The Cinema World. Moden film festivals and film industry and stars
The Cinema World.
Moden film festivals and film industry and stars.
I’m a cinema goer. And also I like watching films on TV or
video. But I think, that watching a good film is the best relaxation. It is
thought-provoking and entertaining. Now a growing number of people prefer
watching films on TV to attending cinemas. There are wonderful comedies, love
stories, science fiction, horror films, detective stories, and historical films
on. There’s a variety of films available today. It is difficult to live without
cinema. One fact is clear for everyone: cinema makes our life better. Cinema
helps us to forget different problems. When people watch films, they have a
rest. Some films take people into another world. I think it is a pure world,
where usual problems do not even exist. Cinema is a great power, it helps us to
understand our complex well. Cinema can leave nobody indifferent. It is so
powerful that it provokes complex feelings. We meet a lot of people. Everyone
has his own opinion about something and like most of us I have my own opinion
too, for example, about cinema. Cinema is a necessary and important part of my
life. It is my essence, my mode of life and my happiness. Cinema helps me to
cope with difficulties and with incorrigible problems.
Cinema means the same as pictures and movies. In Greek the
world kinema means ‘movement’. Cinema has been with us for over 100 years. It
was born at the end of the 19th century. But the moving image has
been around for a lot longer. The magic world of film comes to life before the
visitor’s eyes at the Museum of Moving Image in London. Later cinema became the
most popular entertaiment all over the world. There are a lot of flms to
different tastes: an actoin film, an adventure film, a cartoon, a comedy, a
documentary, a drama, a disaster film, a hictorical film, a horror film, a love
story, a musical, a fiction film, a thriller, a travelogue, a war film, a
western and etc.
There are so many interesting and entertaining films, that
sometimes it is a problem to chose what to see. In this problem we are helped
by film festivals. They acquaint us the most attractive film, because films are
assessed by jury of international celebrities.
Nowadays there are a lot of film festivals: the Cannes
festival, the Berlin festival, the Venice festival and etc. All of the films at
the festivals are assessed by jury of international celebrities. festivals
provide opportnities for actors especially for starlates, reveal both
masterpieces and duds. Put an emphasis on independent and innovative film
making and guarantee distribution for non-mainstream and non- Hollywood films.
Festivals are annual events. All of them have their own awards and places where
they are held.
The Cannes festival is a French film festival which was
founded in 1938. this festival soon became one of the top festivals. Its award
is olive-branch (olive-branch is a symbol of peace).
The berlin festival is a German film festival is one of the
three major festivls in Europe. Its prize is Golden Bear.
The Venice festival is the world’s oldest film festival
(1932). Its award is Golden Lion.
The Oscars are awarded every year by the American Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Science. These statuettes are awarded to actors, film
directors, screenwriters and so on for outstanding contributions to the film
industry. The Oscars were first awarded in 1927. The first winners were chosen
by five judges. Nowadays all of the members of the Academy vote. The ceremony
is attended by most Hollywood stars, although some famous stars, such as Woody
Allen, refuse to go, even if they win an award. The oldest winner of an Oscar
was 80-year- old Jessica Tandy for her performance in the film “Driving Miss
Daisy” in 1990. The youngest was Shirley Temple when she was only five years
old. The statuette is of soldier standing on a reel of film. Nobody is really
sure why it is called an Oscar, although some people say that it is because
when the first statuette was made, a secretary said, “It reminds me of Uncle
Oscar!” Oscar is one of the top ceremony of awards. Its award is a gold-plated
figurine which is awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences for the best film work in various categories, e.g. Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Actor, Best Actress. In 1928 Frances Marion said about it: “the
statuette is a perfect symbol of the movie business – a powerful athletic body
clutching a gleaming sword, with half of his haed, the art that holds his
brain, completely sliced off”.