Documentary film

December of 1895, the first screenings of the Brothers’ movie was held at the “Salon Indien du Grand Café”. Salon Indien was in fact, a rather small sized hall that allowed about a 100 people. This milestone of an event featured the Brothers’ 10 short films, each at about 50 seconds. Below are a few of the Brothers’ motion pictures as projected: “La Sortie de usines Lumiere” (Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory) 1894 The first premiere of their work, also one of their most significant…

Baz Luhrmann uses his films to recreate classic texts and places to transform them into theatrical masterpieces. Throughout his career he has evolved and progressed in his cinematic language and techniques to achieve this, this is very evident in three of his films; Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet(1996) and The Great Gatsby(2013). All three of these films re-reveal either a place (Australia in Strictly Ballroom) or a classic text (such as in Romeo and Juliet and Great Gatsby). He…

Williams Hall, I attended the screening of the film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry by Mary Dore, a . This film was a documentary that followed through the history of various remarkable women who were a part of the women’s movement between 1966-1971. I was a bit curious on what the film would be like, only knowing what the title of the screening was, but I was not disappointed by the amount of respect I gained for the women who took a part of this documentary and the history they had to go…

for a film. A main creative force is usually someone who wrote, directed, and maybe even edited their own film. Although in MMP’s it’s extremely rare for a director to edit their own movies, it’s not unheard of in the indie market. It is debatable whether if directors who are the main creative forces in their film make it any better, because sometimes they fail. A great example of an auteur theory director is George Lucas, and he has made both incredibly successful and amazingly awful films.…

The short film Gould Meets Gould is an example of seamless realism. This short film opens with a black screen and white letters showing the film’s title, Gould Meets Gould. It is literally about Glenn Gould, who argues with himself about the roles of artist and audience. Gould Meets Gould is a film written by Gould in which he interviews himself. Since seamless realism tries to disguise the illusion of realism, this film is an excellent example of the form. In the film, Gould is…

spectacle of film ever since the late 19th century when moving pictures were introduced. People were amazed by scenes of everyday life, such as a train passing by or a horse galloping on a dirt path. Film never lost its popularity; film kept developing. It started with the simple scenes that were less than a minute and moved on to stories, and then non-fiction stories. Next there was sound and color, and then parallel storylines and camera movement. With each new advancement in film, the viewers…

The Blair Witch Project is a low budget horror story filmed from a first person documentary style perspective set within a hauntingly beautiful forest, which leaves viewers on their seats, and their imaginations running wild. What makes the Blair Witch Project a thrilling horror story, despite of a low budget and consequent lack of special effects, is the power of how simplistic the idea for the movie is, the ominous atmosphere created, and the exceeding realism of the actors portraying the…

realism cinema, which represented characters in a documentary-like manner in order to evoke an audience reconsideration of marginalized or disadvantaged peoples or classes. Andrea Arnold’s film ‘Fish Tank’ (2009) utilises its depiction of place and use of ambient sound or music to create this realism in its depiction of its main character, fifteen-year-old Mia (played by Katie Jarvis). The depiction of Mia’s experiences in the narrative of the film ultimately asks the audience to understand…

This reminds me a bit of “Ringu“, an Asian horror film, in which also a girl is the absolutely opposite of innocence. In addition, it’s quite notable that only affected people are shown, at the most, shadows of people who could help from the outside could be seen, except the health inspector. He is in…

Thank you for letting me know this film. The title of the title came from a comrade in arms’ name. It was amazing that this film was directed by Sebastian Junger, an American journalist, and British photojournalist Tim Hetherington. And this was their first film. It was said that they initially were suppose to take a short video; later, they were shocked at experience at shooting the video so they decided to make the film. These two directors were brave and they had to work their timetable in…