We next find out that they are playing a guessing game, of what piece of music is playing, we see from a point-of-view camera angle, the stack of CD's that they have in their car. ... The camera then frames the next shot of the three family members sat in the car faced towards us. ... The music then cuts from what they are playing in the car to a very noisy extreme metal track: "Bonehead" by Naked City featuring avant-garde musician John Zorn. ... The music also ends rather abruptly, ended by the sound of the families car horn to inform their friends who are already there that they have ...

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The diagetic music generating from Katerina's car radio is very different to that favoured by the teenage girls occupying the car to her left. Panning across the width of the road, the camera juxtaposes several frames showing first a group of bubbly teenage girls bouncing to "Barenaked Ladies'" One Week, and then Kat, alone in her car, with a look of utter disdain towards them, "angry chick music of the indie-rock persuasion" blaring unashamedly from the speakers of her car. ... The lyrics of the music playing in Katerina's car, "Don't give a damn about my reputation," al...

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The other two main elements seen in this film are documents and other graphics, such as newspaper articles written at time the offence took place, and a few still photo's, one of the accident scene, and photo's of the back of a number of blue cars. ...

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They have distinct visual qualities; usually set in large, crowded cities in the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs, bootleg liquor factories, bars in back streets lit by lurid neon signs, and flashy, expensive clothes and cars. ... When they arrive at the front of the club a valet attends to the car as they bypass the huge queue into the club by using a side entrance. ...

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Broomfield has a lower profile but has written books and featured in a television commercial for the car manufacturer Audi where he capitalised on his reputation as a documentary maker by interviewing Audi employees. ...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is loosely based on the events leading up to and including World War II while combining dark undertones, planimetric framing, stylized acting, and mood lighting to transcend various levels of time and locations in order to establish a basis of confusion, amusement, and diver...

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The directors of the films "Emma" and "Clueless" use a range of film techniques to highlight the themes of the texts. Diarmuid Lawrence and Amy Heckerling explore the themes of marriage and matches, distortion of vision, social and moral responsibility, and the importance of self-knowledge. A detail...

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The shot after Wilson's taxi ride contains a car driving past the screen, which the audience assumes to hold Wilson however this is a deceptive method that indicates the mystery within the film. ...

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"2014's iteration of "Robocop" is a kinder, gentler version of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi orgy of violence" (James Berardinelli;Reelviews). That is the shortest and simplest way to sum up all the film's faults, but I will attempt to elaborate on this and give my views on the film after a viewing, ...

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In order to explain why Warner Brothers Made a series of gangster films in the thirties it is important to understand the cinematic and social situation at that time, as these films were heavily influenced by political, financial and social affairs. I shall outline all the major contributing factor...

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The post war years rendered difficult for Italians, whose society took a big hit as Mussolini's government collapsed. After years of dominating the industry through producing "white telephone " films, film critics began to harshly criticize its attempts to imitate American film and suggested that th...

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