Insights from the Cinematic World: storytelling

Michel Hazanavicius’ ‘The Artist’ (2011)

Michel Hazanavicius’ ‘The Artist’ might be a contemporary creation, yet it is a beautiful vintage cinematic masterpiece that takes one back to Hollywood’s golden age, truly standing apart in today’s loud and technicolor film industry. It is a marvel of storytelling, which, despite being a silent motion picture, speaks volumes about the cinema’s primal power…

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Jurassic World

Welcome to Jurassic World, a fully operational luxury resort where tens of thousands of guests explore the wonder and brilliance of Earth’s most magnicificent living prehistoric marvels and interact up close with them every day.

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Mortdecai

Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) traverses the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.

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Quartet

Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut film, Quartet is release by The Weinstein Co. Based on Ronald Harwood’s stage play of the same name, the film stars Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Sheridan Smith, and Michael Gambon

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Lors du sauvetage de la Princesse Leia, Han Solo prétexte à un officier impérial « un transfert de prisonnier du bloc 183 ». Dans la version originale il s'agit en fait du bloc 1138, hommage au tout premier film de George Lucas, THX 1138.

Star Wars

Star Wars, later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, is an epic 1977 American space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the six film saga. Ground-breaking in its use of special effects, unconventional editing, and sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, the original Star Wars is one of the most successful and influential films of all time.

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