Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle, or Breathless, begins with a shot of a young Parisian looking at a picture of a beautiful woman while he wears a stylish hat and smokes a cigarette, reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart. From then on, we watch how the dissemination of cinema’s imagery and style causes people to “perform” ...
Would you have felt the same way about the classic 1996 film “Titanic” had the love scenes, the ship sinking and the dropping of the necklace into the ocean been addressed by Rose to the audience (rather than the modern-day underwater explorers)…or if the camera crew or technical crew were shown filming the movie in ...
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” at least this is what Ali MacGraw’s character say in Love Story. But what if love means something else to another person? And what if it means two different things to one couple? And what does “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” mean anyway? To ...
The French New Wave (FNW) style of filmmaking that reached its height during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s was a revolution in cinema that sought to redefine conventions and standards of classical Hollywood cinema. In James Monaco’s article “The New Wave”, he states: The New Wave filmmakers were all – in different but parallel ...
