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Weber and Betty Thomas. Both women had multiple roles in the film industry. Lois Weber was an actress, screenwriter, producer and, director. Betty Thomas, is an actress and director. What education and work experiences did they bring to their work in cinema? Betty graduated with a BA in fine arts. She started off in comedy but landed a huge role in a TV drama. In the 1980s, Thomas decided to transition into directing films. Many of her films carry a comedic aspect to them, like her early…

In 2000, Christopher Nolan released his widely acclaimed neo noir Memento. The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator suffering from severe anterograde memory dysfunction. His condition is a result of experiencing head trauma after witnessing his wife’s murder, and consequently, he is unable to remember anything for more than fifteen minutes. The film focuses on his pursuit of his wife’s killer, which is complicated by his paranoia and confusion. Nolan…

gentlemen, I personally greet you all today for our most inimitable ceremony, the Australian Film Festival, celebrating Australia’s diverse culture through media. To open this year’s event, two films have been selected: Bran Nue Dae – directed by Rachel Perkins – a hilarious musical conceptualising the racist attitudes that were previously present in Australia, and Australian Rules – directed by Paul Goldman – a film depicting racial conflict, not between teenagers, but their superiors. In Bran…

cinematography for years. His last few films such as The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), have taken place in modern times and the cinematography in them further the audience's belief that the films take place in present time. Cronenweth, alongside frequent collaborator, David Fincher teamed up to bring forth another modern film with a deep interpersonal, psychological, thriller genre attached. Gone Girl (2014) is a stylistic film that has these filmmakers names…

Case study 1 Apocalypse and the influence of 9/11 on the apocalyptic movies Apocalypses have always been in people their heads, the thought of the end of the world has been and still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely…

new, iconic, and controversial to the table. One surprisingly effective way to do this is to analyze the film industry. Films often correspond with the attitudes and feelings of the time and can thereby be one of the best ways to analyze how society thinks, has developed, and how audiences have responded to everything from traditional gender roles,…

and Inception are the kind of films telling the relationship between reality and dreams. Also, Kon Satoshi and Christopher Nolan are both well-known directors with a large number of fans. However, Paprika was produced four years earlier than Inception, which, in my opinion, also has the content with deeper and more complex thought. Inception is mainly about the demons story of the character which was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a really simple and clear film that can be classified into…

The film starts with two police stating that two german officers were murdered on a train heading to Casablanca. The murderer asks Rick Blaine to hold the papers he had stolen from the officers. Rick Blaine runs a nightclub and in the beginning of World War I. The nightclub has become a safe place for refugees looking to escape to America. One day Rick’s rival Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa, Rick’s true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris, show up in the nightclub. Rick is very…

of production of films”. Higson attempts to underline and further tie speculation to the characterization of national cinema illustrating that the site of production, of course does define the nationality of cinema in terms of locality, but furthermore, the consumption and subsequently the conditions through which audiences…

The science fiction film based on a novel by Ernest Cline - Ready Player One, has the American director and producer Steven Spielberg planning to leave himself out of the cutting room floor. Ready Player One is a thriller about a kid on a high-stakes treasure hunt, by going through a virtual reality world made in a society that's been preoccupied with '80s pop culture. And even before Steven Spielberg signed on to helm the film version of the book by Ernest Cline, the director was all over the…