for this post of Associate/ News Editor, Content English News in NDTV India

Click here to reach the original page and read completely and apply direct.

Malayalam Movie Race Adapted from English Movie Trapped

noreply@blogger.com (Nk) — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:03:00 +0000

Trapped is a 2002 American-German crime thriller film based on Greg Iles' bestselling novel, directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Fanning, and Pruitt Taylor Vince.

Theatrical posters: Source , wikipedia

Race is a 2011 Malayalam thriller film directed by Kukku Surendran and starring Kunchacko Boban, Mamta Mohandas, Indrajith, Baby Anikha, and Gowri Munjal. Readers may please view both movies and decide is this information true or not.

Malayalam Film Aakasadoothu Inspired From English Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Nk) — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:48:00 +0000

Who Will Love My Children? is a 1983 television biographical film,directed by John Erman, written by Michael Bortman, and starred Ann-Margret. Who will love my children is based on the life of Lucile Fray who was was diagnosed with cancer and tried to find suitable homes for her ten children.

So here comes the Malayalam inspired version.

Akashadoothu is a 1993 Malayalam-language film directed by Sibi Malayil with Madhavi and Murali in lead roles. This film won the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare.

View both movies and tell us the inspiration only limited to the story or no

MALAYALAM MOVIE BACHELOR PARTY INSPIRED FROM CHINESE MOVIE FONG JUK AKA ‘EXILED'

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Bachelor Party is a 2012 Malayalam–language Indian action-musical film directed, co-produced and filmed by Amal Neerad. The film stars Rahman, Indrajith, Asif Ali, Nithya Menen, Kalabhavan Mani and Vinayakan in the lead roles while Prithviraj makes a guest appearance, and Padmapriya and Remya Nambeesan appear in musical item numbers. The film's screenplay is by noted authors Unni. R and Santhosh Echikkanam while the original music and background score are composed by Rahul Raj.

‘Exiled’, a Chinese film released in 2006, Fong juk (original title) is directed by Johnnie To, script writing by Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip, starring, Nick Cheung, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang and Francis Ng.

Readers please view both movies and comment us back whether this is true or not.

MIss Delhi INdia Audition Started

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:41:00 +0000

Win Miss Delhi India Pageant
Fill Form 2 folio Pixx
Email - missdelhiindia@ymail.com, crossonline@gmail.com
Apply online :- www.missdelhiindia.com

Miss Bolivia parades in swimsuits at the 55th Miss World Contest in Sanya, Hainan Province December 6, 2005. Pic Courtesy: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200512/07/eng20051207_226328.html

Paid models, actors,extras & dancers wanted for music video worldwide

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:41:00 +0000

A well known band Banned On The Run (BOTRN) is currently looking for people of all backgrounds, ages and styles ages like paid models, actors, extras and dancers. for their music video, being filmed early 2012 for a Spring release.

This opportunity is worldwide and anyone can apply through online

Location: London, United Kingdom

Final Date for apply: 1 February 2012

Click here to apply

Hurry, make a profile and apply as early as possible

Source: starnow.com

MALAYALAM MOVIE BEAUTIFUL INSPIRED FROM FRENCH FILM INTOUCHABLES

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:58:00 +0000

Beautiful is a South Indian Malayalam movie, directed by V. K. Prakash and written by Anoop Menon.The lead actors are Jayasurya, Anoop Menon and Meghana Raj . “Beautiful” narrates the friendship of a paraplegic and a musician. The film released on 2nd December 2011.

The writer of “Beautiful”, Anoop Menon stated in an interview that the film was inspired by a real life incident from his childhood.

But we have observed that French Film, “Intouchables” have many similarities in the thread, plot and story base with “Beautiful”. This was a superhit in France, directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. The base story of “Intouchables” is developed by a true story discovered by these directors in a 2004 documentary film. The story is a friendship between Philippe, a rich quadriplegic and Driss, an unemployed young man. The film “Intouchables” was released in September 23, 2011, in Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Readers may please let me know whether this observation is true or no.

Read this: MALAYALAM FILM COCKTAIL ADAPTED FROM ENGLISH MOVIE BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL

Courtesy Posters : Theatrical Posters: www.wikipedia.org

MOVIES SHOT WITH ARRIFLEX D-20

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0000

The Arriflex D-20 is a digital motion picture camera introduced by Arri in November 2005. This camera, uses a single CMOS sensor the width of a Super 35 film gate aperture.

