Learning Links

1. History of Cinema (quite an introduction - Prof. Robert Yahnke of University of Minnesota
2. A very brief history of Cinema - pdf document


3. A dictionary of term used in film making - http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html and http://www.filmfold.com/glossary-of-film-terms


4. History of Indian Cinema & Malayalam Cinema - Website


5. Genre's of films with description and budget classifications - By Philip C. Congleton


6. Camera angles, movement, types of shots - Online Film school


7. How to review films - http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html/


8. Special effects (Well rated 50 special effect shots in movies) - DenOfGeek Blog

Ajith wins his 3rd national award for editing

Ajith Kumar who conducted the cinema-editing workshop in Muscat, Oman has won his 3rd national award this year for the movie u Pennugal'. We wish him well for many more such laurels including Osacar!

This announcement came as part of the 55th Indian National Awards on 7th September 2009!

Special Effects

Special Effects - Student's Work from Vancouver Film School (Watch more from other videos listed along this one in Youtube)

10 Directors experiment Kerala Cafe

A new venture in Malayalam: 10 directors to direct 10/12 minutes film on a common theme under the title 'Kerala Cafe'. Concept's like the Paris Je Taime - Watch a sample here.

The directors chosen are: Lal Jose, Shyama Prasad, Shaji Kailas, Revathy, B Unnikrishnan, Anwar Rasheed, Uday Ananthan, M Padmakumar, Anjali Menon and debutant Shankar Ramakrishnan.

More more details on this news read here.

Selcted Movies from the Directors Hall of Fame members

Alfred Hitchcock

• The Lodger (1926)
• Blackmail (1929)
• Murder! (1930)
• Rich and Strange (1932)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
• Sabotage (1936)
• Secret Agent (1936)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Notorious (1946)
• The Paradine Case (1947)
• Rope (1948)
• Under Capricorn (1949)
• Stage Fright (1950)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• I Confess (1953)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Trouble With Harry (1955)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)
• Marnie (1964)
• Torn Curtain (1966)
• Topaz (1969)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Family Plot (1976)

D.W. Griffith

• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
  
• The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
• Judith of Bethulia (1914)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Hearts of the World (1918)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• Way Down East (1920)
• Orphans of the Storm (1922)
• America (1924)
• Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)
• Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
• The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
• Abraham Lincoln (1930)
• One Million B.C. (1940

Jean Renoir

• The grand illusion
• Rules of the games
• The diary of Chambermaid

Vittorio De Sica

• Bicycle thief
• Umberto
• Anna of Brooklyn
• Two Women

Jean-Luc Godard

• Weekend
• A women is a women
• Masculine Feminine
• Alphaville
• 3things I know about her
• Pierrot the Mad
• Breathless
• The little soldier
• Camera-Eye
• Made in USA
• In praise of love

Ingmar Bergman

• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• The Magician (1958)
• The Virgin Spring (1959)
• The Devil's Eye (1960)
• Through a Glass, Darkly
• Winter Light (both 1962)
• The Silence (1963)
• Persona (1966)
• Shame (1968)
• Hour of the Wolf (1968)
• The Passion of Anna (1969)
• Cries and Whispers (1972)
• Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
• The Magic Flute (1975)
• Face to Face (1976)
• Autumn Sonata (1978)
• From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
• Fanny and Alexander (1983)

Francis Ford Coppola

• Dementia 13 (1963)
• You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
• Finian's Rainbow (1968)
• The Rain People (1969)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• One From the Heart (1982)
• Rumble Fish (1983)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• The Cotton Club (1984)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
• Gardens of Stone (1987)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
• New York Stories (1989)
• The Godfather, Part III (1990)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• Jack (1996)
• The Rainmaker (1997)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999) (producer, daughter Sofia directed)
• Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
• Youth Without Youth (2007), Tetro (2009)

Roman Pollanski

• Knife in the Water (1963)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Cul-De-Sac (1966)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Macbeth (1971)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Tess (1979)
• Pirates (1986)
• Frantic (1988)
• Bitter Moon (1992)
• Death and the Maiden (1994)
• The Ninth Gate (1999)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Oliver Twist (2005)
• To Each His Cinema (2007)
• The Ghost (2010)

John Ford

• The Secret Man (1917)
• The Iron Horse (1924)
• The Lost Patrol (1934)
• The Informer (1935)
• The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
• The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
• Mary of Scotland (1936)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• The Long Voyage Home (1940)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Tobacco Road (1941)
• The Battle of Midway (1942)
• December 7th (1943)
• They Were Expendable (1945)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• The Fugitive (1947)
• 3Godfathers (1948)
• Cavalry Trilogy: Fort Apache (1948)
• Pinky (1949)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Rio Grande (1950)
• Wagonmaster (1950)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Mogambo (1953)
• The Long Gray Line (1955)
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• The Searchers (1956)
• The Wings of Eagles (1957)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• The Horse Soldiers (1959)
• Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
• Two Rode Together (1961)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
• 7 Women (1966)

