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Friday, August 31, 2012

Classic Movie Star Wood Cuts by Loren Kantor

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Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) We human bein g s are irresistibly attracted to look at other people faces....
Friday, July 27, 2012

Friday Night Mashup - Matrix/OfficeSpace + TaxiDriver/Disney

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Neo Hides from Lumberg The Matrix and Office Space were released in 1999 - thus eligible to be nominated to the National Film Registr...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Everyone loves Emma/She loves the movies.

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Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy in 'The Amazing Spider-Man." Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man , The Help , Easy A ) has captured Am...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Is John Ford's 'The Searchers' Racist?

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John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956). In one of our These Amazing Shadows segments we take Joh...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Superhog vs. The National Film Registry

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Screen grab detail from Superhog's user page on flickchart.com As the Librarian of Congress Dr. James Billington says in These Amazi...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Party Like a Movie Star - Sort of...

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Orson Welles Estate  If you really want to wow your friends and family why not have your next party at the former home of an actor, dire...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Internet Film Critic June Mason Speaks!

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The Internet gives everyone the opportunity to express their particular point-of-view to the world. Some people choose to express opinions...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

How did 'Back to the Future' get selected to the National Film Registry?

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Our broadcast on PBS/Independent Lens was a 53-minute cut-down version from our original theatrical/DVD/Blu-ray 88-minute version. One of...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Room 125 Productions - Lawrence (KS) High School

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These Amazing Shadows has received a lot of great reviews from traditional and new media film critics. Every so often, like every film, w...
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The Movies That Made America
What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and listed on The National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows tells the history and importance of the Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 600 films includes selections from every genre – documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how American movies tell us so much about ourselves…”not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves”.
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