American film directors

Collage is another technique that participates in the film’s construction of palimpsests. Defined as a collection of heterogeneous materials, collage has long played a role in the Latin American documentary tradition. In Familia tipo, however, the device is put to specific use. It permits Priego to reorder fragments and establish new relationships among them, thereby deconstructing an inherited family archive. Priego’s use of collage is not straightforward, but rather reflexive in nature. She…

Respected for his artistic efforts, Lewis had that special quality the French called auteur when making a picture truly in his vision. Lewis was a chameleon with each film he directed and still managed to input his style while maintaining the mood of the characters in the story and designing the scenery to fit the tempo of the film, as Hirsch recognizes, “Lewis shifts his own style to accommodate the style of his characters and their setting. The detective in So Dark the Night, on the surface,…

Orson Welles is still know till this day as the director who one of the best movies of all time which was Citizen Kane. But not only was he a director but, he also was an American actor, producer, and writer. With all that he also has worked on the radio, film, and theatre. Orson was born May 6, 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives Welles, growing up was hard on Orson his parents divorced and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father became an alcoholic after he…

Uniqueness and Audacity in Film: Nanni Moretti Nanni Moretti is an Italian filmmaker who has garnered great fame and prominence from his unique style of filmmaking which tackles Italian political and social issues which are riddled with a strange, quirky style of humor. Moretti over the years has challenged Italian filmmaking norms and has become a forefront in the discussion of Italian politics. His fame, however, does not exceed that of his country, where in the United States he is relatively…

Movie directors engage in a more in-depth review of the literature to make sure that their message gets the attention needed for either education or entertainment (Everett & Bryan 3). Art lives after the creators of it have long gone as seen in Casablanca movie which possesses a history of the American people with unique cinema works that have transcended time due to the quality of the narration in capturing human history (Tunc & Tanfer 55). The movie is developed neutrally by the director in…

In the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid directed by George Roy Hill uses many different examples of symbolism that connects to the American Progressive Era and life in America. The true story is about the two leaders of Wyoming’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, looting trains and banks which is starting to get harder because of how the times are changing which ultimately in the end leads to their downfall. With that being said this movie could be considered…

recognizable by indices which it alone can reveal” (Bresson, pg 106). These certain states of soul represent our experience as a viewer seeing through the 'eye ' of an embodied subject. As cinematography is the means of creative film making through which the nature of film is exploited as according to Bresson, the images are charged with emotion and intimacy. He refers to this in one passage as attaining that “heart of the heart”, to discover the matter of which men and women (models) are made…

brutality as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us into action. Such films do battles for our very soul.” This quote by Theodore Bikel, an Australian-American actor and activist, summarizes the importance of documentaries for the world. Documentaries have evolved over the years from simple historical narrative into stimulating informational films. In Stephen King’s essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” he lists why people enjoy unpredictable plots…

In 1965 George Steven (American Hollywood director) delivered a heroic movie named The Greatest Story Ever Told. It is a retelling of the account of Jesus Christ, from the Birth through the Resurrection. Moreover, the particular movie is famous for its talented cast, and this is the last film of the Claude Rains. The cast of that particular film is famous for their dramas but not much popular for the English films. This is a 2-hour film and not gain much success in the start When this movie was…

a Time in the West is now generally acknowledged as a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made, regardless of genre. What made me select it for this assignment is the haunting sound of the harmonica in one of its key scenes, sheer brilliance in blending the visual and the auditory into one of the most poignant moments in movie history. Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 spaghetti western film. It was directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures starring Henry Fonda as the…