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Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

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...

reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...

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

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

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

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...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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,...

(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...

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...

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...

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

sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...

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...