Brown Sugar Mary Smith ENG225: Introduction to Film Prof Nathan Pritts August 26, 2015 Brown Sugar A girl and boy who have been lifelong friends A&R Andre and Editor in Chief Sidney attribute their friendship to the day they fell in love with hip hop music. Time as past and the friendship has remained in tack despite their different career paths. It has been fifteen years later and Sidney moves returns home where she is now Chief and Editor of XXL magazine only to find out that the
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FILM CRITIQUE (Final Version) Mona Lisa Smile At the very first glance, the title “Mona Lisa Smile” gives me an impression of mysterious and controversial, which is exactly the same as the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. This impression inspires me to watch the whole film excitedly. The film does show a great 1950s period with the brilliant cast performance. The leading character, Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts) is amazing. She is a very special woman who is the center of the whole
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Film review rebuttal Objective: to use current level of knowledge regarding film (production, marketing, distribution, editing, sound, cinematography, elements of miser-en-scene, narrative etc.) rebut or critique the opinion of a professionally prepared film with which you personally disagree. Rebuttal critique guidelines: the paper should be at least three full pages, excluding supporting material and citation pages. the paper should be written in an essay format- that is, an opening thesis paragraph
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John Carpenter’s Halloween: A Film Critique Michael Chapes Instructor David Hayes ENG 225 February 13, 2014 “It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.” - Sheriff Leigh Brackett As long as there have been stories, there have been stories about the other, the unrealities we might categorize today as fantasy... Early myths in all cultures are populated by demons and darkness, early Egyptian mythology resounds with
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Week 5: Final Film Critique ENG 225: Introduction to Film Instructor Stephanie Miclot 03 Mar 2014 I have chosen the film Armageddon as the final film critique in this course. Armageddon was released to the America in 1998. The film was directed by Michael Bay, and written by J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Hensleigh. While there were a number of high-profile actors in this film, the undoubtedly biggest stars in this film were Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler. (Imdb
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History 398 Fall Semester 2011 Film Critique In the movie The Missing a woman named Maggie and her two daughters Lilly and Dot live on a plot of land, that they farm in New Mexico in 1885. Maggie is a doctor and lives with her boyfriend who helps run the farm. A stranger visits to seek treatment for a wound and it is Maggie’s estranged father. Her father left her family when she was young to be with the Indians. Maggie does not like her father and eventually makes him leave. Her eldest daughter
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Film Critique: INSIDIOUS Intro to Film 225 Vera Baber Instructor: BradWaltman February 12, 2012 If you are looking for a good horror film to sit down and cuddle up with, and you aren’t bent on happy or predictable endings, Insidious is a gem that will not only scare and surprise you, but keep you thinking and without all the blood and gore that most horror films rely on these days. INSIDIOUS is a film about a family who moves into a new home and begins to experience some very strange phenomenon
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Critique: BTTF Mathew Peppersack ENG 225 Introduction to Film Professor Ryan Ogrodnik March 2, 2015 Critique: BTTF To critique a film is to analyze the substance of what makes up the movie. The story and its plot, characters, technical choices for scenes, and the overall production that the film shown to give the audience a final product. The number of people who visited the movie theater to watch it does not determine greatness of the film; or the amount of money the movie studio made
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Film Critique: The Education of Shelby Knox Destiny Matvenko-Barbini AP/HREQ 1800 Veronika Novoselova York University Film Critique: The Education of Shelby Knox The film The Education of Shelby Knox is a documentary that tells a story of a girl named Shelby, who tries to fight to have sex education put into public schools of Lubbock, Texas by joining a youth commission. By joining the youth commission and trying to campaign the right to get sex education, there were a few bumps in the road
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Final Film Critique: Light it up, 1998 M.parker ENG 225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Jenessa Gerling January 21, 2013 Final Film Critique A critic is one who should educate others what the meaning of a film is so viewers can form their own educated opinion about it. Koontz & Jacobs, 2011 states “the local critic should be part of a community discussion, not as the final word on the matter, but merely a starting point” (Koontz & Jacobs, 2011). This critique will discuss the
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