As I am writing this I am thinking how movies have and haven’t changed over the years. Since the 1960’s movies have been made to entertain and tell a story. Movie making has always been a business with a story teller and actor hoping to make money. Since the 1960’s movies have reflected the time…
Author: Melisa Ensign
Plesantville and Pulp Fiction
In the last two weeks I have watched two very different movies and two very different directors Pleasantville and Pulp Fiction. Both movies have messages of human nature, love, ugliness, humor one is just more in your face with the ugliness than the other. Pleasantville 1998 was filmed on a $40 million-dollar budget but grossed…
Stranger Than Paradise and Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch is an American director Auteur, screen writer, musician, born and raised in Ohio. He eventually moved to New York at 17 and Paris. He is known for low budget independent films and makes films that suit him. He owns all his own negatives except one that he made for Neil Young. His growing…
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the lost Ark was a 1981 blockbuster hit. The story written by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, directed by Steven Spielberg this was bound to be a success. With a budget of 18 million, the movie grossed $389 million worldwide a success with the mainstream audience. This movie appealed…
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein was a 1974 comedy directed by Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks known for comedies like Blazing Saddles and The Producers this film, Young Frankenstein was one of his best. The movie starred Gene Wilder. The film idea was pitched to Mel Brooks, but he had hesitations about the idea. He thought they had too…
Ali Fear Eats the Soul, Rainier Fassbinder
Ali Fear Eats the soul is a 1974 New German cinema film directed by Rainer Fassbinder. This movie tells the story of Emmi played by Brigette Mira, a 65-year-old widow and the unconventional love she finds with Ali an Arab migrant worker played by El Hedi ben Salem. The movie was filmed in only 15…
The Graduate
The Graduate was filmed in 1967 and Directed by Mike Nichols and starred new comer Dustin Hoffman. It was adapted from a novel and was supposed to star Robert Redford which was much more like the character in the book. This was very much new American Cinema at its best. Although it received mixed reviews…
Cinematic Memoir: Shawshank Redemption
Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 film based on a Steven King Novella. This film was nominated for seven academy awards including best picture. This movie is about a smart quiet banker named Andy played by Tim Robbins, that is accused of killing his wife and her lover and sentenced to two life sentences in Shawshank…
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