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Tag Archives: Kubrick
Weekly Mini-Review: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Story: In a society of limited birthrate, a couple whose son is in a coma adopts the first robot child ever designed to feel love. When the couple’s son reawakens, the robot boy (guided by a literal belief in fairytales) … Continue reading
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Tagged Action movie, Androids, Critical Analysis, Kubrick, movie, movie review, Movies, Mythology, robots, Sci-fi, Screenwriting, Spielberg, Thriller
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SFX Evolution: How Special Effects Have Changed, and Not Changed
It’s interesting to consider that many of the special effects invented by Melies during the dawn of filmmaking were not only still in use half a century later, but even into the present century. Take, for example, the 1960 version … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, Trend-Spotting
Tagged CGI, cinema, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, Film Theory, industry, Kubrick, movie, movie review, Movies, SFX, special effects, Spielberg, time machine
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Film Noir: The Mother of the Psychological Thriller
I believe it is possible that psychological thrillers such as Rope (1948), The Shining (1980), Jaws (1975); and the genre of psychological thrillers as a whole are natural extensions of film noir. Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, film noir, film student, Film Theory, Hitchcock, Jaws, Kubrick, movie review, Movies, Spielberg, Thriller
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