When used with current 35 mm PL mount motion picture lenses, this camera yields the same field of view and depth of field as Super 35 mm film motion picture cameras.

MOVIES SHOT WITH ARRIFLEX D-20

Uncertainty
The Bank Job
RocknRolla
The Andromeda Strain
Captain Abu Raed

The camera was discontinued in 2008 and the Arriflex D-21 was introduced.

FILMS SHOT WITH CINEALTA CAMERAS

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:41:00 +0000

CineAlta, from the house of Sony, cameras record into HDCAM tapes, XDCAM Professional Discs or SxS flash memory cards. The frame rates of CineAlta, including 24fps but have a resolution of only up to 1920 by 1080 pixels. This can be used with a Miranda DVC 802 converter. Another specialty of this camera is that output SDI, DV and multiple HD outputs.

CineAlta cameras include, F65, F35, SRW-9000PL, F23, HDW-F900R, HDC-F950, PDW-F350, PMW-F3, PMW-EX1R, PME-EX3 NPAC.

Movies Shot with CineAlta cameras

Avatar (2009)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Tron: Legacy (2010)
Sanctum (2011)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Public Enemies (2009)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
The World (2004)
Zebraman (2004)
Sin City (2005)
Crank (2006)
Cloverfield (2008)
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Yesterday Was a Lie (2008)
Tetro (2009)

PRANAYAM MALAYALAM MOVIE REVIEW

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:40:00 +0000

This review send by Mr Kris: If you wish to publish your review on any film, forward it to us with or without your bio and facebook. Our email - cinemala.com@gmail.com

PRANAYAM -

Directed by : Blessy
Produced by: P. K. Sajeev, Anne Sajeev
Written by: Blessy
Starring : Mohanlal, Jaya Prada, Anupam Kher, Anoop Menon
Music by : M. Jayachandran
Cinematography: Satheesh Kurup
Editing by: Raja Muhammed
Studio: Fragnent Nature Film Creations
Released on : 31 August 2011
Show time : 150 minutes
Country : India
Language : Malayalam

Review of Malayalam Movie Pranayam:

Pranayam, a possible inspiration from Australian film, Innocence, portraying love between Achutha Menon, Mathews and Gracy at their old age. The film offers a new sensation as it handles the traces of love at old age.

Director Blessy has become a big failure in developing this thread to a memorable movie. Including many Flash Back scenes became yet another mood irritating sequence as he did in his previous movies such as, Bhramaram. Blessy must understand that, flashback scenes are not always necessary to establish the story. I would have avoided all the flash back scenes of Achutha Menon, from the movie itself. Remember, how the flash back scenes irritated the mood of the movie in Bhramaram and Thanmathra.

Next biggest failure of the movie is the immature casting. Achutha Menon is not perfectly presented by Anupam Kher. Anupam Kher is a great artist from North India. I analyze his acting as an expressive one and can never be fit to a role that requires minute acting. Nedumudi Venu or Balachandra Menon could be the right choice for that character.

Another blunder from Blessy : As I have mentioned before, the film “Innocence” focuses on the sensational side of love. Blessy tried the same with appealing scenes from Jayaprada. A bath scene, erotic moments between Mathews and Gracey had totally destroyed the heart touching mood of the movie. Viewers may not be interested to see erotic scenes by those who are in old age. A touch, a sweet kiss, mild hug can express all the feelings in the relations.

After beginning from Achutha Menon, director is in a big confusion to focus on Gracey and Mathews or on Achutha Menon. Concentrating on Gracey would have given a more better outcome. Gracey’s war to the situations was not effectively displayed. A weak scripting resulted in this disaster.

Blessy, did a great job in creating beautiful songs. The songs and background score helped him to explode the feel of the movie to the viewers. Editing, done in a normal level, but appreciable. Cinematography is excellent, as in old Malayalam Movie “ Chemmeen”. Sea also became an important character in this movie, all credits goes to Cinematographer.

Acting by Mohanlal, Jayaprada, and Anoop Menon is slightly above average level. Mohanlal lost his minute acting due to the unwanted makeup that he carried in most scenes. A shaved head or a “fried” look after an operation, would have been more better for him.

