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Facebook has been held position as the most popular social media website for almost a decade, beating other popular social networks like Myspace, Twitter, and one more popular towards the adolescent crowd Instagram. This biopic directed by David Fincher, focuses on Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook; and the story behind how it became the […]
Read More The Social Network :FILM REVIEWLes quatre-cents coups (The 400 Blows) is the film that opens up the New Wave movement. I think many of the characteristics of the New Wave -as pointed out in class- can be inferred form the differences between the last film we saw in class, Carné’s Les enfants du paradis, and this work by Truffaut: […]
Read More The 400 Blows (1959): FILM REVIEWThis is one of the most beautiful cinematographic masterpieces that I have seen in recent years. The photography, music, cinematography, cast, special effects and script creates a highly visually and intellectually stimulating movie. Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael, whose concise repertoire includes “The Eighth Day” and “Toto le heros,” describes at least three distinct futures […]
Read More Mr. Nobody : FILM REVIEWSocial media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The social media has been heavily criticized because of the way that student have been using it negatively with the way they produce and retain information. Whenever student are […]
Read More Are student more comfortable on social media or class?On January 4th, 2010 in the remote Hunza River Valley of northern Pakistan, a massive landslide buried the village of Attabad, destroying 26 homes, killing 20 people, and damming up the Hunza River. As the newly-formed lake grew, authorities rushed to evacuate and supply those affected in the landslide area and upstream. The lake is […]
Read More PHOTO STORY : ATTABAD LAKE DISASTER“A film can be like a dream. It’s a fairy tale. It’s not beholden to rules or laws of the real world. I have no loyalty to the real world. Fuck the real world. Why would I make a film to try and show you what it’s like here?” – Ana Lily Amirpour Oh, you […]
Read More A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): FILM REVIEWAs unforgettable as it is unshakable, the fifth film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster), The Killing of a Sacred Deer, is an unsettling and transgressive domestic odyssey that astounds with its unrelenting menace and imaginative fluency. Equal parts garish and gorgeous, this incendiary psychodrama tells the undone tale of renowned cardiovascular […]
Read More The Killing of a Sacred Deer : Film ReviewAkira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century. This was the first film in which a team is assembled to carry out a mission–an idea which gave birth to its direct Hollywood remake, […]
Read More The Seven Samurai: FILM REVIEWIt was already 6a.m early in the morning and I still felt the hangover and the aftereffect of last night, my head was very heavy; the pain was unendurable and intolerable. I could neither sleep and nor did I have the forte and dynamism to wake up and fresh the mind. I was lying down […]
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