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When I am trying to recall my childhood, the best I often call forth is a
phantasmagorical flash of images and feelings; for instance, a friend whose
It was in 1918 that Lev Kuleshov—film theorist, father of the Soviet Montage
school of cinema, director of The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the
Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), political
“Of all the arts…cinema is the most important.” ~V. I. Lenin
We are told that they are the seven most important minutes in film, and at the
time of this writing they
In November 2013, after fourteen years between films and at age 78, the
brilliant animated feature film director Isao Takahata released Kaguya-hime no
Monogatari in his native Japan. Under the title The Tale
Hayao Miyazaki’s films are some of the most charming in the short history of
cinema. The heroes of his animated tales—Pazu in Castle in the Sky, Ashitaka in
Princess Mononoke, and
