Film Analysis Essays

In movie The Lost Battalion Major Charles White Wittlesey and his troops lead an attack into the Argonne Forest where they encountered severally bloody battles with the Germans, who outnumbered them and completely surrounded them. He started off with 500 men at the beginning of the campaign and by the …

Jedda: Fifty years ago the movie Jedda broke new ground in its portrayal of the indigenous inhabitants of this land. Andre Greenhalgh examines its rich legacy. In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, government, Charitable and church groups moved many mixed-race children into orphanages and in some cases helped adopt them …

Moulin Rouge, a musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2001, portrays the inner journey of a young naïve man, Christian, who embarks on a physical journey to Paris and his inner journey of love, jealousy, and possessiveness escorts his voyage, influencing his actions and attitudes. Inner journeys are a …

The documentary film titled “Taxi to the Dark Side” underscores the U.S. government’s employment of psychological torture or “soft” torture in Guantanomo, Bay, Cuba as a tool to fight the War on Terror. As vicious as physical torture, soft torture was first practiced by the former Soviet Union and was …

            Mention of Quentin Tarantino and one of his films brings to mind immediate and automatic instances of striking ‘uniqueness’ in terms of aesthetics, style and the approach to content and form which he incorporates in many of his movies. Such esoteric tastes are reflected and made evident in pictures …

Pixar has made many good films. Monster’s Inc. has always been one of my favorite Pixar Films. I’ve watched this bunch of times and it would never lose its charm. It’s good for the whole family especially to the childish members of it. And what I like about this movie …

In what way does Burton contrast adult and child like perception in his short films, ‘Vincent’? Introduction Tim Burton is a brilliant director, producer, writer and artist. In ‘Vincent’, he is able to show his multi-faceted talent. He wrote the short animation as a tribute to one of his favourite …

            A movie becomes a piece of art when it makes us think about our lives. Pather Panchali is the movie which helped me re-consider my relations with other family members. I have come to conclusion that social status of a family seriously impacts human relations within that family. Sarbojaya, …

Plot The movie Mangal Pandey is partly based on the story of an Indian soldier, Mangal Pandey, in the army of the British East India Company who is said to have initiated the Indian movement for independence from British rule with what is known as the Sepoy Mutiny of 1957. …

Allah Rakha Rahman (Tamil: அல்லா ரக்கா ரகுமான்; born 6 January 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar) is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won fourteen Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden …