Documentary film

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea employs many different styles that pull from film genres such as documentary, diary, and melodrama within the film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), which is the film adaptation of the novel Inconsolable Memories by Edmundo Desnoes. This multitude of styles helps to produce a film that takes on the task creating tension not only among the characters, but among the different film elements and the viewers as well. The creation of this tension brings into question the notion…

Sully In the last century, movie producers have turned to books and novels for inspiration for their new films. This type of film only became popular in the last four decades, and ever since then, it has only increased in popularity. However, another popular medium producers like to adapt is real-life events. There are many films out there now that are based on a true stories. Nevertheless, these adaptations usually aren’t an exact depiction of the real-life story. Producers often have to make…

study closely Hong Sang-Soo as well as analyze his two films, A Tales of Cinema (2005), and Night and Day (2008). Hong Sang Soo An award winning director, Hong Sang-Soo, is known to be one of South Korea’s most respected directors. Hong Sang-Soo is a rarity. His films are so closely linked…

Man on Wire is more than a documentary about a tightrope walker, it is a beacon to those who sit back quietly, and for ones who never pursue their dreams and desires. The film goes back in time to tell the story of how Philippe Petit daringly tightrope walks across a cable at the very top of the Twin Towers. Facing all odds, Philippe and his band of fellow Frenchman defeat the odds as they create a milestone in history which will exist in the record books forever. Director, James Marsh forces…

the tragedy. While Life is Beautiful chooses for its theme to be evident throughout the film wanting to show light can come from darkness. So here we can they are extremely different maybe even polar opposites like Life is Beautiful showing an entertaining movie. With it limiting the number of deaths, is heavily depended on visual gags and spending a lot less time on the Holocaust than something like a documentary. Night focuses on telling the story of Elie and his bitter survival story across…

A select few moments in film history have changed the way studios and viewing audiences think about the commercial acceptability of subjects. Django unchained (2012) is a western live action film, directed by Quentin Tarantino, which tackles the much-maligned topic of slavery at an unimaginably successful level. Slavery was a topic previously reserved for indie and documentary filmmaking, due to its serious nature and lack of commercial appeal. The movie was a gigantic commercial success despite…

his effect comes from the music. Although Kubrick originally commissioned an original score from Alex North, he used classical recordings as a temporary track while editing the film, and they worked so well that he kept them. This was a crucial decision. North's score, which is available on a recording, is a good job of film composition, but would have been wrong for “2001" because, like all scores, it attempts to underline the action -- to give us emotional cues. The classical music chosen by…

editing is the foundation of film art. All the other departments of filmmaking; screenwriting, directing, cinematography, music and sound, production design and acting, all exist to be brought together in the cutting room. Film is collaborative, only for the edit. Pre-production and production give the editor; the necessary pieces of the puzzle they need to make the film. The editor works with the footage, the sound and increasingly special effects, to bring the film to life. Editing is a craft…

was released from rehab and put into an outpatient treatment facility. Overall, the film did a great job of depicting the professional helpers of substance abuse. It explored the many ways, and instances in which, a helper may be present within the process of abstinence and treatment. The helpers were assisting the individuals throughout their addictions in many different and useful ways. I believe that the film did a great job of showing the different arrays of helpers and what their specific…

Dead End Drive-In is another flick in a long line of random horror films from the 80s that I haven't seen. IT seems there is a good amount out there waiting to be experienced and Arrow Video is bringing them out on Blu-ray for just that purpose alone. Directed by Brian XXX (Night of the Demons 2), Dead End Drive-In came out in XXX and is known as an Ozploitation flick, much in the same line as Mad Max. It delivers a message on the downfall society and the feuding between the haves and the…