In reading the excerpt on Do the Right Thing, directed by and starring one of the most prominent directors in modern film, Spike Lee, one thing I feel is understated in the text is the importance of t...Read More
In Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art, the discussion of editing in movies falls alongside the broader discussion of spatial continuity, a subsection of a broader style of editing that is concerne...Read More
It is no surprise that Leos Carax’s masterpiece in the avant-garde, Holy Motors, is anything but conventional. In the movie, we are taken on a nonsensical day of “Mr. Oscar”, a man w...Read More
Continuing the discussion of film genres as outlined in chapter 9 of Bordwell & Thompson’s Film Art: An Introduction, I became fascinated by their inclusion of “The Western” as o...Read More
After reading chapter 7 of Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith’s “Film Art: An Introduction”, there appeared to be a couple questions/topics areas that jumped out at me: While reading the ...Read More
Camera movement, while innocuous at face value, can drastically change the audience’s understanding of the film and its connection to the characters. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is a masterc...Read More
Abortion & Film Abortion, especially within the US/Hollywood context, has seemingly been accompanied by an oddly untenable coldness and violence since film’s inception. While this is not sur...Read More
When investigating further into the details of mise-en-scène and Wes Anderson, I came across an interesting video (linked below) that combines a concept explained in Chapter 3 of Bordwell’s tex...Read More