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New York Shakespeare Exchange: Online Sonnet Project now seeking video directors..!

NY Shakespeare Exchange seeks up to 154 film directors to participate in a groundbreaking exploration of film, theater, and mobile technology. The Sonnet Project is a massive multi-artist, internet-based interpretation of Shakespeare’s sonnets that will put these astounding poems quite literally int...

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Luis R. Quintero
What is the greatest movie eve…

What is the greatest movie ever made? Why?

Dale Sumner

There isn't one!! As the saying goes 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder ' - what is one persons 'greatest' will be another persons 'worst'. I have been very interested in the comments on IMDB recen...

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Don Thomas

Metropolis. Taking into account the vast improvement across the board when it comes to film making since that movie was made. To achieve what they did back then, with what they had in comparison to ev...

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Maruva

thats easy, the first film ever to incorporate sound....

Tiffy Diamond

WOW, I can't even attempt to tackle this question. haha :)

Michael "Cap" Caputo

Don, you got there first. Anyone who has not seen Metropolis with the original is deficient in their knowledge of movies. Surreal, poignant, dark, hopeful, exciting, dramatic, pensive, inspiring, adva...

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Bob Galinsky
Re-makes

Are re-makes ever as good as the original?

Marcello Aurelio Lanfranchi

Help, Jane, get me off this crazy thing! Unfollowing now. It was fun while it lasted though.

Leonard Benedetto

Agree with Arthur. There's no need to remake GWTW or Casablanca - those movies are near perfect and nothing can be done to improve them. Can you imagine Casablanca in color? Sounds blasphemous to me....

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Bob Galinsky

I would define a 'Remake' as recreating a Movie following the exact guidelines of a Screenplay from a previously done Film... Adapting a Movie from a Book or Short Story could be done 100s of times, w...

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Laura Tabor-Huerta

Yes Leonard mentioning this twice "Jacqueline, why not stay on subject instead of going off on your own tangents." was not gentle. Especially since the 2nd time she had not even said anything recent....

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Leonard Benedetto

Way to go Laura - making a comment bout something said months ago. Nice to see you have to put your two cents in, 'scolding' me for comments everyone else forgot.

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