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Now watching for the first time:
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956)
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The Aviator (2004)
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Celestial Emporium of Cinematic Knowledge: F is for Futuristic Technologies.
The Death Star in Star Wars (1977).
Veo animation of Raise the Titanic (1980) quad.
Airport (1970) poster art.
Released #OTD.
Celestial Emporium of Cinematic Knowledge: E is for Experimental Film.
Bridges-Go-Round (1958).
Action Film Dictionary: E is for Escape Scenario.
A character is held captive in some way. To avoid death or physical harm, the character attempts to escape by their own means or is sometimes assisted by others as illustrated by Dr. Richard Kimble's escape in The Fugitive (1993).
Veo animation of The Space Children (1958) quad.
In North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock deliberately subverts Roger Thornhill's rendezvous by setting the meeting point in broad daylight and having the assassin appear in the form of a crop-duster, creating incongruity with the spectator's convention-based expectations.
Up Periscope (1959) poster art.
Premiered #OTD.
Celestial Emporium of Cinematic Knowledge: D is for Dance.
42nd Street (1933).
Action Film Dictionary: D is for Disaster Film.
The disaster film is a genre of action centered on a catastrophe, natural, technological, or extraterrestrial in origin, that threatens a large group of people, with their survival often dependent upon fleeing.
Veo animation of The Magnificent Seven (1960) quad.
Stephen Teo's Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition (2009) is a study of the wuxia film. Teo argues that the wuxia film is a foundational genre that features swordplay and supernatural abilities like flying while the kung fu film is characterized by its emphasis on hand-to-hand combat.
In Like Flint (1967) poster art.
Released #OTD.
Action Film Dictionary: C is for Capture Scenario.
An action situation that consists of a capturer and a target. Unlike captors whose try to prevent escape and rescue, the capturerβs aim is to apprehend the target, who enjoys greater freedom than a captive, as in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
Veo animation of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) quad.
The graphic match cut from a bone to a spacecraft in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is instance of associative editing since it places both under the superordinate concept of technology. The temporal ellipsis entails a jump forward in time prompting the viewer to ascertain the technological evolution.
King Kong (1933) poster art.
Premiered #OTD.
Celestial Emporium of Cinematic Knowledge: B is for Body Part.
An ear in Blue Velvet (1986).
Action Film Dictionary: B is for Battle.
One of the prototypes of the fight scenario that involves large and opposing combat forces, as manifested in Ran (1985).
Veo animation of Battle of Britain (1969) quad.
Film can temporally expand an event via insertion shots. In The Wild Bunch (1969), the duration of a fall is extended by using 11 inserts within an 18-shot sequence. These intervening shots, along with slow motion, expand the story event's duration, making a brief moment feel significantly longer.
High and Low (1963) poster art.
Released #OTD.
Celestial Emporium of Cinematic Knowledge: A is for Alien.
Predator 2 (1990).
Action Film Dictionary: A is for Action Adventure.
A film featuring an adventure narrative but conveyed in an action modality, as illustrated by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
Veo animation of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) quad.