1987 in film

The Samurai Film Maker Akira Kurosawa is considered by many to be one of the most influential film makers of all time. Many of his films have been remade or his concepts repurposed for a new audiences; Seven Samurai was remade into the Magnificent Seven, The Battle Beyond our Stars, Zhong yi qun ying (Seven Warriors) and a Japanese anime series, Samurai 7. Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was remade into a Fist Full of Dollars, Last Man Standing, and another anime series, Kaze no Yojimbo.(Maunula,2014)…

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian filmmaker whose films are so uniquely his they are in a genre of their own. Smart and profound films that offer many polysemic viewpoints and are full of ambiguity. Throughout his career there have been many different techniques, styles, and changes Kiarostami has tested and implemented. His movies all have a certain distinctive quality to them, but starting with his 1987 film “Where Is the Friend's Home?”, he settled into a style that is now uniquely his own.…

trying to convey in his films. To reinforce this relationship, the ideas of the film theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin are helpful in understanding why Spike Lee chose to place certain shots in a specific order. The last section of the analysis will be a comparison of how the main characters in Spike Lee’s film She’s Gotta Have It and Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan defy traditional expectations of gender. Throughout the films directed by Spike Lee, the viewer will notice how he uses his films to convey a…

In ‘Music and the Silent Film’ by Patrick Miller the writer comments that from the earliest days of the cinema, commercial films were accompanied by music. From the fairground nickelodeons where player pianos churned out popular favourites to the glittering movie palaces where large orchestras accompanied the images on the silver screen, film music flourished. Music for the movies not only heightened the emotional response to a picture, but also served the practical purpose of drowning out the…

sense of humor. He always seems to know the appropriate time to hit the punch line and leave everyone with a chuckle. Brooks has directed a number of classics. His best known films are The Producers (1968), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). Mel Brooks full name is Melvin James Brooks. He was born June twenty eighth, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. He was…

I have just finished watching the film "The Princess Bride" and would like to give my review and opinion on the movie. "The Princess Bride" was directed by Rob Reiner and has since been known as one of the more popular princess/fairytale movies since its original release in 1987. The run time for the film is 98 minutes and has a 97% from "Rotten Tomatoes." "The Princess Bride" is set in fiction and fantasy places but the movie mainly takes place in "Florin" and "Guilder." The movie begins with a…

Corner’s: Underground Homosexual Kingdom in the Eyes of Lesbians As the Taiwanese film critic Huang Jianye concludes, documentary in Taiwan has been developed into an ascendant genre after the success of the inaugural “International Documentary Biennial Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been…

Horror/Comedy classic released in 1987. When I say Horror, I mean it in the sense that it contains the Classic Universal Monsters to varying degrees. Which in my opinion is what really makes this movie as good as it is, because that certainly wasn't the writing. Honestly I had never even heard of this film until about six months ago, and after looking into I have no idea how I missed this film growing up. I can't feel that my lack on nostalgic goggles is bringing the film down or if it was just…

The 1987 film, Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well put together film in a way that everything was put together in the end of the film. Spielberg connected a lot of things that viewers saw in the beginning of the film to what viewers saw in the end of the film. In this film there is a major relationship between some sort of a caretaker model and a young child in need of care. This relationship develops between Basie and Jamie. Throughout the film, I feel that Basie was…

According to a review post by Film School Rejects, the mix of genres brought in a larger audience than the typical horror and sci-fi fans and is what Cronenberg believes to have been “…one of the contributing factors to the film’s success—” (Kirk). The mix of genres, plus Jeff Goldblum’s acting and the special effects are what made the movie such a success. In 1987, The Fly won an Oscar for Best Makeup. That same year at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, The Fly won…