1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
2. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
3. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
4. Les Vampires (1915)
5. Intolerance (1916)
6. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
7. Broken Blossoms (1919)
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ALL ALONE AND LONELY
India/2009/25 minutes
All Alone and Lonely is an in-depth documentary which revolves
around the lives of displaced children and widows in Kashmir. It
shows families who have lost their main bread-winners, be it a
husband, a father or brother, all killed in insurgency operations or
because they were suspected of being agents. The main aim of
this documentary [...]
With all the wipes, DVE effects, and other fancy transitions available now in even the lowliest of desktop NL applications — it’s worth remembering that very often, the best & classiest transition of all is that which is least dazzling to the viewer … assuming, of course, that you don’t want your hard work to [...]
Doing video switching for live television day after day means having to be very quick on your fingers — think of it as making hundreds of daily editing decisions, but on-the-fly, as they happen … and you can’t go back and trim that last cut by a few frames, no matter what. So it’s not [...]
After surviving what he later called “the incredible sales hype being spewed by manufacturers at the [1995] NAB convention,” Dean Winkler penned this manifesto calling for a different kind of high-end nonlinear editing system. The device [...]
Inspired by a true Thai ritual of lying in coffins to get rid of bad luck and prolong life, it is a supernatural thriller about a young man and a young woman who decide to go through the ritual in Thailand. Chris, a claustrophobic Thai architect does it in the hope of saving his fiancée [...]
Sandhya Rani is an ageing film star who was once the darling of the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune in a changing world, she now lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting out a room in her home to the film and television stars of today to satisfy their [...]
The film’s story takes place in Moscow in the 1970s. Its plot unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in [...]
In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this “Ploning”. In his search, Ploning is revealed to be the island’s town belle of the [...]
Apron Strings is a parallel story of two families and two cultures set in suburban Otahuhu in South Auckland, New Zealand. It explores the boundaries of nurture and control, mothering and smothering, and how we sometimes have to let go of our individual sense of what is ‘right’, to do what is ‘good’ for all. [...]