Documentary film

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…

District 9 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/?ref_=nv_sr_1 If I think about it I would not like to be eating cat food and living in District 9. Turning into a alien looks pretty cool but not worth it. This film was action packet and it was funny at the same time. I thought this movie was going to be a spoof of some sort but then it turned into a good story. When adding the alien and having dialogue with humans it adds more to the movie. This was cool to see because it made you understand that…

With a fistful of popcorn and a cup of sweet soda, I sat down to watch the incredible documentary, The King of Kong. Directed by Seth Gordon, the 2007 feature film explores the powerful arcade addiction that plays on the self-image of classic video gamers. As we emerge into the cutthroat world of Donkey Kong, we shadow the lives of two competitors as they battle it out for the one-man title, ‘King of Kong’. The aim of the game? To rescue the damsel in distress from the sinister Kong Obsessed…

A new form of cinema or third world cinema main goal as its main goal is to show how things really are. In the case of Cuba, it depicts how a socialist democratic society is. Third world cinema also, challenges the power structure and in due course increase social consciousness. This kind of social consciousness focuses, specifically, on creating a rational thinking within society by incorporating politics, nationalism, and a wide range of ideologies. This intricate cinema wants to reveal the…

found in their ability to influence people’s behaviors and expectations in everyday life. Some argue that movies’ sole purpose is to entertain and negate claims that movies can contribute longterm effects. However, after analyzing certain features of film making, including the rating system, heavily personal and emotional data has led many to believe that movies have the…

“A film is made up of a hundred or more hidden things,” Vincente Minnelli once said in an interview. The quote seems to sum up Minnelli’s layered film making style. In this essay I will be exploring the themes of feminism, one of the hundred or more hidden things in Minnelli’s work. The essay will move through the life of Minnelli, analysing films from both the beginning and end of his career in the context of the time in which they were made. Vincente Minnelli was born Lester Anthony Minnelli…

Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock The auteur theory was originated by film critic and director, Francois Truffaut, who had published a famous article in the French film Journal Cahiers du cinéma in 1954. Both the article and French film Journal criticized American movie directors for letting Hollywood studios control what they produce; therefore, lacking any originality (Wikipedia). In response, the Auteur theory was born, which means a film reflects the director's control over each aspect ranging…

even the author of the source material, Stephen King, admitted to hating the film for not adhering to his original ideas closely enough. King did not anticipate that Kubrick would throw out so much of the book’s material and replace it with his own ideas, and the reaction by the public upon release reflect King’s animosity towards the film for this reason. As time ticked by, people found that they continued to watch the film over and over despite not liking it; and now decades later years of…

on a study she has done titled, “Suffering Bodies of Conformation: The Arts and Politics of Representing Structural Violence in Film”. In the article that we were supposed to read, Livia Stone explained her research that she did in Mexico. The issues that were observed in reading were the way bodies and humans were portrayed in the documentary in Ateco; in this documentary the focus of this was the violence that was present in Mexico with the farmers. According to the reading, “For more than a…

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,…