English-language films

In this film, we view the case of a child named “Genie” who was isolated as a child. Genie was discovered on November 4th, 1970 at 13 years of age where she was discovered to have been strapped to a potty chair and isolated from the world for most of her life. Throughout the film we see the many researchers found an interest in Genie and began to investigate if she would be able to acquire language although she had passed the critical period of language development. Although, these researchers believed

Before her untimely death at the age of 31, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a promising innovator of experimental film, slide projections, sculpture, audio recordings, performance art, and poetry. Her work challenges assumptions about history, narrative, language, and in particular conceptions of immigrants; through powerful and often dislocating ideological and grammatical in-derogations of cultural, geographic, and social positions, she recuperates an alternative sense of self and identity in a postcolonial

as Your Vice), I wasn't entirely sure I was going to like it. It starts off pretty damn weird, with a bunch of hippies dancing around, singing and a guy abusing his wife. All scenes which really don't connect. However, as the movie gets going, the film starts to gel together and by the end, I was hooked big time. I loved how this movie ended, just absolutely loved it. I, of course, won't spoil it for you, but I will go into details on a few things in my review of this phenomenal Blu-ray release from

seeds out the weak in his military like orchestra so students can dedicate themselves to practicing and achieving ultimate greatness. Fletcher and Nieman are both perfectionist and driven by music and greatness. “There are no two words in the English language more harmful than ‘good job’”. Fletcher

The film I watched was The Lion King, it is about a lion prince, Simba, whose growing up happily with his family, his father, King Mufasa, and his mother Nala. Simba’s life is thrown upside down when his uncle Scar, murders King Mufasa for his own greed for the crown. Scar makes it so that Simba was responsible for his father death and tells him to run away from the kingdom. Scar tells the kingdom that Simba and Mufasa were killed in the stampede and since he is the only male heir that he will be

her scene stealing role, empathizes with Viola at the end of film that she also knows what it’s like to be a woman in a man’s profession, and saves her from any punishment as a result of her acting. While the Queen is a woman, she has complete autonomy in her choices and everyone in the country respects her just as much as they would a king. Consequently, it displays that when a woman is given power, she can thrive in the role. If the film took place in the modern era, Viola could’ve married Will,

In the film Rabbit-Proof-Fence (Fence), director Philip Noyce has portrayed the extended effects of the cruel treatment of the half-caste children. This is done through evidence of physical and sexual abuse, the dehumanization of the Indigenous children, and the forced cultural assimilation of the taken Aboriginal children. Therefore the statement is true to a large extent, however the ways in which Noyce does this are occasionally ambiguous and vague. Throughout the film the dehumanization and

Film studies subtext essay by Glenn Sutherland 1999 Run lola run German title subtitle english. Title lola rennt English dubbed (audio track) temporal order or run 88 min Directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, The questions i'm going to talk about in this essay How/why should we choose a film with lots of subtext eg underlying messages in the film, we are going to buy/rent as a customer orand as filmmakers to help find out what type of film we are

Film Analysis: Naked Among Wolves Naked Among Wolves is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. The film takes place in 1937 and 1945 towards the end of World War II in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Naked Among Wolves is centered around a group of prisoners who smuggle a Polish Jewish boy into the camp. He was discovered by Hans Pippig in a suitcase that was taken from one of the prisoners. The prisoners protect the three year old Stefan from the SS guards by hiding him anyway

unsuccessfully – to watch films from the Coen brothers. So far, I’ve managed to only catch up with their “True Grit” remake, which I did not care for. Now, after scouring Netflix and TV for what seemed like ages, I came across “The Ladykillers.” I knew this movie does not have a particularly upstanding reputation, as Coen fanatics and regular moviegoers don’t seem to like it. But I still need to educate myself on the Coens. Beggars can’t be choosers. This remake of a 1955 film of the same name stars