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  • Meaning From The Films
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    Much that characterised Hollywood in the 1950's can be described as paradoxical and ambiguous due to anti-communist hysteria and the blacklist. How accurate is this statement in relation to two films of the 1950's A lot has been made of the suggested subtexts present in High Noon and On the Waterfront, that they reflect the experiences of Carl Foreman (the writer of High Noon) and Elia Kazan with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreman has openly assented to this, and Kazan has ad...
  • Film Drop Dead Gorgeous
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    Drop Dead Gorgeous Review The 1999 Minnesota based film Drop Dead Gorgeous, was a pointless yet hilarious movie. This take off on pageants was produced by Claire Rudin ck Pol stein, Donna Langley, and Long Williams with New Line Cinema. Beauty pageants always seem like a bizarre event to me. It consists of girls with outlandish hair (the frizzier the better) too much makeup (one mustn't see the real skin), unflattering bathing costumes and lots of cello tape to hold everything in place. It seems...
  • Film The 300 Spartans
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    The film The 300 Spartans is the story of the Battle of Thermopylai, where the 300 strong personal guard of King Leonidas defended a mountain pass at Thermopylai so that Xerxes of Persia couldn t conquer Greece. As far as detailing how the events at Thermopylai went, The 300 Spartans was an accurate film. In real life, Leonidas and his men held the Persians back for two days, after which, they were sold out by a local Greek named Ephialtes. In the movie, Ephialtes is rejected by a Spartan women,...
  • Uncanny Alien Bug Mother
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    This morning I was struck by the realization that I've been going to movies for fifty years now; starting when I was eighteen months old, my mother would take me on a streetcar every Thursday togo shopping, have lunch, and go to a matinee and stage show at thePantages or the Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles. Clearly I like movies and I usually find something enjoyable even about bad ones. I can hardly remember a time when I have seriously considered walking out of a film. But I considered it yest...
  • Heat And The Dust Of India
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    Despite differing in form, the film "Monsoon Wedding", directed by Mira Nair and the novel "Heat and Dust", by Ruth Prowler Jhabvala, have many similarities. Both of these texts convey an Indian world and the people in it". Monsoon Wedding" is a party art house, party Bollywood film which deals with the lead up to the wedding of two young people, Aditi and Hermant. It combines their story with that of Aditi's father, Lalit, and his family responsibilities, as well as the events occurring in the ...
  • Oscars Attenborough
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    'It's fantastical, magical stuff' 'I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there at the time". As Richard Attenborough recalls Spike Milligan's famous quote, he roars with laughter, rocking back in his chair. Milligan died in February this year and the throwaway joke has now become the great absurdist's cinematic epitaph, scrawled in bold Celtic copperplate across the opening titles of the film version of his first novel, Puckoon, published in 1964. By now, Attenborough is almost in tears, b...
  • Jacques Cousteau
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. Andre de Cuba zac, France in 1910. The son of a lawyer, Jacques was warned by doctors to avoid strenuous activities due to chronic enteritis and anenemia. This did not affect his sense for adventure. At age 11, he built a foot working model of a two hundred ton marine crane. At age 13, he made a battery powered automobile. In 1930, at the age of twenty, Jacques entered the French Naval Academy. Form 1933 to 1935 he served in the Far East aboard the cruiser P...
  • Stepford Wives
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    Mildly diverting is about the best that can be said for The Stepford Wives, a remake so pointless it could be about as entertaining as daytime tv... Adapted from Ira Levin's chilling novel as a comedy, as opposed to the nifty 70's thriller which made the title a household phrase, the makers have missed out one crucial ingredient: Laughs. Nicole Kidman (Moulin rouge, practical magic) plays Joanna, a burnt-out TV executive who gets fired from her job and is driven to the 50's suburb of step ford, ...
  • Freder And Maria
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    Set around the year 2000, Metropolis is a depiction of the future, yet it is viewed more intensely in the twenties style. In this view we can truly appreciate the work, without the cynicism of todays standards, for the marvel that it is. The "costliest and most ambitious picture ever screened in Europe" (Jensen) the film was premiered on January 10, 1927 at the UFA Palace, in Berlin, before an enormous audience which included many members of the political and artistic hierarchy. Initially Metrop...
  • King Vidor's 1934 Film Our Daily Bread
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    King Vidor's 1934 film Our Daily Bread is aptly named, for the film is of a prayer than an actual solution to the Great Depression. Like other Socio-political films of the era, it tries to offer a solution to the problems faced by so many Americans. However, Vidor's message gets lost somewhere between the poor production, the bad acting, and the inconsistent ideology of the film. For those reasons what comes out at the end is an almost silly climax with little realism that offers the same amount...
