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Who could think of a better near-opening for a Pedro Almodovar film than a delirious scene of a Spanish dubbing of that holiest of holy cinephiliac films Johnny Guitar? (Nicholas Ray being, with the possible exception of the more obvious Douglas Sirk, the largest costume in Almodovar’s wide-open carnival-closet of cross-national cinema). Even better, the … Read more
“Sick Around America” My first reaction after watching the episode of frontline, “Sick around America” is really scandalous since I was not aware of how the American healthcare system worked. For instance, the case of Melinda Williams whom was four months pregnant and was bleeding, her baby got saved but the cost was extremely high … Read more
The Titanic tells the dramatic, prosperous yet love story of Jack Dawson played by Leonardo Dicaprio and Rose DeWitt Bukater played by Kate Winslet through a journey taken place in 1912 on their voyage from Southampton to New York City. Director James Cameron splurged a whopping $200 million on capturing this heart filling story. The … Read more
The movie Rear Window came out during 1954. It is Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film with a leading duo of James Stewart and Grace Kelly. The context of this film is when the Us was in a huge communist scare. People treating other people like nothing to save their own self. Everybody is going against each … Read more
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Nostalgia is portrayed very well in this Italian film this is clearly seen from the flashback at the beginning of the film as Salvatore reminisces on the effect Alfredo had on his childhood. It is also seen from the funeral once Salvatore returns to the now derelict building where he had his … Read more
Robert Aldrich’s film, Kiss Me Deadly, has been referred to as, “the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time.” The film was produced in 1955, during the time of the classical Film Noir era’s spread throughout Hollywood. The term, meaning “black film,” was originally applied to thriller and detective films made in the … Read more
In All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, the theme of the power of knowledge is prominent throughout Jack’s journey within the great web of the world. His path brings to light his true self and along with it the realization that he and everyone else in the web must take responsibility for their … Read more
Crash (2004) Paul Haggis The 2004 film, Crash, directed by Paul Haggis is a drama which fundamentally concerns the underlying racial tensions present in society and its effects on various people in Los Angeles post the September 11th terrorist attacks. Over the course of thirty-six hours, the film explores the way in which eleven strangers’ … Read more
The documentary “They Call Us Monsters”, takes inside a segregated unit for juveniles being tried as adults in Sylmar Juvenile Hall and introduces to three teenagers awaiting trial where they spend their days and nights waiting to learn their fate for their violent and gang related crimes. A screenwriter offers to teach a writing workshop … Read more
“Language is much closer to film than painting is” (Sergei Eisenstein). There were very few men and women in filmmaking who were focused on to make difference in filmmaking during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Young people of that time wanted to create a revolutionary style theme, form, and style. Most Russian films made before … Read more
The genre convention that is plainly detectable from the beginning of the film is that there are clear double alternate extremes. This is the place you can plainly recognize the great individuals in the film yet additionally see the malicious individuals. In Hot Fuzz, it is obvious from the begin that Nicholas Angel, the fundamental … Read more
Khuda ke liye is a Pakistani movie blockbuster which shows some social issues in this country and on other hand it shows some reality base events which are happen in reality but they are being showed in other ways in media language Grey Propaganda. Khuda ke liye is a story which tells us about those … Read more
This paper discusses critically the codes and conventions of three different genres of film and how they effectively communicate to an audience. You might wonder, “What is a film genre?” Well, simply put, a genre is a category/group of films characterized by a particular style, form or content (Merriam-Webster, 2018). The three groups/categories of films … Read more
The movie ’PK’ is an Indian movie which was released on December 19,2014.It follows a comedy-drama approach. Its directed by Rajkumar Hirani and written by Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani. It was produced by Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film’s sountrack was composed by Shantanu Moitra, Ajay-Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by … Read more
“Dances with wolves” is an American epic film full with western culture directed as well as produced by Kevin Costner. The film was adopted back in 1988 by Michael Blake and addresses the story of Union army who was travelling to the United States with an aim of securing a military post in the process … Read more
In 1986, John Badham directed the box office hit widely beloved by millennials, Short Circuit. This comedic film follows Johnny 5, a military robot on his journey to understanding humanity. The film starts in a Nova Laboratory, a pair of robotics Newton Crosby and Ben Jabituya (actors Steve Guttenburg and Fisher Stevens) plan to make … Read more
