American cinema

Instructions Not Included Imagine, it is a sunny day and the light reflects off of the surrounding sea and onto an ideal beach home. Nothing but beautiful people, sunshine, and good times. But alas good times do not always last as next comes a blast from the past so powerful it is still felt 8 years into the future! If all those images have been conjured up in the viewer’s mind, then you have the basic plot to this foreign film ‘Instructions Not Included’. But wait there is more I promise. Firstly

In the art world of the 1970’s, Mary Kelly responded directly to the issues raised in Mulvey’s article often making works that attempt to reclaim feminine identity. Most of Kelly’s films are works of research and documentation that concern ideas of women’s roles and women’s work. In the early 1970s Kelly was involved in the making of the film Night Cleaners (1970-1975). The film explored contemporary issues of feminist activism in following a group of working-class female service labourers and

The Cyclical Teen Musical Film Considered by Jane Feuer to be “the only form of musical that retains widespread popularity” (123), the teen musical film is a cyclical sub-genre of the musical film that keeps coming back again and again since the 1960s, proving that it is a sub-genre here to stay. And since this is a cyclical sub-genre, its historical development is also cyclical in matter: it develops slightly throughout the cycle, as per many other film genres, but always seems to return back to

The first time I watched a horror movie, I was nine years old. While all of my cousins shrieked and closed their eyes, I felt totally engaged. Will we become more violent if we watch these movies? Will we become a gore-loving, emotionally insensitive society? What is it about scary movies that we love so much? It all comes back to the Human Condition. Facing our fears, establishing our sense of normalcy, and experiencing a weird sort of fun are all solid claims that Stephen King states in his essay

Celebrities have a moral responsibility to be good role models for the society, would you agree? First of all by using the dictionary the main definitions can be broken down; the definition for a celebrity is ‘a famous or well known person’. The definition of moral responsibility is ‘the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations.’ The definition of a good role model is ‘a person whose behaviour, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people

Have you ever had to send away a beloved one to heaven? If so, what did you experience? Were you able to continue your daily life in pretty decent amount of time, or were you trapped in your emotions and couldn’t move on from it? If not so, what would you imagine yourself being or feeling? A Man Called Ove, a fascinating work of literature by Fredrik Backman, portraits a cranky, grumpy, old man, Ove’s journey of meeting life-changing new neighbor, opening his heart to them, and overcoming the grief

As the protagonists go through many difficulties to accomplish their ambition they use many different ways to travel that help establish the mood of the film. Although the means of travel help establish the mood in both films, the particular means of travel differ, which gives the two films different moods. In Children of Men, there are several different ways the characters get from one place to another. Some examples include driving in a car or bus, and traveling by boat. However, whenever the characters

Garnet Tyler 301344139 CA 130 - Fundamentals of Film Viewing Review - Blind Light The film Blind Light by Sarah Pucill is an experimental 16mm film that was presented as a part of the Cinematheque’s “Studio DIM Cinema”. This twenty-two minute film, made in 2007, consists of a series of long, slow shots of the sky from the interior of a studio loft. In these shots, the filmmaker gradually adjusts the exposure and zoom, affecting the brightness levels and perspective. Pucill also controls the

The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson is an adventure animated crime film that makes its audience to become charmed for its incredible animation of stop motion. In this film Anderson plays and explores with the main character named Mr. Fox played by Jorge Clooney in overcoming his self-center ambitions and turning him into a more concern individual for the better of those who are closed to him. Recognized by his exceptional work of humorous films, Wes Anderson a creative, passionate, and outstanding

After the most talked about film of Malayalam film industry in last year "Maheshinte Prathikaram" ("Mahesh's Revenge") director Dileesh Pothan and actor Fahadh Faasil comes together for "Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum" (Roughly translated as "The Exhibit and the Witness"). Even though it's only the second film from Pothan, due to the immense fan following for his previous film which even generated a trend of finding minute details from that film and labeling it as Pothettan brilliance, there was much