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light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

of film by offering film at a lower price. Further Fuji became the official film of the 1984 Summer Olympics which took place in ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...