Cinéma vérité

South Indian or specifically Malayalam Cinema. The first question the arises in my mind while watching any Malayalam movie is why does the nationally and internationally acclaimed Malayalam or for that matter any South Indian Cinema fail to represent women’s experiences, Why are The Female leads just subjected to basic chores, or as an object of desire? Me being a Woman find it very disturbing to see woman being labelled in the same umbrella. Indian cinema has always been under the line of fire

“Singin’ in the Rain” was a film released in 1952, and is a combination of a musical and a romantic comedy. The film takes on a portrayal of 1920’s Hollywood culture that is very easygoing and cheerful. And as is the situation with most films that are regarded as classics, it originally received very lukewarm reactions upon its initial release, but as time went on people began to notice and appreciate its candor. Nowadays it’s regarded as the greatest musical film ever made, and one of the best films

a moving car in Salaam Cinema by Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. What started off as a casting call for 100 actors and actresses for his new film, turned out to be more than they could have imagined, with about 5000 applicants, young and old, turning up for the love of Cinema. They inspired Makhmalbaf to turn the audition into a documentary film, dedicating Salaam Cinema to 100 years of Cinema. This review will look at the methods used in capturing the ‘real’ in Salaam Cinema by examining the mode of

The main objective of this case study is to analyze the policy of co-production in screen industries between Australia and China based on the nation’s situation and the history of film industry. The main problem is how to utilize this policy to enhance government cooperation and business model to apply those policies into the cooperation procedure. The other problem is the shortage of sustainability of film business and to find out the solutions to develop a model to be used as a best practice framework

Although, there is no denying the fact that the folk theatre or what is critically known as the “traditional” theatre had given up the rigid and sophisticated methods of the Sanskrit theatre, yet it owed a lot to its predecessors in many aspects. Therefore in the present discussion, wherein the impact of the Indian folk drama on the contemporary writer will be examined, one cannot help reverting back to the Sanskrit or classical form of theatre as well. Sanskrit drama assumed a specific social setting

Chaplin: Film Revolutionary A revolutionary idea are certain movements that change life as we know it entirely, take for example the revolutionary idea of a film. There would be no film if it were not for it’s forefathers such as photography, pictures drawn on caves, yet still dating back to the time of story telling. None of these outstanding ideas would be able to be born without the humans that set off these chains of events. An important influence in Film is 1920’s celebrity, Charlie Chaplin

The title of the movie that I have chosen is Life of Pi. Life of Pi released in the year 2002. It was directed by Ang Lee. This movie was based on the novel written by Yann Martel. The major character named Piscine Molitor Patel was acted by Suraj Sharma. Life of Pi developed as a successful commercial movie as well as it earned over $609 million worldwide. Piscine Molitor Patel was the lead role of this movie. He was also known as Pi. His father named him on behalf of a well-known swimming pool

popularity is sealed by the fact that the audience feels its story being told, and this is the argument for its success in the market. Nigerian cinematographic products have equally undergone a veritable metamorphosis to have learnt from all forms of cinemas and are gradually moving towards the enviable situation of a developed homegrown video industry that can arguably boast of its own distinctness. Originally projected for the traditional village settings of juju, village-oriented comedy and folkloristic

Neorealism, as the name suggests, is a new realism. Louis Giannetti gives a definition in the book Understanding Movies that “Strongly realistic in its techniques, neorealism emphasized documentary aspects of film art, stressing loose episodic plots, unextraordinary event and characters, natural lighting, actual location settings, nonprofessional actors, a preoccupation with poverty and social problems, and an emphasis on humanistic and democratic ideas.” (Giannetti, 2004, 538). Bicycle Thieves and

Introduction Bollywood is the film industry mainly found and produced in India. Bollywood is also known as Hindi cinema. The term Bollywood sounds similar to the United States film industry ‘Hollywood’ and while they can have some similarities and differences, the titles of the film cultures are not related. Bollywood has been affected in several ways by the Hindi culture. Gender roles play a large part in the countries standards, and these gender roles are also represented in the film industry.