As the movie proceeds, viewers comes to a conclusion that any of the three character will die at the end of the movie. This feel gets rooted when Gracey gets a loving attitude from her son.

As viewers expected, the movie ends in a cemetery scene. The place of this movie is certainly above many other Indian movies released recently. Unfortunately, something missing somewhere…

PRANAYAM INSPIRED FROM AUSTRALIAN FILM INNOCENCE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000

Pranayam is a 2011 Malayalam romantic film written and directed by Blessy. The main story precipitates love between Mathews (Mohanlal), Grace (Jaya Prada) and Achutha Menon (Anupam Kher).

Innocence is a 2000 Australian Film directed and written by Paul Cox
casting Charles Tingwell, Julia Blake, Terry Harris etc. The film revolves around the love and life of Andreas (Tingwell), Claire (Blake) and John (Norris).

Readers may please view both and inform me whether this is right or wrong.

DIGITAL MOVIE CAMERA BASICS

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:01:00 +0000

Movie cameras have camera lens, imager, image processing and video output as their major components.

Camera Lens:

Lenses are essential part of camera to adjust the output effects, or to provide special effects.

Types of lens:

Before going into the digital basics, lets see what are the major types of lens using in movie cameras

Macro or Close up lens: The lens that produces an image on the focal plane, used to image close-up very small subjects.

Zoom: A zoom lens helps to change the focal length within a shot or quickly between setups for shots. In professional cinematography, prime lens are often used due to the quality of the image when compared with Zoom lens.

Perspective Control Lens: These lens produces the feel of camera movement, which are often called as Shift lenses and tilt/shift lenses.

Swivel lenses : These lens rotate while attached to a camera body to give unique perspectives and camera angles.

Infrared lens : These lens produces special effects to some scenes by filtering colors.

Aerial Lens: These lens are used to shoot scenes well above the ground level.

Imagers in Digital movie camera:

The imager in a digital movie camera have a single or three semiconductor chips with light-sensitive cells (photocells). It transfers incident light into electric charge, and to create a color image, the incident light is split into its color components such as red, green, and blue during capture.

Image processing in Digital Camera:

The digital image processing chips will convert the raw data from the image sensor into a color-corrected image in a standard image file format.

Major techniques used in digital image processing include, pixelisation, linear filtering, principal components analysis, independent component analysis, hidden Markov models, anisotropic diffusion, partial differential equations, self-organizing maps, neural networks and wavelets.

We will describe about all these in our future lessons. So please subscribe our feed.

TAMIL CINEMA NALADAMAYANTHI ADAPTED FROM GREENCARD

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:32:00 +0000

Nala Damayanthi is a 2003 Tamil film directed by Mouli and written and produced by Kamal Hassan starring Madhavan, Geetu Mohandas and Shrutika.

Green Card is a 1990 romantic English comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The story is about an American woman who enters into a relationship with a Frenchman.

Please watch both movies and feel the way in which creators of Naladamayanthi got inspiration from Greencard.

TAMIL CINEMA THIRUDA THIRUDA ADAPTED FROM BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:24:00 +0000

Thiruda Thiruda is a 1993 South Indian Tamil Super hit movie, directed by Maniratnam, scripted by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Prasanth, Anand and Heera rajagopal.

We observed some unusual resemblance between “Thiruda Thiruda” and BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross etc

Please view both movies and let us know…

DEIVATHIRUMAGAL ADAPTED FROM I AM SAM

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:29:00 +0000

“Deiva Thirumagal” is a 2011 South Indian Tamil drama film written and directed by A. L. Vijay starring Superstar Vikram in the lead role as a mentally challenged adult with the maturity of a six-year-old boy.

“I am Sam” is a 2001 American film, written and directed by Jessie Nelson, and starring Sean Penn as a father with developmental disability, Dakota Fanning as his inquisitive seven-year-old daughter.

We have observed some similarities in both films. Readers may please view and decide by yourselves.

VIRUMAANDI INSPIRED FROM THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:10:00 +0000

Virumaandi is a 2004 South Indian Tamil movie, starring Indian Superstar Kamalhasan, written and directed by, Kamal Haasan. Other actors are Abhirami, Napoleon, Rohini, Shanmugarajan, and Nassar in pivotal roles.

