Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to the "Lord of the Rings"
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Yes, the one whose back is being licked by the giant skull? Denis Gifford includes this image in his seminal big green book A Pictorial History of Horror Movies, but does not tell us what film it’s from. He does say it’s a Georges Melies. And some evidence of that can be gleaned by the style, [...]
Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
[This is a guest post by one of my undergraduate students, Joe Hickinbottom. The assignment was to produce a set of notes for an imaginary programme of short films, connecting them by theme, artist or aesthetic. To be provided as a handout which is to be read prior to the viewing of the selected films.] Une [...]
Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
[This is a guest post by one of my undergraduate students, Izabella Curry. The assignment was to produce a set of notes for an imaginary programme of short films, connecting them by theme, artist or aesthetic.] Georges Méliès, performer turned filmmaker, is renowned for his love of magic and the development of many innovative special effects. [...]
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
According to Wikepedia; Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French film maker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
What were the first films of horror that terrified audiences everywhere?
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Space may be “the final frontier” – but the final frontier of what, exactly? The final frontier of human endurance and technological capability, or of the literary imagination? Or is it just a vast void into which to propel reckless amounts ofmetaphysical and allegorical junk?
nonamedufus (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
One of the many - and I mean many - jokes that were made the day President Obama was awarded his Nobel Peace Prize was the fact it was so ironic he should be awarded a peace prize on the day he chose to bomb the moon. Kidding aside, Obama - or in his name NASA - shot a rocket into the moon's south pole in search of ice. Now quite apart from conjuring up images of French visionary film maker Georges...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Today is Columbus Day, a federal holiday when people are meant to take some time to reflect on the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World, the continents now known as North and South America. Most people just use the free day to brunch, shop and chill, but it's really one of those [...]
Royston Robertson Cartoons (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Once again, this week I have taken part in the "reverse caption" competition at the Cartoonists' Club public forum . The caption was "Sorry, no thanks" and I found it a bit tricky. But I've only myself to blame as I set the caption, having won last week.This one is a bit different to the usual gag cartoons I do, but it was fun to draw. And it was another chance to do a topical one....
Oh Word (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Make like your playing Hearts and just Shoot the Moon. The video is edited from Georges Méliès? 1902 film ?A Trip to the Moon.? (Le Voyage dans la Lune)
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
This image provided by NASA shows an image taken shortly after the Centaur rocket impacted the moon taken from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite Friday morning Oct. 9, 2009. This still image from the 1902 silent film "Le Voyage Dans La Lune", written and directed by Georges Méliès, shows "the man in the moon" with a bullet-shaped space capsule lodged...
"minutiae" by Nathan Abels (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
In honor of this mornings moon bombing - I present Georges Melies' 1902 classic film "A Trip to the Moon" (Une Voyage dans la Lune):
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The purpose of the MTV Newsroom blog is to take you behind the scenes of the goings-on here at MTV News and to provide a slanted look at some of the more unusual stories that come out of the worlds of music, movies and celebrity. But occasionally, it veers off into a fixation on space [...]
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Left: Artist's rendering showing the Centaur upper stage rocket separating from its shepherding spacecraft on a trajectory toward the moon; right: still image from the 1902 Georges Méliès silent film "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" In hopes of seeing whether there's water or ice on the moon, NASA is crashing two spacecraft onto the moon's surface. The AP explains , "The crashing...
Moonwalking - Discovering Britain by Full Moon (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
from "Le Voyage dans la lune", Georges Méliès, 1902 The moon's been in the news again recently. An Indian satellite and two American spacecraft discovered evidence of water in the moon's soil on a recent trip out of our atmosphere. Great news. Or is it? I held back from writing about this. I have reservations. The discovery, scientists were quick to point out, could mean that...
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