Battles of Algiers
Film Review: Battles of Algiers The film Battles of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, is a heartfelt portrayal of the struggles that 1950s Algerians underwent in an attempt to overthrow the French rule. It is an extremely realistic film, especially when it came to the scenes of resistance, t....

Film Review on Bitter Cane
Haiti has a highly dependent and underdeveloped economy which independent Haiti inherited in 1804 (Haiti in the World Economy). Until this day, the Caribbean country of Haiti remains the poorest most underdeveloped country in the western hemisphere. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with....

Grapes of Wrath Movie Review
Film Review: The Grapes of Wrath The film The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, pragmatically depicts the conditions, both cultural and economic, during the Great Depression. The film specifically focuses on the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The main focus of The Grapes of Wrath is the jou....

Hamlet Film Reviews
The comparison of Hamlet : Ethan Hawke and Hamlet: Kevin Kline is exactly like comparing true history, and someone trying to make history. Michael Almereyda, the director of Hamlet : Ethan Hawke, uses Shakespeares work to create his own art work. He takes history and tries to transform it into som....

House of Sand and Fog
Movie analysis House of Sand and Fog Critical Analysis: House of Sand and Fog The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the familys house that her recently deceased fathe....

House of Sand and Fog
Critical Analysis: House of Sand and Fog The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the familys house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had negl....

House of Sand and Fog Analysis
Critical Analysis: House of Sand and Fog The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the familys house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had ne....

Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc Joan of Arc was a significant woman during 1429 A.D. She was the first to stand up for her countrymen, when even the leaders of the country were not doing anything but dividing up the country and selling the pieces to the English. Everyone else feared being executed for treason, and w....

Media Presentation of mental illness
The purpose of this assignment is to show one of the ways in which mental illness is presented in today's media and the impact it has on the community. The media presentation that I have chosen is the Bollywood movie titled 'Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara' (I did not kill Gandhi) (Kher & Barua, 200....

Pearl Harbour film review
Pearl Harbour (PG-13) Plot Set doing the time of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, two childhood friends are caught up in the events that draw the United States into world war two. Together they enlist into the U.S. Air force and soon enough they both become involved with the same woma....

Shawshank Redemption: Movie/Book Comparison
Charley Betts Professor Paul Martin Eng 102 12 April 2006 Gaining Redemption Through Hope Based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the story begins in the mid-1940s and spans two decades. The plot is set in motion when a young bank executive na....

The Magnificent Ambersons
The biggest mistake we have made is to consider that films are primarily a form of entertainment. The film is the greatest medium since the invention of movable type for exchanging ideas and information, and it is no more at its best in light entertainment than literature is at its best in the ligh....

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