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Since the beginning of cinema history, directors and screenwriters have been putting other films into their own films – in many purposeful ways and with powerful results. While a film might appear on a television set in the corner of a room and the film's characters fail to take notice of it, most are being looked at by the director’s camera and, ultimately, by us, the audience. They generally have a great deal to tell us about a scene, the characters in that scene, or the entire film.

"Filmserts: Film Appearing in Film" is devoted to the fun and fascinating phenomenon that been around as far back as Buster Keaton.

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The book "Filmserts: Film Appearing in Film" by Lewis Matheney will be out this year.

1/3/08

The Cinema Paradiso Kiss!


How many kisses DOES it take to get to the center of "Cinema Paradiso"?

This is one of the many kisses censored and cut by the town priest in the movie, but later spliced together into a single film and given to Toto after the death of his surrogate father Alfredo.

Do you know how many total FILMSERTS it took to make this spliced-together sequence?
Email us if you know the answer.

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