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The Power of The Movie Trailers: To See or - Not to See ...

People who choose to either miss movie trailers and/or do not pay attention to them before a movie they came to see starts, miss a lot. I can't stress enough of how important it is to watch the trailers to see what's coming next in your neighborhood. Most often we miss trailers on TV. Most often we don't read the movie ads in print press. Most often we tune out of a radio film ad...Movie trailers in movie theaters - are most often the only times we can actually see what's coming out. Even more - we can feel the reaction of the crowd in the theater to estimate if a movie would be 'liked' or 'not liked' by the crowd. Moreover, if you are like me - a sucker for foreign, independent and art-house films, there are 99% chance that the only way you'd find out about a new foreign film - is through the movie trailers at a theater. Unfortunately, due to the Hollywood's overproduction of the films, there are not many films that are making it to USA f...

Coppola vs. Eisenstein

Frances Ford Coppola might be the one who introduced The Godfather to the world, but it was Serge Eisenstein who invented "methods of montage" and up-close shots of "shooting in the eye through glasses" and "a child carrier strolling down the stairs" he used in his The Battleship Potemkin, later recreated by Coppola. Battleship Potempkin - Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925) - a scene that was many times replicated in great American films: Francis Ford Coppola talks about stealing art:

A Movie Lover is a blog, written and edited by a true movie lover.

My love for the cinematography has started when I was very young. The passion for the great art of film was passed to me by my mother. I learned from an early age about the films of various genre and actors and directors from around the world. Later I've studied film, radio, TV and theater arts in college and have spent two years in Hollywood, working in the film industry: I worked in film advertising, film PR, on a film production and as an Executive Assistant to a well known film producer. This real-life exposure to everything related to a film production added to my knowledge of the art of the filmmaking. In this blog I try not to impose my opinion on anyone, but merely try to tell you my feelings towards the films I see.