Essays on Film Festival

The Chinese epic “Farewell My Concubine” by Chen Kaige is a cinematic masterpiece. It is a spectacle of action, history, culture, views of social and political landscapes that all intertwine in a love story that spans 52 years. It won the top prize in the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival and several other accolades in its time (Canby). The movie is vastly entertaining and enthralling. It is easy to get lost in the richness of the story – consider it a cultural achievement. This is an epic that covers years 1925 through 1977 in Beijing (formerly Peking), China. It showcases ...

Every nation has some sort of historical trauma. The creepy and full of horror twentieth century did not miss anyone generously awarding each with a bouquet of mass psychosis caused terrible events. However, among the many big and not very countries most of all has gotten to China: war, revolution, famine, the occupation in the first half of the century and the severity of the second one. Mainland China having suffered under Comrade Mao with his Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong remembers the bloody riots of the 1960s, and Taiwan has gone through a difficult period of "White Terror." This ...

I would like to start my analysis by introducing a little bit the movie background and how it was filmed. Almost all members of royal family of Jordan are Arabs related to the Hashemite dynasty, who consider themselves to be direct descendants of Prophet Muhammad. The exception is Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein which is maternal Circassians. Sometime ago he came up with the idea to make a film about the Circassians living in Jordan. Choosing the director for the movie, Prince did not hesitate for too long. He called Mohy Quandour, who was living in London, known as many-sided ...

Asian film industry has been entertaining audiences since a long time with the help of a strong story, music and different other aspects of film making. Asian cinema has lodged its strong presence across the world and Asian movies have won several prestigious international awards. This paper intends to discuss some very famous Asian movies like Red Sorghum, Ran, Eye in the sky, IndoChine and Dhobi Ghat along with further focusing, how masculinity has been portrayed in almost all these movies.

There are some favorite subjects of Asian movie makers. Aggressive Jingoism, fantasy, epic and masculinity are some important components of Asian ...

This title of the film is “How to Make Kimchi: according to my Kun Umma”. It is a short documentary directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee. It was shown at the UIC multi-cultural film festival. The film was shot with the help of The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. The main character in the film is the director’s aunt Bong Ja Lee. The film was shot in 2003 and it won the Jury Award for the Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2003. The film was ...

Secrets and Lies (1996) This movie focuses on the life and struggle of one woman in finding truths in her life. After her adoptive mama passes away; Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a triumphant black eye physician, searches for her birth mother. She is surprised when her investigation leads her to a plebeian white woman, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Initially, Cynthia denies the claim, but she finally admits to birthing Hortense as an adolescent, and the pair begins to bond. Nevertheless, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a relative’s barbecue, Cynthia's already nervous relationship with her kin becomes even more complex. The film is ...

Introduction

Qatar is a country in the Middle East with an exclusive interest from the rest of the world. The country enjoys exclusive economic performance and its attractive cultural practices. There are various principles that make it easy for the country to remain a highly valuable country in the Middle East following its exclusive concern on major issues that may affect the country. The cultural practices of the region vary from a wide line of religion, food, clothing, language, tourism, as well as a set of events that make the cultural practices evident and realistic. Each of the cultural values is significant in one ...

‘Prosthetic memories are memories that circulate publically, are not organically based, but are nevertheless experienced with one’s own body – by means of a wide range of cultural technologies – and as such, become part of one’s personal archive of experience. ’ (Landsberg, 1997: 66) How the two forms of live performances; the William Yang's 'Friends of Dorothy’ and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, contributed to the circulation of prosthetic memories? Today, the availability of mass culture have made it convenient for people regardless of their gender, race and ethnicity to share collective memories. Prosthetic memories deal ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two sisters, ...

Memento is a 2000 psychological thriller film directed by renowned Hollywood director Christopher Nolan. Also produced by Nolan, the movie is actually adapted from a short story titled “Memento Mori” written by Jonathan Nolan, his younger sibling. The lead character named Leonard is played by Guy Pearce. He stars as a man suffering form short term memory loss and who is on a mission to avenge the rape and death of his wife. Apart from moving into vengeance direction, the movie tries to create a picture on some of the factors that push people to do certain acts. Leonard memory loss came ...

Grace Kelly’s Fashion Style and Influence on Contemporary Fashion

Introduction Grace Kelly was an actress known for her extensive work in film and stage during the 1950s. Kelly starred in many films and portrayed iconic characters including Lisa Carol Fremont in “Rear Window”, Frances Stevens in “To Catch a Thief”, and Princess Alexandra in “The Swan”. She was born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although Kelly was born to a family of athletes, she showed interest in acting at a young age and joined several plays and presentation in school and the community, and signed up for small modeling projects. Later on, Kelly attended the American Academy of ...

Working Title:

BROTHER Primary audience: BROTHER is targeted towards who grew up in difficult times during the 90’s, particularly Australians. Focusing on a realistic style that shows the harsher reality of life in Australia that is often washed over will help the audience to connect with the character portrayed in the film.

Synopsis:

"BROTHER" is a Neo Realist drama set in the recent past of a small Australian beach town. Utilising common sets and locations of Brisbane’s Great South East, "BROTHER" will be shot on a limited budget whilst still maintaining quality production value. "BROTHER" follows the story of Peter ...

The Sundance Film Festival has an online ad at the webpage for The Nation one of the oldest American political magazines. I judged this advertisement be the best. The qualities I liked were the simplicity of design, the practicality of the links and the eye-catching design. Simplicity. The simplicity of the design for the Sundance Film Festival works very well. Although the design is simple the most important information a person needs is in the advertisement. Who? Sundance. What? 2013 Film Festival. Where? Park City, Utah When? January 17 -27, 2013. How? Click on “Get Tickets.”

Practicality. With one ...

The article, entitled: “Iraq to hold first human rights film festival” and dated, “12:07 February 15, 2012”, was published on the Gulf News website (Gulf News). The article discusses news that the Iraqi Association for the Support of Culture and Independent Film & Television College, has released information about the first Iraqi film festival, devoted to the promotion of human rights, that will be held between February 26th and 28th. The festival will focus on films that discuss three central areas of interest: violence and discrimination against women, children’s rights, and freedom of thought and expression (Gulf News). It ...