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5 days ago · Shadows (1959) John Cassavetes’ Shadows is the epitome of ‘Beat’ generation cinema. A huge influence on Mike Leigh, the film features improvised dialogue and is scored by the legendary double bass player Charles Mingus. Shadows tells the story of three Black American siblings – Ben, Hugh and Leila – living in 1950s New York.
2 days ago · He sleeps with two models who show up at his studio hoping to schedule a photo shoot, then cruelly throws them out when they try to make the appointment. He spends lavish amounts on a giant boat ...
12 hours ago · Mithun Chakraborty, a Bengali hero in a crowd of fair-as-makkhan north Indian stars, who, with his unbuttoned shirts, billowy bell bottoms and side-parted locks, inspired a generation of Kolkata rowakbaajs to dream. It is little surprise that he still is such an icon here. Growing up in the “narrow galis ” of Jorabagan in North Kolkata in ...
1 day ago · Box office. $104.8–150 million [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to ...
5 days ago · Grab some popcorn, sit back, and prepare to embark on a fascinating tour of the best 60s movies, ensuring a memorable foray into the vibrant and colorful teenage world of the sixties. So, whether you're a cinema enthusiast or a casual viewer seeking to indulge in a bit of nostalgia, this curated collection of 1960s movies is just a click away.
2 days ago · The failure of 1973’s “Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing,” an early Alan J. Pakula film co-starring Timothy Bottoms two years after “The Last Picture Show,” ended any attempts for ...
2 days ago · The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
