Thinking about ‘unconventional’ in the sense of film, was most easily placed as a movie with no happy ending, or featuring a lot of philosophical writing. Today, unconventional film is not as easily defined by most, looking at the ways that our world and culture has evolved- what is unconventional to one person, may be…
Author: Mylikha Ditto-Ocampo
Pleasantville/Inception
On a rare occasion, blockbuster movies succeed in taking it’s audience on a psychological journey, prompting some to become introspective when the credits roll. Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, and Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan are great examples of films that have accomplished this. While both films are extremely different in many ways, they have the commonality of being…
Twin Peaks/Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Twin Peaks directed by David Lynch, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape directed by Steven Soderbergh look like clear polar opposites from just looking at the movie and TV posters. While they do both differ in many ways- such as catering to different audiences, themes, characters, filming… they are also very similar in the sense that…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Steve Spielberg
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1977, is a unique film centered around UFO’s and alien encounters, and around the people experiencing these encounters. Although this film is a new blockbuster movie, it defies some of the set ‘guidelines’ used to describe blockbusters during that time- it doesn’t have…
Carrie/Brian de Palma
Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma is one of the very first horror movies that played with audience expectations and sparked a new genre of horror in the mainstream movie industry, and after the release of Carrie, many ‘copycats’ emerged during the next few years. “Carrie helped usher in a boom period of huge…
Head
The movie, Head, directed by Bob Rafelson and featuring The Monkee’s- at it’s core, is an experimental New Hollywood Cinema movie. It examines politics, entertainment industries, and society during the time the movie was made (1968). During the time that the film was being made, American society was undergoing a lot of changes- assassinations of political figures…
Journey to Italy/Grand Budapest Hotel
The two movies I watched were Journey to Italy Directed by Roberto Rossellini (1954), and The Grand Budapest Hotel Directed by Wes Anderson (2014). The films have quite a huge age difference, however, they both possess a lot of the same film styles and themes, while both also being original and unique movies in different…
cinematic-memoir
One of my favorite movies, that I mentioned in my introduction post is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I really like how Wes Anderson directs, he has a really distinctive directing style, and the way that his movies are shot is captivating. In The Grand Budapest hotel, there is a handful of really diverse characters. The plot…
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