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Essays 151 - 180
Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...
surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...
they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...
back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
Henrys voiceover narration.3 This narration gives the viewer insight into Henrys motivations. This narration conveys Henrys childl...
also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...
talk, and Lora says that she wishes she had someone to look after Susie while shes working, auditioning and trying to get her big ...
throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...
who works with Nash sees him doing essentially crazy things and putting documents in drop boxes. He reports him to the superiors a...
be his wife and daughter. Even with the unrelenting encouragement of Sarah and Rachels recollections to help him remember his fam...
weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
commands the attention of the other students because he is so gifted. He doesnt really seem to be part of the group-Nash was a no...
offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...
(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...
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...
be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...
drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...
one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
to matter little, since the war upon which the story was based also, at that time, had no end in sight. In order to ensure the sc...
that context, it becomes clear that they must be seen as something very different than what any audience has seen in the nearly 10...
A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
the boy soon comes to look upon Butch as a father figure, and the sole source of excitement in his heretofore colorless world. In...
as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...
sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...