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early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

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

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

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

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...

to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

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 ...

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...