Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Weekly Film Review Essay

While reading my past blog entries, I can't blieve that I'm now writing at least 800 words of film review every week! My last piece on contemporary Surrealistc movies is so detailed. I'm writing better and better because I can now watch a movie from a screenwriter and film critic's POV. I analyse the shots, camera movements, mise-en-scene, camera angles and also the three act structure, characters' arc, and twists and turns of the plot.

Gotta enjoy this year and get the most of it!

It's the year of 2012 and this is my first post

Finally I am living abroad, and realizing my dream. Overcame many obstacles over the last few months.


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Official Re-Release Trailer


I've bought an easel, and painted five oil paintings already. The 2001: a space odyssey poster is hanging on my wall. It's amazing. I love oil painting, rock'n'roll, film and television. I'm glad that I have extensive knowledge in these areas that the smartpants of science couldn't match up to me. He doesn't even know who's Schubert because he "didn't study music". We don't have to study music to know who's Schubert. We have common sense.

Here's the list of the movies I watched recently for my studies and leisure:
- Sex, lies, and videotape
- Puss in Boots
- The Iron Lady
- Atonement
- Day For Night
- Bridesmaids
- Margin Call
- Death Becomes Her
- Ed Wood
- The Limey
- Hugo
- The Artist
- Breathless (1960) (Original title: À bout de soufflé)
- Touch of Evil
- The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Great Muppet Caper
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The Muppet Movie
- Rumble Fish
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- Buffalo
- Beginners
- The Untouchables
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
- Mission Impossible 4
- Transformer 3
- Thor
- Pirates of the Caribbean 4
- Rio
- Little Ashes
- The Exterminating Angel
- Un Chien Andalou
- Double Indemnity
- To Kill a Mocking Bird
- Vertigo (1958)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- I'm Not There- Spellbound
- 2001: a space odyssey (1968)
- That Touch of Mink
- Contagion
- Big Night
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The English Patient
- American Graffiti
- Thelma & Louise
- Moonstruck
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Rudy
- Tootsie (1982)
- Nowhere Boy
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Harry Potter & Deathly Hollows 2
- Super 8
- X-Men: First Class
- New York, I Love You
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Whatever Works
- Four Rooms
- Red
- Source Code
- Memento (2000)
- The Tourist
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Chinatown
- Cash Back
- Micmacs a tire-larigot
- Morning Glory
- El Mariachi
- Constantine (2005)

Some of them are good. They are cross-mentioned in lessons on screenwriting, film analysis, and cinematography.