Everybody's Got A Movie Blind Spot!
The Searchers, directed by John Ford and released in 1956 seems to have a clear message, but like most movies its message can be more complicated than originally received. It is considered one of the greatest movies of all-time, landing in the top ten of the American Film Institute’s greatest hundred movies list year after... Continue Reading →
During the period of time in which Seven Samurai takes place, in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, when Japan was coming to the end of a more than 200 years of civil war with factions fighting all over the country. The deaths of many leaders known as Diamyo, left the samurai class with no master... Continue Reading →
Metallic sounds are a prominent feature in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Rattling, clanking, clanging, and drilling sounds fill the soundtrack from almost beginning to end. The message coming from a social realism perspective seems clear, these are the daily sounds that fill the ears of the working class. The working class... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-w6MbK_eZA The film follows our four characters around Mexico City, set in 1999 during a massive student protest. The protest are just a backdrop, although the main characters are protesting the protest, or rather procrastinating their inevitable adulthood. They are not motivated to go to school and protest or motivated to do much at all.... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wM1FSTIm0 The Bright Way or Radiant Path or Tanya In both Circus and Tanya, a clear route to perfect Soviethood is laid out for our protagonists. Both of these films were directed by Grigori Alexandrov and feel very similar, however, he takes two different approaches to telling the story. How does one go from just... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIu7_IiCLY Watch the film here! Like the jazz music that fills the soundtrack, John Cassavetes film Shadows was an improvisation. (At least it claims so at the end of the film with a title card.) It is a talented group of people, thrown together for a purpose, the purpose of creating something that is... Continue Reading →
Eraserhead is a truly ambiguous and almost unsolvable film. Attempting to decipher is message proves to be difficult at best. Is this entire thing a dream or reality? Are we watching events that are actually taking place or is this all in the mind of a character, or more importantly, in the mind of... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAN0A6OWE4 Watch The Film For Free Here Life has become better, life has become more fun! Come join the circus. We’ve got everything figured out over here. Our economic system is perfect and is to the benefit of all. Our cultural landscape is also perfect, everyone is accepted as equal. Perfection has been achieved and... Continue Reading →
Fritz Lang’s M is a film with a simple premise and like most well remembered and taught films, is filled with layers of complexity. Film characters are not always an easy good versus evil. In M, someone in the town is murdering children and the citizens are in an obvious and well-deserved uproar. The narrative... Continue Reading →
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