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Considered one of the most innovative and important Hollywood screenwriters, Charlie Kaufman is the author of polemic movies, as Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004), Adaptation (2002), Being John Malkovich (1999) and the most recent Synecdoche, New York (2008), and this one was also directed by him.

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In the cinema history, there are few men who are so important and so unfairly forgotten as Georges Méliès. Excepting the shooting and projecting equipment, it would be no exaggeration to say that Méliès invented absolutely everything on cinema: the filming studios, the cinematographic genres, the screenplays, the mechanical and chemical techniques, the special effects. He was the pioneer in everything he did --... Read more

Marjane Satrapi is the leading character of the story, the author of a cartoon strip about the same character and one of the authors of the movie, along with Vincent Paronnaud. "Persepolis" is an animation movie directed in France, using traditional drawing methods and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2008, for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year. The movie also won... Read more

Music and Cinema seems to be made one for each other since those times we were used to see the black-and-white images passing through our eyes and the sound of a piano passing through our ears. Even then, music came along with the images, awarding them the right expression in the moments of suspense, of sadness or even on a common scuffle scene. The... Read more

‘I have been uncompromising, infractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life’ Bette Davis once remarked about her tough-as-nails personality. Today, she continues to personify the independent and strong-willed woman, an image she helped define both on-screen and off, with a career that spanned six decades and an impressive range of memorable roles.... Read more

Music and cinema seem to have been made for each other, from the days when we watched black and white pictures to the sound of a pianola. Even then, music accompanied the pictures and set the right mood, be it during suspenseful moments, sad scenes or even during a brawl. The empathy between the two forms of artistic expression is so strong that our... Read more

"I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients: it will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully." - James Stewart... Read more

Lucille Ball talking with her husband Desi Arnaz while he looks over building plans. Source: LIFE Archives At first glance, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz make an unlikely couple: they had different personalities, lifestyles, native languages, religions and ages. They first met on the set of Too Many Girls, in 1940, and fell head-over-heels in love with each other, elloping and getting married in... Read more