Spanish director Julio Medem's fifth film, Sex and Lucí, is a passionate and frequently erotic tale on love, loss, sex and fantasy. ... As the story continues the problems between the two lovers and soul mates build up. ... Two major Seattle newspapers, the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, decided to ban ads for the film, despite the fact that it won awards for best director and best screenplay at the city's film festival in June this year. ... The symbolic balance is a very strong theme in this film concerning light/dark imagery. ... Almost every scene is a new t...

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Six years prior, Linklater co-founded "The Austin Film Society" where mentors such as New York City critic George Morris were able to teach film. ... Later, two stoned out hairy philosophers in a coffeeshop question whether media sources such as Scooby Doo and The Smurfs are actually being used as a tool for installing cultural programming. ... Probably one of the most explicit deconstructions of the experience of watching motion pictures is during a scene in Slacker during a conversation between two gentlemen in a room full of television sets, VCRs, and VHS tapes. ... In the sce...

• Word Count: 2389
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Children can go to bed with nightmares from these ghoulish tales. ... The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. ... Murder rates in the 10 most violent cities are at an all time low. ...

• Word Count: 1586
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• Grade Level: High School

The color of Vertigo may be analyzed to reveal themes, which are associated with different color. ... It is also interesting to recognize that when the two green cars pass in a circle and confuse Scottie this is foreshadowing to Madeleine's alter personality, Judy. ... Red seems to be Scottie's theme before Madeleine and vertigo as red indicates his reluctance toward women which describes Scottie up to this point in his life. ...

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