Biographical film Essays

Classical Hollywood cinema was viewed. This film had such a high expectation around it when it was first released in 1941. Citizen Kane was surrounded with various rumours of the movie being based on the real life story of the famous newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. However it was never clarified by Orson Welles that the movie was actually about Hearst so the movie could not just be branded a biographical movie. The genre of this film was hard for film critics and viewers to decipher. The

either into a film, movie and/or documentary, in order to tell the truth and history about what that particular celebrity was really like. A music biopic, however, must declare its truthfulness throughout a particular film in order for it to be authentic and as a source of pleasure to the audience/viewer. The 2004 film “Ray” directed by Taylor Hackford is an example of a music biopic in which Lee Marshall and Isabel Kongsguaard had stated in the above quote. Ray is a particular film that was a “major

one of the biggest impacts in the film industry. Following the 1970’s many filmmakers took elements from Blaxploitation to use in their own films. Many of these elements and narratives have been parodied and imitated by filmmakers in the 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000’s and even today. Filmmakers such as Spike Lee, John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, etc. owe a debt to this very influential genre. Blaxploitation can span many film genres. The genre can be an action film such as Shaft (1971), a comedy picture

Harri’s powerful biographical film “Pollock” is less like a documentary and turns out to be more of a real- life mystery. However as the movie proceeds one learns quite a bit about the strange and intriguing figure and his abstract modern art style of painting. Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940s with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint more structurally and meaningfully than one had imagined. Throughout the film a couple of

Good art evokes emotion. Films, paintings, symphonies, and books can all bring you from the highest ecstasy to the the lowest depression. Films especially, bring out an emotional response in many people, due to the realisticness, but film isn't real. Not even biographical or historical films, for it’s not the same people being recorded as it happens. Instead, it’s a semi-accurate recreation of the events after the fact. Excluding historical and biographical films, movies are actors portraying made-up

''Walden by Thoreau'' and this book is mentioned in one of my favorite films: Into the wild. So I changed my mind, and now I'm gonna talk to you guys about it. 2 - The film was released in 2007, it is a biographical drama and it was directed by Sean Penn. It is adapted from this book, the author is the journalist Jon Krakauer. And this story is based on the life of an American young man called Chris McCandless. 3 - The Plot: The film and the book do not tell the story in a chronological order, but if

These biographical films are being portrayed by famous and most demanded actors and actresses such as Jamie Fox, Johnny Depp, Ben Kingsley and Jim Carrey. Below are the summarized 10 most excellent biopics about painters. 1. Edvard Munch (1976) This film was directed by Director Peter Watkins which is about Edvard Munch who is a Norwegian painter. Munch was being portrayed by Geir Westby and Munch’s married lover who is Mrs. Heilberg was played by Gro Fraas. During Edvard Munch’s time, his style

into words what the genera of the film was. It wasn’t a biography or a documentary, but it also used many facts about Jean Michel’s life. After some deliberation, I would call it a biographical narrative. It tells the story of Basquiat, which is the biographical component, but it also displays that information as more of a story than a biography. This seems like a completely fair interpretation and I am sure Julian Schnabel would agree with my description. The film uses Julian Schnabel’s art as a

Starting with Coutinho’s landmark film, then, in what follows I briefly sketch the progressive radicalization of reflexivity and performance in Coutinho’s own work, and subsequently move on to different formal responses developed, at least in part, in reaction to Coutinho’s work. The Art

their respective styles in film and even music videos all come from or are inspired by Spike Lee. Aside from his ever creative filmography, it can be said that Lee's personal perspective shines most in his documentary work. Known generally to be outspoken, Lee's documentary work has historically touched on socio-political

1840-50s. Each and every female costume was accurately outfitted with petticoats; each painted with watercolor dye patterns and designs in the style and vogue of the mid 1840-50s.” (imdb.com) Plunkett’s attention to detail was sometimes missed on film. The detail in color and texture was not visible in Technicolor. Plunkett created the famous, iconic curtain dress worn by Vivien Leigh. It is believed that Plunkett deliberately treated the green fabric to sunlight to create a faded and distressed

I really enjoyed reading this book. The author is Ed Catmull, president of Pixar. Pixar is the first company that produced an animated feature film entirely generated by computer, Toy Story. The purpose of the book is not however to tell the story of Pixar, but of the management principles that Catmull has managed to distil, together with his team, of the experience of creating Pixar and guide to its integration in Disney and beyond. Catmull focuses primarily on how to promote and protect the creativity

How these films deploy visual archives reflects the epochal shift in subject formation that I have just described. While classic documentary filmmakers of the “Third Cinema” moment (e.g. Fernando E. Solanas [1936-] and Patricio Guzmán [1941-]) constructed their films using material from the sociohistorical archive, today’s filmmakers construct their documentaries using intimate, everyday archives, particularly those of the family. Specifically in the case of Argentine documentaries, directors often

still relatively unknown - Film coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Liberation and the exhibition - Alain Resnais, at the time a young film director, was approached by the official Committee for the History of World War Two which itself was a representation of Resistance members. He turned down the offer initially because he felt that only someone who had had direct experience of the concentration camps could deal with the subject matter. He agreed to make the film with the collaboration of

decide to challenge their greedy boss. Why is it here? A hysterically humorous take on the typical daily office routine. Although it depicts IT workers, the film makes sense to anyone who has ever held an office job. It is a funny case study of office politics and poor management. The Social Network (2010) Director: David Fincher. Genre: Biographical drama. Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake. Running time: 120 minutes. Plot: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social

One of Italy’s greatest film makers is Ermanno Olmi. Through out the years, there have been many great film that have come from Italy, and many amazing film makers to go along with them. These directors include not only Olmi, but Scola, Taviani, and Benigni. These men are not just directors, but they are visionary’s who helped but Italian cinema on the map. Olmi, like many directors, liked to focus on neorealism. Although he career was long, he did not make many films. The he did make however, are

write about crime films set in 70s New York and their historical accuracy, because I am an aspiring filmmaker. Thus studying about the worlds most renowned movie set, New York and analyzing to what extent filmmakers got inspired by the reality of the “Big Apple” is a very fascinating and intricate topic. Specifically crime films are very interesting as they were made by the great directors of modern cinema. With this paper I wish to deceiver how much the filmmakers grounded their films in reality and

1893 Introduction: In film, drama is the most diverse of genres with many subcategories such as crime drama, comedy drama, romantic drama, and historic drama. Dallas Buyers Club directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum both take on the role of historical and biographical dramas. This is due to the fact that both films are set in the past to tell a story and through the perspective a certain important person in history. The purpose of a drama film is to touch on realism

Movies have been use to depict mankind’s most historical events, improving our knowledge and increasing our imaginations. The movie Cesar Chavez, has both fictional and real aspects of the timeline where Chavez stood for something he believed in. The film has some accurate scenes of what really happened, but like all movies, it has to find a way to catch viewers’ interests and attract them to watch the movie by showing appealing circumstances and not dwelling into too much detail. The movie is mostly

The American dystopian science fiction - The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials overpowered the American crime film - Black Mass of Johnny Depp at the box office. Both films cut young and old moviegoers in half on the first weekend of the fall movie season. As stated in studio estimates, the sequel to 20th Century Fox's The Maze Runner earned a robust $43.3 million from 66 markets. The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials conquered the top spot in 30 of those territories. The film's muscular start was ushered