Studying at the same school with Ansel Elgort Both Chalamet and Elgort grew up in New York City and attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts, an educational institution that usually graduates talented artists from a wide variety of fields. According to Elgort, they played on the same basketball team and studied with […]
Opening 20-minute scene without a single word Not every movie is able to grab attention from the first minutes. Paul Thomas Anderson begins with a silent opening scene: there is no dialogue, just shots of a bearded man and assistants digging in the mines in search of black gold. There is absolutely no need for […]
Beasts of the wild south The indestructible magic of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is that it seems as if the novel has always been, it is so eternal. At the same time, the publication was a breakthrough in literature: the book became a new milestone in the fight against racism (primarily in the minds) and […]
There is no more “Christmas” movie in Hollywood history than Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been watched by characters from Gremlins and Home Alone 2, ridiculed countless times on The Simpsons. And it’s hard to believe that in the year of release, in 1946, the tape failed at the […]
A man named Dawson really was on the Titanic Jack Dawson is a completely fictional character, but it turned out that a person with a similar name was on board the real ship (the passenger’s name was Joseph). The young man was 23 years old, and after the premiere of the film, his grave became […]
Why did Emma decide to become an actress? The 27-year-old actress was born in Kent to a family of a businessman and a speech therapist. From early childhood, Emma was fascinated by the world of cinema and theater. Most of all, the girl was influenced by the rom-coms of Nora Efron and theatrical performances, which […]
“The Lord of the Rings” appeared not because of the studio’s calculation, but thanks to the author’s perseverance Today we are used to the fact that big projects like The Lord of the Rings are more like studio products. They can be successful and unsuccessful, but almost always the ideas of such films first arise […]