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                    [Title] => Memorable opening scenes in movies
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Have you ever watched a movie where the opening scene instantly got your attention? This seems to be a very effective technique in engaging the audience right from the start of the film. It sets the stage for more excitement to come from the rest of the film. Here are some movies with unforgettable introductory scenes:

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Welcome to the apocalypse. This is the world we live in now. One ruled not by gods or the devil, but something far worse: Hollywood sequels. With each new year comes a new swarm of blockbuster part twos and prequels.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134480 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413195 [AuthorName] => Jonty Cruz [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/young-star/20140530/days-of-future-sequels-4.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1253997 [Title] => Jonathan Rhys Meyers takes a bite out of ‘Dracula’ [Summary] =>

Sexy monsters are a bit of a specialty for Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In “The Tudors,” the Irish actor made King Henry VIII an attractive despot who dispatched wives and enemies while strutting, sulking and seducing his way through 16th-century England.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1209191 [Title] => Classic Movies on Journalism [Summary] =>

“Citizen Kane” Considered by many to be the best movie of all time, it should be of little surprise then that “Citizen Kane” also ranks at the top of our list of the best movies about journalism. A thinly-veiled fictionalization of William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles’ Kane has arguably become more iconic than his real-life counterpart.

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No one would ever accuse Baz Luhrmann of subtlety. His Great Gatsby, like all of his films, is about as subtle as a Looney Tunes cartoon, and it’s really up to you whether this approach fits your idea of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary creation.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 924356 [Title] => A heinous thing happened on the way to the movies [Summary] =>

Sharmaine Arnaiz is an actress mother who likes watching movies and is the first one who comes to mind when we set out to watch one. We like picking her brains and sharing observations, as we eavesdrop on others sitting close by.

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Citizen Kane or Vertigo? Every 10 years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine conducts an international survey of critics to determine the films currently regarded as the greatest.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134078 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1389712 [AuthorName] => Jessica Zafra [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 782743 [Title] => Oscars statuettes from '30s, '40s auctioned in LA [Summary] =>

Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane," have been sold at a Los Angeles auction.

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Russian-American national Misha Anissimov names his library of world cinema in Pajac, Lapu-Lapu City after slain Filipino film critic and professor Alexis Tioseco and the latter’s Slovenian fiancée and filmmaker Nika Bohinc.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489320 [AuthorName] => Maria Eleanor E. Valeros [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 539991 [Title] => Are you showbiz na showbiz? [Summary] =>

My friend Raoul Tidalgo knew what gift to give me last Christmas. It’s a little book called Trivia of the Silver Screen (by Lester Gordon) which is absolutely interesting and informative.

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