Unlike many other cinema movements, Japanese New Wave birthed within a mainstream context despite filling with advent-grade elements, embracing unorthodox…
Queer Reading: Rebecca (1940) by Alfred Hitchcock
Renowned for his mastery in the psychological interplay between romance, violence, and sex, Hitchcock’s legacy commenced with his first American…
Color and Costuming: Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
From the sound of films to the variations in camera angles, films had evolved drastically in their early period. Technicolor,…
It Happened One Night (1934)
During the early 1930s, the United States was in the distress of the Great Depression. Hollywood responded to the economic…
Review: US (2019)
Rating : (4/5) Jordan Peele’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Get Out is more of a revisionist horror/ thriller movie and…
The Gender Representation in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Hostilities continued to emerge soon after the end of World War II in 1945. The international conflict, namely the Cold…
The Conversation(1974): Character POV in Relation to Conspiracy and Paranoia
The Conversation, made in-between the two Godfather epics, is one of the few films that Francis Ford Coppola directed based…
Terrence Malick’s Usage of Voiceover in Badlands
Terrence Malick’s subversive debut feature, Badlands, demonstrates the complexity of Malick’s filmic language. One of the most striking features in…
The Representation of Violence in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde
Inspired by the French New Wave and a new era of filmmaking, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde broke the Hollywood…
The Impact of Music in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Sentinel, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is renowned for its groundbreaking…
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