Michael Curtiz was, “one of the most prolific directors in the history of the cinema.” Michael was born in Hungaria and left home at age 17 to join the circus. He then returned to Budapest and got into theater. He attended Markoszy University and the Royal Academy of Theater and Art, then joined the Hungarian…
Category: Short Essay
The Graduate
The Graduate was filmed in 1967 and Directed by Mike Nichols and starred new comer Dustin Hoffman. It was adapted from a novel and was supposed to star Robert Redford which was much more like the character in the book. This was very much new American Cinema at its best. Although it received mixed reviews…
The Last Detail
For the assignment I decide to choose the move The Last Detail by Hal Ashby in December 1973. Ashby was famously known for his directing and film work throughout the new Hollywood wave. Like the movie The Last Detail he loved to do movies about outsides and their adventures navigating into society. This movie compares…
The Young Savages
The film, The Young Savages, by John Frankenheimer was released in 1961, considered a new era type of filming. This film examines street crime within gangs. Poverty, ethnicity, politics, and the fact that parents cannot control everything are the main themes shown. John Frankenehimer, who was born in Malba, New York, is a famous director that…
A Har Day’s Night
The Beatles. Wouldn’t those words alone compel you to see that film at that given point in history? Even in current times, if they were all still alive, many people would still go see such a film. This film was not only a box office success, but it even began to effect society for the…
The Young Savages
“The Young Savages”, directed by John Frankenheimer, is a 1960’s early portrayal of new era filming. John Frakenheimer was undoubtedly an early new era filmmaker and famous director. This could be shown through his process of directing and his habit of controlling every aspect of the films production. Not only is he be the inspiration…
The film I would like to put into historical context is the Ingmar Bergman film The seventh seal. The Seventh Seal was a film that was introduced during the period of New wave films. The seventh seal was a rather unconventional film, with a soldier returning from the crusades to find that his home has…
Rosemary’s Baby
Rosemary’s Baby was a groundbreaking horror film released in 1968. This is the exact year that the United States introduced a ratings system for film and television. The importance of this time owes itself to the divide in cinema that began to occur; for the first time, writers and directors were not forced to create…
Through a Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly follows the tale of a family as they come to terms with the realities of caring for a family member with not only schizophrenia, but whose hallucinations manifest in the form of God. This placed the head of the family, the father, in a particularly tricky situation as he…
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…
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