Essays 1831 - 1860
Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...
manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...
has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...
was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...
ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...
sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
Cinema, being a system...
constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...
the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...
indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...
Victor, angry and in the company of his friend Thomas, arrives at the place his father lived and meets Suzy Song. Suzy Song demons...
become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...
back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...
his habitual good-natured grin when he is arrested. For this damage to municipal property, Luke is sentenced to two-years labor on...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
are clearly emotionally distraught at being unloved and uncared for by humans, their parents. They seek vengeance. The only replic...
is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...
conflict in both "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now." In the book, it occurs between the main characters. In the movie, it ...