Independent films

essay will look at the scene “Drive Louise Drive” from the feature film “Thelma and Louise”. This film follows two friends as they decide to break free from their everyday lives. They take off, during this weekend Louise kills Harlan for attempting to rape Thelma. Their weekend away turns into a cross county chase from authority that being the police and the men in their lives. The significance this scene holds in relation to the film is that the viewer, can see the protagonists move closer to…

Please analyse the role of the femme fatale in film noir, using examples of your own choice. Immediately after the Second World War, when the French people once again had the possibility to watch American cinema, they noticed a remarkable change in these films. Not only had they become much darker in mood, but also the themes had become much more serious. It was in 1946, when the term “film noir” was coined for the first time by the French film critics Nino Frank and Jean-Pierre to describe…

suggesting that Warner Bros. has a few successful female directors in mind who they are considering to helm the reboot of their adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider franchise, originally based on the video game series created by Eidos Interactive. The last film, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, was released in 2003 and starred Angelina Jolie as the title character. The Tracking Board seems to suggest that on this list of directors, the most successful name is Kathryn Bigelow, who…

garner the most fans. It 's a genre of films that constantly finds itself trying to be legitimate in the eyes of critics and academics, yet the majority continue to dismiss the films as nothing more than an easy way to make money at the box office. It 's not often that a horror movie is released that is undeniably important to cinema. This is what separates The Last House on the Left from its ' peers. It 's a film that is revered as one of the most important films in the horror genre and is…

because this is a film by Herzog and Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov with a specifically ethnographic subject. Herzog and editor Joe Bini pull material from Vasyukov’s television documentary (Rapold) that brings the lives of a particular people group, the trappers and families of the Siberian taiga to a western audience by following their daily lives throughout the year, showing how they interact with their environment and the simple lifestyle that they lead. Much of the film reveals that…

Aung San Suu Kyi - The Choice by Angus Macqueen is one of the documentary film which is premiered by This World, BBC in September 2012 and also it is being premiered in many international film festivals. In this documentary it captures the movement of Aung San Suu Kyi’s risky step into everyday politics of Burma. This film talks about the Suu Kyi’s extraordinary personal and political story (BBC Web Site, 2015). This film tells us about Aung San Suu Kyi, an oxford educated leader of Myanmar, who…

how to live. Another example of change after the war is shown in the film The 1958 film Peyton Place is a film about a small New England town. Allison a high schooler narrates. She is a curious, smart girl who achieves valedictorian of her class. The film starts out as the students are getting ready for graduation. Love is in the air, her classmates asking each other to the senior dance. Allison lives with her single, independent mother Connie, business owner of a downtown dress shop. She had…

Mad World Directed by Richard Kelly, the award-winning independent psychodrama Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut released in 2004) takes viewers on a journey through the life of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a teenage boy with the fate of the universe in his hands. What may seem at first glance as a tale of a schizophrenic teen struggling with his inner demons is actually something much more compelling; Donnie is the “living receiver” of a tangent universe, and it is up to him to save the primary…

Gender Inequality in the Film Industry needs to be talked about If you can’t name 5 female directors that have directed more than 3 films, gender inequality exists in the film world. There is a huge pay, equality, opportunity, and bais gap between men and women in the film industry. For every 5 men working, there is 1 woman (Zurko). As a women pursuing film, it’s discouraging how i will have less opportunity and wage than someone else just because of my gender. By highlighting the social and…

Contentious films have a tendency to be contentious as a result of having something interesting, but unpopular, to say. Such is the case with Jason Banker’s Felt. Having had an equal share of laudations and condemnation, Felt clearly strikes a nerve worth talking about in the ongoing dialogue of bringing feminist rhetoric to a traditionally male-dominated popular culture. Unfortunately, the limitations of Banker’s style hinder Felt’s conceptual weight. Part-autobiographical and part dark…