Krzysztof Kieślowski

The Life Of Richard Pryor Who was Richard Pryor, some people might ask? Well he is an African American Actor/ Comedian. One of his most famous quotes is ‘If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. Richard Pryor is known for his colorful language during his live comedy shows , and he is highly influential , and always controversial towards African Americans. He has also been acknowledged by many modern comics. First, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand up comedian, social- critic and actor He is currently listed at Number 1 on comedy central’s list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. born on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L. (Thomas), practiced prostitution.( His father, Le Roy "Buck Carter" Pryor (June 7, 1915 – September 27, 1968), was a former boxer and hustler.( After his alcohol abused mother left him when he was 10 years old , Pryor was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter, a tall, violent woman who would beat him for any of his wrong doings. Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother's brothel and was sexually abused at age seven. He was expelled from school at the age of 14. Second , Richard Pryor was known as being highly influential. Actress-Director Rain Pryor talks about her…

Throughout the timeline of Music, There has been many different genres and styles created by Musicians, throughout this timeline we received the 20th Century genre of Impressionism. The genre focuses on conveying emotions and moods behind a pacific event or a reflection on how the composer is feeling, an example of Impressionism genre that gives the audience the feel of emotion is Krzytof Penderecki’s Impressionism piece Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima, which he has transformed the…

Kieślowski as a technician - Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc & Rouge case study Kieślowski discusses about a close up shot of a sugar cube that is about to fall into the coffee in the film, Bleu. He further explains the purpose of the shot and its relation to the character’s emotions. It is somewhat a point of view shot of the protagonist. Her focus is all on the sugar cube and coffee, nothing else matters. The sugar cube is her form of escape, shutting everything out from her immediate world,…

performance or sex and manhood, the argument of resistance has been a very loud one in Eastern European cinema. In this essay I plan to address the following points of concern: Sexual conquest and its use as passage into an altered state of thought. Play-acting and theatrics and whether or not they are purposeful in film or are they empty gestures. And lastly, resistance to authority Eastern Europe and whether or not the way they are depicted convey a conclusion about the political climate…

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s renowned Trois Coleurs trilogy begins with Bleu, a tragic drama following the life of Julie de Courcy. Within the first five minutes of the film Julie’s husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, of which she is the sole survivor. The rest of the film depicts Julie’s coping in what begins in a reclusive turning away from life, but develops by the end of the film into an openness and affirmation of life, expressing itself particularly powerfully in Julie’s kindness…

his dream woman. In addition to these scenes, which the viewer also immediately recognizes as dream sequences, there are also still seemingly moments that the protagonist imagines as in a daydream only. Sam Lowry's Mum is obsessed with beauty delusion that makes her only uglier. Every worker is only a part of the system, and as a single person plays almost no role (totalitarian system and inhumanity). Everyone who fights against the system is portrayed as a hero from the perspective of the…

Agnieszka Holland, one of the most recognized Polish filmmakers, was born on November 28, 1948 in Warsaw. At the age of seventeen she started sending plays to the Czech Film Academy, FAMU, where she studied filmmaking under Milos Forman and Ivan Passer. Her beginning in the film industry started when she returned to Warsaw and began to work as an assistant director on the movies Letters from our Readers by Stanisław Latałło's and Krzysztof Zanussi's Illumination. Holland also collaborated with…