The entertainment industry, which was shut down due to the sudden impact of the new crown epidemic, has finally recovered recently, and after the resumption of cinemas in some areas, the Shanghai International Film Festival, China's first major international cultural event in film and television since the outbreak of the epidemic, has also officially announced that it will be held on July 25. In 2020, which has created a huge rift, we never seem to need movies more than we do now. Recently, various publishing houses have also launched many new books on film.
A General History of Cinema
"General History of Cinema" takes the era as the order and takes each film as the theme of discussion, outlines the important periods, major genres and classic works of the world film industry, and analyzes the representative works of each period in detail from the perspective of camera position, lighting, animation, performance style and social and cultural influence, revealing the shining points of stars and the secret of the success of the film, as well as the reasons for the most potential script to break the box office battlefield.
Back to the beginning of the film, filmmaking techniques appeared in 1895, and the original work was only a few seconds long, and the content was about everyday life or magic tricks. In the 20th century, mature cinematic storytelling techniques emerged, and filmmakers who were at the forefront of the times included Georges Méliès, Charles Baidai and Ferdinand Zica. The protagonist of Ferdinand Zika's one-minute short film Conquest of the Sky takes a strange flying machine over the Beautiful City of Paris. After attending the Lumiere brothers' first release in 1895, theatre manager and stage magician Georges Mérieux quickly realized the film's potential to create illusions and illusions. A fascination with juggling became Mélières' film label, which also incorporated elements of magic and death. In the fantasy silent film Eraserhead, he plays a scientist who cuts off his head and blows air with a bellows, ordering his assistants to keep blowing the wind until the head explodes. Similarly, the shot of a rocket plunging into the eyes of a lunar man in Journey to the Moon is typical of Mériès's eerie skin pain.
Journey to the Moon
Later, the French Art Film Society, which focused on historical themes, filmed The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; Indian film pioneer D.G. Barge learned the basic techniques of cinema from a film about Jesus, shooting King Haris Chandra, a costume film derived from Hindu mythology that marked the origins of Indian cinema; Italian film pioneers who were passionate about mythological stories and spectacular scenes, filming Dante's Hell; and in the United States, Edwin Bergeron was the first to shoot Dante's Hell. S. Boart's The Great Train Robbery is considered the first feature film in the United States. Boart's revolutionary style of camera and editing, live-action shooting, and Westerns was a huge delight for audiences at the time. Advances in technology made it possible to make longer films, and literature entered the cinema. Despite the renovation of filming techniques and narrative methods, the essence of cinematic art— the re-creation and interpretation of reality — was established as early as its inception.
The Great Movie 2
The Great Movie 2 is the second in roger Ebert's "Great Movies" series, a collection of film critics that includes 100 reviews of classic films, which the author describes as "you die if you don't have to see it", including the most familiar directors such as Robert Bresson, Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Godard, Spielberg, and other directors, who are usually not associated with "great" or even rejected.
These reviews include films that people don't usually call "great"—some are ostracized simply because they're too popular (e.g., Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark), some because they flaunt entertainment (e.g., Fall of the Truth, The Man's Fight), and some because they're too obscure (e.g., The Fall of the Escher Mansion, The Wanderings of Stusy). Roger Ebert believed that different movies were seen for different reasons, and the greatness of movies was reflected in different forms.
British film critic Derek Malcolm defines a great film as" as " a film that is unbearable at the thought of not being able to watch it again." For Roger Ebert, there is nothing more enjoyable than to avoid the assembly line of the film industry and watch films that uphold the value of art with deep and loving feelings.
"At the university I directed every year, I would do a mirror-by-shot analysis of sixteen films each time. The colorado screening was an integral part of the World Affairs Convention, and we sat in the McKee Auditorium, shrouded in darkness. Sometimes there are thousands of people, and we spend ten to twelve hours over five days pulling the tablets using a motion pause analyzer. Under the gaze of so many pairs of eyes, you can see something extraordinary. "Because of love, those times of pulling pieces immersed in darkness are also full of fun.
Film Noir
Film Noir is an American film critic and Indiana University professor James Naremore's interpretation of film noir. Examining film noir since the 1940s, he interpreted dozens of classic films - "Double Compensation", "Maltese Eagle", "The Third Man", "From the Past", "Chinatown", "Pulp Fiction", "The Devil in Blue", "Mulholland Road", "Sin City", "Killing Casino"... It is interpreted from seven aspects: concept evolution, era background, review norms, business mechanism, aesthetic style, theoretical analysis, and deductive rheology.
