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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Directors Film' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Directors Film Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Directors Film 1. Cinematic Techniques Of Fight Club By David Fincher - By: Sharon White The main character Jack the Narrator, played by Edward Norton, is schizophrenic and has multiple personalities. The film starts at the ending of the movie and goes back in the main characters memory about three years before the present moment in the film. The indirect-subjective point of... Featured ArticleAuteur Theory The auteur theory is the theory that a film (or a body of work) by a director (or, rarely, a producer) reflects the personal vision and preoccupations of that director, as if he or she were the work's primary "author" (auteur). The auteur theory has had a major impact on film criticism worldwide ever since it was first advocated by François Truffaut in 1954. "Auteurism" is the method of analyzing films based on this theory (or, alternately, the characteristics of a director's work that makes hi ...
Read full story 2. What Makes Great Cinema - By: Christopher Graham The motion picture has taken many steps back from the greatness of its past, but nevertheless that greatness can be achieved once more with the adherence to the elements that follow. No aspect of great film is more or less important than the next, but great film begins, simply... 3. Cinematic Fever - By: Michelle Sweeney Love it or hate it every February the Oscar fever hits the media and you can rarely turn on the television or open the newspaper without hearing a mention of an actor, director or movie which is up for nomination. Australia of course has its own award ceremony in the form of the Australian Film Aw... 4. Women's History Month Meets Cinematic Fever - By: Michelle Sweeney Love it or hate it every February the Oscar fever hits the media and you can rarely turn on the television or open the newspaper without hearing a mention of an actor, director or movie which is up for nomination. Australia of course has its own award ceremony in the form of the Austra... 5. The Alfred Hitchcock Locations Walks In London And New York - By: Sandra Shevey Sandra Shevey takes visitors to New York on a suspenseful excursion through Manhattan and Queens in the footsteps of director Alfred Hitchcock who immortalised some of New York City`s most romantic neighborhoods in 9 of his New York-based films. The walk which goes every Monday, Wednesday... 6. European Vs. Hollywood Cinema - By: Sharon White European and Hollywood movies are very different in styles and in concepts. American films are popular worldwide, whereas European ones are mostly watched in Europe only. European films started to be looked at as a separate division in 1950s. In this article I will take a closer look at ... 7. The Changing Face Of Women In Indian Cinema - By: Lopa Bhattacharya In its awe-inspiring journey of nearly hundred years, the Indian film Industry, consisting mainly of the star-struck Bollywood", and also of myriad regional films, has been witness to a sea-change in the presentation of the female protagonist. Yes, rarely will a person deny that the Boll... 8. Lawrence Of Arabia (dvd) Review - By: Britt Gillette Based on the writings of T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence Of Arabia is widely considered one of the greatest films of the twentieth century. All-star director David Lean works with an extremely talented cast that includes Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Quinn... 9. Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror - A Landmark In World Cinema - By: Sacha Tarkovsky Mirror (Zerkalo) was made in 1974 and is the perfect illustration of Andrei Tarkovsky's genius as a director. Mirror provides the viewer with vivid images of unbelievable power and beauty and is an evocation of childhood which is without equal in cinema. Tarkovsky s... 10. The Stars Of Silent Pictures - By: Michael Russell Ever since the beginning of the cinema, the public was always particularly interested in the leading actors and actresses of these movies. They were called “stars”. They had such a public appeal that the success of a certain movie would depend largely on the popularity of the cast. Each “star” in th... 11. Cinematography-a Brief Historical Overview - By: Kadence Buchanan Cinematography is one of the man's efforts to portray to others, through the use of techniques that combine motion pictures and text, the world and the messages it transfers as these are understood by the artist. With the term cinematography, one today describes the discipline of making ... 12. Widescreen Televisions Enhance Movie Watching - By: Michael Russell I am continually surprised by the amount of people who prefer to watch “non-letterbox” or “full screen” versions of films. I have heard everything from “it makes the picture look smaller” to “I hate the black bars.” What full screen fans are missing out on is the director’s original intent for the... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |
| Ed Wood Trading Card Set Ed Wood Jr. has been dubbed the World's Worst Director, and is responsible for such gloriously awful films as "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" This eccentric Hollywood fringe character is also the subject of a feature film by Director Tim Burton. Now cartoonist Drew Friedman memorializes Wood and his odd crew of actors in this 36-card set.... |