https://mashable.com/article/skinamarink-explainer Horror is a genre that seems to have lost its touch in the 21st century. Besides a unique few, such as A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) and Ge...Read More
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is an influential film that explores themes of racial tension, cultural identity, and the consequences of systemic racism. One of the central themes is the simmeri...Read More
After I watched the film, I felt really bad for no reason. Part of it is because of the content: seldom does the film reveal sensitive topics like racism so directly. Another part of it is because, as...Read More
The article on Do the Right Thing(1989, Spike Lee) discusses elements of film and themes throughout the film. Bordwell talks about the film’s many individual sequences with at least 42 segments....Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gGLmv4DfNg In this short summary, and even briefer analysis, of Holy Motors (2012), director Brian Trenchard-Smith gives some thoughts on the highly codified meaning o...Read More
The documentary, Paris is Burning, stands as an iconic representation of the Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities and drag ball culture in the 1980s. Directed by the talented Jennie Livingston, this ci...Read More
Watching Holy Motors made me rethink about the role of continuity editing. The story was told in a linear/chronological fashion and there wasn’t even anything like a flashback or montage. We lea...Read More
To me, the theme of this film by Leos Carax was to comment on the dark nature of capitalism and the extent people are willing to go just for their job. Osars’ job symbolizes the extent and damag...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
Chapter 3 of Film Art: An Introduction expands on key elements of what makes up narrative form with examples from this week’s feature, Citizen Kane. These elements consist of the difference between ...Read More