Spanish director Julio Medem's fifth film, Sex and Lucí, is a passionate and frequently erotic tale on love, loss, sex and fantasy. ... His writings reveal the tale of a one-night stand years earlier with Elena, who runs the boarding house Lucí stays at and who furthermore gave birth to a daughter, Luna, after her sexual encounter with Lorenzo. ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

In order to see how advertising and public relations have obscured and facilitated our freedom and our understanding of democracy, we need to understand the differences between the two. ... "In the cities in which we live, all of us see hundreds of publicity images everyday of our lives" (p.129). ... Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. is a tale of before and after. ... In three of the readings from class, Franklin's Autobiography, Alger's Ragged Dick and the Autobiography of Malcolm X are all tales of self-improvement. ... Dick is living in a city where poor people are looked at ...

• Word Count: 1730
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A tale that deals with the obscure world of criminals and policemen of a big city. ... He had done semi-documentary films before with two of his previous films: The House on 92nd Street and 13 Rue Madeleine. ... The two other actors that make everything fit together on-screen are Brian Donlevy and Coleen Gray. ...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School