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…
Category: Spring 2018
Battle to free the unfreed America
In the Last couple weeks, I have watch Battle of the Bulge by Ken Annakin and this week I watched Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper who was also an actor in the film. These two films don’t share many similarities besides time ere and an action and adventure story line. However, they both contain moments…
Can A Film About The Beatles Stand Alone?
At one point The Beatles became the world’s biggest band and they still hold that title to this day. In the 1960’s, when musicians weren’t known to make films, those around The Beatles decided tot change that. Thus, “A Hard Day’s Night” was created. The film was directed by Richard Lester, who was more known…
The Beginning of Violence in Film
For class I have officially watched three films, all with different themes and plots. However, one thing was still very prominent and that was their use of violence. Each film handled the idea of violence with such difference but it still was front and center, especially in two of the films; Kill Bill vol 1….
Journey to Italy/Grand Budapest Hotel
The two movies I watched were Journey to Italy Directed by Roberto Rossellini (1954), and The Grand Budapest Hotel Directed by Wes Anderson (2014). The films have quite a huge age difference, however, they both possess a lot of the same film styles and themes, while both also being original and unique movies in different…
cinematic-memoir (Super-size Me)
The film I choose was “Super-Size Me” which shows the audience the effects of eating fast food and poor dieting can have on people. The Movie goes through the journey of a man who goes on a diet of McDonald’s food only for every single meal. The movie goes over different medical changes…
Cinematic History: Kill Bill and Feminism
One of Tarantino’s masterpieces, Kill Bill is his most female influenced picture that has affected the way women are now portrayed in movies. As an action movie, the film itself is full of amazing picturesque scenes of fighting with swords and fist. Instead of only males taking to the fights, women are on full display….
Cinematic Memoir: Shawshank Redemption
Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 film based on a Steven King Novella. This film was nominated for seven academy awards including best picture. This movie is about a smart quiet banker named Andy played by Tim Robbins, that is accused of killing his wife and her lover and sentenced to two life sentences in Shawshank…
Personal Cinematic History: Janez Demsar
I myself have always loved movies and films. I find myself going to the movie theatre to see whatever blockbuster happens to be out more often then most people I know. On my spare time I will find movie streaming and just watch whatever seems interesting, whether I am re-watching it or it is new…
cinematic-memoir
One of my favorite movies, that I mentioned in my introduction post is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I really like how Wes Anderson directs, he has a really distinctive directing style, and the way that his movies are shot is captivating. In The Grand Budapest hotel, there is a handful of really diverse characters. The plot…
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