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Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Film Analysis

over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...

Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

The 1952 Musical, Singin' In the Rain

This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...

Gender Differences Among Film Directors

This paper discusses ways in which female film directors sometimes compromise their artistic expression or opinions in order to be...

Eyes Wide Shut Viewed Critically

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...

Film Review of Outremer

to answer but is subject to interpretation. The title might be referring to an American point of view perhaps or even the division...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

How to Review and Assess Movies

In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...

European Cinema and the Impact of Ingmar Bergman

the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Marcel Camus' Version of Black Orpheus

In seven pages Camus's interpretation of the play is assessed and compared with the original and discusses how Camus's insights de...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

Life Choices in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this film is analyzed in terms of how the lies of the protagonist affect both himself and his vic...

Cinema Realism and Audience Reaction

In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...

Joan of Arc

was located within the realm of the Duke of Burgundy, but while the Burgundians were in alliance with the English, Domremy had con...

Ninteenth Century French Feminism and Madame de Stael

prominent salonniere" (Kale 54) - gained significant insight as to the perceived value of class, gender and social stature, partic...

Mandate Period and Middle East Interests of the British and French

Lebanon we can appreciate the conflict. In 1920 the San Remo Conference saw a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The oi...

French Enlightenment and Deism

to have this freedom of religion; when ones religious practices are not allowed by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipoten...

French Canadian Heritage and the Nationalist Movement of Quebec

extreme, only because it is about secession. Similar to the South in the United States, separatists want to break from the larger ...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

French Revolution Reasons and Resulting Changes

2004). These four million were called the bourgeoisie, and although as a class they were wealthy, individually most of them were ...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

French Revolution and the Role of Women

XIV was only a child or at best a very young and inexperienced man. This was a time when, although he was officially the king, it...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Approaches to Other Cultures by the French and British in a Quintet of Movies

a conversation with Colonel Brighton (Anthony Quale), Feisal shows that he understands that the British are there to protect their...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

French Revolution and Documents' Historical Importance

Enlightenment era and one where fruitful writing came about. In exploring revolutionary France, one can say that certain writings ...

19th Century French Mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy

own background also needs consideration, as the work was also a reflection of the man and his circumstances. After this some examp...