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as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...

film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

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...

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...

This research paper cites reviews in order to report on the scientific accuracy of the film and the manner in which it depicts mic...

he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

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...

Republican senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (played by another Anglo, Ralph Fiennes). However, the true essence of the...

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

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...

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

(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...

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...

parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit a...

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...