12 Great Articles that Inspired Films
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A Tetw reading list
Four Good Legs Between Us by Laura Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner - The Insider
Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild
The Muse of Coyote Ugly Saloon by Elizabeth Gilbert - Coyote Ugly
Racer X by Kenneth Li Rafael - The Fast and the Furious
The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson - American Gangster
Life’s Swell by Susan Orlean - Blue Crush
A Farewell to Arms by John Carlin - Live Free or Die Hard
Something’s Got to Give by Darcy Frey - Pushing Tin
Tribal Rites of Saturday Night by Nik Cohn - Saturday Night Fever
Adventures in Ransom by William Prochnau - Proof of Life
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden - Blackhawk Down
And of course…
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThis is fabulous.
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21 Free Hitchcock Movies Online

- Bon Voyage - Free – A French language WWII propaganda film by Alfred Hitchcock. Also see Aventure Malgache. (1944)
- Downhill - Free – In this silent film, a public schoolboy “takes the blame for a friend’s theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.” Also released under the title, When Boys Leave Home. (1927)
- Easy Virtue - Free – Early silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Loosely based on a play by Noël Coward. (1928)
- Foreign Correspondent - Free - On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. Spy thriller was Hitchcock’s second Hollywood production. (1940)
- Jamaica Inn - Free – A young woman discovers that she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. Stars Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton and Charles Laughton. (1939)
- Juno and the Paycock - Free – Early sound film by Hitchcock also released under the name The Shame of Mary Boyle. (1930)
- Number Seventeen - Free - 1932 Hitchcock movie about jewel thieves gathered at a house (number 17) after a robbery. Alternate version here.
- Rich and Strange - Free - This Alfred Hitchcock film was released during a dry period between The Lodger (1927) and his breakthrough hitsThe Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps, both listed here. (1931)
- Sabotage – Free – Alfred Hitchcock directs this British thriller based on Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent. Also released as The Woman Alone. (1936)
- Secret Agent - Free - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this film was loosely based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham. Stars John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll and Robert Young. (1936)
- Spellbound - Free – Hitchcock’s classic thriller stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. (1945)
- The 39 Steps - Free - One of Alfred Hitchcock’s first hits. British thriller is based on the novel with same name by John Buchan. (1935)
- The Farmer’s Wife - Free – Early Hitchcock silent film based on a play by British novelist Eden Phillpotts. (1928)
- The Lady Vanishes – Free – British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. (1938)
- The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog- Free - One of Hitchcock’s silent classics. A landlady suspects her lodger is a murderer killing women around London. (1927)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much - Free – Starring Peter Lorre, this film was the most acclaimed film of Hitchcock’s British period. Hitchcock remade the film for an American audience with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day in 1956. (1934)
- The Manxman - Free - Buy DVD - This was Hitchcock’s last silent film. (1929)
- The Ring - Free – This silent film focuses on a love triangle between two men and a woman. One of Hitchcock’s minor works. (1927)
- The Skin Game - Free – A 1931 Hitchcock film based on a play by John Galsworthy recounts the tragic tale of a family feud. (1931)
- Waltzes From Vienna - Free – Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut that this film (about the writing and performance of The Blue Danube) was the low point of his film career. (1934)
- Young and Innocent - Free – Originally released in the US as The Girl Was Young, this Alfred Hitchcock film was based on Josephine Tey’s novel A Shilling for Candles. (1937)
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One Location-One Movie
I am looking for movies shot in one location.
I can list a few like:
Rope (1948)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Funny Games (1997 & 2007)
Tape (2001)
Phone Booth (2002)
Pontypool (2009)
Buried (2010)
Carnage (2011)
The Apartment
Seven Year Itch
127 hours
My Dinner with Andre
Exterminating Angel
The Breakfast Club
Day and Night
Ambulance
If you know more movies like those ones please let me know guys.
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Enter The Void (2009)
Gaspar Noé was inspired by the famous “star gate” sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. For creating the special trippy atmosphere, the Norwegian VJ artist Glennwiz (Glenn Jacobsen) was contacted for use of one of his videos.
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We can identify with Alex on the unconscious level … you find much the same psychological phenomena at work in Shakespeare’s Richard III. You should feel nothing but dislike towards Richard, and yet when the role is well played, with a bit of humor and charm, you find yourself gradually making a similar kind of identification with him. Not because you sympathize with Richard’s ambition or his actions, or that you like him or think people should behave like him, but as you watch the play, because he gradually works himself into your unconscious, and recognition occurs in the recesses of the mind.
Kubrick
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Elephant (2003)
Van Sant wrote the original screenplay inspired by Harris and Klebold’s horror show and the youth culture of the times. Elephant features a young cast and, to a great extent, male beauty in the innocent and the guilty.
Many have observed that Kubrick was a director of time and space. Van Sant explores the space of the school rooms and the halls, making this exploration a significant element of Elephant’s content. Van Sant talked to Steve Head of the IGN Web site about Stanley Kubrick’s influence in his own work.
“Kubrick’s a big influence. In something like A Clockwork Orange (1971) he is trying to use the practical light… . In Elephant we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. If we shot you, you would be lit by this window and we wouldn’t put anything on them [pointing to the lights above and behind]. We would use these lights too; we would maybe leave them on or off but we didn’t try and push the lights”
-His own private cinema
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Mat i syn (Mother and Son 1997)- Aleksandr Sokurov
The opening sequence to Mother and Son, as Kujundzic notes, runs for eight minutes in silence and virtual immobility. The theater director Kirill Serebrennikov (151) describes such passages as Sokurov’s making “visible through cin- ema the presence of the invisible.
-The Imperial Trace
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Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico: ¡Que Viva Mexico!

In December of 1930, Sergei Eisenstein and his crew, Eduard Tisse and Grigorii Alexandrov, traveled to Mexico to make a film, tentatively entitled ¡Que Viva México! The project was to be funded by American socialist writer Upton Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, with an agreement that Eisenstein would make a picture that was both artistic and commercial. However, for a number of reasons—cost overruns, personal and aesthetic conflicts, etc.—Sinclair ceased funding after Eisenstein had been shooting for a little over a year. In this time, Eisenstein and his crew had produced over two hundred thousand feet of film rushes, with a running time of some forty hours, although subtracting duplicate footage reduces the total time of the original to approximately six hours. Sinclair officially owned the film, but he nonetheless promised to send all of the Mexican footage to the Soviet Union, to which Eisenstein had to return under direct pressure from Stalin. In the event, Sinclair failed to fulfill his end of the bargain. Several short films utilizing Eisenstein’s film footage were made with Upton Sinclair’s permission: Thunder over Mexico (1933) and Day of the Dead (1934), both directed by Sol Lesser; Time in the Sun, made by Eisenstein’s biographer, Mary Seton, in 1939–40; and Mexican Symphony (W. Kruse, 1941), utilizing comparatively little of the original footage
You can watch the movie online from here
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Russia’s Animated Propaganda War
The Adventures of the Red Ties (1971)
The Violin of a Pioneer Pen (1971)
Guys I linked all of them so that you can watch them on youtube ;)
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Russian and Soviet Cinema
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Entry Math Movies
by Oliver Knill
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Stalker (1979)
by Andrey Tarkovsky
Stalker: Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.
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