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David Ansen goes on to speculate that the film may be more thrilling to viewers who are encountering the story for the first time,...

ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...

Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

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

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...