… Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star,…

… a dynamic shift in American culture. The end of World War II prompted a boom economy and the American dream of a your own house with the white picket fence was born. Although the 50's were picturesque in some respect the end of WWII entrenched a…

… Movie saving private ryan, and the entire country at that time could have said it in unison--but rarely does anyone ever give serious thought to what exactly it means. The opening 25-minute sequence of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan should change…

… an extreme depth of field. The film goes very fast, like an express train, or a feverish dream. It emphasizes expressive and poetic theory as opposed to formulaic and plodding. “Notorious” becomes essentially abstract, like an outline of things…

… Battle of Algiers, though filmed in the late 1950’s, remains one of the most powerful and emotionally stimulating films of the modern age. The realism captured by the director of photography, Marcello Gatti, laid the blueprint for directors and…

… Dark City takes ideas and ambience from many movies and integrates them all neatly in his visually amazing film. A cross between science fiction, film noir, dark comics, classic horror and early German films, Dark City fails to belong to any one category…

… school when I was about ten years old. After learning about so many great men in Chinese history, like Confucius and Mencius, It was wonderful to learn about a heroic, courageous, and young Chinese woman. I was amazed at how Mulan was able to…

… masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, fact-based, three-hour long epic of the nightmarish Holocaust. Its documentary authenticity vividly re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow…

… Hitchcock explores the planning of the perfect crime from the inside. Right from the beginning the viewer knows who the murderer is and what the motive was. However, the movie still keeps you in suspense. The real mystery of the movie is discovering…

… reality on the shelf and enjoy a well written movie. Martin Scorsese has always captivated and fascinated his audience members for many years. His types of movies tend to have a male leads while the female characters are sometimes not as developed…