Beyond Western Europe and the United States

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1. Film in Korea Korea came to the cinema relatively late, with its first silent film not being produced until 1923. In 1935, the sound film was introduced, but any further artistic development was cut short when Japan invaded China in 1937 and the Korean cinema was given over to outright propaganda. In 1945, with the surrender of Japan, […]...
2. Мое путешествие в США – My trip to the United States of America I went to the US when I was 15 years old. I and my mom met with my dad in the Germany. We spent there a week. It was the first time when I went abroad. When we got out of airplane we saw beautiful building of Frankfurt Airport. It was impressing. People there didn’t […]...
3. О фильмах – About films Each year, remove a number of different films; they are of different genres and directions. But people aspire to look not only novelties, but also enjoy viewing of old films. At the history lessons the teacher told us that the first film have removed in 1895, it was interesting to learn that this film proceeded […]...
4. New cinema in France The French cinema kept expanding on both the commercial and personal horizons, as former New Wave directors pursued their own objectives. Meanwhile, a new wave of highly commercial filmmakers, who championed what became known as “cinema du look,” made more accessible, mainstream films, with a highly polished sheen of technical execution. One of the key […]...
5. The United States Of America The United States of America, popularly called “The States”. “U. S. A”, “The Land of Liberty” is a vast country stretching across the middle of North America. This country which at one time inhabited by Red Indians, is now the home of “nation of nations”. as people from every part of the world have gone […]...
6. Кино в моей жизни – Cinema in my life I am keen on movies, that is why I am interested in everything that is connected with it. First some words about history of cinematography. In 1895 the Lumieres brothers made their first three minute film which was demonstrated to the public. It was almost a century ago. Nowadays cinema is probably the most popular […]...
7. A short history of film New Zealand In New Zealand, where the film industry had long been marginal, Peter Jackson first came on the scene in 1987 with his twisted science fiction gore film Bad Taste, which he also acted in, photographed, and edited. Next were the puppet horror film Meet the Feebles (1989) and the darkly humorous splatter film Dead Alive […]...
8. The United States of America is located in North America It is one of the largest countries in the world. The population of the USA is about 250 million people. The USA has 50 states. The largest of America’s states is Alaska. It’s nearly 400 times the size of Rhode Island, which is the smallest state. But Alaska has half the population of Rhode Island. […]...
9. The Cinema In Britain In England the cinema is usually called “the pictures”. The American name “the movies” is sometimes used. The first performance or “showing” as it is called, begins about two o’clock in the afternoon and the show goes on from then until about half past ten. You can go in at any time and leave at […]...
10. Cinema Cinematography is one ofjhe wOTidersofthemodern workj Its possibilities are really unlimited, it gives pleasure to millions of people. Now it is a very popular kind of arfwhich has celebrated its 100th anniversary. There are cinemas in cities and towns. For most of people cinema is the means of entertainment and rest. You know thattife is […]...
11. Silent movie masters Despite the fact that the studio system often stifled individual creativity, a number of gifted filmmakers managed to strike a balance between art and commerce and adapted to the studio system, making personal films that were also commercially successful. Allan Dwan, Rupert Julian, Henry King, and Fred Niblo all made expert genre films ranging from […]...
12. Ответы на аглийском по теме: cinema 1. Do you like the cinema? Yes, I do. I am fond of cinema, because it’s one of the ways of entertainment. 2. Which films, feature or documentaries do you prefer? I like both. Feature films are made especially to entertain the public and documentaries are based on real facts and usually show the true […]...
13. Кино в моей жизни – Movies in my life Movies play an important role in my life and of course I like to go to the cinema. As for me it is an available popular form of art, I find visiting cinemas is one of the best ways of spending my free time. And everyone can choose his favorite genre of film. There are […]...
14. The move to sound But behind the scenes in the late 1920s, a revolution was brewing. Lee de Forest, the pioneer inventor who created the vacuum tube, the television picture tube, and the modern optical sound track system that was used in talking pictures for most of the twentieth century, was busily working in his small laboratory to bring […]...
