Ebert's Central Station Review

Central Station is a motion picture, directed by Walter Salles, that contains a unique plot. The audience is introduced to the two main characters whose names are Dora and Josue. Dora is a Brazilian woman and Josue is just a little boy. The movie is based on a story of a contemptuous woman and a little boy's struggle to find his absent father. Throughout the film there is a bond that is built between Dora and Josue. They each tremendously transform each other for the better and for the rest of their lives. The dialogue draws its audience into the narrative and gets them to genuinely care about what happens. Central Station should be known for the great storyline and fantastic acting from both of the main characters.

Describe the style and approach of this film. Give specific examples from the film that support your answer.

into a long film, makes him have a true style on the way he acts and the way he directs his

Walter Saltes's film, "Central Station," was an emotional and a heartwarming story about a dispirited woman crossing path with a lost boy. Their journey on the road together helped them learn and explored each other's perspective of life. Their discovery had led to the transformation of their own lives. This truly magnificent story expressed similarities among the viewer's life by encountering such unexpected events.

I love Stephan’s work, they’ve been a real inspiration for me, and a huge challenge to make the film have as direct an impact as the book did. I put a lot of effort to get the themes of the film out there as strong as the book did.

Luhrmann’s retention of the integrity of the dialogue and minute details of the novel allow for him to establish his credibility as a director; however, it is his means of portraying certain elements in a different light which set his film apart as unique and enhance the already quintessential novel. His willingness to take risks through weaving modern and vintage elements throughout the film establishes his singular directing style and enabled him to elucidate upon the themes and messages of the text in a more comprehensive, in depth

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), is a narrative that takes the form of many stories within another. Considered a film masterpiece not only for its use of thoughtful comedy but also for the way in which the film was enhanced through the use of camera angles. “Love and death, romance and horror, comedy and tragedy duel to an elegant draw in Wes Anderson’s rich torte of a movie”, as stated by Richard Corliss from Time Magazine. The constant use of straight angles gives the film an unmistakably elegant quality. Cinematographically, this film was created with great precision, making it feel more like a theater performance rather than a film. The use of thoughtful and quirky humor truly brings this picture to life, making The Grand Budapest Hotel truly grand. The use of thoughtful comedy throughout serves several purposes. The characters are an example of this, through their representations they are able to create specific correlations that are key to the film overall. It is through their mannerisms and quirky, thoughtful humor that the characters are brought to life. This film allocates the use of camera angles thus allowing it an elegant feature, while humor is used to create a “…real, funny, sad movie whose performances are as alert and finely composed as the décor”.

Describe two images or scenes from the film that stand out in your mind. Discuss why they impressed you and how they relate to themes explored in the story. (2 paragraphs)

For our final project, we interpreted the filmmaking works of Martin Scorsese. Our interest in doing Scorsese is reflective of how influential he has been as a longstanding filmmaker and innovator in the industry. Considering Scorsese’s filmography is quite large, we decided to narrow down what aspects of his films are to most prominent. With this in mind, we decided to drive most of our focus on his 1990’s crime drama GoodFellas, while incorporating similar elements from his other works such as 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Like most filmmakers, Scorsese relies on filmmaking techniques that commonly appear in a majority of his works. Three of the most prominent filmmaking techniques that we were influenced by include Scorsese's reliance

Plato is an estranged boy who needs everything. He is a lost soul from the day his parents divorced, left, and kept him with the maid. American Film critic Roger Ebert writes in an article says Plato “is so sensitive that he threatens to break apart like porcelain, has taken to killing puppies as a desperate bid for attention from his wealthy, always absent parents.” Absent parents indeed, he has a father but we do not know the truth about whom or where he really is. In the scene towards the end of the movie when Judy asks where his father is he claims that he is a hero and is now dead, but Jim corrects him saying he told him a different story. To Plato father seems to only be a word. The word he can always have a different definition of, hence the reason of making up stories of who and where his father is. He has no true idea what or who his father is. We also find out that the mother is nowhere near Plato. She is actually out on vacation and Plato reiterates, “ I had to go to a head-shrinker. I only went twice though. My mother said it cost too much, so she went to Hawaii instead.” An alone teenage boy without any parental guidance or paths for his future is to hard for him causing him to be afraid. Just as Danny Weitzman stated in his essay “ We also see lack of quality relationships in Plato’s Life such as his introverted personality and his inappropriate interpretation of Jim and Judy’s relationship.” Plato is afraid to accept anybody new in his life, which is why

In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting two types of movies. I will be examining their different elements, of similarities and differences. One piece of film that i will be studying is Alice Through The Looking Glass directed by James Bobin. I will also be looking over the film Finding Dory directed by Andrew Stanton. This is also directed by Angus Maclane. These movies both take you through a whirlwind of

You can tell you are watching a Wes Anderson film instantly the minute everything takes the shape of an animated painting, each shot is so meticulously designed if it were to be paused in the middle it would assume the aesthetics form of an artwork. Like an illustration every, patch of color and screen direction is chosen with the same amount of care put into the script itself. His work as a director is entirely unique, each of his films has a look and feel that is unmistakably his and can be recognized from the start. Symmetry and color are the two distinct characteristics every one associates with a Wes Anderson film. But beyond mere aesthetics in detail and what some would call an obsessive OCD, his themes deal with nostalgia and situations dealing with the troubled family dynamic. At the heart and root of it all Anderson’s personal history is perceived and ideology that is clearly influenced by his childhood. In this article, I will address how through the uniquely storybook and whimsical comedic tones of Wes Anderson films he is able to show the foils and limitations of estranged family relations and address personal subject matters like loss and acceptance.

Leonard. P, a news reporter for ET 43 News described the reaction of preview screening audiences in 1999 as, “Well I don’t think anybody is gunna be walking away disappointed with this movie”. Audience members he interviewed praised the visual effects and the story; with one interviewee, saying it even “lived up to the originals”.

Many Hollywood movies are obvious about the direction the film is going to go. Plots are usually straightforward in the sense that the goals of the protagonists are clear, and there is a linear progression towards their objectives after each overcome obstacle. To have the audience absorbed into the world of the movie is the ambition. If the audience is captivated, then most likely they will think that the movie was good. The Berlin School challenges the conventional approaches to film making. Films from this school try to prove that movies can be well received without adhering to pre-established techniques. The way the limits are tested is by exploring the character’s motives, the means they use to satiate those desires, and why. To do this Berlin school films implement characters with complexity. Meaning that the characters have a series of layers of emotions and thoughts that are often conflicting with each other. These thoughts and emotions are going to be withheld from us though. Therefore, the audience is delegated the task of interpreting sometimes subtle hints from dialogue, facial expressions, the setting, and events to inference why things are happening, rather than only what is happening. The viewers take on the role of detached observers. As a result, the character’s interactions with the world, now whilst considering their motives) becomes the plot device of choice. A downfall to this demanding approach is the potential

As soon as the movie starts, the camera is focused on the infant crying with all the mise-en- scene around him/her. Which the mise-en-scene here is all the trash bags and all the children returning home from school. In other words, the baby is left alone which rises a concern in the audience in why is infant left alone on the floor next to all these trash bags. Later, the camera starts zooming out from the infant and that establishes the theme of the movie. The theme that people would agree on for this film would be mysterious.