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…
Bonnie and Clyde: A Couple Who Started New Hollywood Cinema
Bonnie and Clyde tells a simple story of a boy and a girl. They meet by accident and together they embark on a road of crime, robbing banks, teasing the police, and killing people. They keep running away, while at the same time picturing a peaceful life in the future. And eventually their bodies are…
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…
A Norm-breaking Rebel: Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless revised
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
A Norm-breaking Rebel: Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
The Shawshank Redemption: Now and Then
One of the central themes of The Shawshank Redemption is friendship. Viewers, including myself, viewed the film as a story told from a friend’s perspective. The audience, following Red’s narration, can learn exactly how his opinions about Andy changed—he first thought of him as a weak person, then doubted his beliefs, and finally admired his…
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…
Shrek 2001
Original memories of this cinematic masterpiece are partial, however the imagination of the DreamWorks production team allowed key moments of the film to entice my 4 year-old self into the land of Far Far Away. The fascination grew around a Scottish Ogre and a talking Donkey, along with the upbeat tunes that resonate with the…
Good Will Hunting
When I first watched this film I was eleven and I watched it with my family. My family has always loved the idea of education and have consistently striven to learn and teach the rest of the family by encouraging us to learn as much as possible. Thus this movie about a genius kid is…
1965′ The Sound of Music
I first watched the Sound of Music directed by Robert Wise as a young girl in South Africa at one of my girlfriends birthday parties. We were 13 years old and it was a sleep over girls pyjama party. We were quickly spell bound by the light hearted music and lyrics as well as the…
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