The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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Vad som händer är den första kommersiellt framgångsrika konstfilm. Det kabinett av Dr. Caligari (1920) släpptes i januari 1920 bli en tysk och internationell sensation. It marked the beginning of the German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionistiska målare ritade byggnader som lutade i udda vinklar, oddly shaped furniture,

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Introducing Our New Black Belt

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På April 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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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 och 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 på Judo

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Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 till 1909. TR is famous for the “Ansträngande Life”. Han övade boxning och brottning genom tjugoårsåldern och trettiotalet. 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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Juve versus Fantomas (1913)

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Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) är Louis Feuillade andra filmatisering av den populära kriminalserie från Marcell Allain och Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre spelar rollen som Fantomas och hans många alias. Edmund Breon porträtterar inspektör Juve. George Melchior spelar rollen av Jerome Fandor, en ung journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and Fandor are

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