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Publicity still from the motion picture film "The Terminator" (1984); directed by James Cameron. (cinema, movies)
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The Godfather
Kinetoscope
Seven Samurai
King Kong
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Lady in the Lake
Stagecoach
Raging Bull
D.W. Griffith: Intolerance
Why do movie theaters serve popcorn?
Study film-making techniques employed in an adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints
How talkies replaced silent films
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Ellen Pompeo
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Elizabeth Olsen
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Denis Villeneuve
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Kate McKinnon
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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
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Jodie Foster American actress in her Academy Award winning performance as the FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) where she tracks the serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in background) played by actor Anthony Hopkins.
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