Jean-Luc Godard

morality, legality, or functionality, works of art place dictatorships in the hot seat and attempt to pry them open in order to get to the very core of their existence. Two films that spectacularly do this are Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville. Whether it is the always hilarious clumsy nature of Charlie Chaplin or the eerie, inquisitive behavior of secret agent Lemmy Caution, both films criticize dictatorships through a variety of cinematic devices. The Great Dictator

After watching, A Bout de Souffle, which translates to Breathless, by Director Jean-Luc Godard, I found myself to especially enjoy the scene that starts at minute 21:38. Part of the reason why I was so drawn to this clip within my analysis of the film would be for this pure dynamic and elements of the first shot. The positioning alone of the characters helps to express a true power relationship between the female character and the male, who we know to be Patricia and Michel. This particular scene

the viewers see this story in a different light. Growing up in a household that I would consider to be very religious, I never truly thought about the Virgin Mary. It was just a given that she gave birth to Jesus and joseph and her raised him. What Godard did with this film was to make us see that it is not as black and white as we always thought it to be. I liked that this film shows it in modern times because we are able to connect with it more and analyze in different ways. We never ever think about

French New Wave cinema is widely considered one of the most influential periods in cinematic history. The filmmaking techniques and ideas utilized during the French New Wave period can still be seen in modern cinema, with some films uses them more than others. Two films that more obviously been influenced by the era are Quentin Tarantino 's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs and Christopher Nolan’s 2000 film Memento. These films exude many traits and styles synonymous with French New Wave cinema such as jump

methods, and it was crowned by three movies : 1- Les 400 Coups ( The 400 Blows ) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) - Best director award at the Cannes Film Festival- 2- Hiroshima Mon Amour ( Heroshima My love ) (Alain Resnais, 1959 ) - Earned an Oscar nomination for screenwriter Marguerite Duras, as well as a special award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival – 3- Breathless (François Truffaut, 1959) - Earned an 1960 Prix Jean Vigo, 1960 Berlin International Film festival: Silver Bear for Best Director

The Shirley Cards are color reference cards used to calibrate skin tones, shadows and light during the printing process for still photography. The cards started to appear around the 1950’s and early on, the cards typically depicted a Caucasian woman who was dressed in brightly colored clothes. Very few of these cards featured males. Additionally, the name given to the cards are based off the original model. The reasoning only Caucasian women were depicted on the color reference cards was based on

Many critics like Truffaut Francois, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol praised and introduced this film trend in Cahiers du Cinema which was the one of the most significant Parisian film magazine at that time. The Parisian film clubs started absorbing those new ideas of the Neo-realism. Parisian

Postulating that “Every film is a fiction film”, the ideas of scholars like Metz (1982) might contest the idea that documentaries can convey the truth. In telling the story of the history of Rottnest Island as a place of torment for Aboriginals in the past, the film Black Prison-White Playground uses the cinematic language of a narrative, which was put together through the use of reconstructed scenes, and this reconstruction might be the cause for scepticism with regards to the accuracy of the film

Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard follows a young criminal on the run after killing a police officer. He returns to Paris with his young American lover, Patricia who unknowingly hides him in her apartment before she then learns about his criminal ways and notifies the police. Peirrot le Fou, also directed by Godard is styled after a film noir. But the movie is shot in color, mostly utilizing red and blue. The story follows Ferdinand, a man bored with his wife and bourgeois lifestyle that decides to

Quentin Tarantino Blood, gore, and a lot of language; you will find this is most Quentin Tarantino movies. Although, this is what makes him such a writer and director. Quentin Tarantino is not only a fantastic screenplay writer, but he also pushes the limit of intense plots of drama, and mostly violence. As a great director, who changes the world of filmmaking, Quentin Tarantino is one of the most unique directors/writers, today. Born March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Quentin Jerome Tarantino