Film Analysis Essay

learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a movie. The different ways that a film is shot and how the scene is constructed…

successful 1993 American film that captures the interests, mind and heart of its viewers because of its astonishing, innovative, and unique storyline, and in which this requires clear mind when watching in order for it to decode and unfold its purpose and in order for it to discover how great it is. This was directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis himself and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin .It was starring by Bill Murray, Andie Macdowell and Chris Elliott. The film garner intense…

heard the phrase “respecting the media of film” before this lass, I would have thought that someone was simply referring to trying to interpret the message behind a film or respecting the directors storytelling. There is some accuracy to this statement, however there is much more to it. There is an understanding to it that allows you to know what makes certain films work and what makes them fail. Too often people do not realize that there are subtle ways a film can go from good to great. There…

In the 1992 movie The Player (Robert Altman), the main character Griffin Mills, a wealthy movie executive, murders a writer, David Kahane, whom he believes to be terrorizing him after not producing Kahane’s movie. Griffin represents the kind of entitlement seen in Hollywood, he makes demands he has no right to be making, he cheats on his girlfriend, and the worst offense : he walks into Bicycle Thieves only to catch the last 5 minutes, and then has the audacity to suggest a remake where the…

saw a rise in historical period dramas like, Lion in Winter, Anne of a Thousand Days, Mary Queen of Scots etc. The performances of the leads, Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton, are excellent, although sometimes overacted as was typical of that era in film. However, this movie was based on Jean Anouilh's play Becket, meaning they decided to keep Anouilh’s version of Thomas Becket as a Saxon. Becket was not a Saxon and the playwright himself knew that, but only after he had finished his play. To…

A Glimpse into Psychedelic Films and their Development from 1961-2011 Runtime (48:42) Laura Bluhm Psychedelic films are most widely known for consisting of a series of images in which take on form of each other and provide a distorted reality for the viewer. One of the many intentions of a psychedelic film is to emphasize on the imagery, which is put together as a sequence to disrupt the viewer 's understanding of a normal reality. The films used in this screening focus on and uses surrealism…

I’ve been meaning to catch up with “Ida,” the Polish film that won the best foreign language film Oscar in 2013, for almost three years. With it leaving Netflix in a few days, I decided the time had definitely come for me to see this celebrated movie. After watching its short 82 minutes, I’m glad I saw it, even though I found it underwhelming. “Ida” tells the story of Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a teenaged novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is about to take her vows. Her mother superior (Halina…

Her past basically speaks for itself; Citizenfour is the third film in her post 9/11 trilogy. Because of the type of film’s she’s worked on, she was placed on the government secret watch list. In a way, her past film from 2006, My Country, My Country, was something that helped get this one made in the first place. It was nominated for an Academy Award which subsequently put her under surveillance by the government. The content of the film was key in this incident happening—it was concerning Iraq…

class I really liked the horror genre. I have never watched Horror movies in my life and for the first time watching the films in class it thrilled me. For example, when we watch the movie the silencer I thought that movie was going to be too scary for me to watch. I wanted to step outside but I didn’t I because for the movie brought my attention even thought it was horror film I thought that it would be a great experience. And it was, through the movie The Silencer ever time Billy the doll did…

the most recognised films of all time. The film was released during the time of the WWII, so the audience highly related to it. The production of the film was extremely rushed in order for it to be released at the certain time. Its original release date was expected to be spring time 1943 but was then released in November 1942. This was to correspond with the Allied invasion of North America and the capture of Casablanca. Instead of only showing the political themes of the film, the tension,…