Academy Award for Best Picture

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is one of his standout works, and many consider it to be his best film created. He manages to create a film that doesn't have any gunshots, fight scenes, dead bodies, over the top action sequences, but still manage to have you glued to the screen wondering what will happen next. The man many consider a master of thrill and suspense might have created a perfect love story, while also throwing in cultural significance of what was happening in the world in 1946.…

The men’s inability to empathize with women’s situations and their ignorance to the women’s values cause female characters from both stories to lose important aspects of their lives and personalities, resulting in a deterioration of their states of mind. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane’s husband John, in a poor attempt to “cure” her, restricts her freedom and puts her on a “scheduled prescription for each hour of the day” and “hardly lets [her] stir without special direction” (Gilman 75).…

her sisters concentrated only on Malayalam films, Padmini was more active in Tamil. But she remembered one Malayalam film Adhyapika (Teacher) in which she played the teacher. The movie was completed in just 13 days in Trivandrum and got a National Award for that film."…

The film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” directed by Sergio Leone, the father of Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to…

“Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

Sacha Baron Cohen is a British comedian and actor who is widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat and Brüno. IN THESE GROUPS FAMOUS PEOPLE IN FILM FAMOUS PEOPLE IN TELEVISION POST-BRITPOP LONDON - CULTURAL ICONS: 2000S FAMOUS PEOPLE NAMED SACHA Show All Groups Sacha Baron Cohen - Full Episode (TV-14; 45:14) Cohen was born to an orthodox Jewish family in London and studied history before turning to comedy in 1995. As hipster Ali G, Cohen interviewed…

September 10, 2015 Elia Kazan’s Lifetime Achievement Award was Justified You have probably heard of or seen A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, or East of Eden, but did you know they were all directed by a man named Elia Kazan? He is most famous for the movies that he has directed and his contributions to the film industry. He was one of the most prominent film directors in the 20th century, and was awarded the lifetime achievement award for his work. However, the tables flipped after…

Levitt Sunset Boulevard The movie Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of great shots in the movie, a couple of the great shots was at the New Year's Ball scene and Norma got mad and went up the stairs but it showed through the mirror where she was going it was a really neat shot. Then when they were driving to Paramount and max looked through the rearview mirror to tell Norma what was wrong with her make up. What was neat with that shot was…

Essay 1 The use of color and photography in Hero The thorough analysis of the use of color and photography in the film Hero It is fact that the film Hero was a box office smash, and won several different types of awards around the world. The director , and producer was Zhang Yimou, and the cinematographer Christopher Doyle which worked together for the first time on Hero and resulted in the film's unique style of layout and design concerning the use of color and photography.…

Muniz was able to recreate the same spirit that Andy Warhol had in the 1960’s of Taylor, but Muniz had his own twist on his works of art. Using chocolates and diamonds, Muniz was able to differ himself from the other artists in his time period. In “Pictures of Diamonds”, the artist created a portrait of celebrities, but then he would photograph his work and blow up the image to make the diamonds be an impressive size for the eye to see. As said before, when I first saw the image of Elizabeth…