Citizen Kane

The 1987 film, Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well put together film in a way that everything was put together in the end of the film. Spielberg connected a lot of things that viewers saw in the beginning of the film to what viewers saw in the end of the film. In this film there is a major relationship between some sort of a caretaker model and a young child in need of care. This relationship develops between Basie and Jamie. Throughout the film, I feel that Basie was…

Film is one of the most creative form of art that exists, and it is huge in this generation. The ultimate image we see in a movie frame comes from a trail of artistic decisions that had to be made by the director to give meaning to the story. For this paper, the opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be analysed. The paper has the following order: an explanation of what needs to be considered to analyse a movie, a brief explanation of the important elements of…

Hamed Rashid 201216504 COM 321 Lawrence of Arabia critique COM 321 Lawrence of Arabia Hamed Rashid 201216504 COM 321 The movie is a masterpiece movie directed by David Lean have won seven Oscars, its one of the most epic movies listed in Hollywood. An adventure of a western British officer Thomas Lawrence, Showing his way of helping the Arab win their case against the Ottoman Empire at that time World War I. Theme - The main theme of the film is it’s…

Exit Trough the Gift Shop The film ‘’Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an…

Mirdjine Marius Professor Bennett ENC 1101 08/1/15 Requiem for a Dream and Malena Malena and Requiem for a Dream were two films I watched they were both released in the year 2000, which they are completely two different films. There are a number of reasons why either films would have been chosen over other films reason being it includes storyline, the affect it has on the viewer’s point of view, have actors or actresses, and what they bring to the viewer attention. One more…

Quentin Tarantino’s work of director as a DJ Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino’s first film as a director and it became really huge. The film was made partly by reappropriating Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire, but it was better than City on Fire and became a classical one. While Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire was a typical Hong Kong feature film which included gangster loyalty, cops’ infighting and beauties, Reservoir Dogs was more like an artwork, a masterpiece. It jumped out of the threadbare…

The Goddess (1934) is a silent film made by Wu Yonggang, a well-known Chinese director in the 1930s. Hailed as “a masterpiece of ‘the first golden age of Chinese cinema’”, the film marked not only Wu’s directorial debut, but also “the pinnacle of [Ruan Lingyu’s] career” (Harris, 128). Ruan’s “mature, nuanced performance”, which was “subtle but at the same time powerful and rich”, proved to be a major factor in the movie’s success and lasting impact in Chinese cinema – even inspiring Hong Kong…

The Evil Dead is one of the best horror films of all time. Its greatness due to a great original screenplay and directing. The film Evil Dead has a cult following and for good reason. It is highly praised by names like Stephen King. Evil Dead was written and directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Bruce Campbell in the leading role as Ash Williams. The story is about a group of five college kids go who to a cabin in the woods for a vocation. Once there they find an audiotape that unleashes evil…

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.” Christopher Nolan is undoubtedly one of the best directors in Hollywood, and he set fire to the film world with his groundbreaking film Interstellar. From its jaw dropping visual effects shown with elegant cinematography to a goosebump inducing score, Interstellar became an instant classic. Visuals are a very important to movies nowadays. But most of these impressive visuals are going towards creating and bringing to life fictional…

During the black and white era, the controlled use of contrast and intensity of lighting was a key factor that allowed for depth and even emotion in film. Keating talks in his writing about how Noir helped pioneer the excellent use of lighting to create enriching scenes with high contrast and irregular shapes and patterns. Keating talks about how lighting inside noir films are more low key and deep focus, while in regular studio cinema it tends to be more shallow and high key. Keating goes on to…