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of discrimination and fall of a race. La vita è bella (Original title: Life is Beautiful) 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…

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film, Roger & Me(1989), became the most successful American documentary of all time. .His main documentaries are Fahreneit (2004), Sicko (2007),Capitalism:love story (2009).His film Bowling for Columbine (2002), won an Oscar in 2002 and a prize in Cannes. Moore lives in Traverse City, Michigan. We will analyse one of his most successful documentary film Bowling for Columbine in order…

In the year 1941, the year The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, USA, 1941) came forth, is the beginning of the film noir current. For nine years, USA has been the leading country in the production of this genre. In 1949, a famous American producer, David O. Selznick, the creator of Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, USA, 1939), and his British counterpart, Alexander Korda combined their strengths, producing the first British film-noir, which is so significant in the history of cinema. The Third…

The concept of the burkini has been a controversial topic only as of August 2016, yet it has been worn by women all around the world – whether it be for religious purposes or simply for the sole reason of wanting to remain modest – since 2004, when Aheda Zanetti came up with the idea of designing a hybrid of the burka and the bikini. However, the banning of the burkini has only recently become a controversial issue in the eyes of the French government due to the terrorist attacks which occurred…

Salaam Mira! Acclaimed Director, Writer and Producer, Mira Nair, grew up in Odisha (India), and studied in Shimla, Delhi and USA (Harvard). Initially she explored acting and was actively involved with theatre but then got drawn towards film-making and from 1979 started making documentaries that explored the concept of India and Indianness. She found them to be “a marriage of my interests in the visual arts, theatre, and life as it is lived”. Her second non-fiction, “So Far from India” (1982)…

1992. Multitude of awards include: Student Directors Academy Award, for Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, 1980; U.S. Independent Spirit Award for First Film, New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Prix de Jeunesse, Cannes Film Festival, all for She's Gotta Have It, 1986; U.S. Independent Spirit Award, Best Picture, L.A. Film Critics, and Best Picture, Chicago Film Festival, all for Do the Right Thing, 1989; Essence Award,…

The role of the mysterious Harry Lime in The Third Man is played Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), a character that doesn’t appear in the film until nearly the end of the movie, but his sudden appearance and presence makes for a climatic final. Much as been said about Welles involvement in the making of the film, citing on the fact that he was well-known as a director, producer, writer, and actor in his own right. And the fact that he won an Academy Award eight years before for writing and Original…

The contrast between “The Enchanting Shadow” and “A Chinese Ghost Story” The Enchanting Shadow in 1960, which was the first color film to participate in Cannes Festival. Compare to amount of the following Nie Xiaoqian story, A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987 was the most similar to The Enchanting Shadow in various respects, such as plot, setting and style of film making. For some of people, the neither familiar with nor enjoy The Enchanting Shadow. However, A Chinese Ghost Story was a remake of…

Italian neorealism which is also known as the “Golden Age of Italian Cinema”, was a national film movement characterised by the stories set among the poor and working Italian class, mostly filmed on location and frequently using non-professional actors. Italian neorealism films mostly dealt with the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-war Italy, representing changes in the Italian mind and conditions of daily life, including the issues of poverty, oppression, injustice, and…