1998 in film

reaction stems from the choices made in medium and message; the importance of time is not lost as the director uses tools to enhance their themes. Split screens and multi-image shots have long been used to show the relationship between time and space. Films must purposefully select elements to add credibility to their stories to ensure the viewership will understand the message as it is intended. Physical adaptations to how the audience sees, in turn, has a tremendous impact on its…

will certainly leave you in awe once you finish the film. According to IMDB (n.d.), it lavished prestigious awards including three Oscars (1999), one from the Cannes Film Festival (1998), four Italian Golden Globes (1998) and one Grammy Award (2000). The Italian film was directed by Roberto Benigni and was released on 20th December 1997 in Italy. It was subtitled and translated into English for the United States and was released on 23rd October 1998. It revolves around the life of a nonchalant…

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace In 1998, Lucas Film released a teaser poster for their long waited and highly anticipated new movie, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. This was a relief to many fans and stirred much excitement with the community because Star Wars has been without a release since 1983 and many fans are looking forward to seeing the new George Lucas film. This teaser poster grabs the attention of long time Star Wars fans as it does new fans wanting to know what happens to the…

The movies he tried in include “Billy Madison” (1995), “Happy Gilmore” (1996), “The Wedding Singer” (1998), and “Punch Drunk Love” (2002) (Hickey). Billy Madison, “Goofy comedy with immature humor, profanity, and sex jokes”. (Common Sense Media). “Despite bad reviews Billy Madison is a cult classic that off of a 10 million dollar budget made 26.4 million…

Walter Salles’s 1998 drama “Central Station” was a movie that was hard to fit into a specific category. While it weighed heavy on the dramatic side, there were elements of comedy and thriller that made the film very different from any normal film about two people. The film drifted between various sub-genres, but the movie felt more like a mix between a road movie, an odd buddy film, and a complex relationship study. If we focus mostly on the setting on the film, the film feels a lot like your…

According to Tyler, “cinema was the ideal propaganda weapon for the second quarter of the twentieth century.” With the spread of communism in USSR in the 1920s, Soviet films- especially soviet montage was influenced by it. This essay will be exploring the ways in which Soviet montage film form or aesthetics have been affected by state ideology. In 1905, there was a turmoil and social unrest in Russia. Russian citizens, especially working class, who were outraged at their government began to…

The medium of film is such a powerful tool, that it influences thehuman mind in a very subtle manner. It is so accessible that one can even watch them on their phones, holding it in their hands. It manipulates our daily life in such an unnoticeable manner. It does it through advertisement, television shows and films as well. It chooses to focus on particular narratives and gives so much importance to them that the audience not only becomes more informed, but it triggers thought in the audience…

& Albert Auster (2011), they reveal that films have the ability to evoke the mood and tone of a society in a particular era. However, there was a time when a number of historians and social scientists were hesitant about accepting this truism. By films, one means not merely documentaries, which obviously directly capture something of the reality of people’s lives and feelings, but also mainstream Hollywood commercial films. It is not only that these films sometimes convey and imitate the…

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)…

The director could be considered the author of a film they make. The French denoted the term auteur for “Hollywood directors who they felt had created a distinctive approach to filmmaking while working within the Hollywood studio system” (33). Americans started picking up the term as well, and then famous directors with certain styles started being known as auteurs. The director’s style crosses over into their films. These are directors like Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David…