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Features | Friday, 20 January 2012 Written by Isis Sadek
On Location: The Bradbury Building as featured in 'The Artist' (Dir. Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
A star in its own right, Los Angeles' Bradbury building has featured in films as diverse as Double Indemnity, Blade Runner and (500) Days of Summer. Illuminated by a large central skylight and lined with ornate wrought-iron railings, the courtyard of the Bradbury stages a transition between interior and exterior. In Michel Hazanavicius' recent (silent) movie The Artist, the Bradbury becomes the site of multiple transitions.
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Features | Saturday, 07 January 2012 Written by Scott Jordan Harris
Screengem: The Letters of Transit in Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Anything Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart have to hide from the Nazis, and Sydney Greenstreet and Ingrid Bergman would give their eyes to own, is certain to be an important onscreen object - but Casablanca's letters of transit exceed any normal measure of cinematic significance. They are perhaps the most evocative items in film.
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News and Events | Saturday, 26 November 2011 Written by Gabriel Solomons
Incoming: The Big Picture Issue 16 now available to download!
The latest issue of The Big Picture Magazine is titled 'Growing Pains' and is themed around the trials, tribulations and triumphs of onscreen adolescence. Along with the usual roundup of regular sections, features include a focus on the bright and brilliant movie poster art of Tom Whalen, a look at the Garden Folly in My Life as a Dog as an evocative cinematic object, a location focus on Los Angeles and 1000 words about the father of 1980s American teen comedy, John Hughes.
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Features | Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Written by Isis Sadek
On Location: The bridges spanning the Los Angeles river as seen in 'Mi Familia' (Dir. Gregory Nava, 1995)
Continuing our tie-in series of articles to celebrate the launch of the World Film Locations book series, Isis Sadek looks at how the many bridges that span the iconic Los Angeles river were used to evoke both a sense of generational connectivity and disharmony in Gregory Nava's epic Mi Familia.
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