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The 100 Greatest Directors of... what?

View image Number 74. I was not familiar with TotalFilm.com, until I spotted a link over at Movie City News. Thanks a lot, guys. The link was to a pair of articles listing Total Film's choices for "The Greatest Directors…

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The 6th Man: A Corleone Mystery

Q. In the Answer Man for Aug. 17, Phil Giordano asks about a Sixth Man in “The Godfather” who is never identified when the Corleones plan the execution of a police captain. The person he is wondering about is Rocco…

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The secret ingredients of a hit movie

View image What's a movie all about? If moviemaking were a science, then it would be a science. But guess what? Quite often elements that have nothing to do with the movie itself -- timing, release pattern, marketing, advertising --…

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The Bourne Upchuck

View image Does this movie make you dizzy? Continuing our discussion about the nauseating properties of hand-held, quick-cut, whip-pan, rack-focus camerawork, David Bordwell sends along this account of an unlucky filmgoer who saw "The Bourne Ultimatum" in IMAX: We went…