Water for Elephants (12A) Directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the novel by Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants is a historical drama starring Robert ‘Twilight’ Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, a student vet who ends up with a travelling circus after a family tragedy. Set in the American Depression, Jacob heads off to a different [...]
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Inspired by a BBC ‘Mischief’ documentary with Alex Riley that I watched in 20o8 (and would recommend watching), I started to write an essay on food quality in supermarkets and restaurant chains. It was partly a review of the show and was also going to contain my own information. Unfortunately I was unable to get [...]
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Practicing my copywriting, reviewing/promoting Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). Product teaser (DVD): Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) The original Vanilla Sky. Alejandro Amenábar’s psychological drama follows a man trapped in a world of love and mystery which becomes a nightmare he cannot escape from. DVD description: Abre Los Ojos (Open Your [...]
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Essay written in 2007 for a university film class. Filmography to be added. In the films of Alfred Hitchcock memory and amnesia often play an important part in the narrative and enable the plot to unfold. Memory and the loss of it are used as narrative tools by Hitchcock, for example in films such as [...]
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Film exam question, 2006. Do you agree that in Hitchcock’s films women ‘are inevitably made into passive objects of male voyeuristic and sadistic impulses?’ In 1975 the essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema’ was published by psychoanalytical feminist theorist Laura Mulvey. In the essay Mulvey argued that a person watching a screen would [...]
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Written 2005 about screenwriting techniques With regard to the text, The Tools of Screenwriting, what techniques must the screenwriter employ to create a compelling, successful screenplay? Tips: refer to the range of techniques available, address the question of what creates successful drama. Refer to successful films described in final chapters in additions to techniques [...]
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University poetry essay on ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’, 2004. The poem ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’ is by Ben Jonson and is from the Renaissance period. In the poem the speaker (Jonson) states that he believes love is deaf, and not blind, and then begins to describe to the audience why. In the first [...]
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Notes on the auteur theory, 2004 Auteur is French for author. The auteur theory is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an auteur, usually meant to be the director. André Bazin (1918-1958), the editor of France’s foremost film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma, proclaimed Howard Hawks one of the [...]
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