Roberto Rosselini’s 1954 film Journey to Italy is set in Naples, Pompei, and Capri. The film opens with the main characters Alex and Katherine driving down a road on their way to Naples. Alex and Katherine open the film and seem like distant friends rather than husband an wife. Alex’s tone when asking where they…
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The Movie that “Started” Modern Cinema
The movie “Voyage to Italy” or sometimes called “Journey to Italy” was a movie about a couple that went to Italy to sell the villa that their uncle left for them. They’ve been married for eight years and this was one of the only times they were alone. They knew their marriage was falling apart…
The Beatles: Conventionally Unconventional
After an all night session at the studio, The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr said, “that was a hard day’s night”. From that nonchalant remark came the title for The Beatles debut movie. The fab four play themselves over a “typical” 2 day period. They are constantly evading intense frenzied fans, granddad-sitting, soul searching and all…
The new wave: The 400 blows
The famous French new wave director Francois Truffaut filmed “The 400 Blows” in 1959, which brought him an international reputation. This is a film that reflects young people’s problems. The protagonist, the little boy Antoine Doinel, embarked on a rebellious path because he couldn’t stand the pressure of school, family and society to find his own freedom….
The themes of Room At The Top
The Room At The Top’s Themes By William Migdol The Room At The Top is a 1959 film taking place in a factory town. The film follows a man, Joe Lampton, portrayed by Laurence Harvey, as he works to get a higher paying job after getting a job in the Treasurer’s department with too low…
Unconventional Love Stories
For the last two weeks, I have been studying the films Brokeback Mountain and Forrest Gump. The only fitting theme to study between them seemed to be their stories of unconventional love. This is where the two films are so similar. And for no particular reason, I watched Forrest Gump first. The story was wonderful…
Becoming a Person to Believe In
In the films I watched this week, Avatar and Forrest Gump, we are given a look into the life of two men, who against all odds become someone to believe in. While each of them goes about it a bit differently, both Jake Sully and Forrest Gump become some of the most reliable and caring people…
I’ll be back vs I’ll be gone
The terminator, a low-budget sci-fi Film produced by Hemdale Film, was released in cinemas in 1984. As an unprecedented landmark science fiction film, the impact is definitely not only a generation. Laments it in the science fiction movie’s unprecedented, regrettably is after has not come, even if is “the matrix” I can only say is…
Tales from the Terminator
Over the last 2 weeks, I have watched The Terminator and Tales from the Crypt, two “horror” genre films that have an asterisk next to them, as they weren’t quite scary. Both films are extremely entertaining, one as an action-packed thriller, filled with a bit of outdated CGI and the other as a set of…
Violence and Intimacy
This week I watched two movies. The first was Hard Boiled, a Chinese action film directed by John Woo. Many people consider this Woo’s try out for American action films and he did not hold anything back. The…
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