Essays 2431 - 2460
reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...
In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...
is made to truly feel for them, fear for them, and hope they survive. However, anyone who has watched both of the films will clear...
subsequently preaches sermons about him, leading people to believe that he led the life of a saint. Ciapelletto is such a hypocri...
to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
has to do with accuracy. First, the film is well accomplished to an extent. Obviously, it is not as good as if it were done in som...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
same lust. At times, his meddling seems to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbo...
(Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerf...
between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...
couple as well (Beah Richards and Roy Glenn) who arent happy that their son is considering marrying a white girl (Guess Whos Comin...
successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...
overall philosophical tone of the work. Whatever the reasons, the James Whale 1931 film is meant to frighten audiences, and it wor...
help, that friend, for they are capable of doing things alone. This clearly links together with being a loner. None of these indiv...
somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...
can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...
the bug, and that Harry cannot find it unless he steps out of context to consider the way in which the film itself is made (Levin)...
three. In addition, she seems to have been vaccinated with a thesaurus: why use "mimetic" when "copying" will do? Her pretentious ...
film that we can interpret as a sign, with another signified added to it. It is thus a triple layer of meaning: the object itself,...
Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...
much more smoothly with the women in charge, is a much happier place (Canby, 1980). The film is uneven and the sequence where the...
is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...
do it because you believe in the mission, but there is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating" (Schick...
arrives, its not to help the Tutsis, but to evacuate the Europeans (Taylor, 2004). Oliver, a decent man whose hands are tied by re...
example, that many people would be out of work if the electric car ever took off. There would be less demand for gas stations and ...
time our doomed hero...enters the house, he is mistaken for an undertaker... Outside the house is the swimming pool, at first fil...
of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...