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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...