15. Soviet wartime cinema In Japan, war-themed films began appearing as early as 1938. One of the first such films was Tomotaka Tasaka’s Gonin no Sekkohei (Five Scouts, 1938), which, despite its support of the Japanese war effort, seemed devoid of the blatant propaganda found in both Nazi and American war films of the period. Indeed, wartime propaganda “documentaries,” […]...
16. The fifth generation in China, in Japan In mainland China, the end of Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution paved the way for a new group of filmmakers. The Beijing Film Academy, which had been closed from 1966 to 1976, finally reopened in 1978. The graduating class of 1982 became known as the Fifth Generation, and their first major work was Huang tu di […]...
17. The Asian action film Asian cinema saw an enormous renaissance, creating everything from routine action thrillers to deeply moving and intimate dramas. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, spent much of his youth in Hong Kong, and went back to America to work in the television series “The Green Hornet” (1966-67) and Paul Bogart’s film Marlowe (1969) before […]...
18. French occupation cinema In France during the war, with Paris under the Nazi occupation and the puppet Vichy government, only a few major filmmakers chose to stay behind and create a series of very subtly subversive films; otherwise, much of the Vichy cinema was sheer escapism. Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945), from a […]...
19. Japan school We all know that education is important in every country, but in Japan it’s more important for lots of reasons. The main reason is because the Japanese attitude to jobs. A good job is important to most people, but in Russia for example many people expect to, and perhaps want to, try more then one […]...
20. Sir Charlie Chaplin Sir Charlie Chaplin is one of the beloved comedians of the world. Years after his death, the comic films of movie actor and director Charlie Chaplin continue to be popular. He is one of the greatest comic actors who achieved greater, widespread fame in his own lifetime than perhaps anyone else in the history of […]...
21. Early German film In Germany, a similar period of experimentation was taking place, albeit under radically different circumstances. The prewar German cinema was composed for the most part of “actualities,” short films in the manner of the Lumière brothers and later short dramas with child protagonists, such as Carlchen und Carlo (1902); “mountain films,” a peculiarly German genre […]...
22. Billywilder’s America Billy Wilder’s 1950s films included some of the most famous sex comedies of the era, such as the raucous The Seven Year Itch (1955), in which a wandering husband (Tom Ewell) is smitten by the charms of his upstairs neighbor Tom Ewell admires Marilyn Monroe’s skirt in Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch (1955). Marilyn […]...
23. The Road West This was another major change from the days of Edison-film production was now firmly anchored on the West Coast, and by the time D. W Griffith produced Intolerance in Los Angeles in 1916, 60 percent or more of the industry was located there. New York, however, remained a powerful force in the financing and distribution […]...
24. Agnès Varda Bresson was above all an individualist who created his own form of the cinema for himself rather than for audiences. He thus belonged not to the past, but to the present and future of cinema. The key New Wave figures – Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, and others-revered him and would use […]...
25. Твір з англіської at the Cinema. У кіно Мені подобається ходити в кіно. Як тільки в мене з’являється вільний час, я завжди йду дивитися новий фільм. Коли я хочу піти в кіно, я звичайно переглядаю в програмі, які зараз ідуть фільми. Потім я телефоную моєму другові, і ми обговорюємо, який фільм дивитися. Ми віддаємо перевагу художнім фільмам, але одержуємо задоволення і від мультфільмів […]...
26. The Auteur Theory In the midst of all this technological tumult, a new group of American directors came of age, eager to embrace the shift to color and CinemaScope. They were also bolstered by the critical cheerleading of the French journal Cahiers du Cinéma, begun in 1947 by writer and theorist André Bazin (then La Revue du Cinéma, […]...
27. York is one of Europe’s historic cities It began as an important roman city. In medieval times a stone wall was built around it, and wall is still there today. There is the river Omse near Lendal bridge. And from here you can walk around the city on the wall, it takes about two hours. In the south wall is Micklegate bar, […]...
