I watched the new Hunger Games movie over the weekend and it was honestly one of the best movies I have watched in a while. Usually, I do not like the second or third movie of a trilogy in comparison ...Read More
Over Thanksgiving I watched “Love Actually” directed by Richard Curtis and I thought it was a heartfelt romantic-comedy that was fitting for the Christmas times, but could’ve been ex...Read More
One of the things that stood out to me is the editing that Bordwell and Thompson describe in the film. I noticed that the actors made eye contact with the camera a lot, especially through an eyeline m...Read More
Leos Carax’s Holy Motors begins with a man who is half asleep, waking and opening a door with his finger, which happens to be a key. After this scene, it then cuts to Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavan...Read More
I thought that the movie “Nope” by Jordan Peele was a mix of horror, comedy, and Western. Throughout the movie, OJ and Emerald Haywood choose to deal with a foreign creature that floats ar...Read More
Through this week’s reading, I realized that there were so many strategic sound placings or characteristics about sound that I had been taking for granted. For example, while I did realize the d...Read More
In the film “Gravity” by Alfonso Cuarón, the use of editing and camera movement is emphasized to portray the story of the mission that Ryan Stone and others are a part of. From the beginn...Read More
During “The Portrait of a Lady on Fire”, Héloïse, Sophie, and Marianne are reading the book that Marianne brought, which happens to contain the legend about Orpheus and Eurydice. This gr...Read More