are well documented in books‚ poems‚ and film. As the father of two young sons‚ four and two‚ I was deeply affected by the film “The Music Never Stopped‚” directed by Jim Kohlberg. I had the privilege of viewing this film at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. This is the first film I have seen in my adult life that caused me to weep openly several times. I connected with the struggle of this father as he dealt with a devastating brain injury to his estranged son. The film covered three common
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1992‚ Chbosky graduated from the University of Southern California’s screenwriting program. He wrote‚ directed‚ and acted in the 1995 independent film The Four Corners of Nowhere‚ which got Chbosky his first agent‚ was accepted by the Sundance Film Festival‚ and became one of the first films shown on the Sundance Channel. In the late 1990s‚ Chbosky wrote several unproduced screenplays‚ including ones titled Audrey Hepburn’s Neck and Schoolhouse Rock. In 1994‚ Chbosky was working on a "very different
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Celena New Miss West English II Honors 7 Dec.2012 Persuasive Essay: Minecraft Are you bored and lonely on a Friday night? Are you a creative designer who wants to create their own world? Are a student who thinks school is too hard and thinks Mrs. Saravia’s faces are the greatest thing ever? If you’re any of those or more‚ Minecraft is the game for you! Minecraft is created by Markus Persson‚ the founder of Mojang AB. The game involves players creating and destroying various
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decorated tale of a family striving to survive in a late 1950’s South Side‚ Chicago. It was the first play written by an African-American to ever reach the renowned halls of Broadway. It’s translation into a film won it praise at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival‚ and is also a Tony Award winning Best Musical (1973). Walter Younger‚ a father and husband at best‚ struggles to define himself as one person with set traits as he chops and changes back and forth from disappointments and triumphs. Walter Younger
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A Gun Up Your Ass: An Interview with Jim Jarmusch. (Cineaste 1996 ) By Jonathan Rosenbaum A dozen years ago‚ when his second feature‚ "Stranger Than Paradise"‚ catapulted him to worldwide fame‚ Jim Jarmusch seemed at the height of arthouse fashion. Having already known him a little before then‚ I could tell that the extent to which he suddenly became a figurehead for the American independent cinema bemused him in certain ways. Given the aura of hip‚ glamorous downtown Manhattan culture that seemed
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This analysis of ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ written by Colin Brumby in 1981; will use the knowledge of the musical elements to explore how Brumby has created each of the characters in ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ and how all of the themes in the piece have been linked together to create the work. The intro of the piece ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ is uncertain in tonality‚ starting with a flourish of notes for six bars‚ using woodwinds and strings‚ over bass
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explained by these authors. These theories are‚ in fact‚ undeniable. Freakonomics presents‚ rogue economists that search for the hidden side of everything. By mid 2010‚ Freakonomics the movie published their big-break documentary film at the Tribeca Film Festival. There were substantial controversy about the film and book‚ being that the two were completely different. With patience‚ time‚ and effort here’s what I critically examined. Similarly‚ both Freakonomics the movie and Freakonomics the book did convey
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Make Way “Movie Brats” In the late 1960s to late 1970s‚ as the veteran directors retired‚ a new generation gradually took their place. Associated with “New Hollywood‚” these young and diverse directors‚ often in their late twenties and early thirties‚ were considered “movie brats.” These new directors Some of the more famous were Francis Ford Coppola‚ Stephen Spielberg‚ and George Lucas; all of whom had an intense awareness of film history‚ worked with quotations and remakes‚ and created extremely
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The characters in the film are never given names‚ except Nick‚ who act as the son of the couple. As her personality fits the character she is portraying‚ in the year 2009‚ Gainsburg won the award for being the Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the said film. The film opens with a stunning black and white‚ slow-motion where the lead “she” and “he” make love in the shower while their unattended young child Nick crawl out of his crib‚ climbs out an open window and fall to his death.
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Bouncers; 17th of October at High Wycombe Swan Theatre. Bouncers is a comical‚ yet serious dive into urban nightlife. The actors use multi-role to play a variety of different characters with hilarious results. Throughout the updated version of the play‚ John Godber (original writer and director) highlighted his intentions through Lucky Eric’s daunting monologues; we still drink too much as a society today. Nonetheless‚ the dated stereotypes and the use of Frank Sinatra and ‘Thriller’ did make the
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