A Hard Day’s Night is a funny film that every age person can enjoy. This film shows a fictional story of a famous band group (The Beatles). Summarizing the plot, basically the band is stalked by his manager and Paul’s grandfather, The Beatles leave Liverpool by train for a TV show in London. A Hard…
Category: Fall 2018
Hard to Resist? A Hard Day’s Night
“A Hard Day’s Night” was critically acclaimed by most every media outlet, including most movie critics alike. That being said, it is hard to find very critical reviews about this witty 1964 classic musical movie. For example, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun all rated the movie a perfect 100 out of…
Journey to italy
Critics debate that Voyage to Italy is a film in search of itself. A film that only knows its own conclusion when it appears. Its ending is an end that no one expected and yet its ending feels right. No one expected the film to end the way it did, but it was clearly what…
A Hard Day’s Night – Hitting the Marketing JackPot
A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester, tells the story, in a fun style, of the well famed British band, The Beatles. The story focuses on the journey from their origin city, Liverpool to London, for a televised performance. The story unfolds as the four-men group encounter various adventures while running from their fans,…
Journey Through Marriage, Via Italia
“…thirty years after its premiere, it regularly makes the top-ten listing of Cahiers du cinéma.” I would have to agree with the UC Press E-Books collection on Roberto Rossellini. Journey to Italy was released in 1954 yet I could see a film with similar nuances coming out today. This movie made me extremely uncomfortable in the best of ways. It was…
Breathless (A Bout De Souffle)
Breathless is a French New wave film that was released in 1960, and was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. When it was released, it shook the world. This was a film that had unknown actors, took risks, and was considered to be bad editing for the time. What they ended up with is something truly unique…
Solaris: Tarkovsky’s Masterpiece
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris holds an entirely different pace, tone, story and set of shots compared to any other film I’ve seen. It has such a focus on letting things play out at the slow pace that life takes. It’s also very focused on asking questions about self and what makes one a person. Philosophy of…
Soylent Green, Directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston
A really intriguing movie that had caught my attention as a child was the movie Soylent Green by Richard Fleischer and starring the notable Charlton Heston. From my recollection of the film as a young kid, I remember the intense finding of human beings turning into this green colored crackers and providing it to…
Solaris Essay
“Solaris,” a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a film that focuses on the moral ethics pertaining what to do with the “guests” that the characters are met with throughout the film. The “guests” in the film are manifestations that the planet Solaris brings into existence through the characters subconscious. When faced with the “guests,” the…
Journey to Italy
Film critics have in the past and continue to hold Journey to Italy in high esteem. A. O. Scott in his 2013 Review featured in the New York Times said of the movie: “Some of us will never tire of those soirees, with their black-tied gloom and elegant suffering, and will therefore relish the beauty…
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