Leos Carax’s interview with Jean-Michel Frodon serves as a glimpse into the brilliant mind that made the perplexing movie, Holy Motors. This interview reveals the inspiration behind techniques used ...Read More
Art cinema is a mode of filmmaking characterized by its deviation from classical conventions. Unlike typical Hollywood cinema, which often prioritizes entertainment, broad accessibility, and usually a...Read More
In the reading, “Do the Right Thing” the main thing that fascinated me was the attention to narrative ambiguity in the film. Do the Right Thing challenges the conventions of classical filmmaking t...Read More
“Do The Right Thing,” David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson, Film Art, 410-415 discusses not only the plot of the film “Do The Right Thing,” but also the central themes and goals of the film. Th...Read More
In the film Do the Right Thing, social tension rises during a heat wave. The film’s themes involve racial tension, discrimination, and police brutality. The film fits the social problem genre. This ...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
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
Bordwell’s essay attempts to deconstruct the fundamental tenets of art cinema while drawing parallels to the usual narrative structures of classical narrative cinema, or the studio feature filmm...Read More
Just as the definition says, experimental film is cinema made outside of the film industry on an artisanal basis, largely without regard to the structures and demands of traditional narrative film. Ac...Read More
In David Bordwell’s essay, “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice”, we learn about a new style of film called art film. Art film is a style of film that emphasizes realism and am...Read More