Hayao Miyazaki is renowned for his beautiful scenes and vivid characters. Not only Miyazaki makes fascinating animated films, but he is also an environmentalist. His idea of human’s progressing is destroying earth is often referred in his movies.
Not only he uses his films to alert people, Miyazaki also join many environment protests himself. In the early 2000s, Miyazaki joined the protest against the building of Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The review that came to my eyes is from Los Angels Times and written by Kenneth Turan. As the film screened in LA in digital in 2015, Turan stated a few of his opinions toward the film.
First Turan introduce the overall of Rififi. Quoted from then-critic Francois Truffaut as “the best film noir I have ever seen,” he referred it as a movie that “thick with the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom.” But instead of focusing on the “exceptional sequence”, Turan appreciated more on the stunning heist that took nearly a quarter of the screening time.
Before went into the plots, Turan summarized the background of the film. As a banished American director, Dassin, according to Turan, was both ideal and unlikely as this film’s director.
Then Turan turned to the details of the film’s story. He introduced the film’s lawbreakers as laconic craftsmen, unapologetic about their profession, who took pride in the things they could do well. Then unlike most of the Rififi reviews, Turan focused on the heist part of the film. “Dassin spends a quarter of the film’s running time on the actual burglary, a wordless (though it makes good use of sound effects) half-hour that racks the nerves and provides a master class in breaking and entering as well as filmmaking.”
Lastly, Turan ended the review with the idea of this film proves for not the last time that it’s easier to break into a safe than fathom the mysteries of the human heart.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-rififi-review-20150904-column.html
In the year of 2005, the Citizen Jane Lecture Series was born at Stephens College, Columbia. The College hosted a Fem Film Women’s Symposium in 2006, bringing in industry experts such as award-winning director Jennie Livingston, and director and writer Tricia Brock. The event was such a success, city leaders suggested Stephens start its own female-focused film fest. Citizen Jane Film Festival is more than a film fest. It’s an artist’s retreat, a holistic experience designed to entertain, enlighten and energize audiences into action and encourage, engage and embolden filmmakers into continuing to ensure that women’s stories are told. The film fest screens narrative, documentary and short films, hosting panel discussions with the filmmakers.
By 2010, the industry had taken notice of this organically grown festival. That year, CJFF hosted groundbreaking producer Christine Vachon and screened the thought-provoking film “Night Catches Us.” The opening night film was Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture,” a feature-length comedy/drama which she wrote, directed and starred in.
The diversity of guests has continued to increase, and in 2013, the CJ Summit attracted director, producer and screenwriter Yvonne Welbon and experimental filmmaker.
In 2014, CJFF goers welcomed such filmmakers as Leah Meyerhoff, who screened her powerful feature, “I Believe in Unicorns,” after in premiered at SXSW. Meyerhoff helped kick-start a Missouri chapter of the international female filmmaking collaborative group Film Fatales during her visit to Columbia.
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http://citizenjanefilmfestival.org/about-us/
After Gene Kelly finally got to kiss Debbie Reynolds in front of her apartment, he performed what has been considered “classic” now, singing and dancing in the rain. As the camera locked in long shots, Kelly started spinning and rolling up and down like he is a opener of a can of sardine. His dramatic laugh and open arms made distinct contracts with the few people passing behind him trying to cover their bodies either with newspapers or hats. Moving up and down like he’s some kind of faery of the streetlights, Kelly showed his happiness in great a harmony as if the rain is a warm welcome of his new relationship.
We are currently looking for ideas in a few classics like, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption. Although the movie tend to by a bit abstract, there could be a implied storyline which will be discovered by several other clues through out the clip. Since we have a few weeks to prepare, it is possible to set up a simple scene.
Recreated Scenes
Title: Snow White and the Huntsman
Year: 2012
Director: Rupert Sanders
Title: Joe
Year: 2013
Director: David Gordon Green
As the Great Depression hit American society, millions of labors lost their jobs. Even after Franklin D. Roosevelt became the President, the after heat still remained as an obstacle for the progression of America. In order to save America from the cliff of collapse, FDR published his “New Deal”. One of the main act in the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration. The WPA created the PWA, the Public Work Administration, which aimed to convene the unemployed labors to build public works such as hospitals, airports, and highways. The City of New York Municipal Airports, in the picture above, was one of the many constructions that had been done by the PWA.
The post shows the progress that the New Deal was going to bring to America. The plain cardinal and the splash of dark grey in the background focuses the attention on the two ivory airplanes in the front. Airplanes, as one of the many new invention at the time indicated the fast progression and infinite creativity of humanity. The two fusiform aircrafts, aiming the sky, show the rapid rising of American society from the Great Depression. Below the Aircraft, the conspicuous letters make the name of the airport unforgettable for people. All of the line works, splash of colors, and letters are aiming to show people the recovery of the society and encourage them from the bad economic conditions.
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As Winterbourne found Daisy Miller and Giovanelli trysted in the Colosseum, he first decided “to advance again”(426) and ignore the couple for the awkwardness and infamous influences Daisy caused in his society. Winterbourne regarded Daisy as incorrigible after all the warning he alerted her; he “felt angry with himself that he had bothered so much about the right way of regarding Miss Daisy Miller.”(426) As he was on his way out, Winterbourne was called by Daisy. Then even though Winterbourne had already made up his mind to disengage from Daisy, he begun to worried for Daisy, this delicate girl, for staying in the “nest of malaria” (426) for too long. After he knew that they had been at the Colosseum for all the evening, Winterbourne questioned Giovanelli for risking the girl’s health, but the ingenious young man argued he never cared. It is ironic that Henry James set the stage at the Colosseum, the amphitheater for Ancient Roman gladiators fighting for their lives. There was never glory or legend left in the arena; the only legacies of the ruins are bloody sacrifices and betrayals. Like nearly 2000 years ago, the sacrifice of Daisy was normal for she was only a plaything to Giovanelli. Giovanelli never cared for her since he was only looking for a dissipation. The wild nature of Daisy Miller also caused the tragedy. Despite the warning from Winterbourne and Mrs. Walker, Daisy refuse to make a change in her life.
Living in the end of 19th century, the Johnson family is suffering from great changes of the world which create burdens and make them brutal and vicious. The parents never loved their children. Mary, the mother, “tosses” her son to a corner, leaving him “limply lay cursing and weeping”(960). The using of the word “toss” in the context means “to throw” Jammie away. Crane used in the book this word intend to reveal the brutalizes and inhumanity of the mother. The father, in the other hand, ignores the feeling of his child, “kick into the chaotic mass”(959) and roars “I belt your life out”(959). The using of word “kick” and “belt” show the father’s inhumane nature and despair to current life. The father’s violence also explains little Jimmie, influenced by his father, fiercely fights other kids on the street. Despite of children, the relationship between the two adults is intense too because neither of them trust each other. Being suppressed by the “Living Hell”, both of Jimmie’s parents try to escape from their pathetic lives by immersing themselves in alcohol. Ignoring the children’s fear, the parents question and curse to each other in the house. “You’re a liar. I ain’t had a drop”(961), as the father oppugns that the mother has been drinking, Mary, the mother, lies again in intend to avoid censure. After the quarrel, Mary again uses her child as a scapegoat as she cry against her child. “Git outa deh way”(961).
The family is living under criticizing and doubt, no one except Maggie cares each other. The arguments in the family create a negative atmosphere. The non-confidence between the family numbers leads to the miserable lives the children have after they grow up.