Footage Movie Reviews Samples For Students

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

Film studies

However, the film Triumph of Will shows another side of art. The art used in this film cannot be described without the inclusion of political influence (Kershaw, 45). Art in this film depicts the good and artistic side of politician. It describes the artistic requirements to make it in politics. Minus the politics and propaganda Triumph of will cannot be described as art.

A film Unfinished

The original ghetto footage impacted greatly on the survivors in the ghetto. The visual impact of the footage was the most significant. In words by Jeanette the images of having your family, relatives and friends exterminated ...

Sinem Saban and Damien Curtis’s “Our Generation” is a documentary film released in 2010 which discusses the ongoing fight of Australian aboriginals to preserve their culture , their freedom and their lands, in the context of governmental pressure to give up land rights in exchange for education, housing and other services. The filmmakers succeeded in presenting a comprehensive picture of the complex issues affecting Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory today. The success of this film is based upon its reliance on witness accounts, and in particular, on the testimony of ordinary people from aboriginal communities. The footage from ...

The mention of Holocaust brings to mind probably the greatest agony in history that mankind has ever faced. It is agonizing to even imagine the world being revisited by the horrendous events between 1938 and 1945. More than six million people (most of them Jews) were murdered in a state-sponsored spree led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany during the World War 2. The event of the Holocaust have been captured in several books and films each trying to capture the horrific memories of the events in the best way they know how. In the film Night ...

Technological Analysis of King Kong (1993)

Eighty years have passed since Merian C. Cooper’s original, black and white version of King Kong was released in cinema. Many new technologies were presented in King Kong that made it possible to tell the chest-thumping story of a gigantic gorilla that goes on a rampage through New York City after being brought there from an island inhabited by dinosaurs. As a visionary, Merian C. Cooper, the director of the original King Kong dared to face a series of technological challenges to create a film way ahead of its time. King Kong is an epitome of the director’s intense interest in technology. ...

The title of the film is Good Hair. It is a documentary narrated by Chris Rock. The documentary is about the perspective that people have of good hair. He tries to find out the definition of good hair from society as a whole. He conducts interviews with men and women from different backgrounds. Housewives to celebrities are interviewed as he tries to get to the bottom of their definition of good hair.
This documentary was chosen for research due to the issues that are tackled superficially and deeply. The superficial issue that one might get at first glance is of a ...

The Coal Country documentary is a masterpiece. It entails a fascinating investigation of the environmental, societal, and political effects concerning coal mining in Appalachia. As a matter of fact, the film pays attention to the removal of the mountaintop (Boelte, 2015). It is well documented that mountaintop removal is a procedure where mountains are razed by explosives so that extractors and other agencies can reveal the coal exposed in mountain tops.
The film director has perfected his art as the documentary sends a strong environmental message vis-à-vis the damage caused by this type of exploration. The Coal Country ...

Genre: Drama

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
Excellent use of Expressionist cinematography (canted angles), chiaroscuro lighting (stark contrast between black and white), low angles frequently used to make Kane seem larger than life, etc. Incredible use of deep focus, such as in the shot where Kane’s mother signs him away from his impoverished childhood (Kane in the background, same shot as adults in ...

Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement directed by Jon Goodman in 2009 is a DVD documentary film explaining the part music played during the Civil Rights Movement and its impact on society, development and enforcement of civil rights and freedoms. The story is narrated by the infamous award-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. discussing the influence of music with a great variety of splendid civil rights activists, freedom riders and artists, who have made their contribution to raising and spreading the issue of inequality and racism in regards to the African Americans and fighting for the recognition of ...

1. What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?

The title of the documentary film is ‘Saving Face’. The film is the 2012 Academy Award winner for the category of Documentary (Short Subject). The film is based on the women of Pakistan who have been subjected to acid violence. It follows a plastic surgeon by the name of Dr. Muhammad Jawad, who performs reconstructive surgery on women who have had acid thrown on their faces. It also shows two women who have suffered from acid violence, and they are waiting for justice ...

Michelle Williams becomes Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week With Marilyn. It is obvious that Williams spent hours studying both movie and news footage of Monroe. Williams perfectly portrays Monroe’s voice, body language, and facial expressions. This film gives viewers a glimpse into Monroe’s fragile ego. Monroe’s low self-esteem causes her to be late on the movie set and influences who she chooses to have in her inner circle.
The story is told from the perspective of the young Colin Clark. Clark was only twenty-three years old when he landed his first job in filmmaking ...