American New Wave cinema is described as spanning between the 1960’s to the early 1980’s. Critics and scholars heavily debate this period of film, primarily because the movement itself contains so many other movements happening simultaneously. Among other points, most Hollywood individuals can agree that the basis of New Wave cinema was, ironically, stemming from…
Category: Comparisons
A comparison of two films.
Dirty Dancing/The Breakfast Club
American New Wave cinema is described as spanning between the 1960’s to the early 1980’s. Critics and scholars heavily debate this period of film, primarily because the movement itself contains so many other movements happening simultaneously. Among other points, most Hollywood individuals can agree that the basis of New Wave cinema was, ironically, stemming from…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre/House of Flying Daggers
In today’s films we see a wide range of what type of films are made and how they are made. Throughout time advances in technology has really impacted the way we view films. From special effects to simple things like prop manufacturing can really change each and every scene. TCM uses many different makeup and…
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…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Terminator
Cinema goes in and out of trends throughout it’s history; more so than any other form of media. With this we see how some trends last and how some go without a hitch. One trend in Hollywood that stuck and only advanced with technology is the usage of violence. With the advancement of CGI and…
Solaris, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, & the Human Psyche
What is reality? If each one of us were to answer that, we would all come up with our own unique answers. Reality is not something that is a universal idea that we all share, but it is the visual representations that are present in which we rely on to decipher reality. Throughout the films…
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…
Pleasantville and Avatar
Two movies that I really enjoyed when they came out were “Pleasantville” and “Avatar”. Little did I know years later, I would be comparing them in a blog post for a class. Re-watching these films was somewhat nostalgic for me as they both came out when I was quite a bit younger then I am…
Nightmare on Elm Street and A Better Tomorrrow
Horror, as a genre is probably my most favorite of all film genres, although I am always a sucker for a good action/drama movie. I know these are two genres are very different from one another, but in some ways they are similar. Both can use violence to shock the viewers’ senses. They can both…
Pleasantville vs. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
When I watch films, I try to pick films that I feel will keep me sucked in to watching them. Every time I pick films and blog about them there is always a correlation that I do not plan at all. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON compared to PLEASANTVILLE is very different but at…
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