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Composition

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On Movies & Media

Today's Favorite: Breakthroughs in Big-Screen Visual Artistry

The Wizard of Oz enchanted audiences with a wonderland of color that made moviegoing more vivid and exuberantly engaging. When Star Wars opened in 1977, it represented a giant leap forward in the art of visual effects and sound effects. Tron gave us an aesthetic experience through computers that was
15 Mar 2009 1 min read
On Movies & Media

Doug Cummings on Jean Renoir's "The River"

Peter Greenaway once said that cinema as an "art form" has yet to be established. He meant that, so far, movies aren't much more than illustrated narratives: books with moving pictures to bring the manuscripts to life. That comment has stuck with me, as I'
18 Mar 2005 2 min read
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