Looking for examples in film/tv where music that might normally be considered "cheesy" or "corny" is used to create an incredibly dramatic, memorable, even haunting scene/atmosphere... [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - 47 answers

Incorporating still frame captures in a TV commentary blog: is it possible/affordable/practical to get general permission from the studio to do this? [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2008 - 9 answers

Working in the US film industry as a foreigner. Please explain... [more inside]
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm looking for fictional intragenerational incest narratives -- books, film, television, etc. -- in which the relationship is presented as a tragic love, doomed to failure. I'm not interested in the probably more common (and more realistic) pure trauma narratives. The relationship need not necessarily be physically consummated. [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - 49 answers

Can you recommend any really good yet underrated 1990's tv shows that ended before their time? [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - 76 answers

Great British mystery television shows/movies? My girlfriend and I are both rabid fans of good, old-fashioned British whodunnits. Nothing like a rainy Sunday curled up in the sofa to watch an insufferable amateur detective line up a bunch of eccentric upper-class Brits by the fireplace to expose their innermost red herrings: Poirot, Miss Marple, Jonathan Creek, Cadfael, Inspector Alleyn, Sherlock Holmes, Gosford Park -- we have pretty much watched them all, including numerous Agatha Christie movie adaptations. What else is out there? Must be British, or feature mainly Brits; extra points for smoking jackets, quaint little villages in Dorset, vintage automobiles and funny little Frenchmen. (We don't like modern police procedurals that much, though; Inspector Morse is all right, but not quite our cup of tea.)
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 34 answers

Is the portrayal of CPR in tv/movies totally bunk? I read somewhere that CPR can't actually return someone to consciousness, but rather just keeps them alive long enough to receive more advanced medical treatment. Is this actually the case, or could CPR alone revive someone? [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 17 answers

Resume Help: Production Assistant for Film and Television? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - 6 answers

Which cinematographs or televisual serials most faithfully depict the operations of police or detectives?
posted on May 29, 2007 - 25 answers

Asking for a friend: Looking for a movie or tv show that deals with investing in a comedic way. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2007 - 16 answers

Lost in space... forever? What happens after you're tossed out of the airlock? [more inside]
posted on Oct 27, 2006 - 24 answers

I just went to a screening of The Five Venoms at my art museum's in house movie theatre, and the lady that runs the place said in a sort of an off hand way (in the middle of a reminiscence about the old days when they had first started showing kung fu films as part of their schedule) something along the lines of 'of course now with the satellite TV and DVDs not nearly so many people are interested in these pictures'. That sounded strange to me, because would have assumed that those two factors would have increased interest in that kind of movie. Does anyone have any insight or information about changes in peoples interest in kung fu films? Does that
posted on Jul 30, 2006 - 5 answers

How have different tv shows or movie franchises dealt with the death of actors between episodes/seasons/films? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2006 - 53 answers

Where can I watch, or listen to, the Academy Awards live on the internet? [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2006 - 3 answers

Film/TV question. I've seen LiveJournal avatars and pics that look like they're from a certain TV show or film, and I'm curious as to which film it could be. It looks like a very recent film. [more inside]
posted on Dec 28, 2005 - 14 answers

Cartoonists in the movies? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2005 - 24 answers

I recently saw the first half of Best of Youth, and only the first half (the second half was sold out). I have to see the second half, it has lingered in my head, and by the time it is out on DVD in the US I will have lost interest, I'm sure. Any ways of getting my hands on a subtitled version of this movie? Help! [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2005 - 4 answers

Why do films & TV programmes have credit sequences? I don't get a list of nut & bolt technicians, headlamp designers or airbag testers when I buy a car, so why do I need to be told who pulled the focus, who was an electrician, who swept the floor when I am watching a film or TV programme?
posted on Feb 25, 2005 - 13 answers

Why so many producers? [the more, she is inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 6 answers

Many years ago I saw a film on tv. It was in black and white. It was set in some sort of post-apocalyptic world, and involved a girl who was kept from the hero, in a succession of elaborate prisons/cages, which the hero tried to breach time and again, always failing to get the girl.
There was no talking in it at all, except when once, in the middle of the film, the hero breaches the girl's prison (only to find she's been removed yet again by the villain) and picks up her diary(?) and reads a small passage from it aloud.
The villain had a number of accomplices, one of whom was some sort of "mole man" whom he treated badly (perhaps kept on a leash). I remember the film being somewhat feted when it was released, but I've never seen or heard of this film since its single UK TV showing. I'd love to see it again, but since I don't know what it was called ...

(What was it called?)
posted on Jul 4, 2004 - 3 answers