Howard Hawks

• A Girl in Every Port (1928)
• Hell's Angels (1930)
• The Dawn Patrol (1930)
• The Crowd Roars (1932)
• Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
• Twentieth Century (1934)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• Barbary Coast (1935)
• Come and Get It (1936)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• The Outlaw (1943)
• Air Force (1943)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Red River (1948)
• A Song is Born (1948)
• I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
• The Thing From Another World (1951)
• Monkey Business (1952)
• The Big Sky (1952)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
• Rio Bravo (1959), Hatari! (1962)
• Man's Favorite Sport (1964)
• El Dorado (1967)
• Rio Lobo (1970)

Stanley Kubrick

• Day of the Fight (1951)
• Fear and Desire (1953)
• Killer's Kiss (1955)
• The Killing (1956)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Lolita (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove / How I Learned... (1964)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Shining (1980)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Sergei Eisenstein

• Strike (1924)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• October/10 Days That Shook the World (1927)
• The General Line (1929)
• Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
• Alexander Nevsky (1938)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)

Buster Keaton

• One Week (1920)
• The Playhouse (1921)
• The Boat (1921)
• Cops (1922)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• The Three Ages (1923)
• The Balloonatic (1923)
• The Navigator (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• Go West (1925)
• Seven Chances (1925)
• Battling Butler (1926)
• College (1927)
• The General (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• Spite Marriage (1929)

Charlie Chaplin

• The Tramp (1915)
• The Immigrant (1917)
• Easy Street (1917)
• A Dog's Life (1918)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Pilgrim (1923)
• A Woman of Paris (1923)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Circus (1928)
• City Lights (1931)
• Modern Times (1936)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Limelight (1952)
• A King in New York (1957)
• A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

Fritz Lang

• Dr. Mabuse: the Gambler (1922)
• Siegfried (1924)
• Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
• Metropolis (1927)
• M (1931)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Fury (1936)
• You Only Live Once (1937)
• The Return of Frank James (1940)
• Man Hunt (1941)
• Western Union (1941)
• Hangmen Also Die (1943)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• The Woman in the Window (1944)
• Scarlet Street (1945)
• Cloak and Dagger (1946)
• Clash By Night (1952)
• Rancho Notorious (1952)
• The Big Heat (1953)
• The Blue Gardenia (1953)
• Moonfleet (1955)
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
• Human Desire (1954)
• While the City Sleeps (1956)

Federico Fellini

• The White Sheik (1952)
• I Vitelloni (1953)
• La Strada (1954)
• Il Bidone (1955)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
• Fellini Satyricon (1969)
• Fellini's Roma (1972)
• Amarcord (1974)

John Huston

• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Across the Pacific (1942)
• In This Our Life (1942)
• Key Largo (1948)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• The African Queen (1951)
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
• Moulin Rouge (1952)
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Moby Dick (1956)
• A Farewell to Arms (1957)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
• The Unforgiven (1960)
• The Misfits (1961)
• Freud (1962)
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
• The Night of the Iguana (1964)
• The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
• The Kremlin Letter (1970)
• Fat City (1972)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973)
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
• Wise Blood (1979)
• Victory (1981)
• Annie (1982)
• Under the Volcano (1984)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• The Dead (1987)

Ron Howard

• Night Shift (1982)
• Splash (1984)
• Cocoon (1985)
• Gung Ho (1986)
• Willow (1988)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Backdraft (1991)
• Far and Away (1992)
• The Paper (1994)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Ransom (1996)
• EdTV (1999)
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• The Missing (2003)
• Cinderella Man (2005)
• The Da Vinci Code (2006)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Angels & Demons (2009)

Cecil De Mille

• The Squaw Man
• The Cheat (1915)
• Joan the Woman (1916)
• Male and Female (1919)
• Forbidden Fruit (1921)
• The Ten Commandments (1923)
• The King of Kings (1927)
• Madam Satan (1930)
• The Sign of the Cross (1932)
• Cleopatra (1934)
• The Crusades (1935)
• The Plainsman (1936)
• The Buccaneer (1938)
• Union Pacific (1939)
• North West Mounted Police (1940)
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
• Unconquered (1947)
• Samson and Delilah (1949)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
  

George Lucas

• Herbie (1966)
• THX-1138 (1971)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• The Star Wars Trilogy: Star Wars (1977)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
• Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Akira Kurosawa

• Rashomon (1950)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962)
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
• Ran (1985)

