The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. See tähistas Saksamaa filmi taaselustamise algust 1920. aastatel Saksamaa ekspressionistlik liikumine Saksa kunstis tugevalt mõjutas seda filmi tugevalt. Väidetenistlikud maalikunstnikud tõmbasid hooned kaldu paaritunurga all, oddly shaped furniture,

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Introducing Our New Black Belt

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Aprillil 27, 2013, on what would have been his grandfather and namesake’s 71st birthday, Ken “Kolm punkti” Zimmerman III became the first black belt in the Zimmerman Self-Defense System under his father Ken Zimmerman Jr. “Kolm punkti” began studying martial arts shortly before his fifth birthday. “Kolm punkti” has trained in Taekwondo, Džuudo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Gojo Shroei Weapons System. His goals

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What Are “B” Films?

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“B” films resulted from Hollywood distribution companies implementing a double bill or two movies screening strategy at theaters they owned. When the Great Depression led movie goers to start forgoing films between 1930 ja 1932, Hollywood studios, which still controlled production and distribution, came up with the idea of showing two films back-to-back to give customers more bang for their

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Theodore Roosevelt on Judo

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Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 kuni 1909. TR is famous for the “Strenuous Life”. He practiced boxing and wrestling through his twenties and thirties. What is not as widely known is that he practiced Judo around 1904, when he was in his mid-40s. Roosevelt would eventually earn a brown belt in Judo. Yoshiaki

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Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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Being both a fan and film historian, I was aware of Sunset Blvd.‘s reputation in film circles. Billy Wilder’s 1950 film tells the sad story of a forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond. William Holden is a screen writer, who stumbles upon her crumbling mansion and agrees to help fix her screenplay. Norma believes the screenplay will lead to a

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