Portal:Film

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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for film. Film is an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences. The visual elements of cinema need no translation, giving the motion picture a universal power of communication. Films are also artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and in turn, affect them.

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This month's selected article
Jaws is a 1975 horror–thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916. In the film, the police chief of Amity Island, a summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a huge great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the money-grubbing town council. After several attacks, the police chief proceeds to enlist the help of a marine biologist and later a professional shark hunter to kill the shark. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as the shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen, and Murray Hamilton as the greedy Mayor Vaughn. Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, as it is the father of the summer blockbuster movie. More about Jaws edit
This month's selected picture
A still image from Georges Méliès' 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), recognized as the first widely distributed film to tell a complete story and the beginning of cinema as a storytelling medium. edit
Did you know...
...that Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced? ...that the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173-1174 is depicted in the Peter O'Toole-Katharine Hepburn film The Lion in Winter? ...that the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness World Records as the film's eight year production schedule was the longest ever? ...that the style and subject matter of German Expressionism, which produced movies like Nosferatu, influenced film genres like horror and film noir? ... that actor David Manners lived for 67 years after starring in the 1931 film Dracula, but never watched it? edit
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