A Golden-Age Star
In this 2011 profile by Matt Tyrnauer, Lauren Bacall looked back on a lucky, if often difficult, life. (Vanity Fair)
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35 Free Film Noir Movies
Open Culture Parmi ces films: Beat the Devil – Directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, the film is something of a comic and dramatic spoof of the film noir tradition. (1953) Behind Green Lights– Stars Carole Landis, John Ireland. Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at…
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All You Need To Know About the 10% Brain Myth, in 60 Second
Christian Jarrett , Wired The new Luc Besson movie Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson, opens in theatres countrywide tomorrow. It’s based on the immortal myth that we use only 10 percent of our brains. Johansson’s character is implanted with drugs that allow her to access 100 percent of her brain capacity. She subsequently gains the ability to learn…
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Watch The Lodger: Alfred Hitchcock’s First Truly ‘Hitchcockian’ Movie (1927)
Open Culture Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger opens with a blonde woman screaming in terror. She is the victim of a shadowy Jack the Ripper-like serial killer who leaves a calling card announcing himself as ‘The Avenger.’ Cut to Daisy, a blonde model whose parents are jubilant over finally finding…
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1950: un film d'Hollywood sur la culture du viol
The New Yorker “Outrage,” a Hollywood movie from 1950, looks intimately, painfully, and analytically at what we now know to call rape culture. It’s one of the crucial movies of the era, and it’s not easy to find. It was directed by Ida Lupino, who is familiar as one of the hard-edged and worldly-wise actresses…
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Denys Arcand, l'historien du présent
UdeM Nouvelles Quand Denys Arcand se rend pour la première fois à Hollywood, durant les années 60, ses hôtes de la Paramount savent qu’il est titulaire d’un diplôme universitaire. Ils le logent donc dans le quartier étudiant de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Déception. «Moi qui rêvais d’actrices pulpeuses, je me suis retrouvé au…
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Une abonnée nous signale:
Le site zerodeconduite.net de l’Agence Cinéma et Éducation veut promouvoir le cinéma en milieu scolaire et de fournir aux professeurs de la documentation complémentaire aux films. …. Film hongrois Le Grand Cahier, adapté de la sombre trilogie d’Agota Kristof, entretien avec une chercheuse . …. Film allemand D’une vie à l’autre sur les maternités nazies et le…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Life, work and demons (Émission 60 Minutes)
CBS News The great character actor who died suddenly last week talked candidly about his addictions with Steve Kroft in 2006.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Life, work and demons (Émission 60 Minutes)
CBS News The great character actor who died suddenly last week talked candidly about his addictions with Steve Kroft in 2006.