For the duration of Jordan Peele’s Nope, and even at the film’s conclusion, viewers are presently with very limited information about just what’s going on at the Haywood Hollywood Ho...Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope, unlike many films does not even come close to confining itself simply to one genre. Not only is there strong elements of horror and western, the sub-genre of comedy and sci-...Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) is a film that melds together a lot of interesting ideas about race, entertainment, and science fiction told in the lens of a thriller Western, the cinematic equivalent to...Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) is a fantastic movie that spans several genres, from Western to Horror to Sci-Fi. The film follows the story of OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) as they w...Read More
In Nope, the combination of tropes helps to build a sense of growing frustration. The scene where Mr. Haywood is hit by the quarter shows how tropes can build the dramatic scope of a shot. When his co...Read More
While viewers of The Zone of Interest can agree upon many themes they heavily debate what the meaning of the film is and more specifically what the end of the film means. I had the valuable experience...Read More
When I watched Citizen Kane, I could not help but compare it to the other older movies we have watched in class. The ways in which this week’s feature is both similar and different from Rear Window,...Read More
Even 80 years after its release, Citizen Kane has retained its modernity and skill in storytelling because of Orson Welles’ forward-thinking and artful use of the various elements within mise en scÃ...Read More
When I first began watching I can admit I was very lost and uninterested in the plot. It was at times hard to follow and the quality of the audio made it hard to understand at times. Despite this I co...Read More
One of the key narrative elements of Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) is its non-linear storytelling. Because Charles Foster Kane is revealed to be deceased in the intro sequence, the film heavily relies o...Read More