Film History

Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the Grass. When he started acting, Beatty kept secret the fact that actress Shirley MacLaine, already a star, was his older sister. Over time, he has cultivated a mystique, giving few interviews and instructing others not to talk about him. Until now.

Si en algo estamos de acuerdo todos es que La Academia no siempre opina lo mismo que el público. Por eso te traemos la lista de 10 películas que en nuestro corazón se llevaron el Oscar a Mejor Película.

Qué bonito es el idioma español. Qué bonito es el cine. Ahora imagínate lo precioso que es ver cine en español. No te lo imagines más. Aquí te recomendamos las mejores 10 películas iberoamericanas.

Desde que éramos seres de las cavernas hemos tenido la habilidad de imaginar. Sin embargo, estas películas nos ayudaron a ver nuestros sueños más extraños hechos realidad. No te puedes perder nuestro conteo de las 10 películas que revolucionaron la ciencia ficción en la pantalla grande.

Películas basadas en libros hay muchas, pero estamos seguros que no lo sospechabas de las diez películas que elegimos para este episodio de Cine de 10.

Una segunda parte no siempre es una buena idea cuando de películas se trata, pero estas secuelas nos dejaron boquiabiertos, porque superaron a sus predecesoras.

La taquilla no les hizo justicia. La crítica las apaleó en su momento. Pero con el paso del tiempo han desarrollado seguidores en todos los rincones del mundo. Aquí nuestras 10 recomendaciones de películas de culto.

Ya sea que sea una primera cita, el quinto aniversario o simplemente un jueves por la noche. Ver una película en pareja es toda una tradición, y aquí en Cine de 10 te decimos cuáles son las ideales para ti y tu ser amado.

Chavela Vargas decía que un mexicano nace en donde le da la gana. Pero estas películas son la excepción, porque todas vieron por primera vez la luz en tierra mexicana.

Desde accidentes hasta muertes. Estas películas están llenas de misterio, drama y mucha, mucha mala suerte. ¿Serán víctimas de una maldición o un hechizo? Dale play para descubrir nuestro top 10 de películas malditas.

Quels sont les éléments du langage cinématographique (mouvements de caméra, plans, montage, etc.) ? Comment les cinéastes les ont-ils utilisés et comment ont-ils évolués depuis le début du XXe siècle ? En répondant à ces questions, Jean-Claude Carrière, scénariste de Luis Bunuel et de Louis Malle, nous permet de décrypter les images et le son, d'en prendre une conscience nouvelle et de changer à jamais notre regard sur le cinéma.

L'amour du cinéma italien, Jean-Claude Carrière, scénariste de Luis Buñuel et de Louis Malle, nous parle avec passion de son amour du cinéma italien, des films et des metteurs en scène et des acteurs qu'il a connus et qui l'ont marqués : Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni... Élégance, tendresse, humour et gravité.

For more than one hundred years, the celebrated Gothic romance Jane Eyre has been a popular subject at the movies and was quickly adapted to television in countless TV movies/miniseries, eventually becoming a Broadway musical. The Many Faces of Jane Eyre takes fans on an intriguing journey through the eclectic collection of big and small screen as well as theatrical adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s still beloved novel.

As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry.

In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film's place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot.

A lively and colorful biography of Hollywood's first superagent - one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s, whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Faye Dunaway, Michael Caine, and Candice Bergen. Before Sue Mengers hit the scene in the mid-1960s, talent agents remained quietly in the background. But staying in the background was not possible for Mengers.

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously undisclosed tales.

To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself - obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.

The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the hugely popular phenomenon of scary movies. Author Adam Rockoff traces the highs and lows of the horror genre through the lens of his own obsessive fandom, born in the aisles of his local video store and nurtured with a steady diet of cable trash.

For decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have the critics finally fallen under the axe? With movie posters now just as likely to be adorned by Twitter quotes as fusty reviewer recommendations, has the rise of enthusiastic amateurism sounded the death knell of a profession? Are the democratic opportunities of the internet any more reliable than the old gripes and prejudices of the establishment?