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Essays 391 - 420
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...
surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...
yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...
narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
the long view where we can see the entire dance. This is often seen in present day films about dance where it seems the performers...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
part of the scene while also seeing the entire dance routine. In many films of dancing the direction may not be on the long sho...
story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...
to hear the sound of my own voice, he says at one point, and indeed he does such a smooth and natural job of translation that the ...
the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...
a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...
ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...
necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...
rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...
(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
that the alien is given a sexual orientation. In the second movie of this series the alien is a Queen whose main goal (besides des...
choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...
possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...
by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...
of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...
box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...