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The Deadly Gent: British Crime Films of 1970-1972

Published May 9, 2019December 28, 2020 by Privilege Of Legends in 70's cinema, 70's film, al capone, art direction, art in film, bfi, blaxploitation, blog essay, british board of film censors, british cinema, british crime films, british films, cinematography, classic film, composers, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, director of photography, directors, experimental film, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film distribution, film essay, film genre, film music, film noir, film parody, film posters, film production, film scores, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign film, french cinema, french new wave, gangster films, hard boiled, hollywood, hollywood satire, independent film, jazz, london art, london film, michael caine, mickey spillane, musical theatre, musicals, neo noir, nicolas roeg, organised crime, parody, period films, playwrights, politics, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, realism in film, richard burton, satire, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, symbolism in film, theatre in film, thriller, Uncategorized, walkabout, warner brothers

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Feminism And The Film Noir

Published October 7, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, 50's film, 60's film, anne savage, billy wilder, cinematography, classic film, coen brothers, crime fiction, detour, double indemnity, edward dmytrick, fascism, femme fatale, film art, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, filmmaking, fritz lang, gaby rodgers, german expressionism, hollywood, james m cain, joan crawford, john ford, linda darnell, michael curtiz, mickey spillane, mildred pierce, neo noir, post-war film, privilege of legends, raymond chandler, rita hayworth, robert siodmak, roman polanski, sam fuller, sonny syah, stanley kubrick, the killing, western films, world cinema

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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

The Long Take

Published October 3, 2014January 10, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in auteurs, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, directing, directors, editing, film blog, film noir, filmmaking, long takes, privilege of legends, screenwriting, shooting technique, sonny syah

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In Praise Of Shadows

Published August 8, 2014March 26, 2016 by Privilege Of Legends in auteurs, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, directing, film art, film blog, film lighting, film noir, film production, filmmaking, privilege of legends, screenwriting, sonny syah

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