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3 apr 2026

Brad Pitt

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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. In a film career spanning more than thirty years, Pitt has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Volpi Cup. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.



1 apr 2026

Wes Anderson

 

 
 During childhood, Anderson also began writing plays and making super-8 movies.  
What sets Anderson apart are his playful camera techniques and use of symmetry. This goes hand in hand with his storytelling techniques, which make his stories distinctive, illustrate the tone, and provide subtle glimpses into his characters. A few of his unique style shots are: The Symmetrical Frame – Wes Anderson always uses symmetrical framing. If you were to draw a line down the middle of his frame, whatever is on the right side of the screen would also be on the left. Whip Pans & Tilts – He always uses these quick movements to transition from scene to scene or from character to character. The Tracking Shot – You often see the camera moving along with the characters. This is often a dolly shot, making it appear as if you are walking alongside the character. Extreme Bird's Eye View – a view from above of a specific subject. Anderson uses this when he wants to highlight something in his film. These are usually objects that are important or that he wants you to remember.

19 mrt 2026

The Art of Hoyte Hoytema

 


The Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Oscar for Best Cinematography) is a prestigious film award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award recognizes exceptional achievements in cinematography and lighting in feature films and is considered one of the most respected technical categories within the film industry. Recent winning film (2024): Oppenheimer The award rewards cinematographers who excel in visual composition, lighting, camera movement, and overall visual style. Members of the Cinematography Department within the Academy nominate the candidates, while all voting members select the final winner. Influence and Significance Winning this award is considered one of the highest recognitions for cinematographers worldwide. Winning films are often known for their aesthetic power and influence on visual trends in the film industry. The category emphasizes the interplay between technology, art, and storytelling.


18 mrt 2026

Razzies 2026

 

 
 The 46th Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), which recognize the worst films of the year, announced their winners ahead of the Oscars. The 2025 version of “War of the Worlds” dominated the awards, winning Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Ice Cube), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Remake/Rip-off Sequel. Meanwhile, Rebel Wilson won Worst Actress for “Bride Hard”, and the seven CGI dwarfs from Disney’s “Snow White” (2025) won Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Combo.


17 mrt 2026

Hollywood: slapsticks

 


Slapstick films are comedy films using slapstick humor, a physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, and mistakes are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development. The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone. Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd. These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary. Slapstick is about uninhibited action and timing, which may include being made to look foolish or to act with tomfoolery.

16 mrt 2026

Hollywood golden years

 

Since the early 20th century, the American film industry has primarily been based in and around the thirty-mile zone, centered in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles County, California. The director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of a film grammar. Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. Hollywood is widely regarded as the oldest hub of the film industry, where most of the earliest studios and production companies originated, and is the birthplace of numerous cinematic genres.


14 mrt 2026

The beauty of Oppenheimer

 

 
 Oppenheimer is a 2023 American-British biographical thriller about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons. The film is directed, written and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, and based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Cillian Murphy plays the role of Oppenheimer, other roles include Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh, as well as a small role for Tom Conti as Albert Einstein. History Nolan announced in September 2021 that he would write and direct a film about Oppenheimer, set during World War II, with Universal Pictures as distributor. Filming began at the end of February 2022 and was completed in May with cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema. It was filmed in a combination of IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format film. As before his previous works, Nolan used a minimum of computer-generated images. 

6 feb 2026

Filming with miniatures


 
 The use of scale models in the creation of visual effects by the entertainment industry dates back to the earliest days of cinema. Models and miniatures are copies of people, animals, buildings, settings, and objects. Miniatures or models are used to represent things that do not really exist, or that are too expensive or difficult to film in reality, such as explosions, floods, or fires.

17 jan 2026

Trump-E.T.


 


Mega-Lo-Mania
 is an early real-time strategy game . The player takes control of one of four gods: Scarlet (red), Caesar (green), Oberon (yellow) and Madcap (blue). There are no differences between them except colour and AI behaviour when opposing. Each level takes place on an island divided into two to sixteen "sectors". The objective is to defeat up to three opposing gods and conquer the island.


16 jan 2026

Golden Globes

 

 
 One Battle After Another winner of the Golden Globes In Los Angeles, the Golden Globes were awarded, after the Oscars the most important film awards. The big winner of the night was One Battle After Another. The film, in which immigrant detention plays a central role, won the award for Best Film in the musical or comedy category and is considered one of the biggest Oscar favorites of this year. One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, won several times. Teyana Taylor won the award for Best St. Paul Thomas Anderson won the Best Director award for the same film and also won One Battle After Another awards in the Best Screenplay category. The film was nominated the most often with nine.

4 jan 2026

Former Movie effects

 

Cinematography Simply setting up a camera and hitting record doesn’t quite cover the intricate filmmaking technique called cinematography. Cinematography, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is the “art and skill of camerawork in filmmaking.” It’s the skilful capture of moving images, whether on film or digital media. Cinematographers expertly manipulate lighting, camera movements, and lens selections to capture captivating visual storytelling.

22 dec 2025

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood rebel

 

 
A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be altered by components such as filters, which cut or boost frequencies; envelopes, which control articulation, or how notes begin and end; and low-frequency oscillators, which modulate parameters such as pitch, volume, or filter characteristics affecting timbre. Synthesizers are typically played with keyboards or controlled by sequencers, software or other instruments, and can be synchronized to other equipment via MIDI.


 

18 dec 2025

Rob Reiner RIP


 






9 dec 2025

Science of optics

 

 
By Sarah Chekfa Publication date 2023 Topics public domain day film contest 2023 

Item Size 159.3M Collage film created in celebration of Public Domain Day 1927-2023.

8 dec 2025

Other moviestars

 

 
 Van der Linden labels a central factor in the decline of the MCU “storytelling entropy.” Classic films, you may have noticed, concentrate practically all the energy in every facet of their production toward the expression of specific themes, stories, and characters; at their best, their every line, gesture, cut, and invention represents the tip of an artistic iceberg. Take, to use a popular example, the lightsaber introduced in Star Wars, which Van der Linden calls “not just a weapon, but a metaphor” that “symbolically communicates a lot about the philosophy of its wielder, and about the larger world that it exists in,” condensing “a multitude of meanings and ideas into a simple, singular object.”

18 nov 2025

Internet Archive

 

 
 The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".

13 okt 2025

Tricks and stunts

 

 
 A physical stunt is usually performed with help of mechanics. For example, if the plot requires the hero to jump to a high place, the film crew could put the actor in a special harness, and use aircraft high tension wire to pull them up. Piano wire is sometimes used to fly objects, but an actor is never suspended from it as it is brittle and can break under shock impacts. Hero (2003) and House of Flying Daggers (2004) are examples of wuxia films that use kung-fu and are heavily reliant on wire stunts.

21 sep 2025

Eskimo

 

 
 The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The term cult film itself was first used in the 1970s to describe the culture that surrounded underground films and midnight movies, though cult was in common use in film analysis for decades prior to that.

18 sep 2025

Farmers testimonial


 

The interviewer is usually a professional or paid researcher, sometimes trained, who poses questions to the interviewee, in an alternating series of usually brief questions and answers. They can be contrasted with focus groups in which an interviewer questions a group of people and observes the resulting conversation between interviewees, or surveys which are more anonymous and limit respondents to a range of predetermined answer choices.

13 sep 2025

Monique vd Ven

 

 
 Van de Ven's film debut as an actress was in the Paul Verhoeven film Turkish Delight in 1973. This film was an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. It was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century. Thirteen years later, she starred in The Assault, which won the 1986 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Apart from acting in feature films, she also performs in Dutch television series and commercials.