The movie, “The Conversation,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola is a film that I recommend everyone to see. This movie is focused on Harry Caul, a private “spy” of sorts who is hired to listens in and records peoples conversations to sell them to his employer for large sums of money. In the film, Caul…
Category: Short Essay
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde film was released in 1967, is an American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film tells a modify story of the real Bonnie and Clyde. In the middle of the Great Depression,…
Head
The historical question of how the film relates to and reflects the popular culture of the time immediately comes to mind while considering the movie Head. In an article by Dorian Lynskey in 2011, titled, ‘The Monkees’ Head: Our Fans Couldn’t Even see it’, it is argued that the Monkees did not have any control…
A Bout de Souffle
There’s a common theme amongst the reviews for the pioneer French New Wave film Breathless (“A Bout de Souffle”); it’s erratic nature and immoral characters. On February 8th of 1961, The New York Times published Bosley Crowther’s review of the (then) new film, in which he wrote “…sordid is really a mild word for its…
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…
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