‘The Blue Umbrella’: Inside a Pixar Love Story
The process began on one of those unusually rainy but otherwise ordinary California days. Pixar camera and staging artist Saschka Unseldwas walking through downtown San Francisco. Something caught his eye. He looked down, studying more closely an object stuck in the gutter in front of him.
This coda to Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is probably the single most inspiring moment I’ve ever encountered in all of cinema.
Well, then, isn’t it time?
National Film Registry #70
Paths of Glory, 1957. Honored 1992.
This shot is a great demonstration of Kubrick’s fascination with symmetry.
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1946
The Best Years of Our Lives follows three men as they return from serving in World War II. After being away from their loved ones for so long it takes quite a bit of adjusting to fall back into a routine at home. All three men are haunted by their time overseas and how things were before the war. The movie shows the struggles of love, work, and disabilities.
★★★★/★★★★
This will be a slightly different review than many of my others in that I will be talking about much of this film in the first person. A special presentation was put on tonight at my university by the directors (Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton)of the documentary These Amazing…
National Film Registry #44
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932. Honored 1991.
The story is that the final scene was inspired by a shot in which a blown fuse caused a light to fade. Whether that’s true or not, Paul Muni walking into the darkness is a chilling conclusion.
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So I used to think that I was the only young girl who loved vintage, classic movies, etc and thanks to Tumblr I figured out that there a lot of me around lol, is like COOL
Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart presents a lecture on the “Politics of Film Preservation”, focusing on Spencer William’s The Blood of Jesus, the films of Oscar Micheaux, and the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection.
Jacquelin Stewart is a long time member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.
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These Amazing Shadows - [2011]
Thanks for posting this series that includes one of our favorite quotes!
"These Amazing Shadows," a 88-minute documentary, tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
Slacker (1991)
National Film Registry #72
What’s Opera, Doc?, 1957. Honored 1992.
I feel badly for you if you...
—>74/365: These Amazing Shadows, 2011, dir. Paul Mariano & Kurt Norton
“Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in...
