The Director

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…

production: it is an opinion that directors simply film what they see, that filming is a mechanical process that does not implicate any hard work but “merely register[s] external appearances, and therefore cannot be art” (Stam 2008: 7). However, DeWitt Bodeen, co-author of the screenplay for Peter Ustinov’s Billy Budd (1962), claims that: “Adapting literary works to film is, without doubt, a creative undertaking” (qtd. in McFarlane 1996: 7). Besides, a film director always faces choices: in…

by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this report I will try to bring some short informations, facts and thoughts by other sources from history of cinema to present reders of this…

of the scenes reflects the mysterious and suspicious environment around the protagonist, The second Mrs DeWinter. Hitchcock portrays the character of the damsel in distress through his specific stage directions and thus he utilises his role as the director to control the camera to portray an eerie atmosphere. The distinct techniques, analysed clearly impart the gothic genre. The cinematic film technique; film noir accentuates the menacing environment or character that is portrayed to…

Justice Unserved Director Tony Krawitz, creates an expository documentary, The Tall Man, revealing the truth behind the death of Cameron Doomadgee and the truth behind the police force. The Tall Man’s compelling and informative nature causes the audience to feel a disturbance about the people who we entrust to keep us safe. The award winning documentary’s director, Tony Krawitz, projects his agreeable opinion throughout the film. Krawitz’ opinion on this event is clearly evident by the way he…

Since the beginning of the entertainment era, especially with Hollywood, remakes have been made routinely. Remakes are not all unfavorable, some might argue, they mostly remind people of the great original films out there and enroll new audiences into classical creations. A well-recognized remake in the cinematography world is based on Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, 1960, by Gus Van Sant. Arguably, Van Sant’s Psycho, 1998, is a ‘shot-for-shot’ remake of Hitchcock’s original film. However,…

The clip of The Birds was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He was one of a director who made a suspenseful movie in Hollywood. In his movies, he mostly made different films like silent and talkie. Furthermore, his film’s genres were the suspense and psychological thriller which made the audiences watched very nervous and mysterious…

1. Lust, Caution directed by an award-winning director—Ang Lee. This movie depicts a time period of the Imperial Japanese Army and a puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. A group of Lingnan University students that used an attractive young woman to plot a political murder towards their enemy. This young woman must lure, then assassinate a high-ranking official that works for the puppet government. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling for him. This sparked a series of…

A movie versus a book the age-old debate but how much can they differ when telling a story about something as universal terrible like the Holocaust? This is what I intend to find out when comparing the movie Life is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni) to the book Night (Elie Wiesel). The most notable way these two differ is in the way they are presented (book vs movie), their plot and most importantly the reason they both were created in the first place. The most glaring way these two work…

“The use of a range of production techniques can help a director to develop characters.” The vision Brad McGann had for, “In My Father’s Den”, was to create an intimate, slow burning film that was “a character driven plot” about a damaged soul, which the audience learns as being war photographer, Paul Prior. Since the film is character driven it is crucial that the characters (such as Paul and Celia) are well developed throughout the film. While production techniques such as lighting, setting…