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George Lucas Star Wars
1,837 wordsComputer technology: That's entertainment, 2000 CNN NewsStand's James Hattori finds out what entertainment might look like in the year 2010 Web posted at: 4: 00 p. m. EST (2100 GMT) (CNN) -- As we reach the year 2000 and the next phase of the Information Age, it's easy to forget that just 10 years ago, the Information Age was stuck on its launching pad. The Internet was unknown to nearly everyone except university researchers; TV was still patting itself on the back over cable success; films wer...
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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,373 wordsThe original A Nightmare on Elm Street was inspired by an extraordinary series of unnoticed stories in the Los Angeles Times. A young immigrant male, early 20 s, usually from Southeast Asia, a son, would have a severe nightmare where he would wake up screaming. The next day, he would tell his family it was the worst nightmare hed ever had, and he had been terribly shaken by it. The next night when he went to sleep died. Six months later I looked in the paper and there was a very similar story. I...
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Fell In Love One Of The Greatest
824 wordsMovie review: Detour Outline: 1. Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer as a classic example of film noir of 1940 s. 2. The films short summary and the main characters. 3. The process of films production: 3. 1 Screenplay; 3. 2 Some foreground and background techniques; 3. 3 Stylistic imperfections of Detour. 4. Conclusion. Detour is a classic film noir of 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Film noir is a term used in cinema basicly to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize m...
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The French New Wave Of Early 1960s
1,753 wordsThe French New Wave of the early 1960 s In 1959 - early 1960 five directors released debut feature length films that are widely regarded as heralding the start of the French nouvelle vague or French New Wave. Claude Chabrols Le Beau Serge (The Good Serge, 1959) and Les Cousins (The Cousins, 1959) were released, along with Francois Truffaut's Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960) and Alain Resnais Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima my lov...
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Horror Films Blair Witch
2,300 wordsHorror Films Recent years have seen a glorious revival of American horror cinema with films such as Scream and The Blair Witch Project re-introducing moviegoers to the joys of high-caliber fright flicks. Sadly, however, British attempts to capitalize on the genre's return from the grave have been embarrassing to say the least, with films such as Revelation and Long Time Dead boring audiences and making hardcore horror fans yearn for death's sweet embrace. So, it comes as an enormous relief to re...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Bram Stoker Wes Craven
1,364 wordsHorror films have always been designed to frighten and invoke the audiences worst fears, often in a terrifying or shocking way. Yet at the same time, horror films are suppose to be entertaining, despite, or in addition to the scariness. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death, or loss of identity. Horror films have developed out of a number of sources from folk tales with devil characters...
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Wes Craven Horror Genre
2,324 wordsAt a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society? s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry an...
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End Of The 1930 Sherlock Holmes
2,322 wordsThe mystery has been popular for just about as long as films have had an audience. Almost as soon as filmmakers could do more than show loosely connected action, there was an interest in presenting puzzles, usually involving crime of some sort. The earliest filming's of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&# 39; s Sherlock Holmes stories date from the first decade of the twentieth century, and the audience for such stories was already well in place. These early examples of mysteries largely concerned rudiment...
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Fairy Tale Star Wars
3,062 wordsOverview Ray Harryhausen (1920 -), a master special effects artist, innovated a host of techniques using model-animation and composite cinematography. His trademark Dynamation method made possible a whole genre of science fiction and fantasy filmmaking. Often drawing from Greek and Roman legends, Harryhausen created unprecedented visions of imaginary worlds. By the time he retired in 1981, Dynamation had been surpassed by computer-assisted animation techniques like Go-Motion, and more recently, ...
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