Star Wars: A New Hope is more than a blockbuster. The film quickly became a culture phenomenon and continues to astound men and women around the world with its undying legacy. Within a society that moves so quickly and hesitates so little to lose interest in the latest fad, a movie series capable of entertaining…
Carrie/Brian de Palma
Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma is one of the very first horror movies that played with audience expectations and sparked a new genre of horror in the mainstream movie industry, and after the release of Carrie, many ‘copycats’ emerged during the next few years. “Carrie helped usher in a boom period of huge…
Ali Fear Eats the Soul, Rainier Fassbinder
Ali Fear Eats the soul is a 1974 New German cinema film directed by Rainer Fassbinder. This movie tells the story of Emmi played by Brigette Mira, a 65-year-old widow and the unconventional love she finds with Ali an Arab migrant worker played by El Hedi ben Salem. The movie was filmed in only 15…
The Proud Rebel
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…
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…
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