28. Cinema. Кіно Кіно було винайдено двома братами Люм’єр. Вони створили перший фільм, що тривав тільки одну хвилину. З тих пір кіно стало одним із найпопулярніших мистецтв у світі. Усюди є кінотеатри. Фільми бувають художніми і документальними, звуковими і німими. Художні фільми, як правило, звукові і кольорові. Мультфільми також дуже популярні не тільки серед дітей, але і серед […]...
29. Frank Capra’s Small-Town America Frank Capra followed up the success of 1934’s It Happened One Night with a string of sentimental films about small-town American values, which the director himself dubbed “Capra corn.” Lost Horizon (1937), an atypical trip to exotica for the director, was a critical and financial disappointment, but in such films as You Can’t Take It […]...
30. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese first emerged as a major force in American cinema with Mean Streets (1973). He consolidated his reputation with Taxi Driver (1976), which made a star out of Robert De Niro as psychotic cabbie Travis Bickle, who slowly goes insane as he cruises the streets of nighttime Manhattan. Raging Bull (1980) also featured De […]...
31. Stephen Spielberg He is the cinema’s great enchanter. His films have enthralled the young and the old across the globe. Yet many in Hollywood dislike this man. They say he is a child who never grew up. They fear his influence and despite his box-office successes, they made him sweat for 25 years before giving him an […]...
32. The old masters The 1960s also saw the final films of many of the classical Hollywood directors who had worked in the industry since its infancy. Alfred Hitchcock’s last films were among his best, including the European-influenced horror picture The Birds (1963), in which large groups of birds attack a small California town without explanation, and Marnie (1964), […]...
33. Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti An internationally recognized director of the period, Michelangelo Anto-nioni made his first mark as a cineaste writing film criticism for Cinema, the official film journal of the Italian Fascist government. Antonioni also attended the Italian national film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cine-matografia, and then worked as a co-screenwriter on Roberto Rossellini’s early film Una […]...
34. My Favourite Cinema. Мій улюблений актор кіно Я люблю ходити в кіно. Недалеко від мого будинку є кінотеатр. Звичайно я ходжу в кіно з моїми друзями по неділях. Ми не любимо відвідувати вечірні сеанси і звичайно купуємо квитки на ранкові чи денні сеанси. Я волію дивитися американські, англійські та інші іноземні фільми, але я також люблю і наші фільми. Мій улюблений актор […]...
35. The Dardenne Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne began making short video documentaries together in the 1970s, and then shot their first fiction film in 1987, Falsch (False), in which the ghosts of a Jewish family, reunited after World War II in a deserted airport, are forced to deal with their past. The work is atypical for the Dardenne […]...
36. The production code collapses Another interesting aspect of Psycho was Hitchcock’s insistence to exhibitors that absolutely no one be admitted to the theater after the film had begun. By exerting this degree of control over his audience, Hitchcock managed to dictate not only every aspect of the film itself, but also the conditions under which it was viewed. Finally, […]...
37. Germany in the Cold War In other parts of the world, film was undergoing a difficult transformation during the Cold War era. In the years immediately after the Second World War and Germany’s defeat, the cinema in Germany, not surprisingly, underwent a major metamorphosis. The Allies broke up the giant film production consortium UFA, and many smaller production houses were […]...
38. Silent filmmaking in England In England, the key film genres rapidly codified themselves into the colonial romance, parody films, melodramas, and domestic comedies. Following Cecil M. Hepworth’s success with Rescued by Rover (1905), the English film industry rapidly sought to emulate the American production-line method, with generally unsatisfactory results. Quantity was not the problem; originality, and even basic quality […]...
39. Hammer Horror Horror was also a popular genre in the 1950s English cinema. Hammer Films began in 1934 as a small studio specializing in commercial genre movies, then moved into a series of taut noir films in the early 1950s, many with American actors. But in the late 1950s, Hammer found a winning new formula with horror […]...
40. The new American cinema Another important school of noncommercial filmmaking was the New American Cinema, a loosely knit group of artists who made experimental or underground movies in 16 mm on nonexistent budgets. These movies nevertheless profoundly influenced the language of cinema, in everything from MTV videos in the 1980s to television commercials, as well as the editorial and […]...