Monthly Archives: July 2007

Melodrama, Pornography, and Horror. When we first began examining these three genres as a group I thought it a bit strange. What do these three types of films really have in common anyway?? I can’t really speak for the latter … Continue reading →

The 1994 version of Little Women, directed by Gillian Armstrong, was my favorite of the three movies seen in class. I like this Jo the best, actually I liked all of the characters of this version better. And to be … Continue reading →

I’m watching the MLB Allstar game and blogging about film…pretty cool… First off, I have to say what a breath of fresh air the ‘94 version of Little Women was. I have seen it before, but it’s been years. I … Continue reading →

I thought the first topic I would cover in my blog would be about my presentation from yesterday, as well as the 2.1 presentation. I’ve been thinking about the “weepie” film that is mentioned in the Williams essay. Today when … Continue reading →

What’s the deal with this woman? Meet Ripliee. She’s an android designed to resemble a human. (For some reason the Japanese are obsessed with building realistic android women…) She’s the result of decades of work, yet it was probably immediately … Continue reading →

Three movies based on the same book, and the 1933 version and the 1949 version seem to be the same movie only one is in color while one black and white. I mean, it makes sense that the plot to … Continue reading →

Long story short, I had to stay in a hotel last night with my two year old nephew. As we were sharing a room we had to go to bed early and I couldn’t exactly fall asleep at 8pm. As … Continue reading →

When we were discussing the difficulty of portraying the inner thoughts of a character on film, without using the crutch of a voice over I began to think of what artistically do film-makers do to solve this problem. Early Cinema … Continue reading →