Category: Film
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From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can Be
Read more: From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can BeMusic videos can be works of art in and of themselves. They are a director’s interpretation of a piece of music, and depending on the kind of song he or she is working with and their own creative capability, that visual rendering can lead to some fascinating results. A good music video can give…
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Highlander – There Is Only One
Read more: Highlander – There Is Only OneEveryone has fond memories of a lot of films from their childhood that raise those films above and beyond everything they see afterwards. For many, those films are products from the masterminds at Disney, or the work of directors like Spielberg. Then there are the more obscure titles that just happened to be in the…
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I thought 5 KM far away enough: A Review of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 KM
Read more: I thought 5 KM far away enough: A Review of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 KMThe opening shot of this minimalist gem is an amazingly controlled and choreographed twenty-something minute record of intimacy, shot inside a Barcelona apartment in which a couple – photographer Alex (Natalia Tena, Harry Potter’s Nymphadora Tonks) and student Sergi (David Verdaguer, a smouldering Devendra Banhart type) are making love, after which they go about…
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Samba
Read more: SambaDuring the Christmas holidays I went to see Samba with a friend of mine. A French film; we felt so cultured. I mostly went to get my money’s worth out of my Pathé Unlimited pass, if I’m completely honest. I hadn’t spent much time at the cinema; the Philosophy of Science exams had kept me…
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Passionately Curious – An Interstaller Investigation
Read more: Passionately Curious – An Interstaller InvestigationAs you may well know by now, I’m a huge fan of the natural sciences. Usually, I use the space allotted to me here to try and explain some interesting bit of science in more simple terms, so that those of us who aren’t as big on the giant formulas and heavy textbooks can…
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