Academy Award Winning director Jon Blair offers us an intimate look at one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth; a gripping film with unprecedented access to some of Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted men, together with the specialist police units that hunt down and kill them.
The rise and fall of a peasant boy from the Swiss mountains who revolutionizes the world’s hotel business: Cesar Ritz is the notorious dishwasher who becomes emperor of the most famous hotel of the world – with amazing speed and grace, only to collapse when his most ambitious goal, the coronation buffet for King Edward VI, cannot take place. This is the first and only filmed biography about Cesar Ritz, inventor of modern hotel business.
Hollywoodism takes us through the establishment of Hollywood, the triumphs of the Golden Age of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Second World War, and the attack on Hollywood as un-American during the HUAC hearings. Our story ends with a look at the legacy that the Moguls left behind, a legacy that has not only seduced the American public, but has by now virtually conquered the world.
While audiences often take little notice of the editing in a movie, fans and filmmakers know it is the editor who determines the pace and rhythm of a motion picture and that intelligent montage is essential to every great movie. But editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it’s an art form enabling the architecture of film. Edge Codes celebrates and illustrates the evolution of editing through the history of cinema while exploring how it has come to shape our perceptions of the world around us.
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