The film I watched was Cinéastes: Les hommes. The film premiered on September 29, 2015 in France. The film was the second part of Cinéastes that was dedicated to women directors. During the film a woman had interviewed French male filmmakers. She had asked them different questions about filmmaking relating to females and seeing if they believe that cinema have a gender. When they were first asked about the gender of images they all were caught off guard and surprised. They took a few minutes to…
their money to help people and charities. Angelina jolie for example spent millions of her income traveling to different countries to help poor and homeless people. Also the reason actors get paid so much is because all of the people who watch their films, whether it 's netflix, movies, or television you are constantly giving them promo which tells the production agency that people like what they 're creating, so they are going to do anything to keep the actors happy so the production will last…
name is King Kong.” (Morton, 2005) This research essay will be analysing the film(s) King Kong 1933 directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack and the remake King Kong 2005 directed by Peter Jackson. The essay will compare and link each style of films, the narrative, genre and aesthetics. Throughout the discussion the essay will undertake an Industrial and historical approach which will be used to analyse both films. It will delve into the history and themes; how they…
to identify the similarities that can be drawn between the films of Iranian New Wave and those examined previously in the module, focusing primarily on the cinematic influences of Italian neorealism thereafter, Nouvelle Vague and the British New Wave that helped to inspire a generation of new directors to develop and thus transform contemporary Iranian cinema. Before the rise of the “New Wave” genre, Iranian…
journal like place for me to gather my thoughts and ideas and compare them to my peers. By engaging in weekly screenings my overall knowledge of film production has expanded…
stand for hours after explaining his lack of good judgement. In 1925, he directed his first feature film, "The Pleasure Garden" (1925), a tale of adultery and murder, which displayed his future brilliance as a director. He later produced, "Blackmail" (1929), a story of a woman who stabs an artist to death when he tries to seduce her. He further expounded on the themes of sex and violence in the film, "Murder" (1930), which introduced the technique of recording a characters thoughts onto the…
At the button of the poster, the film title GHOSTBUSTERS is also presented in all capitals and in broadway fonts with shadows. Noticeably, the letter “O” is replaced by a “O” shaped ghostbusters sign, which is a tribute to the original 1984 movie poster to evoke the nostalgic memory of…
African Americans in the film industry is pretty different from what they were in the past. Compared to our society, the portrayals of African Americans in the past were negative. Since one of Hollywood’s main goals as time progressed was to make films that are more relatable, the films had to follow the specific trend that was going on in that time. Many films followed the lifestyles of individuals living in antebellum South. The only roles available for African Americans in film were roles…
Film in our world today is something we use to portray our imagination. We use films to put ourselves in dangerous and thrilling scenarios that we would never really want to be in. Why do people like to watch horror movies if they get scared? People like feeling like they are actually in the movie entering that dark, creepy room with the squeaky floorboards and the terrifying silhouettes. My major happens to be Film Making and Television Production and I chose this career because I enjoy the…
Censorship was in its full regulatory glory in the 1940s, with the Production Code Administration (or the PCA) carefully reviewing whether or not films met certain guidelines which were listed in the Production Code. One example of censorship under the Production Code is the film Black Narcissus, made in 1947, which follows an order of Anglican nuns’ acclimation to helping a remote village in the Himalayas. The Production Code, created by the Roman Catholic Church and enforced by the PCA, found…