Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
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A Norm-breaking Rebel: Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
The Shawshank Redemption: Now and Then
One of the central themes of The Shawshank Redemption is friendship. Viewers, including myself, viewed the film as a story told from a friend’s perspective. The audience, following Red’s narration, can learn exactly how his opinions about Andy changed—he first thought of him as a weak person, then doubted his beliefs, and finally admired his…
Good Will Hunting
When I first watched this film I was eleven and I watched it with my family. My family has always loved the idea of education and have consistently striven to learn and teach the rest of the family by encouraging us to learn as much as possible. Thus this movie about a genius kid is…
1965 – When The Evolution Started
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…
Films Through the Ages
The question is not if movies changed since 1965 but HOW movies have changed. Everything changes with time. The biggest change that has happened in movies is technology. At the beginning of this course, we started with watching films that were in black and white. The first movie that was watched during this course…
Pursuit of visual experience: Films from 1965
Film is the product of people’s pursuit of the ultimate visual experience, which always stirs the emotions of the audience. Since 1965, a series of changes have taken place in world movie industry driven by the New Wave movement. There has been a great change in form, style as well as storytelling. However, the constant…
1965 to Now
The first movie ever made was in 1888. It’s hard to imagine that between then and now nothing has changed. A lot of aspects go into producing a film starting with the story line and moving on to technology and music selections. Our comparison however is not from the first movie made to now, it…
Rediscovering Hollywood
“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.” Arthur Erickson. Since the rise of the film industry in the 19th century to the present day, a dream world reflected the individual minds of society. Resembling any other art some…
The Relationship between Society and Film
Since 1965, films have grown significantly in a few key ways. Technology has grown with the invention of colored film and CGI. Films have blown up on a global scale, reaching people everywhere instead of just in America. Movies have changed to show a more complex point of view in society, both nationally and globally….
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