  • Two Stylistic Tendencies In Film
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    ... Realism and Expressionism January 2001 Realism and Expressionism (sometimes called Formalism) are terms used to describe two stylistic tendencies in film. In the abstract, they can be considered polar extremes, but to do so clouds the nature of each style. In fact, they are not mutually exclusive; they can and almost always do appear in the same film, often in the same sequences and same shots. In practice, the terms do not exist at the polar extremities. The thing to remember is that they a...
  • Goddess Remembered Features Discussions
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    Filmmaker Donna Reed directed the 1989 documentary-format film The Goddess Remembered, with sponsorship from the National Film Board of Canada. It is currently used as a major educational resource in many universities' Womens Studies classes, appearing on numerous syllabi This film speaks of many argumentive topics such as; Satellite photographs that have recently shown that the Neolithic monoliths of the Goddess (such as Stonehenge) that "all stand on energy lines, which criss-cross the earth"....
  • Phase Of The Film Sister Helen
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    Dead Man Walking The film "Dead Man Walking" is a film about redemption. The film is directed by Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon plays a Nun called Sister HelenPrejean. She is asked by a convicted murderer to get him a lawyer, and then later is asked to be his spiritual advisor. The convicted killer is named Matthew Poncelet, and he is played by Sean Penn. The film is set in the Angola state penitentiary, in Louisiana. Matthew Poncelet first asks her to get him a lawyer so he can repeal his Death se...
  • Shinbone After Liberty's Death
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    'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' is both optimistic and pessimistic. It is unsatisfactory to call the film plain optimistic, which it was in the middle of the movie, as the beginning but more so the end was pessimistic. The middle of the film was optimistic because it showed the joyous personalities of the people and about ten minutes from the end of Ransom Stoddard's flashback, film reached it's climax when Liberty Valance was killed. On the pessimistic side of the film however, is what has b...
  • Relationship And Quazi Motto
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    Film Critique The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo was trying to say about the main character, Quazi Motto, that looks have nothing to do with personality and how well they should be liked. Quazi Motto was quite unattractive physically but his personality was one of greatness, and his intentions were always good. Womens issues were depicted through the gypsy girl. When she spoke out in public in support of Quazi Motto, she was shunned against as though it were a sin. People then wanted her arrested ...
  • Film
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    Most critics say that postmodern films such as Drowning Mona are devoid of symbolism and deeper socioeconomic meaning. That this could not be further from the truth is demonstrated by the glistening repartee and subterranean post-cognitive symbols both hidden and over in the genius 1947 film by Pedro Almod " ovar, "Drowning Mona". Almod " ovar, born in France's difficult yet inspiring German occupation, shows his age and more than a little of his own personal baggage in the disorienting ly seque...
  • End Four Weddings
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    from the Empire Online This Year's Love Opens: 19/02/1999 UK Starring: Kathy Burke, Ian Hart, Catherine McCormack, Dougray Scott Director: David Kane Screenwriter: David Kane Details: 1 hr. 58 mins. Cert. 18 (tbc) UK A six-way couple-swapping romp set in London's trendy Camden Town. The early word on this David Kane-helped Brit flick has been favourable, pitching it as a rival to Notting Hill (the Julia Roberts-Hugh Grant romancer from the Four Weddings And A Funeral team) as this year's Full Mo...
  • Film
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    Children of a Lesser God Randa Haines's Children of a Lesser God might have impressed this writer more if he hadn't already seen the director's much better Dance with Me, a film that empl os similar cinematic clich"|s to much greater effect. This 1986 offering! a a cu lt favorite among fans of mushy faux sentimentality! a attempts to tell the story of John Leeds (William Hurt), a special-education teacher, and his increasingly complex relationship with the deaf and mute Sarah (Marlee Martin), a ...
  • Most Perfect Things About Soderbergh's Film
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    Memento is a film that distinguishes itself through its startling structure and hypnotic use of repetition. The film chooses to play backwards - so we actually begin with the conclusion of the events, and work our way back to where it all began. This is a structure used rarely in film - there have certainly been films that have played on the power and instability of memory, which this one does, and Rashomon and The Outrage are a couple that have analysed a single event from a range of perspectiv...
  • Audrey And Katharine Hepburn
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    Katharine and Audrey Hepburn became more than a movie stars. Their legends started, first on screen, then grew into the hearts of people everywhere. Their movies where classics and their style phenomenal. Together they proved that women didn't have to show their bodies to get rave reviews. Katharine Hepburn once said "If you are given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money", she advised. "As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal" (The Golden Years: Katharine Hepburn...

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