Today I would like to share my first movie analysis, ” Pan’s Labyrinth”. I really enjoyed analyzing the Mise-en-scene. Cinematography is a really rich area which bring opportunity to integrate different senses. Pan’s Labyrinth is a mainstream movie, a spanish-mexican dark fantasy directed by Guillermo del Toro. We analyzed the narrative structure in the context […]
via Film Analysis Series: Pan’s Labyrinth — Urban Planning Journal
An analysis of Charlie Chaplin’s beautiful first feature film, The Kid (1921). Narrated and written by Darrell Tuffs.
via Video – Chaplin’s Silent Films – Part 1: The Kid (1921) — A World of Film
A short film analysis of the Korean hit film, “Parasite”.
I noticed that Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov, in his 1929 movie called Man with a Movie Camera (MWAMC), borrowed several concepts from D.W. Griffith. First, the use of close-ups. Vertov would shoot establishing shots of the place or of his subjects, then sometimes, he shifts closer to the subject by doing a medium/extreme close-up. Both […]
While People Will Talk, starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, was billed under the romantic comedy genre with tinges of domestic drama surrounding pregnancy out of wedlock, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s production was evidently driven by such dense additional narrative circumstances that at times it would seem decidedly unfitting. While the two central plot threads […]
Groundhog Day has been one of my absolute favourite films since the first time I watched it over twenty-five years ago. By 1993, I already worshipped at the altars of Harold Ramis and Bill Murray thanks to the Ghostbusters films, Stripes, SCTV, SNL, and other films and TV shows too numerous to mention, so when […]
The Joker came out a while ago, but I feel that it is such a profound film that it is never too late to talk about it. In this post, I want to discuss what the film reveals about isolation and mental illness… There is quite a bit of controversy surrounding the 2019 ‘The Joker’ […]
When the fourth installment of the Mad Max films debuted in 2015, it was met with rave reviews. Mad Max: Fury Road followed warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) who leads the five wives of the tyrannical Immortan Joe on a quest for freedom. Along the way, she is forced to form an alliance with former…
The plot of Shannon Murphy’s debut dramatic feature, Babyteeth is familiar: A spirited teen is diagnosed with terminal cancer and then falls in love with an eccentric boy who renews her lust for life or whatever, while her dysfunctional parents look on disapprovingly. But Murphy’s film, based on the hit play by Rita Kalnejais, is […]
“Whats the point in living I’d you don’t have a dick” Review by Lewis Goodall
First Scene Screenplay Festival 