1997 in film

commercial films and Entertainment. In late 1976 in United States Kodak commanded 90% and 85% of films and…

historical inaccuracies in the films? All historical movies are of peoples interpretations of the events, or if it was written from someone who were there at the time of the event it's still based off of what they seen or remember. Things can get lost in interpretation but director's I feel do try to stick to the best of there knowledge while maintaining a film that would be popular in ratings. Like James Cameron who written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited the film in 1997 of The…

Andrew Niccol is a New Zealand-born director who has created futuristic films in his writing and directing career spanning 20 years. Some characteristics of his directorial style are colour and positioning to symbolise characters and themes in his work. These factors are highlighted in the opening scenes in Gattaca (1997) and In Time (2011). Each film parallels each other specifically through camera work and colour, helping the audience to have a clear understanding of Niccol’s directorial style…

When Broken Rainbow won the academy award in 1986 for documentary film, my family and tribe were very proud. Throughout my childhood, I casually watched Broken Rainbow many times. Now as I re-watch and dissect the film many years later, I’ve noticed a theme throughout the film that I didn’t recognize at first. Throughout the documentary, Broken Rainbow (1985), film-makers Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd further their political argument of repealing the Navajo Hopi Settlement Act by utilizing the…

wrote Good Will Hunting—earning an A for his work on the assignment and an Oscar for his work on the screenplay for the film. The two childhood friends from the south side of Boston, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, wrote a script together that some might say is the greatest piece of writing ever done for a film. The two of them sold the script and turned it into a movie that opened in 1997 and became the start of their fame that initiated the assent from small time actors into two of the most…

Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

Citizen Kane, written, directed and starring Orson Welles is a biographical/detective film on the life of Charles Foster Kane. The film sets out with a journalist called Thompson speaking to his boss about how they want to announce Kane’s death to the world on News of the March. They need more information about Kane, his personality and a deeper insight into his life rather than the facts that everyone already knows. This is where Rosebud comes into play. Rosebud was the final word that Kane…

Noriega) to handle, he cryogenically freezes himself, without taking into consideration the consequences of his choice, hoping all his problems could be solved in the future. Directed by Alejandro Amenbar in 1997, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) a mystery/science fiction/drama long feature film, speaks of a 25 year old handsome, promiscuous, rich young man called Cesar whose best friend Pelayo (Fele Martinez) introduces to Sofia (Penelope Cruz), whom he falls deeply in love with. Since he was…

127 Hours also contains one of modern day film’s most pivotal moments. The film details the story of Aron Ralston, an outdoorsman and thrill seeker who survived a horrific canyoneering accident while exploring remote areas of Utah. Aron’s desperate actions for survival served as the movie’s pivotal point. This moment entailed…

According to a case study ‘Gender Inequality in 500 Popular Films’ (Stacy, 2013) by University of Southern California, it examines the gender roles of speaking characters in top-grossing films, through the data to show the gender representation in the mainstream films. In the films that released in 2012, there are out of 4,475 speaking characters on screen, but only 28.4% are female which shows females are grossly underrepresented on screen, this result reflects Mulvey’s view “the character…