The Life of David Gale is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alan Parker and written by Charles Randolph starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet and Laura Linney

The background of the story both movies is different, but basic idea is to get rid of death sentence. The life of David Gale, is a city subject, where are Virumandi is truly an old village subject.

Readers may please view both cinemas, and then comment here about your opinion.

Actors For Indie Film Wanted in Tokyo

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:16:00 +0000

Actors are wanted for the below given roles in new project of world famous Yu Iwasaki - Director / Writer / Cinematographer / Editor / Producer. Yu is a film director and producer. He has worked for Shinya Tsukamoto in his film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009) as an interpreter. A video dance that he directed, "nai-mono-gatari - Something Missing," was selected at the 7th DMJ International Video Dance Festival (2012).

Charles
- Middle-aged or old professional looking male
- Able to speak English in a professional business manner
Man in Black
- Young / middle-aged sharp looking male
Secret Agents
- Male or female
- Able to speak English with a strong accent of another language

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

Title: Human Error
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Arthouse
Runtime: 30 minutes
Location: Tokyo
Production: Late December 2011
Final delivery: February 2012

STORY

A rakugo story of a fox is told by a teenage performer on stage in parallel to the adventure of Yoko, a female spy, in Tokyo's old town. Just like the fox that gets trickled by men in the rakugo, Yoko faces unexpected troubles: her guides disappear one by one, and she gets chased by mysterious agents. While in escape, she meets a man and falls in love with him, and they dance in a fantasy. When she finally gets a mysterious silver attache case from a bad guy, her mission completes. But the cruel reality is about to begin with applause from the audience.
Maya Murofushi - YOKO
Maya is an actress and model. She has won Miss World Supermodel 2010 Grand Prix.

How to apply?

Email the following materials to: yuiwasaki@hotmail.co.jp
-Headshot and full shot
-Resume that includes your name, phone number, email address, the role that you want, your acting experience, etc.

Deadline: November 20, 2011

Applicants will be contacted on November 21 regarding audition schedule.

COMPENSATION:

-Fee for transportation and food provided
-No performance fee for actors without professional acting experience. Negotiable for actors with professional acting experience.

Source:

Mayamurofushi’s Facebook wall
http://yuyujetkey.blogspot.com/2011/11/actors-for-indie-film-wanted-in-tokyo.html

MADHAVETTENENNUM SONG COPIED FROM AMR DIAB SONG

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:07:00 +0000

Arabiyum Ottakavum P Madhavan Nayarum, is a South Indian Malayalam comedy movie, directed by Priyadarsan, starring South Indian Mega Star Mohanlal. The music of songs in this film is composed by veteran MG Sreekumar.

Our reporters informed that one excellent song from this film, starting “Madhavettenennum…. is a naked copy of Arabian singer Amr Diab’s song “ Rouhy Merhatalak”. Here we are giving both songs for you to hear and decide.

ORIGINAL AMR DIABS SONG ROUHY MERTAHALAK

SIMILARITIES FOUND IN MADHAVETTENNNUM....

Please note that this is not the first time, a song from Priyadarsan movie have shown similarities with other foreign songs. Read this..

SONG FROM MALAYALAM MOVIE CHANDRALEKHA COPIED FROM AMR DIAB’s HABIBI

MALAYALAM MOVIE NIRNAYAM ADAPTED FROM THE FUGITIVE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Recently, one of my reader informed me about a similarity between an English Film, The Fugitive and a South Indian Malayalam Movie, Nirnayam.

The Fugitive is an English suspense thriller, starring Harrison Ford. This film directed by, Andrew Davis and the story is based on a television series of the same name. This film was released in 1993.

Nirnayam is a south Indian Malayalam movie, written and directed by Sangeeth Sivan, starring South Indian Superstar Mohanlal and Heera. I found many similarities between both of these, in characters, story and even in some camera angles. Readers are requested to watch both movies and comment here whether I'm right or no.

SONG IN MALAYALAM MOVIE MEGHAM SIMILAR TO AN OLD HINDI SONG

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:23:00 +0000

Megham (Malayalam: മേഘം, English: The Cloud) is a 1999 South Indian Malayalam comedy film directed by Priyadarshan, starring Mammootty, Priya Gill, Dileep, etc. The music was composed by National Award winner Ouseppachan.

