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Daily Dose Of Awesome! 

Want to visit Aladdin's palace or Sleeping Beauty's castle? Well, you can. Here are some amazing the real life Disney locations.

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Daily Dose of Awesome! 5 Case Studies of Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Techniques

Few names in cinematic history garner as much excitement and critical praise as Jean-Luc Godard. An innovative maverick and intellectual visionary, Godard was a pioneer of the La Nouvelle Vauge, o

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Daily dose of awesome!  12 Essential Brian De Palma Films You Need To Watch “De Palma’s movies contain treasure for those who admire the craft as well as the story, who sense the glee with which he manipulates images and characters for the simple joy of being good at it. It’s not just that he sometimes works in the style of Hitchcock, but that he has the nerve to.” -- Roger Ebert in his review of Femme Fatale.

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Daily dose of awesome! The 20 Greatest Movie Antiheroes Of All Time

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Amar Shah with James Van Der Beek (Mox), Ronald Lester (Billy Bob), and Eliel Swinton (Wendell) while shooting Varsity Blues reunion feature. Coming to NFL.com this August.

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Daily dose of awesome! Illusion of life 

The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s.

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Daily dose of awesome! The Spielberg Oner

This Study of Steven Spielberg's Cinematography Can Help You Master the Long Take 

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Daily dose of awesome! Mood Indigo Official Trailer. Only Michel Gondry can mesmerize you like this! 

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Daily dose of awesome! Behind the scenes of the French Simpsons couch gag.

In this entertaining making-of video, Triplets Of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet explains how he and a team of animators created a hilarious parisian version of Springfield’s first family.

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Daily dose of awesome! For The Hollywood Reporter's annual Drama Showrunner Roundtable, six of TV's top creators — including Matthew Weiner ("Mad Men"), Vince Gilligan ("Breaking Bad"), Aaron Sorkin ("The Newsroom"), Nic Pizzolatto ("True Detective"), Carlton Cuse ("Bates Motel") and Ann Biderman ("Ray Donovan") — talk fears they've already done their best work and how to follow up a hit. 

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Daily dose of awesome! HOW TO GET AHEAD AT YOUR CREATIVE JOB--FROM A GUY WHO WENT FROM "DAILY SHOW" INTERN TO HEAD WRITER

Elliott Kalan was an intern at The Daily Show. Then he became a production assistant, a segment producer, a writer, and now, head writer. Here, Kalan talks to Co.Create about the kinds of choices that can help sustain momentum in a career that requires creativity.

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"Imagine a kind of filmmaking that's truly in tune with the ways you think and relate to other people. A deeply humane kind of filmmaking, but free from 'humanist' lies and sentimental evasions. Not a dry, 'realistic' kind of filmmaking, but one in which all the imaginative and creative efforts have gone into understanding the way we are. A kind of filmmaking as sensitive to silence as to speech, and alert to the kind of meanings we prefer to hide away. To my knowledge, only two directors in the world are currently making films like that. One is Krzysztof Kieslowski in Poland. The other is Edward Yang in Taiwan."

Tony Ryans

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Daily dose of awesome! Two words- Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean is one of the most accomplished Indian bands. Some music critics describe the band's music as "Indo-rock fusion with jazz-spiced rhythms that integrates shlokas, sufism, environmentalism, mythology and revolution". Definitely worth checking out! 

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Daily dose of awesome! B.J. Novak Discusses Writing and Comedy in the Digital Age 

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Daily dose of awesome! Ode to (21st Century) Cinematographers

Edited by Erick Lee

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Daily dose of awesome! Marvel Movies- 26 Great Behind The Scenes Photos You Should See From Iron Man To Captain American: The Winter Soldier in pictures

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“I think that the frame is like life. Life, too, only provides certain opportunities. Film is like a square of life; it has the same boundaries. But I think that film is more honest, because it owns up to being a limited space. Life pretends to provide more opportunities. That’s why it’s a bigger lie.”

Rainer Werner Fassbinder