YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Consideration of Cinematic Art
Essays 481 - 510
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...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
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...
parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...
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 ...
box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...
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...
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...
possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...
Republican senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (played by another Anglo, Ralph Fiennes). However, the true essence of the...
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...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
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...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
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...
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...
culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...
ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...
necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...
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 ...
the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...
a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...