In this movie, there is a beautiful song, “ Njanoru Paattu Paadam” which is found to be similar to an Old Hindi Song “ Oh Meri Zohra Jabeen” . Readers may please hear it and decide whether Njanoru Paattu Paadam contains strips from “Oh Meri Zohra Jabeen”.

Many films directed by Mr Priyadarshan contains such coincidences. Read this…

The Greatest Director

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:41:00 +0000

When many people hear the name Hollywood they think of mega movie stars. If they are old enough, they might even think of such all time greats as Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda or Katherine Hepburn. The current generation would probably think of names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis or Catherine Zeta Jones. But even though movie stars are what most people think of when they start thinking of films, there have been other greats in the film industry. Even though there were only a handful of directors that have achieved the status that is mostly reserved for the stars of films, there have been a few greats. Names like John Ford and Sam Peckinpah of western film fame come to mind. There was George Pal of SciFi fame and then there was the king of them all, Stanley Kubrick.

Maybe I am prejudiced toward Stanley Kubrick, but I must say that I thought most of his movies were works of genius. The last movie he worked on got panned but in all fairness to him, he died while it was being filmed and someone else finished it. Many film companies really didn't want him direct their films. Oh they knew that he was one of the greats but time is money and old Stanley would sometimes take years to complete a film. He just kept shooting scenes over and over until they came out the way he wanted, and he didn't care if it made producers mad or not. Well maybe he cared, but he never let that get in the way of his art. I guess he realized that his films would survive him and he wanted to be remember as the man who directed great films, not the man who directed fast ones.When we look at his films from 1957 we see a list of wonderful movies. In 1957 he directed the political war classic, Paths of Glory. This gut wrenching film stars a harassed colonel in the French Army in World War I, played by Kirk Douglas. His immediate commander is George Macready who is willing to sell out, to get that extra star on his shoulder. Douglas is more worried about his men and doesn't want to waste their lives in a fruitless attack on a position that can't be taken by a charge. The tension can be cut with a knife. The cast is superb as is the direction. Even though previous films by Kubrick were good, I believe this film started him on the path of greatness.

In 1960 Kubrick again was directing Kirk Douglas and an all star cast including Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis in Spartacus. As most of us know this film was the story of the great slave revolt in Rome and how it was finally put down, but not before Spartacus almost destroyed the Roman Empire. Spartacus went across the Italian countryside freeing slaves as he came across them. He was a gladiator as were the people that initially escaped with him. They trained the slaves and eventually had a huge slave army that could fight quite well. Stanley Kubrick relished the battle scenes where thousands of extras fought tooth and nail. Many a person left the theatre, after the film finished, breathless and with a tear in their eye.

In 1962 he made Lolita. I wasn't crazy about this film that depicted a mature man in love with a teeny bopper who ruled him. But you couldn't fault the cast with the great James Mason and Sue Lyon. Shelley Winters also starred in the film. The directing was great but this just wasn't my type of movie.
Then came 1964 and Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This unusual piece of work was talked about for years after it was made. Peter Sellers played three different characters. The film also featured George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden (the corrupt police captain in the Godfather Part I) and Slim Pickens. While all the actors were terrific, Slim Pickens stole the show. He was a B52 pilot charged with dropping a nuclear weapon. The weapon gets stuck in the bomb rack after the bomb bay doors are opened and Pickens, who is wearing his air force uniform and a large brimmed white cowboy hat, climbs on top of it to try and kick it loose. Unfortunately for him the bomb releases with him astride it. When he sees that his position is useless he rides the bomb down like a bronco and hits it on the side with his hat as the earth looms up and the bomb finally explodes. This was truly an unforgettable movie moment.

Four years went by then came the block buster, 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968. While the cast of this film was not as strong as most of the others, it still rose to the position of epic adventure. Many people didn't like the ending or non ending, but that didn't stop it from becoming one of the most memorable SciFi films. The plot was simple. Aliens left an artifact on the moon and we build a ship, controlled by a computer that has identity problems and becomes a homicidal maniac, and set off for Jupiter.