Film noir is undoubtedly one of the most amorphous genres in film. When you think of "film noir", the easiest thing that comes to mind are the stylized, cynical Black and White Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s— melodrama about private detectives, scorpion beauties, crime gangsters, and outlaw ducks. Film Noir does not shy away from these films, but James Naremore also points out that the term "film noir" is far more complex and contradictory than we know it, and it is an important film legacy and an idea we project into the past.
For most people, the term "film noir" means certain Hollywood film genres, styles, or popular traits of the 1940s and 1950s. For example, the characters and stories of film noir (wandering men are attracted to beautiful women, private detectives are hired by snake and scorpion beauties, criminal gangs attempting to commit robbery); the plot structure of film noir (flashbacks, subjective narratives); the scenes of film noir (city restaurants, dilapidated offices, flashy nightclubs); the art design of film noir (Venetian shutters, neon lights, modern art); film noir attire (brim hats, trench coats, shoulder pads); film noir accessories (cigarettes, cocktails, Short-barreled revolvers); film noir-style performances, often associated with actors who have "radio sounds", such as Alan Ladd and Dick Powell ...
Film Noir pays an indirect tribute to these and similar films and discusses American film noir from 1941 to the present day in a broad and general way. Given the breadth of the subjects to be explored and the length of the time spanned, it is inevitable that I will have to overlook some important names. For example, I decided to put influential directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells on the relative margins of this study, and I've written about them elsewhere—despite the fact that the burning "R" at the end of Butterfly Dream and the burning "Rosebud" at the end of Citizen Kane echo each other; despite the fact that both films are extremely important for us to think about Hollywood in the 1940s. However, I explored the European and British films that influenced Hollywood, and paid much attention to the context of the French intellectuals, in which the concept of 'film noir' was first clearly expressed. I would also nominate some overlooked films for film noir, or at least question their absence from previous discussions, and devote some space to discussing film noir elements in other mediums. The author said.
A rose bud in Citizen Kane
Autumn Legend
Legend of Autumn is the legacy of tough guy writer Jim Harrison and the original novel of the Oscar-winning film Burning Love Years. Jim Harrison's novellas are mostly published in trilogies, including "Revenge", "Solo Dancer" and "Autumn Legend".
"Legend of Autumn" is a "historical legend" created by Harrison based on the diary left by his wife's grandfather: in the vast state of Montana, the three sons of Colonel Ladlow's family resolutely resolved to participate in the "First World War" for the sake of worldly justice. The younger brother Samuel was unfortunately killed, and the second brother Tristan was devastated and almost mad. After the war, Tristan married Suzanne, but left home a few months after their marriage. In pain, Suzanne eventually married her eldest brother, Alfred. A few years later, Tristan finally returned to Montana, and the love-hate entanglement between father and son continued, all with a tragic sense of fatalism.
Jim Harrison's major works are set against the backdrop of his familiar Northern Peninsula, Montana, or arizona countryside, and have many similarities with Faulkner. Harrison loves fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities, loves to drink and eat, and often appears in his works as a "tough guy", so he is known as "contemporary Hemingway". His works have been translated into more than twenty languages and are loved by readers, especially in European countries such as France, which are fond of his works, believing that they more truly reflect American social life and the clash of civilizations.
《Perfume》
In eighteenth-century Paris, Grenouille was born on the city's dirtiest and most smelly fish stalls. He was born with no body odor, but was an amazing olfactory genius who was able to distinguish and remember all the smells in the world. In order to pursue the most perfect fragrance and preserve it, the young Grenouille was tempered and grew from an apprentice in a perfume shop to a master of incense making. After countless attempts and disappointments, he finally discovered that only some red-haired girls had the perfect aroma he was seeking. To this end, he did not hesitate to commit crimes repeatedly, extracting their body fragrance to make a mysterious "perfume" that toyed with the world in the palm of his hand. However, the endless pursuit and obsession of the crowd did not bring him satisfaction, and in the end, he chose to disappear in his own unique way and disappeared into the fleeting kingdom of smell...
Adapted from the novel of the same name, "Perfume" has been repeatedly praised and quoted for its imaginative imagination, bizarre and magical plot, and capture and depiction of the smell. The author uses the tragic life of the protagonist Grenouille, an olfactory genius, to reflect on the survival dilemma of the individual falling into nothingness and alienation in the rationally driven modern society.
The author, Patrick Juskind, is a well-known contemporary German writer. His debut film , The Double Bass , premiered in Munich in September 1981 and is still performed today. In 1984, Juskind completed his first novel, Perfume, which became a sensation in german and was later translated into several languages. He is also the author of the novella "The Dove", "The Story of Mr. Xia" and a number of other non-fiction works, which have a significant influence on contemporary German-language literature.