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1. Francis Ford Coppola (1939) Born in Detroit back in 1939, Coppola attended 22 schools in different parts of the USA because of his musician father’s travels. When he was eight, he contracted polio and spent almost a year in bed, his legs paralysed. “I was kept in a room by myself, and I used to read and occupy myself […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. Wim Wenders Wim Wenders’s early films include the allegorical murder drama Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, 1972) and the equally cerebral Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities, 1974), about an epic case of writer’s block. He later collaborated with Nicholas Ray on Lightning Over Water (1980) before […]...
4. John Ford John Wayne (foreground) as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s classic western Stagecoach (1939). Despite the fact that the studio moguls ran their empires like medieval kingdoms, using equal measures of fear, flattery, blandishments, and threats, some of the greatest directors in the history of cinema flourished under the Hollywood studio system. John Ford rapidly […]...
5. Oliver Stone Oliver Stone emerged as the foremost provocateur of the New Hollywood; although his first two films, Seizure (1974) and The Hand (1981), were seemingly conventional horror pictures, they dealt persuasively with issues of masculinity and loss of power. In particular, Michael Caine’s performance in The Hand, as a comic book artist who loses his drawing […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. 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 […]...
8. 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, […]...
9. Twenty-First Century Hollywood Style Quentin Tarantino made a name for himself as a purveyor of stylish violence in Reservoir Dogs (1992), a brutal crime thriller, and then capped his reputation with Pulp Fiction (1994), one of the most complex and intelligent Keitel as a corrupt, drug-addicted New York policeman. Crime films ever made, which teeters on the edge of […]...
10. 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, […]...
11. 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 […]...
12. 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 […]...
13. Newman, actor, director, and racing driver Newman, actor, director, and racing driver, was born so good looking that people said it was а shame to waste such beauty on, boy. He was born in Cleveland, 0hio, in 1925, and did some acting in high school and college, but never seriously considered making it his future career. However, after graduating, he immediately […]...
14. 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 […]...
15. Women in the director’s chair By the 1990s, women were directing films in every conceivable genre, a far cry from the 1950s when Ida Lupino was the only woman working in Hollywood. Amy Heckerling’s first movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), a parody of high school comedy films, was a hit and introduced Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, and Jennifer […]...
16. New York New York is one the largest city not only of the USA but of the whole world. It is situated in the north-east f the USA in the state of New York. The city is rather young, it was founded in 1626 by Dutch settlers, who ought Manhattan Island from the Indians for 24 dollars […]...
17. American Mavericks On a more commercial front, the boundaries were also being tested. Russ Meyer’s Vixen! (1968) pushed soft-core pornography to new extremes, while Roger Corman, who began the decade with a series of inventive horror films loosely based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, such as The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), ended the decade […]...
18. Silent films in Italy In Italy, the spectacle reigned supreme, as producers vied to outdo each other in presenting historical re-creations on a vast scale. In 1910, Mario Caserini’s Lucrezia Borgia and Enrico Guazzoni’s Brutus offered the public thrills and decadent delights, with lavish costumes and sets that made up in excess what they lacked in historical accuracy. Giovanni […]...
19. New cinema in England In England, the habitually excessive Ken Russell made a name for himself as a purveyor of over-the-top spectacle. Among his works are his adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love in 1969; his sensationalized biography of Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers (1970); Tommy (1975), based on the Who’s rock opera of the same name; an […]...
20. Сочинение на английском: Нью-Йорк. NEW YORK New York is the largest city in the USA and the biggest seaport. It is the business centre of the United States. New York is situated in the mouth of the Hudson river. In comparison with such ancient historical cities as, say, Rome, London, Moscow or Paris, New York is quite young. It was founded […]...
21. Beyond Western Europe and the United States In Japan, the cinema was rapidly becoming more sexually graphic and violent, with the pinku eiga, or “pink” film, dominating the marketplace in the late 1960s. “Pink” films were near-pornographic conflations of sex and sadomasochistic violence, such as Kôji Wakamatsu’s Okasareta hakui (Violated Angels, 1967) and Yuke yuke nidome no shojo (Go, Go Second Time […]...
