Category: movies
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Documentaries

8/12/22 What is a Documentary? A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to “document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record“.[1]Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of “a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries”.[2] from Wikipedia. I wasn’t always interested in watching documentaries.…
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Why do we love dinosaurs?

6/10/22 And movies about dinosaurs. When I was a little kid, there was a time when I loved dinosaurs. I remember visiting the Museum of Natural History in New York City and seeing the skeletons of the dinosaurs set up. One of my favorite dinosaurs was the Stegosaurus. I remember bringing home a miniature replica…
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The Nancy Meyers Obsession

5/6/22 Who is Nancy Meyers, and why is everyone talking about her movies? Nancy Meyers is a writer, director, and producer whose woman-centered movies are in the spotlight right now. Especially those movies where the women live their best lives in their “coastal grandmother” look. From IMDb, here is a list of films written by…