A Clockwork Orange was directed in 1971. It is no doubt a sick, deranged, pornographic slice of future life but it is also one of the really great movies ever made. Malcolm McDowell is incredible as the gang leader of a futuristic English street gang that is ruthless and scared to death of him while retaining a simmering hate of him at the same time. The actors are all British and well seasoned. The story progresses through theft, terrible beatings, rape, and finally murder. Then comes prison where our young friend volunteers for an experiment to cure his criminal ways by making him violently ill every time he thinks of breaking the law. It doesn't end there my friends and you can't help but stay glued to the screen as the long story unfolds. I believe that this film was the highlight of McDowell's career.
Then came Barry Lyndon. Well they can't all be great. But in 1980 Kubrick made The Shinning. The Shinning was originally a novel by Stephen King. I guess you would call it a horror movie. Jack Nicholson plays a writer who is also the caretaker of a empty hotel who just starts to deteriorate It was a great performance and reminded me in some ways of Humphrey Bogart's performance in The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, in 1948. Shelly Duvall played a convincing wife worried about her husbands mental health. Many a child hid under the blankets after watching this flick.

Kubrick then went on to direct Full Metal Jacket in 1987, luckily for R. Lee Ermey, who became famous as the ruthless drill sergeant in basic training. The cast included Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin and Vincent D'Onofrio. Stanley Kubrick had a way of getting every ounce of talent out of his actors and this film was no exception. The film is really two films in one. The first part is about basic training and relentless pressure put on an under achiever who finally cracks and the second part is about a soldier's life in the Vietnam conflict. Having been in the service myself, I can say with authority that the first part which depicts basic training is the most realistic film on the subject that I have ever seen. The film is scary in its absolute faithfulness to the conditions of the war and the suffering of the troops.
Eyes Wide Shut in came out in 1999. Not one of the greats and will soon be forgotten.

Most of Stanley Kubrick's films will be remembered and will be held up as paragons to which all other films will be compared to. Stanley you will be sorely missed, especially on those days where we have nothing to look at except something called Kung Pow Fist or the like.

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Cult Films from Hollywood

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:39:00 +0000

By Kenneth J. McCormick

Cult films, we have all heard the term, but, what exactly is a cult film? A cult film is one that has a special appeal to a certain segment of the population. Since only a segment of the population enjoys these films, the appeal to the general population is limited. The people that enjoy these films might enjoy seeing them over many times thus making them a financial success. Cult films are usually very different than the run of the mill movies. They are more likely to be off beat than not.

A very good example of this is one of the most successful cult movies of all times, The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975. For many people, there was nothing better to do on the weekend than go see the The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They saw it over and over. People used to mouth the words before the actors said them. Others shouted out the lines before they were said. The Rocky Horror Picture Show started out as a play in a small London Theater Then it became a smash hit as an international stage show, then it became a motion picture. All this happened within 18 months. I don't know how long it stayed in the movies but it must have been at least 10 years. It was usually shown at midnight and only on the weekends but still managed to make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Not all cult films were made as entertainment

In 1936 the government produced a documentary titled Reefer Madness. It was supposed to show the evils of smoking Marijuana This film is considered as campy entertainment. So what was this movie about that made it so popular to watch? A high school principal narrates the film which shows high school students smoking pot and going crazy to the point where murder is committed. In the background jazz is playing. The way the movie was constructed, some of the scenes look like something out of a comedy. When this was made, no one dreamed that it would become a cult favorite.

Plan 9 From Outer Space by Ed Wood is usually classified as the worst movie ever made. It is so bad that it is funny. Ed Wood was famous for never reshooting a scene no matter what happened. One famous scene has a zombie rising from a grave, but unfortunately all the tomb stones around him are cardboard and shake as he climbs out of the grave. Another problem that poor Ed Wood had was that his star died in the middle of the production, he was Bella Lugosi. He substituted his wife's chiropodist who went through the rest of the movie with his arm and cape over the bottom of his face. And who could forget the airplane scene where a pilot in a commercial plane is sitting in what is supposed to be a cockpit. The only problem is that it is a room with a black curtain behind him and the flight controls are just a piece of 2 X 4 with a piece of plywood shaped in a semi circle with two handles. Believe me when I tell you that no one has ever made anything this bad before or since. He ran out of money and needed to do a scene with a flying saucer so he took a hubcap and doused it with lighter fluid and set it on fire and threw it into the air and filmed it. This film is still watched today as a comedy.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High was a movie that was released in 1982. It is claimed that all events in the movie really happened and that all the characters in the movie were based on real people. The author of the book from which the movie came, actually spent a year in a high school with the permission of the school. People like this movie because it reminds them of their time spent in high school. This movie is one of the most popular of all the teen flicks of the 80s.
Eraserhead was a movie that took over 5 years to film. This was David Lynch's first full length movie. This was a weird movie folks. In a world gone crazy, Henry Spencer lives in a town where giant machines make noise, are spewing smoke and pollution. His building seems abandoned and he listens to the radiator where he can hear a woman singing. His lights flicker on and off and he keeps bowls of water in his dresser. He has a girl friend who bears his horrible looking child. The movie is depressing, yet some find it fascinating and like the idea of the unusual photography that was introduced into this 1977 movie. Some scenes have a sort of dreamy quality. Not many words are spoken and the script was only 22 pages long.

