Movies can be made for a variety of reasons, such as political, and it can give an audience a deeper connection to the movies they’re watching. The Conversation is a slow moving thriller that will keep you thinking about the movie long after it’s over. The ending is so ambiguous, it can be interpreted in many…
Category: Short Essay
Remembering Vintage: Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman is a film that discusses some of the hardships aging men go through, but with a twist. They use themes of mystery to portray symbolism with the most profound gestures. We see our protagonist have a wild nightmare about aging and death. With this, we are given quite the wild…
Lookout for Bonnie and Clyde!
Bonnie and Clyde is a film about a criminal couple getting into trouble in the depression era. The movie was released on August 13, 1967. Bonnie discovers Clyde outside her family home trying to steal her mother’s car. She quickly dresses and comes downstairs to introduce herself to Clyde. He invites her to have a…
There’s nothing hard about A Hard Day’s Night
Using popular rising stars in movies is very common when it comes to films. There can be mixed feelings about a musical film that is based on a band, and having those same band members starring in that film. The first feeling being these guys aren’t professional actors, so how good can the movie…
Enjoyment of A Hard Day’s Night
The movie was filmed in England. The film was shown on American television in 1967 in color. This movie that I selected to view is one that I have definitely seen clips of before involving one of my favorite music bands. This film interested me when I viewed a clip of the film about a…
Platoon : An Introspective
This weeks cinematic mission took me back into the jungles of Vietnam, with the likes of Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and Tom Berenger at my side. Created by Oliver stone in 1986, Platoon is somewhat of an expose on the culture within the units that fought in Vietnam, and how the environment, lack…
Some People Shine, Some Dont
Stanley Kubrick had taken on quite the task when adapting The Shining to the big screen. Hailed as one of the best directors of all time, Kubric left his stamp on many genres, one most importantly being horror. This week, I viewed The Shining, a supernatural horror that takes place in the haunted Overlook Hotel…
The Conversation : Coppolas Loser
Another week, another Coppola creation that I am pleased to say is one of my new favorite films. Gene Hackman plays the fumbling Harry Caul in this interesting piece of commentary about the transformation of surveillance from a tool to an industry. In a time where the US was dealing with one of its…
Seven Samurai
I had the pleasure of viewing Seven Samurai this weekend by the fabled Akira Kurosawa, a director with over 80 writing credits to his name. Originally released as Shichinin No Samurai, Seven Samurai is hailed as one of Kurosawa’s best works and when reviewing articles about the movie, it seems to be a consensus that the…
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…
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