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. It marked the beginning of the German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist painters drew buildings sloped at odd angles, oddly shaped furniture,

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Introducing Our New Black Belt

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

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Je, nini “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. Wakati Anguko kuongozwa movie goers kuanza forgoing films kati ya 1930 na 1932, Hollywood studios, ambayo bado kudhibitiwa uzalishaji na usambazaji, 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 juu ya Judo

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Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 kwa 1909. TR is famous for the “Maisha strenuous”. Yeye mazoezi ndondi na wrestling kupitia miaka ya ishirini na 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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