Most films about addiction are about people struggling to manage their lives perilously falling into a pit of despair. They replace their sense of responsibility with abhorrent behavior that is regarded as dangerous by loved ones – forcing the character to reflect and choose between their new reckless life or the life they used to know. In Shame, Brandon’s (Michael Fassbender) behavior has never evoked such a confrontation because he’s never led a conventional life, nor has he had intimacy with anyone
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Some bad movies you slag off gleefully. Their awfulness inspires you to reach high for insults as witty as the film is terrible. Others provoke a certain disappointment at their failure, a kind of mourning at the difference between the film’s ambition and its execution. Richard Kelly’s The Box is such a film. Kelly is a trippy, sometimes loopy filmmaker whose Donnie Darko is one of the great cult films of this century. In that film, his far less successful Southland Tales, and now The Box, Kelly
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Movie Critic Devin L. Burks University of Phoenix February 23, 2015 LUCY For some months into 2015, this movie, Lucy has been hitting theater headlines across the world. It has consistently received diversified opinions from movie critics. From what I can see on the online reviews, it has received both positive and negative criticisms from all over the world. It leaves a lot of questions than answers as to why there is so much fuss around
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The Matrix Micro-Analysis (39:25-43:55) (Dir. The Wachowski Brothers) The sequence comes at a point when Neo is learning the truth about his existence in a world where humans are being controlled by machines, so it is used to show his disbelief to the truth, and to contrast the world he imagined, to the real world. The scene starts with high pitched violin sounds, which immediately put the audience on edge. It also gives us a sense of the danger Neo may be in, along with the pain he's feeling
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Title: Elements of Illusion Course: ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Jonathan Belle Author: Amanda Manley Date: 3/20/2014 During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director (in collaboration with the cinematographer) are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup
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Film 101 Mansour Week 4 – The Foreign Film (400 Blows, 1959) French New Wave (1959-1964) BREAKDOWN FROM CH 10 READING Origins Early French Cinema of 1930’s A period of Poetic realism which meant treating everyday life with emotional sensitivity, showing us how the hardships or highs/lows are supposed to FEEL Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher with existentialist philosophies: Artists should rebel against societal constraints Responsibility for their own actions Create their own world Alexander
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Schindler’s List: A true masterpiece of cinematography rated number 8 on the Top 100 American Films of all time, recipient of over 20 awards and nominated for over 35. Schindler’s List is debatably one of the overall best films of the 20th century. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Brisbane Film Festival for 2015. Schindler’s List was released in 1993 produced by legendary director Steven Spielberg and is a film about the horrors the Jewish people faced during the late 30s and
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Ever wonder what hangs in the balance of life and death, how heaven and hell would appear? That’s a question that Jacob Singer encounters as he struggles to discern the difference between hallucinations and reality in a 1990 film, Jacob’s ladder, by Bruce Joel Rubin. In this film, Jacob Singer starts out as a happily married husband and father. After returning from a grisly battle in Vietnam, he finds himself years ahead and mourning the death of his son, divorced, and losing his grip with reality
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we often embody these qualities and begin to develop inner piece. Both films employ powerful and sad events to help expose political shortcomings and ailments that have a direct and real result on society. I believe that at the heart of Yimou’s cinematography is the idea that, after all is said and done, goodwill humanity will prevail. In “To Live”, a Chinese family experiences more misfortunes than blessings. Because of gambling, unfortunate circumstances, and political instability and change
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mood. The two films being compared are Out of the Past and Sin City. Out of the Past was filmed in 1947 and directed by Jacques Tourneur. It is a superb example of film noir due to its convoluted dreamlike storyline and the impressive chiaroscuro cinematography. It has since, been added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” in 1991. Sin City on the other hand is a 2005 neo-noir film produced and directed by Frank Miller and
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