Lars Von Trier The Concept of Good in Trier's Films If you have never watched Trier films, you are likely to get extremely confused by the subject matter or purpose of a film like Breaking the Waves. This is because the film is deceptively simply w Continue Reading...
EuropaThe film Europa by Lars Trier uses the film noir style to create an aesthetic of moral ambiguity, guilt, and innocence: the theme of the film is found in the overwhelming interplay of these three componentsmoral ambiguity, guilt, and innocence. Continue Reading...
What is certain from all three films is that technology essentially shapes the way in which modern stories are told. Abstraction and Cinematic Modernism Cinematic modernism, as defined by a certain purposeful ambiguity and a rather high level of a Continue Reading...
Melancholia in Film Melancholia Depicting Melancholia in Film: Melancholia The film Melancholia (2011), directed by Lars von Trier, is a science fiction film about the end of the world viewed through the eyes of a melancholic. The melancholic is Continue Reading...
The first special screening I saw hits closer to home because it is about the BP oil drilling fiasco that occurred only last year. The Big Fix is a film by director Josh and Rebecca Tickell that documented the problems brought about by the largest o Continue Reading...
Nudity in Television Nudity is increasing in the television shows and movies with every passing day. More number of actresses and models agree to do nude shoots. As the technology is also advancing at a fast pace, even young children have access to Continue Reading...
Dada and Degenerate Art in Germany At the end of WW1, Germany found itself in a period of transition. Held responsible for the war and forced to pay reparations, the Weimar Republic was in a disastrous state. The Kaiser Willelm II had abdicated, hyp Continue Reading...
As he himself admits, "I have a very grim perspective. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish meaningless existence, and the only way to be happy is if you tell yourself some lies. One must have some delusions to live" ("Cannes 2010: Woody Continue Reading...
Bollywood has many recognizable elements of style; "The distinctive features of popular Hindi cinema -- song and dance, melodrama, lavish production values, emphasis upon stars and spectacle -- are common to films made in Southern industries as well Continue Reading...
