Silent Hill

As the 69th Cannes Film Festival progresses, an attempt at revisiting the only Indian film to have won Grand Prix there In a year when no film from India has made it to the competition section at Cannes, it is interesting to note that the only time an Indian entry won the top honours there was a year before the country was born. Almost 70 years back, in 1946, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand shared the Grand Prix with 10 other films. Among the very first films to follow the approach of social…

The plot synopsis of Ram Reddy’s Thithi (2016) indicates why such a simple film has consistently found its way to film festivals both national and international and has been already numbered among the most genuine examples of feature-length ethno filmmaking in Indian Cinema. The film Thithi, is about the death of a 101-year-old patriarch called Century Gowda and how three generations of his family react to his death. The opening sequence of the film begins with death of Century Gowda and the…

Sergei Prokofief (1891 – 1953) An important factor in the film business, being that’s it such a complicated collaborative art form, is working with people that you’ve had good working relationships with on past projects. This is a norm in so many projects. We find directors working with the same actors, cinematographers, editors, produces, and composers, over and over again. A good example of directors and composers: Spielberg/Williams, Fellini/Rota, and Eisenstein/Prokofief. Sergei Prokofiev…

The Passion’s use of close-up camera angles convey the character’s emotion and helps this film translate well to modern audiences. Due to the restrictions that come with silent films, the technique is extremely important to the progression in narrative and the portrayal of the films pivotal characters. Renée Jeanne Falconetti plays the lead roll of Joan, the courageous yet deeply distressed warrior of France. Falconetti’s expressive face invokes empathy within the audience. Near the beginning of…

The eventful journey of Miles, otherwise known as Pudge, commenced with loneliness. Miles was a high school student from Florida with an insufficient number of friends, so he decided to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama. The first person he was introduced to there was Chip, also known as Colonel. He and Miles became closer as they went through copious obstacles together. Miles then met Alaska. Alaska altered the way Miles viewed life, and taught him many superb things. They all…

These issues have now began to be noticed by experts and organizations because leaders such as Rachel Carson have brought them to light. Rachel Carson’s bestseller “Silent Spring”, describes various case where pesticides are dangerous and led to environment problems. Everything in our environment is related and affected by each other. “Silent Spring” defines the harmful effects that chemical control has created on all components of our environment. In this essay I will analysis the side effects…

Jon Lewis mentioned that 1915 to 1928 was the Golden Age of Film comedy and the silent film medium extend this to its maximum. Exaggerated actions and visual gags with occasional intertitles explaining the situation became the centerpiece of attraction and entertainment. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two legendary comedy filmmakers emerging from this era. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights was a combination of Chaplin’s skills from previous movies. In this movie, he employs purely innocent…

The book, “Silent Spring”, by Rachel Carson brings to light the possible harm and ramifications of overusing chemicals that are not fully understood. To fully drive her point home, Carson uses language, ethos, and logos. Carson uses strong language several times in order giver her argument stronger emphasis. At one point she uses the word “evil” to describe pollution. There are very few words that have a more negative connotation than evil. Carson uses this word fairly early in her book,…

Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure’’, Silent Spring (1962), she mentions, continued use of chemical pesticides will erase mankind if they are continued to be unregulated. She explains how it took millions of years to adapt to changes on earth, but chemicals are doing drastic damage to the world faster than it can adapt. She has one purpose, to inform the public on how our use of chemicals can destroy our planet and us. She is trying to create a relationship with the public in order to…

Silent Spring was a controversial book written by Rachel Carson about the effects of DDT on animals, plants, and even humans. To this day, fifty years later, the book has still received criticism for exaggerating and misinforming the readers about the real effects of DDT. Rachel Carson, while exaggerating information, is correct in her studies of the effects of DDT. Rachel Carson states fairly early on in Silent Spring that when DDT is sprayed in large areas it can easily run in water. DDT is a…