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    My opinion, an auteur is a director who leaves a personal message or impact on the films they’re working on. Not only visually, but also utilizing their techniques and motifs which are always used in films. The director I have chosen to write about is none other than Christopher Nolan. I chose to write about him not just because he did one of my favorite superhero movies of all time (The Dark Knight Trilogy), but he is one of my favorite directors of all time. After reading Andrew Sarris article

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    How David Fincher uses colour in the film Fight Club and how this is used to influence the viewer. Colour in film is very important, it can change the mood of the film, influence viewers emotions as they watch, can be used as symbolism and can even teach the viewer in a very short time to expect something to happen when a certain colour is shown. The Director of Fight club and other films such as Se7en and the Girl with the Dragon tattoo, David Fincher is very well known for working closely with

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    Forbidden Love: Shifting Gender Roles and East Asian Cinema The film world is often known for borrowing content from the actual events that occur on Earth. Popular genres such as documentaries, historical dramas, and war films generally draw directly from real-life events, even if the characters or dialogue may be imaginary. However, these realistic pictures are not the only way that real-life leaks into the on-screen world - filmmakers and producers often borrow from contemporary issues such as

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    The film Plastic Planet takes an in- depth look of our modern world and it’s major production and consumption of plastic. Released in the year 2010, director Werner Boote reminisces on the time spent with his most memorable childhood figure, his grandfather. Whose fascination at the time was focused toward the production of plastic and what it held for the future to come. This fascination carried on into Boote’s adult life and after considerable research formed from around the world spurred him to

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    The theory of authorship as applied to film directors is a subject that is argued extensively throughout the film world. The auteur theory was first introduced in the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. Andrew Sarris who suggested that there are a group of filmmakers who fit into this category brought the theory to America. It states that in order for a director to be considered an auteur, there must be a consistency of style and theme across a number of films. Very few contemporary filmmakers fit

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    Relative personal information: Steven Spielberg was born on 18th of December 1946 and was in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States of America. Steven Spielberg is currently 72 years old and he lives in Los angles and is a famous film director for many of his works. Steven Spielberg moved a lot when he was growing up but spent part of his youth in Arizona. Steven Spielberg is also part of the Jewish religion. List of Most recognized movies: Steven Spielberg has a list of many movies that he has

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    surroundings, and if there is no civilisation around us, we will then lose these values. I personally as a young viewer see that Hook’s version is more exciting to an audience because it can be viewed with more technical advances to the film. Also in the Hook version it is easy to see another theme which is not made that obvious in the Brook version. The fear of the unknown (in this case the beast is unknown and is put into the boy’s heads by their imaginations) can be a

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    one of Japan’s most important film directors of the twentieth century. His work spanned over fifty years and included a broad range of genres from historical epics to gangster dramas. His films not only told interesting stories but also broke new ground. Many of his innovations were technical, such as his use of the long lens, his penchant for shooting with multiple cameras, and his virtuosic editing. Other innovations were tied to his emphasis on details within his films, such as elaborate period costumes

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    paper is to provide interpretation of the 1979 film The Marriage of Maria Braun directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), a West German filmmaker and a representative of the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s-1980s, taking into consideration the ideas revealed in the article by Moeller. In this way, the main idea of the essay is that in his film, Fassbinder reflects Moeller’s concept of the selective memory by means of dehumanization of film characters while showing the historical post-war

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    Analysis of John Singleton's Film Boyz N the Hood The director and screenwriter of the 'Boyz N the Hood.' John Daniel Singleton. The 34 year director, who was born January 6, 1968, in Los Angeles, CA. This black African-American director who won several awards as a screenwriting students at USC. Singleton's assured a directorial debut, Boyz N the Hood. An urgent, powerful coming-of-age tale, the film found a spark of hope amid its bleak, violence-ridden south central

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