In The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides has the narrators describe seemingly average daily occurrences as extraordinary, exhibiting the search for something more significant in their uniform, designed-to-be-perfect lives. Through the narrators’ overstatements, it is evident that the boys become increasingly obsessed with the minute details of the Lisbon girl’s lives until it becomes their top … Read more
The Disaster Artist is a 2017 American biographical comedy-drama film produced and directed by James Franco. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the film is based on Greg Sestero and {Mary|Ben|Jeff} Bissell’s non-fiction book of the same name, and chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 The Room, widely considered one of the … Read more
The supremacist yet spectacular film ‘Fight Club’ (1999) by David Fincher starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton consists of various different themes such as mental illness, different realities, identity, masculinity, power, consumerism, loneliness among others. The protagonist, Jack or Tyler but most importantly the narrator is portrayed as a victim of insomnia and depression. He … Read more
Acknowledgements First of all, we would like express our sincere thanks to our Literature teachers, for providing us with useful insights into what Literature is and inspiring us as to how we can go about analysing Shaun of the Dead. I would also like to sincerely thank Ms Teo Hsin Fern for being a knowledgeable … Read more
The documentary Bowling for Columbine demonstrates how America is very comfortable handling guns, he also talks about the consequences of this behavior like the “Columbine high school massacre” and many others school shootings and events that have happened because of this type of behavior. Michael Moore proves his point by interviewing people that attended the … Read more
The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz directed by Richard Thorpe has been a successful film for quite some time, although it wasn’t a hit at first. Formalist movies were relatively new and The Wizard of Oz took many risks when it comes to form. Movies prior to The Wizard of Oz tended to focus … Read more
Films that we interact with in our everyday life, requires people from various fields to communicate and cooperate in order to produce the best quality. A director is a person that is responsible for all the aspects of the film and its production; in other words, the center pole of the film production. They work … Read more
Let’s talk about the agbada challenge, shall we? So Falz, the popular music crooner cum Comedian-Actor collaborated with some other young mid-aged Actors to throw a dare to the veteran Actors. Trust the charismatic Richard Mofe Damijo and Ramsey Noah to rise up to the challenge. What was their goal? It was simply (or not … Read more
Street Fight “Street Fight” is a documentary film which revolves around the mayoral elections of Newark, New Jersey in 2002. The movie has been directed by Marshall Curry, who appears to be biased in favor of Cory Booker, then 32-year old. The Street Fight is not about knives, guns or physical combat, but rather a … Read more
While the short film, 2081, has many common similarities with its adapted version of the short story, Harrison Bergeron, they differ from each other to the point where it can change our whole view on who Harrison Bergeron is. They contrast from each other because the short film includes an unplanned scene where Harrison hid … Read more
If the film is effectively and expressed visually with the contents of what is in the frame and the way it is organised, then everything in the frame can carry meaning through mise-en-scene. Therefore, the question arises, “How significant is mise-en-scene in film?” The frame consists of contents such as lighting, costume, decor, props, and … Read more
The film is very intense and dreamlike. We see multiple women, that are all the same woman but in different ways. They go through a set of events that slowly but surely get more and more bizarre. The movie ends with a shattered mirror, a man and the death of the main character, the woman. … Read more
The 1970s in the U.S. was a pivotal time in politics and social change. Second wave feminism was characterized by the sexual liberation of women. As women began to become familiar with their sexual identities there was also the desire for them to define the rest of their identities. The hope to create a unique … Read more
Fire in the Blood, a documentary by Dylan Mohan Gray, investigates on the injustice of AIDS treatment in Africa, millions of who die every year just because they cannot afford the antiretroviral drug that could have saved their lives. The documentary portrays how western pharmaceutical companies along with the US and European governments keep low-cost … Read more
Strategic communication is the practice of communicating with a big agenda, or a master plan of sorts. It infuses the notion of pushing messages to the public as well as delivering them to the target audience. It has been a fairly recent emergence in the field of communication, as strategic communication has been birthed due … Read more
Wall- e is a kind of animated science fiction film directed by Andrew Stanton in 2008. The film perfectly depicts possible consequences of consumerism and over reliance on technology. Even though some blame technology to be the foe of human beings and this planet but its humans who are turning into their own enemies. The … Read more
In Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson plays a former silent film star named Norma Desmond who lives as a wealthy recluse in order to protect herself from the truth of her irrelevance in the public eye. In the film’s first act, Norma becomes involved in a complicated romantic relationship with a down-on-his … Read more
