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''Mad Movies'' is a French magazine created in 1972 by Jean-Pierre Putters, dedicated to fantastic and science-fiction cinema. History ''Mad Movies'' started as a fanzine and put out 21 issues between 1972 and 1981. In 1979, Putters opened Movies 2000, a film bookstore that became a hotspot for Paris' horror fandom and fanzine trading community. From number 22 (February 1982), ''Mad Movies'' became a quarterly newsstand publication. That first widely distributed issue featured a cover story about Italian director Lucio Fulci, which coined the term "Poet of the Macabre" (french: Poête du macabre), an Edgar Allan Poe-inspired nickname that has become one of the director's signatures. The magazine became bimonthly in 1984. Between 1986 and 2001, it was published alternately with a spinoff called ''Impact''. In 2001, following the sale of both magazines by Putters, new ownership merged ''Impact'' into ''Mad Movies'', the latter thus becoming a monthly title. Spinoffs ''Impact ...
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Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ...
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Julien Maury And Alexandre Bustillo
Julien Maury (born 1978 in Paris) and Alexandre Bustillo (born 1975 in Saint-Cloud, France) are French filmmakers who work together on their projects. They list their influences as Dario Argento, Roman Polanski, Clive Barker and John Carpenter. Life and career Julien Maury graduated from l’École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle. He worked for French television before directing documentaries, music videos and short films. Alexandre Bustillo graduated from Université Paris XIII with an M.A. in cinema, before working as a journalist for several magazines including ''Mad Movies''. The two met each other through a mutual friend. Their first film was ''Inside'', a controversial horror film about a pregnant woman stalked by a madwoman who wants her child for herself. Both men co-directed and Bustillo wrote the script. The film was cited as an example of the new wave of French horror films and was a critical success that brought international attention on Maury and Bustillo ...
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Magazines Established In 1972
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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Horror Fandom
Fantasy fandom is a fandom and commonality of fans of the fantasy genre. It revolves around popular media franchises belonging to the fantasy genre and can include collective fan works of these fantasy franchises and events that celebrate franchises of the genre as well as characters belonging to that genre. Examples of fan clubs devoted to stories and franchises of fantasy and include Disneyana fanclub, and The Tolkien Society in appreciation of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. In more recent times, the development of the Internet has also taken fandom communities online. See also *''Fantasy Fan'', the first American magazine in the genre of fantasy and weird fiction. *World Fantasy Convention *Tolkien fandom * ''Harry Potter'' fandom *Shrek fandom *Science fiction fandom Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest. SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the ...
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Film Magazines Published In France
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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L'Écran Fantastique
''L'Écran fantastique'' is a French magazine created in 1969 by Alain Schlockoff, dedicated to fantastic and science-fiction cinema. History After falling out with the publisher of ''Horizons du fantastique'' (1967–1976), a film and literature publication, Schlockoff started the film-focused ''L'Écran fantastique'' on his own with scarce ressources. The magazine began its publication history with a limited trial run in 1969 and 1970, which lacked the print design and formal publishing of ''Horizons du fantastique''. It was then relaunched as a professionally printed publication in December 1970, but still struggled to find a reliable publisher. Though billed as a quarterly, it remained subject to schedule disruptions and some projected issues of ''L'Écran fantastique'' were reformatted into installments of ''Cinéma d'aujourd'hui'', a collection of monographs published by movie literature specialists FilmÉditions. ''L'Écran fantastique'' finally became a regular publicati ...
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Paris International Fantastic Film Festival
The Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF), was created in 2011 by the Paris Ciné Fantastique association as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films. It takes place in Paris every year in December, and has been recently presented by television station :fr:Ciné+ and ''Mad Movies'' magazine. PIFFF has prizes in both feature length and short films. The most recent festival in December 2018 showed 26 films over 8 days and attracted over 10,000 attendees, making it one of the largest film festivals in the city of Paris. MovieMaker magazine called the festival an "international platform for promising new talent." The festival is held at the historic Max Linder Panorama theater in Paris. The 2018 festival was periodically interrupted by the Yellow Vest ''gilets jaunes'' riots that marched by while the festival was in progress. Winners of the Golden Eye for Best Film Other genre film festivals * Sitges Film Festival * Fantasporto * Fantasia Internati ...
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Among The Living (2014 Film)
''Among the Living'' (french: Aux yeux des vivants) is a 2014 French horror film written and directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. The film had its world premiere on 10 March 2014 at South by Southwest and follows three young boys who discover that the seemingly banal exterior of their town hides a horrific inner secret. Plot Three young adolescent friends decide that they want to start their summer vacation early, so they decide to skip the last day of school in favor of having a little fun. Their adventures that day get them into a little trouble, which causes them to wander to an abandoned film studio lot on the edge of town called Blackwood Studios. The young boys are horrified when they see a man in a clown mask dragging a chained woman across the lot. They manage to flee and try to get the police involved, only for the police to assume that because the adolescents are only causing more trouble. The adolescents end up going back to their respective homes, unaware ...
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Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ...
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B-movies
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music). However, the U.S. production of films intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s. With the emergence of commercial television at that time, film studio B movie production departments changed into television film production divisions. They created much of the same type of content in low budget films and series. The term ''B movie'' continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. In its post-Golden Age usage, B movies can range from lurid exploitation films to independent arthouse films. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the ...
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This Island Earth
''This Island Earth'' is a 1955 American science fiction film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold, starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason. It is based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones. The film was released in 1955 as a double feature with ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy''. Upon initial release, the film was praised by critics, who cited the special effects, well-written script, and the eye-popping Technicolor as being its major assets.Thompson, Howard H"This Island Earth (1955) 'This Island Earth' Explored From Space."''The New York Times'', June 11, 1955.Willis 1985, p. 107. In 1996, it was edited down and lampooned in '' Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie'', a spin-off of the popular movie riffing television series ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. Plot Dr. Cal Meacham is flying to his laboratory in a loaned Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star jet. Just before landing, ...
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