Steven Spielberg

• Duel (1971)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Jaws (1975)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• 1941 (1979)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Back to the Future, II, III (1985, 1989, 1990)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Always (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Hook (1991)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Twister (1996)
• Amistad (1997)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Jurassic Park III (2001)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• The Terminal (2004)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Munich (2005)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Francois Truffaut

• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
• Jules and Jim (1961)
• The Soft Skin (1964)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
• The Bride Wore Black (1968)
• Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
• The Wild Child (1970)
• Two English Girls (1972)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1973)
• The Story of Adele H (1975)
• The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
• The Last Metro (1980)
• The Woman Next Door (1981)
• Confidentially Yours (1983)

Orson Welles

• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• The Stranger (1946)
• The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
• Macbeth (1948), Othello (1952)
• Mr. Arkadin (1955)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• The Trial (1962)
• Chimes at Midnight (1966)
• F for Fake (1975)

Billy Wilder

• The Major and the Minor (1942)
• Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• The Lost Weekend (1945
• ) Foreign Affair (1948)
• The Emperor Waltz (1948)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Big Carnival/Ace in the Hole (1951)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Sabrina (1954)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• Love In the Afternoon (1957)
• The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
• Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• The Apartment (1960)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• Irma La Douce (1963)
• Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Avanti (1972)
• The Front Page (1974)
• Fedora (1978)
• Buddy Buddy (1981)

Roberto Rossini

• Rome Open City (1945)
• Paisan (1946)

Ernst Lubitsch

John Cassavetes

Woody Allen

Martin Scorsese

Luis Bunuel

Omer Kavur - Turkey

• Karsilasma (Encounter) (2003)
• Melekler Evi (2000)
• Akrebin yolculugu (Journey on the Clockhand) (1997)
• Ask üzerine söylenmemis hersey (1996)
• Gizli yüz (The Secret Face) (1991)
• Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel) (1987)
• Gece yolculugu (Desperate Road) (1987)
• Amansiz Yol (1985)
• Korebe (1985)
• Göl (1982)
• Ah güzel Istanbul (1981)
• Kirik bir ask hikayesi (1981)
• Yusuf ile kenan (1979)
• Yatik Emine (1974)

Majid Majidi

• Explosion (Enfejar) (1981) - Short documentary
• Hoodaj (1984) - short film
• Examination Day (Rooz-e Emtehan) (1988) - short film
• A Day with POWs (Yek Rooz Ba Asiran) (1989) - Short documentary
• Baduk (1992) - debut feature
• The Last Village (Akhareen Abadi) (1993) - short filml
• Father (Pedar) (1996) - feature
• God Will Come (Khoda Miayad) (1996) - short film
• Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman) (1997) - feature
• The Color of Paradise (Rang-e Khoda) (1999) - feature
• Baran (Rain) (2001) - feature
• Barefoot to Herat (Pa berahneh ta Herat) (2002) - documentary
• Olympics in the Camp (Olympik Tu Urdugah) (2003) - Short documentary
• The Willow Tree (Beed-e Majnoon; One Life More) (2005) - feature
• Peace, Love, and Friendship (2007) - Short documentary
• The Song of Sparrows (2008) - feature
• Poet of the Wastes (2006)-feature
• Kashmir Afloat - feature in production

Expert faculty for movie-making workshop

1. Ajithkumar - Award winning editor

Nizhalkuthu (meaning Shadow Kill)- Credits to Ajith appear at 1minute 44seconds



Bhavum (meaning emotions of being)- Another award winning work of Ajith

2. Fowzia Fatima

Her maiden movie as Camerawomen - Mitr - my friend

- Credits to Ajith appear at 4minute 16seconds

Read more about the movie on Wikipedia

Her another feature work- a Tamil Film Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai has recently won the 

Best Drama Feature in the Best Feature film (International ) – Genre Awards category at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

3. Razi - Accomplished Art Director

Mackenna's Gold Movie

The viewed scene starts at about 5minutes 56 seconds in this video clipping!

Odessa Steps

Odessa Steps Scene - Batteleship of Potemkin by Sergei Eisentein

Biopic of Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose

Citizen Kane Movie

Opening Scene

Clint Eastwood - High Plains Drifter

The starting sequence

Mary Antoinette - I want my Candy

A portrayal of lavish lifestyle of Queen Mary Antoinette

Meenakumari in Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam - Na Jao Sayya

Meenakumari - Tries to act & behave like a curtisan to retain her husband at home

Meenakumari in Sahen Biwi Aur Ghulam - Piya Eso Jiya

Meenakumari - Song were she dresses up for her husband

PARIS - I like you - Tour Eiffel Sylvian Chomet

Paris - I like you - Tour Eiffel Sylvian Chomet

PARIS - I LIKE YOU - Gurinder Chadha

A short film by Gurinder Chadha