The Ten Commandments is an American Biblical Epic Film that is directed by Cecil B DeMille. It dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses. Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders to kill all new first born male baby of his time but, Yoshebel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in the … Read more
When the movie “Fight Club” directed by David Fincher released on the 1st of January 1999 it opened to a somewhat disappointing business there was a widespread misjudgement that Fight Club was an action movie about underground bare-knuckle boxing contests Where in actuality, it’s a horror/thriller movie which literally begins in the fear-centre of its … Read more
Formalism is an approach which contains intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct or unique work of art. The historical context, the author, or any other external contexts are not necessary or important in interpreting the meaning (Barrot &Sipacio, 2016). It tackles more on the formal features of the text or story like … Read more
Bollywood’s limit couple who bring passed on hit movies similar to Guru (2007) What’s more Sarkar raj (2008), will before long impart screen space Furthermore that as well on the additional huge screen in a up and hailing novel into a film titled Gulab Jamun. The gifted twosome were generally significantly seen 8 a considerable … Read more
Movies have been introduced to the world in many genres and in different years. Somehave made a huge impact on this world whilst some have been depicted as the worst ones.Each and every movie gives a message either complex or simple. Various websites haverated the movies according to their views which help people more to … Read more
There is a thrill to be had in frightening experiences; this explains the popularity of horror films, roller coasters, and haunted house tours. So many people embrace their fears in order to achieve their desired thrill. In the novel Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison intertwines themes of sexuality and fear, showing how danger can … Read more
Oscar Wilde once said that “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” In both Blindness by Jose Saramago and in Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, sex is used by the men in the story as a means to exert power over the women. In Salvage the Bones, the … Read more
In the movie, La Mission, we see a variety of different men and masculinities throughout the plot. We see the men who are stereotypical Latino men, and stereotypical Bay people. The masculinity in the film is represented in roughly four ways: heterosexual cis males who are against homosexuals, men who use anger to fight against … Read more
“The Shallows” is a thriller film that was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The film was first released on June 21st, 2016. The film is a thriller and reflects true hardships that one may encounter in life. Nancy, the main character, is trapped 200 yards away from the shore and hopeless since she is certain that … Read more
Spotlight is directed by Tom McCarthy and stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and Liev Schreiber. It’s the true story of the Boston news reporters who work for the Boston Globe who uncovered a very disturbing scandal happening within the Catholic Church, as well as the law officials who were trying to cover it … Read more
Rebel archetypes in movies are portrayed as the mean person or character that does not care about any rules they are being told.when you hear rebel people assume they are talking about a bad person or the villian but really it can be any character we just have to really understand the story. They tend … Read more
Crying foul on director Mikhail Kalatozov’s deliriously unhinged, masterful slice of post-Bay of Pigs agitprop for its unapologetic commitment to ideology would be tantamount to artistic heresy and shortsighted emphasis on the political over the artistic if the film weren’t such a bold and brazen reclamation of that age old fact that art is innately … Read more
Jose Saramago’s Blindness depicts a world suddenly stricken by a blindness epidemic. As an inexplicable wave of blindness spreads, society fragments and people freely express an “animalistic” form of human nature in face of the increased pressure for survival. The characters’ responses to their blindness paint a fairly pessimistic picture of human nature and in … Read more
Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve explores the inability of women to find fulfillment in the roles offered by the theater. For a “true star” like Margo or simply a “carbon copy” like Eve or Phoebe in the harsh world of the theater, Mankiewicz suggests that it is almost impossible for a woman to reach fulfillment. … Read more
A Flat character is one who does not go through significant changes throughout the novel and who also serves as a support system to the min character. In “The Catcher to the Rye,” Phoebe is seen as a flat character while her brother Holden is seen as a round character. Phoebe is seen as Holden’s … Read more
Raja Tarun, the young heroine who is struggling with successive flops, has come up with ‘Lover’. The film is directed by Dil Raju Banner and the film is set to become a director with Anish Krishna, who is the director of the hit film. Let’s see if this film is going to change the way … Read more
This movie was going to be originally directed by Steven Spielberg but was later on passed to Clint Eastwood. It was the comeback of Clint to the Hollywood after his last movie ‘Trouble with the Curve’ in 2012. American Sniper is based on the autobiography of Chris Kyle named “The Legend”. It tells the real-life … Read more