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the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

Perel was no more than a young boy when he was forced to fend for his own existence. Realizing that he had to either fight agains...

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

risen from humble origins, to be transformed by Socialism into the man that Stalin should have been, but was not (Stone, 2002). He...

ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

to hear the sound of my own voice, he says at one point, and indeed he does such a smooth and natural job of translation that the ...

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Rikyu. Rikyu, played by Rentaro Mikuni not only originated the art of the tea ceremony but was also considered someone of stature ...

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...

feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...

of his father. At one point he goes to see his father and sees that his mother is dead while his father, too drunk to notice, sits...

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...

the film to perfection. He suggested that the German people should take matters into their own hands and reclaim their country by ...

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

global world audience, movies and movie makers have to consider that the reference to space as suggested by place may suggest some...

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

first tried negotiation, then threats, the Soviets continued arms buildup in the tiny island nation. Things finally came to a head...

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Piscator, where he was introduced to the acting technique developed by Konstantin Stanislavski commonly referred to as "The Method...

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...