These two week I watched two different love movies, Blue Velvet and Eat Drink Man Woman. Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch’s most celebrated works of his early years. And the special style of surprise, horror, darkness, distortion and violence is fully revealed in this film. Blue Velvet is set in an ordinary American…
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The beauty of technological advancements
Avatar and the curious case of Benjamin Button, directed by James Cameron and David Fincher, are two interesting films with very weird plots. Although the movies are both criticized because of their ideas, they both amazed their respective audiences with their use of advanced technology and their technique used when filming. Avatar follows the story…
Husbands, Solaris and understanding reality.
The movies I watched this week are Solaris and Husbands. Both of these movies were intriguing and confusing at the same time. Both films appear to be unconventional and thought provoking. While they have their similarities they also have there differences such as, Husbands appears to be a low budget film,…
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…
Tarkovsky’s THE SACRIFICE: Art, Not Entertainment
Quintessential World Art Cinema Andrei Tarkovsky made seven films. 1986’s Sacrifice was his last. These films are all visually beautiful, slow, and mysterious. They are “art films,” and Sacrifice became increasingly perceived as such over time. Absorbing Visuals The visual elements of Sacrifice have drawn a lot of attention: specifically, some very long takes, and the…
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