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BREATHLESS is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean- Luc Godard about a wandering criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriends (Jean Seberg). “New Wave filmmakers experimented with form and content in an attempt to renew both film production and product at a time when studio system economics and hierarchies dominated French film practice”. The filmmakers are commended for their works due to empowering a movement in bringing a new perspective to the typical ‘boy meets girl’ films. Jean-Luc Godard challenges these social norms by having the male protagonist take on characteristic of a ‘gangster’, for example, by consistently committing crimes and having a cigarette in his mouth. The French New Wave Movement stays close to the heart of film studies in the American market. As French explains in his critical reviews of Breathless, Godard was an influential figure in the French New Wave movement. The on-the-go style employed in the produc...

  BICYCLE THIEVES (LADRI DI BICICLETTE) is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, is summarized by Millicent Marcus as “Man’s bike stolen on first day back to work after two years’ unemployment. Bike prerequisite to job.” Visconti (director of Obsession) made changes such as tailoring the script to its Italian setting and adding a character, but the main departure from the novel and the defining characteristic of the film is the manner in which it confronts the realities of life. In one particular scene in Obsession(1943), that shows a major theme of neorealism, the central female character enters her messy kitchen, dishes herself a bowl of soup and sits down with a newspaper, only to fall asleep, slumped over. Neorealism was decidedly national in focus, taking as its subject the day-to-day reality of a country traumatized by political change and war. Neorealist films often took a highly critical view of Italian society and focused attention upon social prob...

The Maltese Falcon in 1941 is one of the most popular and classic detective mysteries of all time, and many film historians believe it is the first of Hollywood's dark film noir genre. Not only that, this movie also is the genre of crime and drama. The Maltese Falcon released on October 18, 1941. The low-cost film reflects  John Huston (previously a screenwriter) outstanding directorial debut, who produced the American classic for Warner Bros. efficiently and skilfully. The starring of this movie are Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George and so on. The objective of this movie is to obtain the Maltese Falcon statue as well as solve the murder mystery of Floyd Thursby and Miles Archer. Sam Spade is a hero of this movie. He is a detective, who able to take care of himself in any situation and able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether a criminal or a bystander. He is a suspect by police to be the murder of his partner Miles. In addition, Brigid ...

     TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE is scheduled for release in October,   2005. Oscar nominated actors Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow), Helena Bonham Carter (Big Fish, The Wings of the Dove) and Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love, Breaking the Waves) have been tapped to provide voices for the lead characters in the Tim Burton-produced animated film Corpse Bride for Warner Bros. Pictures, currently in production in London. Rounding out the film’s voice cast are five-time Oscar nominated actor Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings).   The film is co-directed by Michael Johnson and Tim Burton, from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler. The director of photography is Peter Kozachik, the production designer is Alex McDowell and the film is edited by Jonathan Lucas.   The score will be composed by Danny Elfman. Corpse Bride carries on in the dark, romantic tradition o...

   In The Mood for Love is the Hong Kong film at 2000 directed by Wong Kar Wei. According to this film, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow are the main actor and the shots at year 1962 in Hong Kong, 1963 in Singapore, and 1966 in Cambodia. The first view that shown Mrs. Chan needs to rent a place to live on the same day as Mr. Chow. Mrs. Chan was talking to her landlady at a shanghai lady Mrs. Suen’s house, then Mr. Chow came as well to this house. This is because it was the first shot about this house, the next of this entire film was all about in this house. So Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow are form this house of the start of the little things. First, Mr. Chow took the wrong magazines give back to Mrs. Chan and then Mrs. Chan let her husband to help Mr. Chow to brought a rice cooker from Japan. Later, they always saw and getting closer to know each other. “In The Mood for Love” used montage techniques to repeat the theme on the film mutual, emotional changes in the performance of th...