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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...

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

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

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 ...

that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...

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...

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...

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

(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 ...

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...

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...

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

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...

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...

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...

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...