Roger Ebert

Exit Through the Gift Shop is an experimental film that tries to disguise itself as a documentary. Experimental films are those that “actively seek to defy categorization and convention” (Barsam and Monahan, p. 77), and Exit Through the Gift Shop most certainly does that. Experimental films can also be recognized by their subject matter (which is generally non-mainstream), they do not conform to conventional expectations of film, are usually made by independent filmmakers, they draw attention…

The film Rosewood regales the horrific tragedy of severe racial discrimination in the small rural community of Rosewood, Florida in the first week on 1923. While the film focuses largely on the situation from a third person point of view, it does sometimes center on Mann, a fictitious character portrayed by Ving Rhames, who is a traveler home from World War One. As he enters the town, a woman in the town, Fanny Taylor (played by Catherine Kellner), is beaten by a white man, whom we see, but…

killers, one redneck who collects dead animals and tricks people into going to Ambrose, and wax figures who used to be living humans. It is the perfect town for a slasher movie to take place because once someone is stranded, there is no way out. Roger Ebert describes this deserted town as a “town stuck in a time warp in the 1960’s” he then adds, “the house of wax dominates the town much as the Bates home towered above Psycho.” The ghost town adds a bit of mystery to the film, and provides…

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…

What we think of as the romantic comedy genre was birthed in conjunction with the advent of sound on film. A subset of comedy, the romantic comedy has been through quite the evolution from its beginnings in the 1930s to the present day shaping our culture, I would argue, more than any other genre. While these two films, It Happened One Night and Harold and Maude, are staggeringly different in their formulas, one being classical and one being of the modernist period, they are thematically linked,…

n Art Objects, Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery, by Jeanette Winterson, she stresses that art objects have another language of its own. Winterson since interested in Modernism, came to know about Roger Fry, after reading a biography on him by Virginia Woolf. Winterson’s initial experiences to the museum were unnerving, because of the crowd and, multiplicity of artworks, her failure to admiring art at first attempts, lack of exposure to contemporary arts, and, unfamiliarity towards some art…

“2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Sentinel” Compare / Contrast Paper DeVry University Sandy Palladino Inside the pages of a book, authors can make phenomenal visual pictures of zones and scenes by using included and realistic words. Once in a while these pictures are moved into a real visual by the consequent formation of movies based upon these incredible works. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick is a sample of, for example, it is based upon the artistic short story, "The…

As famed movie critic Roger Ebert notes, “There is rarely a clear, unequivocal shot of an enemy soldier,” and in most cases, Stone limits them to shadows and outlines. Although, fear of the NVA is felt and expressed throughout the film, especially those of battles in the jungle…

Celebrities on Social Media “Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are where stars go to be made and where dying stars go live again” (Allen). Since the Internet has appeared, the music industry has been majorly impacted. Celebrities are now able to gain exposure and fans, and can also use social media to connect with their fans and stay famous. They are able to get more exposure and promote themselves to help their careers. They also can use their fame for other purposes such as charities. The…

While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London.[9][12] Pitt's acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero.[9][13] His television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.[14] In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.[15] He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas…