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1. A large number of major luxury sunglasses and prescription glasses brands, including Chanel, Ray-Ban, Versace, Giorgio Armani, Prada, and Burberry are manufactured by a single Italian company called Luxottica. – Source
2. A Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000-year sentence. – Source
3. Bootlegger Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offenses. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, “Popcorn Said f k You.” – Source
Raging Bull (1980).
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It’s the movie that won Robert De Niro his Oscar for Best Actor. It’s the movie that earned Martin Scorsese his first nomination for Best Director. It’s the movie where the guy who would later play Coach on
Cheers sees a handsome boxer get mutilated and says, “He ain’t pretty no more.” It’s
Raging Bull, and it will punch you in the face. Here are 15 facts to enhance your next viewing of one of the best sports dramas ever made.
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Rocky.
Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected.
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Johnson Awolola is a professional film editor and film director who won the best Nigerian short film at the Real-time international festival 2020. Just recently he got nominated for the Future Awards Africa Prize for film 2020.
In this interview, he shared his experience, challenges and success stories in his sojourn in the film making industry. Excerpts;
What influenced your journey as a film editor/filmmaker?
One of the first film persons I met before film school was Kenneth Gyang. At the time I was already a film editor working with Newage Network (2010-2013). After my resignation I became a freelance film maker and started studying film making and its history at Cinema Kpatakpata, this prepared me for the film industry and film school. I watch films from different parts of the world. Personally, my favourite films are Jacques Audiard’s ‘a prophet’ edited by Jacques Welfling. Films