From the Great Depression, Vietnam war, Women Rights movements, deep economic crisis to landing a man on the moon and from being shot in a single scenario, narrated linearly, without ellipses or time jumps, without close-ups,without adequate technology to creating Fusion systems and 3-D cameras, cinematography has responded to moments of change and turmoil in…
Author: Isuf Bytyci
How Technology Changed the Movie Industry: Avatar vs Aliens
Avatar is first and foremost a story of love and liberation, in which it can be seen as a handful of natives fully integrated into their natural environment who set out to fight to rid themselves of the boundless ambition of a human mining corporation, willing to the most brutal predation of nature. The story…
A Cinematic Revolution – The French New Wave
Of all the transformations or innovations that cinema has had throughout its history, almost none has been so radical to the point of the breakup or to be considered a revolution. Two of them, linked to the technology of cinema, have managed to shake it and to some extent redefine it: the arrival of sound…
Italian vs. American Horror
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is undoubtedly one of the most important and recognized films in horror movies. This film takes place in the late 1970s, where horror films were taking a turn toward more realistic stories. In fact, this film begins with a virtually false warning that its events are based on real events, creating…
The Greatest Treasure Hunt – Indiana Jones
In 1981 Steven Spielberg presented to the world a new hero: the archaeologist Indiana Jones. His introducing in ‘In Search of the Lost Ark’ left almost 390 million at the box office. A new and profitable saga and a popular icon had just been born. Thus, in 1984 his “sequel / prequel” was released with…
IT…COULD…WORK!!!
The young doctor Frederick Frankenstein, an American neurosurgeon, tries to escape the stigma bequeathed by his grandfather, who created years ago a horrible creature. Leaving his girlfriend (Madeline Khan) in the United States, Frederick travels to Europe where he will meet his new male bug-eyed servant, Igor (Marty Feldman) and female assistant Inga, (Teri Garr)….
“WE ROB BANKS”
Her delicious red lips pout, she sulks, charming, it’s Faye Dunaway, Bonnie. Well-established hat, natural class, looks pretty proud, his six-shot sheath is Warren Beatty, Clyde. Bonnie & Clyde what, the mythical, nominally known to all. Bonnie is tired of her daily routine and normal life in the open country. Suffice to say that when…
Interstellar, A Space Between The Stars – 2014
The Earth is ravaged by dust storms and a terrible plague that ends all crops. Faced with the imminent end of humanity, a small redoubt of scientists will try to find another habitable planet in a distant galaxy thanks to a wormhole discovered near Saturn. Cooper, a former farmer-converted pilot, will be one of those…
Scars of the movie Scarface (1983)
Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, is the very definition of pump filmmaking. Though a product of its time (also the definition of 80’s movie-making), the manner and style of Scarface is just as capable today of phasing its audience as it was back in ’83. Al Pacino’s greatest performance, probably, is either between his…
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