YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg
Essays 211 - 240
Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...
typical Junker and espoused these conservative, even reactionary, views. With this background, its not surprising to read that Bi...
a conversation with Colonel Brighton (Anthony Quale), Feisal shows that he understands that the British are there to protect their...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...
lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...
of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...
in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...
This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...
post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
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...
In a letter to his friend Wilhelm, dated May 4, 1771, Werther expresses regret over breaking a young woman named Lenores heart. A...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...
Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
have more than our share of those kids here. But it wasnt as if the Seattle crowd was haunting us. Rather, there were just many mo...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
of Gottingen and two years later transferred to the University of Berlin (World Political Leaders, 2001). Bismarcks academic care...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...