This title is perfect for a film in which these opposing forces are at constant work. ... Somewhat dramatic music and peaceful art is playing in the beginning until all of a sudden, a car mit is slapped on the winshield of a car and the music suddenly stops. ... In between the scenes of brutality the camera settles on art and nature, which gives a dual perspective on the film as a whole. ... There are also many shots of art in the film, which convey a presence of Nishi's partner. ... Certain things don't make sense and others make perfect sense. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. ... He pioneered the art of cinematography and special effects, which along with his cameos, are what he is most often associated with. ... He soon began to study art at the University of London, which led to being promoted to Henley's advertising department to design cable ads. ... In April of 1926, Michael Balcon told Hitchcock he wanted to make a movie of the 1913 mystery novel The Lodger, and felt that Hitchcock's sense of character and narr...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mirror on Celluloid: 8 ½ Frederico Fellini's 8 ½: one of the first foreign films I ever viewed. The impact it had upon me is, perhaps, immeasurable. I still struggle to understand it; to make sense of its many symbolic intricacies and nuances. Thus far, I am only prepared to say this: 8 ...

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In an interview conducted at a film retrospective shown at the Seattle Art Museum, John Woo offered extensive insights into the ingredients and influences of his upbringing that we now recognize as the essence of his directorial style. ... It is from Zhang that he learned the art of directing violent swordplay and kung-fu scenes. ... Woo changed the look of the gunfight through the filmic techniques that he had perfected in his previous films; dollying in and out, the use of slow motion and freezing the action and the use of tracking shots were among the various techniques that he utilized. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He claims Lisa is too perfect and unadventurous for him, but we really see how frightened he is of being trapped. ... Miss Hearing Aid and the bachelor composer are also loners, focusing their attentions on their art. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He claims Lisa is too perfect and unadventurous for him, but we really see how frightened he is of being trapped. ... Miss Hearing Aid and the bachelor composer are also loners, focusing their attentions on their art. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. As the use of color became prevalent, these filmmakers began to typify a new European art cinema, expressing a distinctly contemporary ennui. ...

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Atlantida studios were established in Rio in 1943 by Moacyr Fenelon, it was here that chanchada was perfected on the premise that Brazilian films did not have the technical ability of Hollywood films and it was at these studios that the careers of Oscarito and Grande Otello were natured and developed (Rist 1). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate