YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of the Film Synthetic Pleasures
Essays 271 - 300
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...
new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...
necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...
displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...
as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...
how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...
funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...
by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...
In five pages Julian Aymes' film adaptation of this famous novel is reviewed in terms of faithfulness to Bronte's dialogue with th...
conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...
This paper analyzes and reviews the 1952 film, Singin' in the Rain. This two page paper has one source listed in the bibliography...
In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...
opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...
and laughter will come into play in the second section of the film. Film is an emotional medium. And, like it or...
thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
"right hand" man despite Iagos longer term of service (Null, 2002). Iago manages to incite a jealousy rage in Othello that results...
What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...
yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...