In the past, directors have been plagued with the task of creating a classic teen movie. The idea of a classic teen movie would have to include drama, comedy, action, friendship, and most importantly a life lesson. However, today's directors seem to make carbon copies of each other work in the ...

It's always hard to remake a movie that has achieved classic status, as is the case with the 1950 movie DOA. But Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton's 1988 remake of the film breathes new life into it. The basic question that must be posed to the directors of any remake is: Why bother' Why not...

"Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan, is an interesting and complex film. The concepts and ideas the film conveys are a welcome, fresh change from the recent stagnation that American film has endured. Mr. Nolan built this film from a concept that had nothing in common with the all too familiar ...

Requiem for a Dream, by Darren Aronofsky, is a truly amazing film. Every aspect of the film is finely honed to create a sensory overload in the viewer. From quick cuts to showing the viewer familiar clips over and over when certain things are done, it is truly a unique viewing experience. Sound a...

When audience members look at films they want to put reality on the shelf and enjoy a well written movie. Martin Scorsese has always captivated and fascinated his audience members for many years. His types of movies tend to have a male leads while the female characters are sometimes not as develop...

Lights, Camera, maybe Action? While not a motivating or inspiring film, Robert Altman's "The Player" is creative and amusingly satirical. The cinematography and editing tricks grabs the audience attention and throws them into the midst of Hollywood back-lot. "The Player's&q...

The Searchers (1956) is one of America's top one-hundred films ever made. John Ford directed this film with John Wayne as the leading role, his supporting actors/actresses were Natalie Wood, Jeffery Hunter, Vera Miles, and Ward Bond.The film tells the story of a man, Wayne, searching for his captu...

So much has been said and written about the achievements of Steven Spielberg and his brand of cinema, that the moment we hear about a new Spielberg film being made, we know what to expect. A high quality action movie falling in the genre of science fiction- but when Sch...

Another movie with talking animals, most likely means another big flop in the theatres. However, audiences soon changed their minds after viewing the live action tale of Babe™, the marvelous movie based on Dick King-Simth's children's novel, "The Sheep-Pig." The cinematography...

FILM EXPRCIST Fear is one of man's most primal instincts; the task of evoking that instinct in a film is not an easy one. In order for a movie scare the people watching it, there has to be a sense of realism in the film, the sets characters and plot have to be believable. This real world...

General Purpose: To inform my audience about Quentin Tarantino. Specific Purpose: My audience will know who he is, how he became Quentin Tarantino, and most important his movies. Introduction Attention Reveal Topic Relevancy Credibility Preview I. If you liked that you'll l...

I saw this movie on October first at my home. I decided I was in the mood to watch a B-movie, since I haven't seen one in awhile. Sidney W. Pink wrote and directed this movie. Two other films he directed were Journey to the seventh planet (1962) and Finger on the Trigger (1965). The story ...

Could a movie really capture what a novel is trying to say? I think most people agree that a book is always better than the movie version. For over 70 years, screenwriters have been using literature to create its masterpieces and flops alike. According to film critic Frank McConnel, "Films are ...

Days of Heaven Days of Heaven: - Director Terrence Malick - Screenplay written by Terrence Malick - Cinematography by Nestor Almendors - Music by Leo Kottke and Ennio Morricone - Production Design by Jack Fisk - Costume Design by Patricia Norris - Film Editing by Billy Weber - ...

Quentin Tarantino is arguably one of the most influential film makers/ directors/ actors of our time and has made his mark on Hollywood forever. His movies are thought provoking, intelligent, and, very often, so vulgar and violent that we cringe or turn away while watching. However, Quentin Tarant...

Friday vs. Barbershop Comedies have always been my favorite movies. The ones that had the biggest impression on me are Friday and Barbershop. These two movies did not just have talented casts with Ice Cube as a main character in both of them but two great directors as well. They also possessed ...

Sounds of Glory The 1957 film Paths Of Glory can be hailed as a cinematic stunning success because of director Stanley Kubrick's unconventional use of sound aesthetics. He has a remarkably collective use of natural sound, music, and sound effects in this semi-fictional pacifist picture. The ...

Michael Mann's life is not as open and public as many of his colleagues and rivals in Hollywood, but over the last few years he has been brought into the forefront through his increasingly impressive work, which will hit a peak this year with the release of his latest offering, Ali....

Robin Wood's article "Ideology, Genre, Auteur" suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective, one should combine different approaches to assess the movie as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies, the methods, and the director, one will get a more acc...

A lot of video imagery is used in the film American Beauty with mainly a Sony DV camera and the character Ricky as the voyeur. It brought reality to viewer through Rickys' way of looking at things which was often through the video image. Conrad Hall,( director of photography), for the film Americ...

Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis" was filmed in Germany in 1926. It is a dystopian film portraying a horribly polarized future society where the working class is made to toil endlessly, in stark contrast to the ruling class, i.e. the upper class, who live the life of luxury, high up in towers, look...

I have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the "ghetto" social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the...

"Auter" is a French term for the film director who places a personal style on his or her films. It was first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his films depict a certain style that is definite...

When one reflects on the past two decades of film, many magnificent movies have been put into production. They're has been ground-breaking developments in all of the different genre, not to mention in animation and other aspects of film. If we were to list the greatest films of this era, we ...

Consider the significance of the auteur theory to the development of film theory and film culture. Is it still a relevant concept? In this essay, I shall endeavor to outline the beginnings of the auteur theory, and show the arguments that support and oppose the relevance of the auteur theory i...