Kubrick’s final film was Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. Tom Cruise portrays a doctor who witnesses a bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a discovery which later threatens his life.
The story is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Freudian novella […]
The film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. The two women do not know each other, and yet they share a mysterious and emotional bond that transcends language and geography.
In her review in Not […]
Low key lighting is a style of cinematography and photography where you create images featuring mainly dark tones to create a dramatic, contrasty looking image.
Personally I find myself working a lot in this style.
High key lighting – the reverse – means to over (or more flatly) light […]
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“Here be dragons” (Latin “hic svnt dracones”) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a supposed medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps.
Software programmers sometimes use this expression to indicate sections of particularly complex and obscure passages of the […]
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Photographed by renowned British celebrity photographer Charlie Gray, the 26-year-old actor is seen throwing brooding poses in a variety of outfits — but it’s one pic with decidedly less clothing that has fans talking…
The shoot brings to mind Radcliffe’s Harry Potter co-star Matthew Lewis’s own racy magazine shoot last year — in which the former […]
