Video Review – Kodo: Heartbeat Drummers of Japan Kodo is a Japanese group who came together in 1981 due to their common interest and passion in Taiko drumming‚ which encompassed their lives on the island of Sado in Tokyo‚ Japan. The sounds produced by these drums were what held their culture together as they believe that they would find an echo of the human heartbeat through it. To them‚ the heart is the principle of the human being. Thus‚ the name Kodo translates into two meanings: the first
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Jerico Jay F. Bueno 1DMC-HUM01 Confessions/Kokuhaku A HUMANITIES MOVIE REVIEW AND TAKE HOME QUIZ Kokuhaku for me was a modern masterpiece having such an interesting storyline and also having actors who possess such great talents in portraying their own distinct character. People will have an understanding on how a mother loves her child and to what extent she will do in order to protect her child from danger. It is
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Gattaca Film Review Gattaca is a science-fiction film released in 1997‚ lead starring Ethan Hawke‚ Jude Law and Uma Thurman. The film details a man’s (Ethan Hawke/Vincent Freeman) physical breakthrough of the barrier of attaining his dreams of becoming an astronaut‚ but not being able to due to a heart defect imprinted in to his DNA. The film begins showing the birth of a baby and the process that goes with such an ordeal in ‘the not-too-distant future’. This baby was Vincent‚ who was genetically
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AVATAR Producer: James Cameron Director: James Cameron Screen Writer: James Cameron Director of Photography: Mauro Fiore Music: James Horner Cast: Sam Worthington (Jake Sully)‚ Zoe Saldana (Neytiri)‚ Sigourney Weaver (Grace)‚ Joel David Moore (Norm Spellman) et.al. A dozen years later‚ James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world. As commander-in-chief of an army of visual-effects technicians‚ creature designers‚ motion-capture mavens‚ stunt performers‚ dancers‚ actors
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HOOSIERS A film review Hoosiers is a film about second chances. Redemption is given to a short tempered coach‚ who was issued a lifetime suspension by the NCAA for physically assaulting a player‚ and a former star player- turned town drunk. These two defeat their odds by taking a small town high school basketball team from being just 15 and 10‚ all the way to the state championship. In my review‚ I’ll attempt to explain how this coach matches up against Kouzes and Posner’s “Five Practices of
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Cited: "Troy (2004)." Troy. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2012. <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/troy/>. Rainer‚ Peter. "New York Magazine." Troy. New York Times‚ 17 May 2004. Web. 11 Nov. 2012. <http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/n_10359/>. Reed‚ Rex. New York Observer. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 12. <http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=9036>.
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Jaws Film Review ‘Jaws’ is one of Spielberg’s most easily recognisable movies. It is unique in a way that is rarely seen in cinema. He set a new standard for horror films. In this movie‚ the small northern town of Amity is ‘haunted’ by a great white shark which kills its first victim in the abandoned night. It is an attack which‚ when later discovered‚ causes police chief Brody‚ against his will‚ to let the beach stay open for the fourth of July due to the fact that it was the main source of
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Film Review: Mindwalk If a good movie is one that makes you think‚ Mindwalk must be superb. However‚ I haven’t even read the book it was based on and I can say that the book must have been better. The actors are laughable‚ and the physicists’ accent changes with each new scene. Furthermore‚ the transitions to each scene are as smooth as sandpaper. The purpose of this movie wasn’t‚ and with good reason‚ to be glamorous though. As many of our "Hollywood" movies are. The fast action‚ sex‚ blood
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CASABLANCA FILM REVIEW 1. How did the practical constraints imposed by World War II affect this movie? (Give 2 examples.) Hollywood shifted from an outspoken denial of any overt promotion of the U.S. involvement in the war to an active on-screen support of that involvement. The cast was very international‚ of all the principle and supporting actors in the film came from Europe‚ only Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson were born and raised in America. The rest of the actors either cam to U
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Rocio Rodriguez Platoon: The Film on the Vietnam War “Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell” (Platoon). The controversial issues concerning Platoon were not on the film itself‚ but about how this film portrayed the war in Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to
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