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portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

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

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

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

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

of that would come out in his work. The truth, however, is that his films never held any true kind of message of social or religio...

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

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

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

counterfeiting, with the messages in the music box containing the whereabouts of the missing plates. Though the inmate was in pris...

of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...

dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...

against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

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

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...