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The Spy Films Of Fritz Lang

Published January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, academy awards, adventure films, alfred hitchcock, anti-nazi, anti-war film, art direction, art in film, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, carol reed, cinematography, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, directors, fascism, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, film vienna, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, fritz lang, german expressionism, graham greene, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, hitchcock, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, italian neo-realism, london film, mccarthyism, michael curtiz, neo-realism, neorealism, NIDA, paramount pictures, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-war film, privilege of legends, propaganda film, screen adaptations, screenwriting, silent films, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, the third man, thriller, Uncategorized, war films, warner brothers, world cinema
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From Stage To Screen

Published September 1, 2017September 1, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 40's film, 50's film, 60's film, 70's cinema, academy awards, acting, AFTRS, alfred hitchcock, art direction, art in film, ballet, best film design, bfi, black comedy, british cinema, cinematography, classic film, classical music, costume design, creative writing, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film music, film posters, film production, film scores, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, fritz lang, hays code, hollywood, hollywood satire, horror, howard hawks, independent american cinema, jack nicholson, jack palance, john huston, king vidor, kirk douglas, london film, marilyn monroe, marlon brando, marx brothers, mccarthyism, michael curtiz, musical theatre, musicals, NIDA, parody, period films, playwrights, post production, post-war film, pre-code hollywood, pre-war film, privilege of legends, robert aldrich, satire, screen adaptations, screenwriting, set design, shakespeare, silent films, sonny syah, symbolism in film, tennessee williams, the big knife, theatre in film, Uncategorized, world cinema
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Through The Lens: James Wong Howe

Published January 19, 2017May 25, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 50's film, 60's film, academy awards, acting, AFTRS, art in film, asian cinema, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, cinematography, classic film, classical music, cold war, colour in film, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, director of photography, directors, experimental film, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film lighting, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, gangster films, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, howard hawks, independent american cinema, independent film, james cagney, james wong howe, john ford, john huston, london art, london film, long takes, mccarthyism, melodrama, michael curtiz, mob films, neorealism, NIDA, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-code hollywood, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, rko pictures, sam fuller, samuel fuller, sci-fi, screenwriting, shooting technique, silent films, sonny syah, surrealism, symbolism in film, technicolor, thriller, toning, Uncategorized, war films
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Isolation & The Western

Published June 25, 2016January 20, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in academy awards, acting, adventure films, art in film, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, cinematography, classic film, colour in film, cowboy films, creative writing, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, eastman color, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film lighting, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, henry fonda, hollywood, howard hawks, jim jarmusch, joan crawford, john ford, john wayne, london art, london film, marlon brando, melodrama, NIDA, period films, privilege of legends, robert aldrich, samuel fuller, screenwriting, shooting technique, silent films, sonny syah, symbolism in film, technicolor, the searchers, Uncategorized, western films
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Montage Theory: The Power Of Images

Published November 6, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in battleship potemkin, cinematography, classic film, dziga vertoz, eisenstein, film art, film blog, film editing, film genre, film production, foreign film, hitchcock, le bonbon uk, odessa steps, privilege of legends, propaganda film, psycho, pudovkin, sonny syah, soviet montage theory
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Colour In Film: A Journey Through The Spectrum

Published October 5, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, andrei tarkovsky, asian cinema, cinematography, colour in film, colour tints, d.w griffith, david lynch, duncan jones, eastman color, f.w murnau, film art, film blog, film essay, film genre, film production, filmmaking, foreign cinema, francis ford coppola, french new wave, george lucas, george melies, hollywood, jean-pierre melville, period films, post production, privilege of legends, robert altman, russian film, sci-fi, silent films, sonny syah, technicolor, three colors trilogy, toning, wong kar wai, world cinema
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Hollywood And The Nuclear Age

Published September 2, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, 60's film, 80's film, academy awards, AFTRS, alex cox, anti-war film, art in film, auteurs, bfi, black comedy, cinematography, classic film, cold war, crime fiction, directing, film art, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, filmmaking, hard boiled, london film, mickey spillane, peter sellers, politics, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, ralph meeker, robert aldrich, satire, science fiction, shooting technique, sonny syah, stanley kubrick
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Saul Bass: Undisputed Title Holder

Published July 30, 2015January 14, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, AFTRS, alfred hitchcock, bernard hermann, bfi, cinematography, classic film, coen brothers, criterion, cult film, directing, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film posters, film production, film titles, filmmaking, foreign cinema, graphic art, hitchcock, independent film, jazz, kubrick, man with the golden arm, NIDA, north by northwest, otto preminger, privilege of legends, psycho, saul bass, schindler's list, scorsese, sinatra, sonny syah, spielberg, spike lee, the shining, title sequencing, vertigo
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All That Glitters…

Published July 23, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, acting, bad and the beautiful, bfi, brigitte bardot, classic film, contempt, cult film, film art, film blog, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, filmmaking, french cinema, french new wave, fritz lang, hollywood satire, jack palance, jean-luc godard, kirk douglas, melodrama, orson welles, parody, privilege of legends, robert aldrich, satire, shelley winters, the big knife, val lewton, vincente minnelli
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Keep On Truckin’

Published June 24, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, acting, anthony quinn, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, classic film, clouzot, creative writing, cult film, dassin, directing, fellini, film art, film blog, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, french cinema, giulietta masina, italian neo-realism, lee j cobb, mccarthyism, privilege of legends, richard conte, screenwriting, sonny syah, tennessee williams
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