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Intro to New Media
Definitions New media are forms of media that are native to computers, computational and relying on computers for distribution. Some examples of new media are websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds, multimedia, computer games, human-computer interface, computer animation and interactive computer installations 2. New media are often contrasted to “old media“, such as television, radio, and print media, although scholars in communication and media studies have criticised […]
Read More Intro to New MediaLe Samouraï (1967) : FILM REVIEW
“Melville is God to me… [Le Samouraï is] the closest to a perfect movie that I have ever seen.” – John Woo Being and nothingness In a taut and lean 100 minutes Jean-Pierre Melville somehow manages to condense and distill 30 plus years of gangster movies, police procedurals, and film noir into an astonishing […]
Read More Le Samouraï (1967) : FILM REVIEWThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013) : FILM REVIEW
“On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my ‘back pain’, Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine… Well, because […]
Read More The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) : FILM REVIEWSpirited Away (2001): FILM REVIEW
“Miyazaki has been crafting films more lusciously illustrated and rapturously imaginative than almost anything else on the silver screen.” – Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine Come sail away Most assuredly there is no one else making animated films like auteur-director Hayao Miyazaki. Born in Tokyo in 1941, the personal universe he presents onscreen is absolutely […]
Read More Spirited Away (2001): FILM REVIEWEraserhead (1977): FILM REVIEW
“Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.” – David Lynch In heaven everything is fine Defensibly David Lynch’s most forcible film, Eraserhead was the curious realization of more than five years of spasmodic shooting and postproduction assembly. Captured in furtive black-and-white, pushing arresting chiaroscuro lighting, and occupying a post-industrial wasteland backdrop, Eraserhead would […]
Read More Eraserhead (1977): FILM REVIEWCrash (1996) : FILM REVIEW
“Crash is a movie De Sade would have adored.” – J.G. Ballard Always crashing in the same car “Film for film,” writes film critic and historian J. Hoberman, “[David Cronenberg] is the most audacious and challenging director in the English-speaking world.” Certainly 1996’s brassy and grotesque fever dream Crash exemplifies such an idea and with […]
Read More Crash (1996) : FILM REVIEWOkja (2017) : Film Review
“We always have two perspectives when we look at animals. There is one perspective where we look at it in a friendly way or we treat it as family, and there’s one perspective where we treat it as food.”– Bong Joon-ho The call to mercy An affecting, earnest, and exciting tale of interspecies friendship and […]
Read More Okja (2017) : Film ReviewThe Social Network :FILM REVIEW
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 REVIEWThe 400 Blows (1959): FILM REVIEW
Les 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 REVIEW