Pursuit of visual experience: Films from 1965

Film is the product of people’s pursuit of the ultimate visual experience, which always stirs the emotions of the audience. Since 1965, a series of changes have taken place in world movie industry driven by the New Wave movement. There has been a great change in form, style as well as storytelling. However, the constant…

A Landmark Film: Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde is considered a landmark film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era, since it broke many cinematic taboos and was popular with the younger generation. Its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open in presenting sex and violence in their films. The film’s ending also…

National Treasure Blog

Here is a movie that makes no apologies. It is a crowd pleaser that takes itself serious enough to convey strong emotions and situations yet never attempts to be a serious, edgy oscar-worthy film. With its blistering pace, fun puzzles, and historical pieces it appeals to anyone able to check their triple-hopped IPA’s at the…

Bonnie and Clyde

    Bonnie and Clyde film was released in 1967, is an American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film tells a modify story of the real Bonnie and Clyde. In the middle of the Great Depression,…

Advancements with Violence in Film

Since the modern change in cinema starting in 1965 their has been an ever abundant presence that has been lurking behind the shot. Gradually more and more it has become a bigger part in the films we watch today; not matter the genre. That presence is growing use of violence in films throughout the decades….

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….

The 400 Blows and Bonnie and Clyde

The 400 Blows (1959) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) were released less then a decade apart and are very different movies. However they do share some similarities such as crime and fleeing from the law. I chose these films because 400 Blows is in a different language (with subtitles of course) and I though it…

Rashomon & Bonnie and Clyde

Here we have two drastically different films. Rashomon, a low-budget, unconventional Japanese film that went against trends of the time, using a unique story telling technique with four characters retelling different interpretations of one murder with a series of flashbacks. On the other hand, we have a New Hollywood era conventional film, Bonnie and Clyde…

A Hard Day’s Night vs. Bonnie and Clyde

Even though they were released in the same decade, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), these films are as different as they come. A Hard Day’s Night is a French New Wave film and is considered to be a B-movie.  It’s basically a film that promoted the music of The Beatles with a splash of slapstick…

BONNIE AND CLYDE vs. JOURNEY TO ITALY

People are walking down the street to see a new movie poster that displays two average people face to face, romantically looking like they’re in love. Poster that previewed JTI…Mislead The pedestrians are intrigued in the poster and wonder what the movie is. The movie is JOURNEY TO ITALY. Why would people be so excited…