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Cinema Toast
''Cinema Toast'' is a 2021 television anthology series created by Jeff Baena and Duplass Brothers Productions, which aired on Showtime. Its standalone episodes use footage from old films re-cut and overlaid with new dialogue from various stars to tell new stories. Each episode has a different director and writers. As well as executive producing the series, Baena wrote and directed the first episode. Production When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down film production, Baena had to pause production of ''Spin Me Round'', which he had been going to shoot in Italy. During lockdown, Baena and his partner Aubrey Plaza watched a lot of old films. He "racked isbrain to find a way to still create", coming up with the idea to take public domain footage and re-shape it "into something transcendent that extends beyond just a comedic curio." During an online poker game in March 2020, Baena joked to his friends that he was considering making something similar to Woody Allen's 1966 film ''What's ...
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Jeff Baena
Jeffrey Lance Baena (; June 29, 1977 – January 3, 2025) was an American screenwriter and film director. His most successful films were 2004's '' I Heart Huckabees'' and 2020's '' Horse Girl'', though his projects to receive the most contemporaneous critical acclaim were the 2016 and 2017 films '' Joshy'' and ''The Little Hours''. Baena frequently worked with his wife Aubrey Plaza, and writing partner Alison Brie. He began his career as a screenwriter, co-writing the 2004 comedy film ''I Heart Huckabees'' and, around the same time, seeing his script for '' Life After Beth'' enter production before being shelved. Baena, as an independent filmmaker, expanded to directing a decade later and filmed ''Life After Beth'' as his directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and released in 2014. Working with producer Liz Destro, Plaza, and an expanding group of frequent collaborators, Baena was then writer-director for ''Joshy'' (2016) and ''The Little Hours'' (2017), which both became cr ...
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Public Domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no Exclusive exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly Waiver, waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission. As examples, the works of William Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven, Miguel de Cervantes, Zoroaster, Lao Zi, Confucius, Aristotle, L. Frank Baum, Leonardo da Vinci and Georges Méliès are in the public domain either by virtue of their having been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore in the public domain; for example, in the United States, items excluded from copyright include the formulae of Classical mechanics, Newtonian physics and cooking recipes. Other works are actively dedicated by their authors to the public domain (see waiver) ...
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Eternally Yours (film)
''Eternally Yours'' (aka ''Whose Wife'') is a 1939 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Tay Garnett with Walter Wanger as executive producer, from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. The film stars Loretta Young and David Niven, and also features a strong supporting cast including Broderick Crawford, Billie Burke, Eve Arden, ZaSu Pitts, and C. Aubrey Smith. Composer Werner Janssen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music.Halliwell 1989, p. 322. Plot Anita Halstead (Loretta Young) goes to see a magic act performed by Tony (David Niven), the "Great Arturo", after her bridal shower for her wedding to Don Burns (Broderick Crawford). Anita and Tony are immediately attracted to each other and get married. She becomes his assistant in the act. One night, Tony becomes drunk in the company of a woman reporter and boasts he will jump out of an aircraft at with his hands handcuffed behind his back. When she prints his claim, he first tries to get ...
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Made For Each Other (1939 Film)
Made for Each Other may refer to: * ''Made for Each Other'' (1939 film), starring Carole Lombard and James Stewart * ''Made for Each Other'' (1953 film), a 1953 Mexican musical comedy film * ''Made for Each Other'' (1971 film), featuring Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna * ''Made for Each Other'' (2009 film), starring Bijou Phillips and Christopher Masterson * ''Made for Each Other'' (Calvin Wiggett album), 1995 * ''Made for Each Other'' (Sonny Stitt album) See also *'' Ek Duuje Ke Liye'', (''(We Are) Made for Each Other''), 1981 Hindi romantic tragedy film {{disambiguation ...
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Loretta Young
Loretta Young (born Gretchen Michaela Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Awards, Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film ''The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film), The Farmer's Daughter'' (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in ''Come to the Stable'' (1949). She also starred in films such as ''Born to Be Bad (1934 film), Born to Be Bad'' (1934), ''Call of the Wild (1935 film), Call of the Wild'' (1935), ''The Crusades (1935 film), The Crusades'' (1935), ''Eternally Yours (film), Eternally Yours'' (1939), ''The Stranger (1946 film), The Stranger'' (1946), ''The Bishop's Wife'' (1947), and ''Key to the City ...
