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The Movie Business Book

Jason E. Squire

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Drawing from a variety of experts in an industry that has seen major disruptions and technology...

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

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The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and...

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All That Heaven Allows (1955)

1955 | Classics, Drama, Romance

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"In preparation for my Christmas film, White Reindeer, I watched this movie and wrote down a description of every single shot, including each camera move and change in blocking. Not only is Heaven Sirk’s most fully realized, subversive takedown of suburban hypocrisy, it’s also the best Christmas movie of all time, and such a marvel of style and camera direction that you barely notice how intricate its construction is until you force yourself to examine it. Sirk said that, in cinema, “motion is emotion,” and that ethos reaches its zenith in the zoom in on Jane Wyman’s reflection in a television screen. This is nothing less than the greatest dolly movie in cinema history. If anyone ever tells you irony and sincerity can’t coexist, tell them they are painfully, tragically wrong."

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