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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...
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...
Republican senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (played by another Anglo, Ralph Fiennes). However, the true essence of the...
possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...
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...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
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...
sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...
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...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
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...
(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...
depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...
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...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
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...
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...
as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...
saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
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 ...