Filmmaking

German Expressionism and Soviet Montage are two styles of filmmaking that emerged in the early 1920’s. German Expressionism can be seen as a reactionary art movement to the poverty stricken Germany in the wake of a crushing defeat in WWI. Its stylistic techniques as well as subject matter embodied the tone of the German masses in the post war era. Soviet Montage was also stylized by the current state of the Soviet Union that created it, it was popularly used as a form of propaganda and the…

Joe Muti 11/26/17 Professor Carmen FTV The Good, the Bad, and the Wookie Akira Kurosawa’s Influence on Sergio Leone and George Lucas The post war renaissance in Japan had a great influence on contemporary American filmmaking. Viewing Akira Kurosawa’s films, one will see his influence on modern filmmakers such as Italy’s Sergio Leone and America’s George Lucas, through storytelling, cinematography and character development. Akira had a unique and genius style of creating new movies from classics…

Hollywood hit its peak in 1946 and was on top of the world. However, a series of events after that, such as, the United States vs Paramount Anti-Trust Act, the suburbanization of America, the loss of foreign revenues, McCarthyism, and television, brought the industry to its knees. The soaring profits of the Golden Era were no longer as grand as they once were. Revenues fell to half their 1946 levels ("Post-war Hollywood," 2014). The anti-trust act broke up the distribution and exhibition…

In Cléo de 5 à 7, Varda follows more closely to the filmmaking techniques that are used by most classic Hollywood cinema. The only major difference, other than the context of the film, would be Varda’s use of temporality by having a film set in a two hour time period and of trying to keep the action of the film almost in the exact lifetime of two hours. It takes the idea of Classical Hollywood continuity to an extreme. Another difference is that Cléo takes on more French political issues such as…

on more intellectual terms. By doing this it allowed films to garner a different form of attention rather than just the focus on spectacle or story this is why films like “Faces” and “Band of Outsiders” have become great classics of this era of filmmaking because they were challenging the current form. Pauline Kael stated in her article “Godard Among the Gangsters” because the possibilities of making big expensive movies on the American model are almost non-existent for the French but also…

Also, in Kill Bill, Tarantino works with the locations where it is hard to know with the places are real or they are CGI effects. This happens because Tarantino uses his editing style to create this feeling of fantasy mixed with the real actors creating an uncomfortable feeling which keep us asking to ourselves “What is real and what is not?” The props used are quite funny, because it reinforces this idea of fantasy. For example, in scenes when bodies start bleeding it feels like we are watching…

States government, specifically the office of HUAC, turned to the film industry for ties to the American Communist Party, eventually hundreds of entertainers became blacklisted from the industry. These two events caused catastrophic damage to the filmmaking industry which must be detailed as additional…

Like a patchwork quilt, the films and literature found in American culture incorporate, to some extent, elements from other movies, books, and even mythological and historical figures and events. George Lucas and his Star Wars films provide a prime example of a film that is a pastiche of various other films, while also serving as a cache of inspiration for future filmmakers. Such inspiration was needed at a time when the film industry had little direction because of the influence of big business…

about whether or not having a clear, serious story is the only reason to watch a film like Broken City. In my opinion, camera movement is the most crucial aspect in filmmaking to the extent that there might be no point in even shooting a film if there would not be any frame movements involved. It is like the seasoning of the filmmaking process. When camera movements are used, the cinematographer would be using the most powerful tool available in cinema, whether it is a pan, CGI, or even a zoom.…

The Life of George Lucas George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American born motion-picture director, producer, and screenwriter who originated several of the most popular films in history. This genius usually goes by the name George Lucas. He was born and raised Modesto, a small, quiet, farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley, just east of San Francisco on May 14, 1944. George Lucas is widely known as the writer of the Star Wars film series,and the Indiana Jones trilogy. All his fame began with…