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perisoft
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject: History of cinema - any good documentaries out there? |
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I'm on a 'learning about cinema' kick at the moment. Can anyone recommend a good documentary I can Netflix? Extra points for extreme thoroughness; double-extra points for bluray. 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: History of cinema - any good documentaries out there? |
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| perisoft wrote: | | I'm on a 'learning about cinema' kick at the moment. Can anyone recommend a good documentary I can Netflix? Extra points for extreme thoroughness; double-extra points for bluray. |
Documentary about what??? 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: History of cinema - any good documentaries out there? |
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| emdawgz1 wrote: | | perisoft wrote: | | I'm on a 'learning about cinema' kick at the moment. Can anyone recommend a good documentary I can Netflix? Extra points for extreme thoroughness; double-extra points for bluray. |
Documentary about what??? |
About movie making - think 'The Civil War' except with movies, you know?
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Now that clears things up.......?
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| Tom.W wrote: | | Now that clears things up.......? |
Does it, or doesn't it? I'm not clear...
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Make that two of us. I don't understand the question. What are you specifically looking for ?
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from the China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2009-03/17/content_7587280.htm
LOS ANGELES– "Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood," a 10-part documentary series about the American film industry, is in the works from Turner Classic Movies.
Set to premiere in 2010, "Moguls and Movie Stars" will consist of 10 one-hour documentaries, each focusing on a different era of movie history, from the invention of the first photographs that moved to the computer-driven imagery of the present. Each installment will feature rarely seen photographs and film footage, clips from memorable American movies and interviews with distinguished historians and major Hollywood figures.
The cable network's announcement that it has commissioned the series arrived, coincidentally, on the same day that HBO said it's teaming with "Sopranos" creator David Chase for a dramatic miniseries chronicling the evolution of the Hollywood movie industry.
"Our story will span more than 100 years of inventiveness and entertainment," said Jon Wilkman, who will write and produce the TCM series. "From Thomas Edison to Steven Spielberg, from Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford to Sean Penn and Kate Winslet, we'll tell the stories of moguls and movie stars, the lives they've lived, the movies they've made and the impact they've had on lives around the world."
Bill Haber's Ostar Productions and TCM are producing the project.
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| Tom.W wrote: | | Make that two of us. I don't understand the question. What are you specifically looking for ? |
Something I can -watch- to learn about the history of filmmaking. Something like a documentary, visual version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film . Is that clearer?
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That's exactly what I'm talking about!
| Quote: | | Set to premiere in 2010... |
God f*cking damnit!  Guess I'll have something to add to my 'future' list...
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Oh, don't bring Tesla into my thread. Any conversation involving Tesla ends up with someone talking about how the car industry is colluding to prevent anyone from finding out about free energy. 
The Wikipedia page seems to be utterly obsessed with D.W. Griffith for some reason... not sure if he actually WAS that important, but every time they mention some film technique, it'll be like, "D.W. Griffith didn't invent this", and then continue without any other information... really odd.
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