Posts Tagged ‘Film’

I just watched the movie Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymor. Excellent. It is a love story with a serious social context drawn from the 1960s and from Beatles songs. When I started watching it there seemed to be some overwrought elements, too many visuals and tricks and so forth but as it went [...]


Movie Rules

04Mar09

When I was taking some writing classes years ago, including screen writing, I also took some courses in film analysis and criticism. Ever since then my movie watching experience has involved analysis of things going on beyond the story. That is, certain patterns, cliches and repeating events have become evident. So I’ve decided to make [...]