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Steve Mcqueen 2011
Steve Mcqueen's new film shows the tale of Brendan, a sex addict barely coping with the needs of his addiction while trying to balance a normal life. Fassbender's character is in total isolation and only in feeding his addiction can true relief be found. Lust probably one of the most relatable subjects, Mcqueen has touched upon an idea so powerful it has your heart pounded throughout.
Shame / IMBD
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Just to let you know again
That the Tree of Life is playing at your local cineplex and that you should definitely go and see it.
Offical Website
francis
Tacita Dean
The Uncles, 77 Min, 16 mm, Cinemascope 2004.
A filmed conversation between Winton Dean and Jonathan Balcon about their fathers Basil Dean (1888–1978) and Michael Balcon (1896–1977). Both men helped to pave the way for the British film industry. Basil Dean started his career working in theatre; he founded his first theatre company in 1907 and became director of a Liverpool repertory theatre in 1911. He was decorated for his tireless efforts to entertain the nation during the First World War, and in the years that followed he became one of the country’s leading theatrical impresarios. His stage productions helped to launch the careers of dramatists such as Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and John Gals- worthy, not only in London but also in New York. Dean became a specialist in boulevard comedies with a British flavour and this was what drew Michael Balcon’s attention to him. Balcon was the man who “discovered” Alec Guinness’ screen potential, and who had produced Alfred Hitchcock’s early masterpieces THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH and THE 39 STEPS in the 1930s. It was his dream to create a British industry that would match the competitiveness and omnipotence of Hollywood. Balcon’s brainchild, Ealing Studios, turned out comedies that were instrumental in enshrining an image of Britishness as a mixture of good manners and dark humour, with heroes clad in Harris tweed. Basil Dean’s career as a film director never quite measured up to the success of his theatre productions, but as a producer at Ealing he had an enormous stylistic influence on the studio’s output.
For the Berlinale Special
francis
Sixteen x Nine
16:9 (1.78:1) (generally named as "Sixteen-Nine", "Sixteen-by-Nine" and "Sixteen-to-Nine") is the international standard format of HDTV, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television (EDTV) PALplus.
It has come to my attention that this may well the most looked at frame in the world, with over 1,416,338,245 televisions in circulation and without even considering other receiving devices. Our relationship with the 16:9 ratio and the mechanics of cinema and television is truly universal.
Images from Widescreen Test Card Development.
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