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How the Coen Brothers Put Their Remarkable Stamp on the “Shot Reverse Shot,” the Fundamental Cinematic Technique

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To call Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle) influential would be a severe understatement. This 1960 French film paved the way for independent film, film studies, as well as the rise of the auteur.

This interactive video essay by San Francisco-native Tyler Knudsen explores four lessons Breathless teaches us about filmmaking. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iz3JTGHRh0

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A film is born in the edit. "Film can transcend space and time. The meaning of film is not only in spatial composition, but in the arrangement of shots"  ‪

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The Origins of Auteur Theory

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Walking Distance

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Masters of photography and their works. Masters of photography and their works throughout the 175 years' history of photography in this gallery by ITAR-TASS.

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The Camera that Changed the World

"The summer of 1960 was a critical moment in the history of film, when the fly-on-the-wall documentary was born. The Camera that Changed the World tells the story of the filmmakers and ingenious engineers who led this revolution by building the first hand-held cameras that followed real life as it happened. By amazing co-incidence, there were two separate groups of them - one on each side of the Atlantic."

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Learning How To [QJNT5 Assignment - Oct. 2014]

1. Five seconds of overexposure (video)

2. One object, three shots, each from a different distance. i. "Wide-lens" distance ii. "Prime/Fixed" distance iii. "Telephoto" distance

3. One shot, zooming in i. No zoom ("wide-lens") ii. A bit of zoom ("fixed") iii. Full zoom ("telephoto")

4. Rule of Thirds i. In Athens ii. In Vienna

5. Five-second video from light to dark.

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Rathaus, Vienna, June 2014.

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Watch Rainer Höss, grandchild of Nazi-commandant Rudolf Höss, tell Europe to never forget our dark past. Please share and spread the film. And take a stand for a Nazi-free Europe #NeverForgetToVote #EP2014

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For the Society of Camera Operators 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards (Edited by Bob Joyce)

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Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery (miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal - 27 million souls enslaved worldwide).

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“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”

Elliott Erwitt

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Cartier-Bresson vu par ses pairs

De Martine Franck à Ferdinando Scianna, les membres de l'agence Magnum ont aussi immortalisé le maître de l'instant décisif.

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The first audition Jean-Pierre Léaud did for the role of  Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows. Truffaut himself interviews him.

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

 Dorothea Lange

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Salonica, Jan. 2014.