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Night Of The Living Dead
''Night of the Living Dead'' is a 1968 American Independent film, independent zombie horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John A. Russo, John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea. The story follows seven people trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, under assault by flesh-eating undead, reanimated corpses. Although the monsters that appear in the film are referred to as "ghouls", they are credited with popularizing the modern portrayal of zombies in popular culture. Having gained experience creating television commercials, industrial films, and ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' segments through their production company The Latent Image, Romero, Russo, and Streiner decided to make a horror film to capitalize on interest in the genre. Their script primarily drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's 1954 novel ''I Am Legend (novel), I Am Legend''. Principal photograp ...
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios or licensed to Amazon, as Amazon Originals, with the service also hosting content from other providers, content add-ons, live sporting events, and video rental and purchasing services. Prime Video is offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription. Amazon Prime Video is the third most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service in the United States, with 200 million paid memberships. Operating worldwide, the service may require a full Prime subscription to be accessed. In countries like United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, the service can be accessed without a full Prime subscription, whereas in Australia, Canada, France, India, Turkey, and Italy, it can only be access ...
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Invasion Of The Bee Girls
An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity, often involving acts of aggression. Generally, invasions have objectives of conquering, liberating or reestablishing control or authority over a territory; forcing the partition of a country; altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government; or a combination thereof. An invasion can be the cause of a war, be a part of a larger strategy to end a war, or it can constitute an entire war in itself. Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution. History Archaeological evidence indicates that invasions have been frequent occurrences since prehistory. In antiquity, before radio communications and fast transportation, the only way for a military to ensure adequate reinforcements was to move armies as one massive fo ...
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Classical Hollywood Cinema
In film criticism, Classical Hollywood cinema is both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the Silent film#Silent film era, silent film era. It then became characteristic of Cinema of the United States, United States cinema during the Golden Age of Hollywood from about 1927, with the advent of sound film, until the arrival of New Hollywood productions in the 1960s. It eventually became the most powerful and persuasive style of filmmaking worldwide. Similar or associated terms include classical Hollywood narrative, the Golden Age of Hollywood, Old Hollywood, and classical continuity. The period is also referred to as the studio era, which may also include films of the late silent era. History Silent era and emergence of the classical style For millennia, the only visual standard of narrative storytelling art was the theatre. Since the first narrative films in the mid-late 1890s, filmmakers have sought to ...
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Horse Girl
''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 American psychological drama film directed and produced by Jeff Baena, from a screenplay written by Baena and Alison Brie. It stars Brie, Debby Ryan, John Reynolds, Molly Shannon, John Ortiz, and Paul Reiser. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. It was released on February 7, 2020, by Netflix. Plot Sarah, an introverted young woman, regularly visits the grave of her mother, who died by suicide. She also frequents the horse stable where her former horse Willow is boarded, and where she rode in her childhood. After finding Sarah home alone on her birthday, Sarah's roommate Nikki invites her boyfriend Brian and his roommate, Darren, over for a double date. The four smoke marijuana and have drinks. The date is interrupted by Sarah's nose bleeding. After Darren leaves, Sarah has a dream in which she lies face up in a white room. A man and woman also lie down some distance away from her, unaware of their surrou ...
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Duplass Brothers
The Duplass brothers are: * Mark Duplass (born 1976), American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician * Jay Duplass (born 1973), American film director, author, and actor See also * Duplass Brothers Productions Duplass Brothers Productions is an American independent film and television production company founded by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, two brothers who are also actors, directors, producers and writers. They have produced films such as ''The Puf ..., their production company {{set index Brother duos ...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000
''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (abbreviated as ''MST3K'') is an American science fiction comedy television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on WUCW, KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then moved to nationwide broadcast, first on The Comedy Channel (American TV channel), The Comedy Channel for two seasons, then Comedy Central for five seasons until its cancellation in 1996. Thereafter, it was picked up by Syfy, The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three more seasons until another cancellation in August 1999. A 60-episode Broadcast syndication, syndication package titled ''The Mystery Science Theater Hour'' was produced in 1993 and broadcast on Comedy Central and syndicated to TV stations in 1995. In 2015, Hodgson led a crowdfunding, crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018. A second successf ...
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