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SHARING LOVE FOR INDEPENDENT FILMS BASED IN AMSTERDAM

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7 Facts You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Trainspotting (1996) 1) Trainspotting was a play before it turned into a movie! 2) To play skinny heroin addict Renton (Ewan McGregor) gave up alcohol and dairy for two months! 3) The famous toilet scene, according to the Brian Tufano “Was quite easy to shoot, once you’ve been inventive about it. We ended up cutting a toilet in half and putting a wooden chute behind it. Then, using an art technique called Trompe l'oeil, and the right positioning of the toilet, we made it look like Ewan was going down the toilet.“ 4) The scene where Renton runs over the car that lasts only 5 seconds was shot 20 times! 5) McGregor considers Trainspotting to be his most important film, even bigger than "Star Wars”! 6) The sex scene between Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald had to be trimmed for the American release by a few seconds. 7) The writing on the wall of the Volcano Nightclub (where Renton meets Diane) is the same as that in the Moloko bar in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” a movie Boyle encouraged the cast to watch before filming.

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Did you know that: Palo Alto (2013) was based on a series of short stories written by James Franco?

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How Chantal Akkerman Revolutionized The Film Industry: Chantal Akkerman, the pioneer of the feminist structuralist films.  She rose to fame in the 1970s as a feminist avant-garde filmmaker (Eye Museum Amsterdam, 2020) This Belgian visionary took a profoundly personal and aesthetically idiosyncratic approach to film form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and religion. (Criterion Collection, 2020) Chantal Akkerman’s most famous work include: I, You, He, She (1974) Blow Up My Town (1989) Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)

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THE SHINING (1980) - STANLEY KUBRICK Did you know that Jack Nicholson actually helped write a scene in The Shining? 

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Forever mood when out on a date!

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It’s October And We All Know What It Means: Halloween!  Check some of the 10 scariest movies ever made! 1) Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock  2) The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick  3) Frankenstein (1931) - James Whale 4) Eraserhead (1976) - David Lynch  5) The Thing (1982)  - John Carpenter 6) The Birds (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock  7) Z (2020) - Brandon Christensen 8) Suspiria (2018) - Luca Guadagnino 9) Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor 10) The Last Man on Earth (1964) - Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow Which one is your favourite? 

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Call Me By Your Name (2017) by Luca Guadagnino Did you know what the two actors Thimothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, who played the main characters didn’t have to audition for the role? It’s even amazing to imagine that’s true when recalling the amazing chemistry between the two!

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When you are finally able to go watch movies at the local movie theater again after quarantine ends.

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10 Reasons Why Going to The Movie Theatre Is (Still) Worth The Effort! 1) It’s the perfect date! 2) You could never get such big screen at home! 3) It’s funnier when you laugh together with the rest of the audience! 4) You won’t have any distractions as you would if you stayed at home. 5) Volume is for sure not going to be an issue! 6) You can watch other exciting upcoming movie trailers! 7) An opportunity to get out of your couch and do something fun. 8) Popcorn tastes sooooo much better! 9) It’s a great opportunity to escape your busy life and have some time alone 10) It’s still an experience like no other!

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 A Close Look Into The Making Of Movie Posters:  I have always been crazy about movie posters since I was really young. I would always check them for a long time during my visit to movie theatres and I would get stoked about the different images, colours and design. As I started to grow up, I started collecting the posters of my favourite movies and I would stick them around my bedroom wall. My favourite movie posters are 2001: A space odyssey, The shining and A clockwork orange from Kubrick. Jean Luc Godard’s movie Pierrot Le Fou also has one of the most iconic movie poster. When taking about iconic movie poster designers, Saul bass is a big name for a reason, he has created one of the most iconic poster designs in the film industry.

When it comes to the process of poster design creation, it should be able to capture the essence of the movie without giving the plot away.  Capturing the essence of the movie in the poster is essential – and this is the key component that dictates all of the design choices that the designer will be making. Let’s say it’s a horror movie, then the poster should adopt a dark vibe to it, with darker colours and perhaps a bizarre scene. In addition, it is essential to portray one key element of the movie in the poster design. Colour is a very important factor in movies but also in poster designs. Colours can trigger strong emotions in the audience. A lot of designers choose colours that will attract attention. Using contrasting colours is also a great way to achieve that The choice of typography is also a really important element when designing movie posters. Comedy movies always seem to adopt big bold font types. And horror movies always use fonts that looks like its melting, or with some kind of texture in it. The right choice of typography will set the tone for the movie. A tagline is also a very important element in the movie poster design. The purpose of a tagline is to speak to the potential audience directly. A tagline should summarise the key idea of the movie without, of course, without giving the plot away. Think about 2001 A Space Odyssey movie: The ultimate trip. Movie posters are really fascinating. The design process is also fascinating because it’s a truly thoughtful one and often times it turns out to be a true piece of art.

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EMA (2020) - Pablo Larraín Ema is one of the best indie movies released in 2020 Did you know music in this film was composed by the American-Chilean Artist Nicolas Jaar?  Sergio Armstrong’s cinematography leans on reds, blues, greens, neons and flaming orange. The indie movie is about a twisted story about how far someone would go for love and a rejigging of the notion of a modern family blends in debauchery and dance, Ema is not unlike Gaspar Noe’s psychological horror Climax (2018). Like Ema’s impenetrable personality, the emotions remain opaque. As the surprising final scenes unfold, you realise you have learned very little about Larrain’s characters, that you care neither more nor less for any of them – and that’s not a complaint.