22. 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 […]...
23. 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 […]...
24. Problems with early sound Technological advances during this period were numerous. The first microphones for recording sound were clumsy and bulky and produced poor sound quality. Technicians insisted that the performers stand next to the microphones for optimal sound quality; this meant that both the camera and the actors stopped moving, resulting in static films that fans and critics […]...
25. Turkey cinema In Turkey, director Yilmaz Güney began his career as an actor and screenwriter until his political activism landed him in jail. Emerging from prison after eighteen months, he turned to acting full time and rapidly became a popular Bogart-like action hero in low-budget genre films. In 1966, he turned to directing, with his first important […]...
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. Как покорить звезду – How to win a star Recently we watched a film called “Win a date with Tad Hamilton”. This film was about the ordinary girl Rosalee Futch from the country, that won a date with the famous film star Tad Hamilton. She was very happy, because she was a fan of this film-star, she watched all films with his participation. At […]...
28. Ingmar Bergman Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman continued his exploration of the depths of the human psyche in a stunning series of films that included Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly, 1961), Nattvardsgästerna (Winter Light, 1962), and Tystnaden (The Silence, 1963), a trilogy that interrogates the meaning of human existence in a hostile and uncomprehending world. Bergman […]...
29. African American voices The first African American woman to direct a major feature film, Dash expresses a vision that is at once poetic and deeply outraged, conveying centuries of oppression and inequality in a brief but brilliantly executed period piece. Dash’s characters, the Gullah, descendants of slaves who lived on islands off the coast of Georgia and South […]...
30. Martin Eden A week of heavy leading had passed since ihe evening he first met Ruth Morse, and still he didn’t rfare fn go nnd we her Tie was afraid of making mistakes in speech and manners. Martin tried to read books that required years of preparatory work. One day he read a book on philosophy, and […]...
31. Dorothyarzner In an industry that was deeply influenced by a group of women artists from the 1890s onward, only one woman survived the conglomeration of the industry in the late 1920s to direct during the sound era: Dorothy Arzner. Before Arzner, many women had been active as directors in early Hollywood, but nearly all had been […]...
32. 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 […]...
33. A short history of film Canada Canada had a resurgence of cinematic activity in the 1970s thanks to a generous subsidy program to encourage national filmmaking. The two major Jane Campion’s Sweetie (1989), a tale of sibling rivalry between Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon, left) and Kay (Karen Colston), is one of the most personal films of the New Australian cinema. Filmmakers to […]...
34. 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 […]...
35. 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 […]...
36. Hitchcock in Hollywood Meanwhile, Alfred Hitchcock continued his string of suspense classics in England with The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936), and The Lady Vanishes (1938) before accepting an offer from producer David O. Selznick to come to Hollywood and direct Rebecca (1940), based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel. The film was an immediate box […]...
37. The Australian renaissance Australia, where some of the earliest feature films had been produced, had long fallen into a creative slump. But in the 1970s, a combination of favorable tax breaks and government incentives allowed a new generation of “down under” filmmakers to break through to international prominence. Bruce Beresford’s The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) was an […]...
38. Iran’s revolutionary cinema The Iranian cinema went through a true renaissance as a result of the Islamic revolution in 1979 that brought Ayatollah Khomeini into power. Under the previous regime of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, which lasted from 1941 to 1979, films were mostly a commercial affair. With the revolution, however, filmmaking came to a halt until 1983, […]...
39. Стилистический анализ текста: Francis King “Making it all right” The text “Making it all right” by Francis King is written in a style of fiction. This extract is about how Mary and her husband Bob were admiring their screen, which was picked up in a little junkshop, and how they had it remounted. So at the beginning of the text we see Bob, Mary […]...
40. The new American documentary film The documentary film that set the pace for the new decade was Primary (1960), which covered the 1960 U. S. presidential race, made by four men who would become the key players of the new, handheld, sync-sound documentary tradition: Albert Maysles, Robert Drew, D. A. Pennebaker, and Richard Leacock. Working as Drew Associates, the four […]...