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Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

A Film Analysis of Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

Film as Seen Through the Feminist Eye

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Motivation and Drive of Director Steven Spielberg

he paid his dues. Many of those dues included working for other people and learning from some of the best in the industry. He wo...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

Modern Cinema in China

began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Rintaro's Anime Version of Metropolis

of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...

1971 Film Production of Macbeth by Director Roman Polanski

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Moonrise Film by Director Frank Borzage

post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

'Colored Journalism' in Michael Moore's 1989 Docudrama Roger and Me

a powerful and effective piece of cinematography, for in its subtlety and simplicity it displays the mark of excellence in tastefu...

Atom Egoyan's Film Felicia's Journey Adapted from the Novel by William Trevor

In five pages the film version of this novel is considered in terms of the changes and how the filmmaker elects to depict Trevor's...

Cinematic Screwball Comedies and Their Evolution

In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Characteristics of Mexican Cinema

(Mexican Film Institute) and the British Film Institute, a major two-month season of Mexican Cinema presented at the National Fil...

John Woo's Film The Killer

In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...

Comparing Rudyard Kipling's Prose with John Huston's Cinematic Narrative in The Man Who Would Be King

In five pages the voices used in these very different ways of telling the same story are compared and contrasted in terms of artis...

Cinematic Version of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Problems Faced by Director Stanley Kubrick

In eight pages this paper discusses the problems filmmaker Stanley Kubrick struggled with while making his big screen adaptation o...

Return of the Jedi Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...

Michael Powell's 1960 Film Peeping Tom, Ideological Realism and Narrative Illusionism

In eight pages this paper examines how the filmmaker created ideological realism and narrative illusionism through such production...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

Films of Pedro Almodovar and Luis Bunuel

In three pages three essays compare these great filmmakers in a consideration of such themes as social deviance the 'Stockholm Syn...

Oliver Stone's Film Natural Born Killers and Postmodernism

In seven pages this paper discusses how in 1994's Natural Born Killers filmmaker Oliver Stone employed postmodernist techniques. ...

Analysis of David Lynch's Twin Peaks Film

for comic relief. Here its everyone... its all about these little moments of behavior. Its like sitting down and just watching peo...