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Cannery Row from 1982 is based on two John Steinbeck novels, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday and stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. In this scene the two try to impress each other with their dancing skills, which are sorely … Continue reading →

City on the Hill is a series about corruption in the Boston Police Department in 1992. In this scene, the FBI is raiding the home of a man arrested in a robbery. Kevin Bacon, cynical to the max, tries to … Continue reading →

Tracking shots are continuous shots with no cuts. They need to be precisely planned and executed. They’re a kind of choreography involving two subjects, where the one needs to work in conjunction with the partner. The best example of a … Continue reading →

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German director who completed more than forty films, though he died young at the age of thirty-seven. His one science-fiction film from 1973 pre-dates both The Matrix and Blade Runner in theme and concept by … Continue reading →