2001 A Space Odyssey featured the evil HAL, the onboard computer, that controlled a space ship going to investigate a monolith in orbit around Jupiter. Monoliths had been found on the Moon which prompted the expedition. There is something that wasn't counted on, however, and that is the fact that HAL has either became insane or has misinterpreted his instructions. He now thinks that he should kill the crew. This movie has a very quiet and mysterious quality. It is easy to see why it has become a cult favorite. It is all about intelligence, man's intelligence, animals intelligence and machine intelligence. An interesting aside, flights to the space station are run by Pan Am. This carrier went out of business but was one of the biggest at the time the movie was made in 1968.

There is no way to know in advance what movies will become cult favorites. Something just clicks with the population and people start talking about a certain film and then begin to see it more than once. Some people boasted that they had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, hundreds of times. I actually know someone who went every weekend for at least a year. So there you are, even a terrible movies like Plan 9 From Outer Space, that cost practically nothing to make, relatively speaking, can become a cult film and make money.

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Hollywood Screw Ups And Free Movies

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By Kenneth J. McCormick
(All references to the Public Domain refer to U.S. Law. Laws may be different in other countries)
Copyrights and patents seem to be on everything. But I shouldn't talk since all of my articles are copyrighted. The only reason that I mention this is the fact that some artistic works don't have a copyright. Usually this is because something went wrong in the copyright process or they were meant to be free. I was stunned to find that there were Hollywood movies that are not copyrighted.

An example of this is the 1941 movie, Meet John Doe, which was directed by Frank Capra and produced by Warner Brothers. If you look it up on the Internet Archive you will see it is clearly marked Public Domain under the Creative Commons license. We are talking about a film staring such greats as Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan. Someone really screwed up with this film.
Another big film that is in the Public Domain is Charade. We are talking about a Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn film. Someone forgot to put the required copyright notice in the released print. I bet he or she was looking for another job right after that. The film was released in 1963.
A film entitled Salt Of The Earth was produced in 1954. What made it unusual was the fact that it was made by people who were blacklisted. This usually happened because Senator McCarthy had accused them of being Communists. The film stared Wil Geer and Rosaura Revueltas. and is also in the Public Domain. I have no idea why this is.

Till The Clouds Roll By was released in 1946 and is the life story of famous composer Jerome Kern and is another film that fell into the Public Domain. It had quite a cast, June Allyson, Robert Walker, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra.
Here is one of my favorite movies, I still can't believe it is Public Domain but it is listed as such by the Internet Archive. It is DOA. It was released in 1950 and starred Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand and Lawrence Dobkin. The story line is about a man trying to find the person that gave him a slow acting poison. If you are going to download any films make sure this is one of them, you won't be disappointed.
Then there are those films that you might never have gone to see anyway.

In 1956 Dementia a/k/a Daughter of Horror was released. It stared Richard Barron and Adrienne Barret. This is a shorty, running only 56 minutes. Public Domain at its worst, even if it wasn't meant to be Public Domain.
Radar Men From The Moon. Its a serial and is part one. But part one landed up as Public Domain. It is a Commando Cody serial for those of you old enough to remember who he was.

These films are too large for me to store them on my website for download but you can go to The Internet Archive and download these films. You should click on 'moving images' first then select 'feature films' as the search type. Next type in the name of the movie to download in the search box. You will get a few free movies out of this if you can download big files.

If you check you should also be able to find many free animations such as Superman. Enjoy yourself.

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