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About Me

Before film schools in the 1960s, how did anyone learn to make a movie? The most likely answer is that they belonged to an amateur film club. These private clubs, which sprang up all over the country, were places where amateurs could learn techniques and pass on their own filmmaking skills. Amateur film clubs first started in the 1920s, and reached the height of their popularity after World War I, when technological advances made filmmaking more affordable.Amateur film clubs provide a place where members can exchange information and learn from each other. Film clubs give regular demonstrations, and hold discussions, classes and workshops on all various facets of video making, from learning skills like editing to discussions of new equipment and how to use it. All films have essential elements that filmmakers need to carefully consider: Each video must have a story, a point of view or theme, and it must have pacing, rhythm and build, as well as a climax. We want to be able to offer our friends a network of information to amateurs and pros alike in this casual connecting environment.Join us in keeping this wealth of knolwedge alive.

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british film awards shaken not stirred.....

Daniel Craig was honoured but Helen Mirren was denied Sunday at the 34th annual Evening Standard British Film Awards.Craig was named best actor for "Casino Royale," his debut outing as James Bond. Cra...
Posted by LA Film Club on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

It's all gone a bit british

The Oscar nominations have stirred memories of 1982, the year Chariots of Fire stormed the Academy Awards to a cry of 'the British are coming!' But is the portrait of Britain painted by this year's st...
Posted by LA Film Club on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:11:00 PST

Polanski in Pompeii

LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is to film best-selling British author Robert Harris' novel "Pompeii"."Roman said he liked the book, we met in Paris and the deal was done," Ha...
Posted by LA Film Club on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:09:00 PST

Scorsese wins dga feature film award

Looks like it just could be Marty's year.In what finally could signal an Oscar win for the oft-nominated director, Martin Scorsese copped the DGA feature film award Saturday for "The Departed." The gr...
Posted by LA Film Club on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:07:00 PST

Dutch smoke from uk newspaper.....

A huge plume of black smoke drifts ominously over Amsterdam. Beneath it, people pass to and fro as if nothing untoward were happening. When Dutch film-maker Cyrus Frisch saw this after emerging from ...
Posted by LA Film Club on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:27:00 PST

SXSW initial panel topics and speakers for 2007

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced the initial batch of panel topics and speakers for the 2007 event, including a session billed as "A Conversation with Morgan Sp...
Posted by LA Film Club on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:21:00 PST

Cruz and Allen

Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is to star in the new Woody Allen film, to be shot this summer in Barcelona, newspaper El Pais reported.Citing Cruz's agent, El Pais said the film was sti...
Posted by LA Film Club on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:25:00 PST

the years most violent films according to the village voice.....

We may be living in a national Green Zone, but for all the pious post9-11 bushwa about kinder, gentler, more civil modes of entertainment, last year's movies weren't buying it. George Bush hasn't dir...
Posted by LA Film Club on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:24:00 PST