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There's an old story -- Orson Welles called it "the greatest Hollywood one-liner ever made" -- that when someone attending the 1958 fune
Two-time Oscar-winner Jodie Foster brings her experience on both sides of the camera to guide you through every step of the filmmaking process in her first-ever MasterClass.
You don't need to understand French to appreciate the project.
Here's a remarkable short film of the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the Quintette du Hot Club de France performing on a movie set in 1938.…
Look what the vintage video gods have delivered today. Filmed in 1965, the black and white documentary Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen introduces viewers to a young Leonard Cohen.
And then she said to Annika, "Why don't you feel in that old tree stump? One practically always finds things in old tree stumps." - Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren Remember that other classic of…