Jia Jia Chen Dr. Primuth HIST 2112 Jan 10‚ 2014 Movie Review – The Butler In Lee Daniel’s film‚ The Butler‚ the story of Cecil Gaines‚ a butler who has served eight different presidents for thirty-four years in the White House‚ chronicles the civil rights events through-out his career. This film focuses on African American history from 1920s to 2008 during Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States. The film is very accurate about history during that time period and
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Casablanca Movie Review The film Casablanca has been a favorite for many people since its release in 1943. It was directed by the talented Hungarian director Michael Curtiz. It stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as the main characters. Claude Rains plays a supporting role as Captain Louis Renault. He delivers one of the best performances of his impressive career during the course of this movie Casablanca is a classic tale of lost love found again. This love is then put at risk of being lost
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The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839‚ a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists‚ Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey)‚ who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the
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Olympia movie review Olympia an award winning documentary made by leni Riefenstahl is beautifully captured‚ capturing the true life of the berlin Olympics. Riefenstahl uses techniques in which we still use nowadays and creates art in her films Riefenstahl and her staff didn’t uses very professional camera angles ‚ only to improvise with telephoto lenses; though the results are often more dramatically impressive than the up-close-and-personal approach taken by contemporary TV cameramen. Riefenstahl
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Splice Movie Review The movie was about two rebellious scientists‚ Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast who had been achieving fame by slicing DNA’s of different animals to create new hyrid ones and futher decided to add human DNA. Since their company was not interested with such an experiment‚ they secretly did it. They injected human DNA to one of their creatures to see if conception was possible. Their experiment was a success‚ they named it Dren. It was a female. She began to grow and learn fast‚ so
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Tulak (2009) Stars: Rafael Rosell | John Regala | Melissa Mendez | Fanny Serrano | Julio Diaz | Maria Isabel Lopez Genre: Drama Director: Neal Tan Review: Orphaned at a young age‚ Tikboy (Rafael Rosell) was under her aunt Lukray’s (Isabel Lopez) wings together with her live-in-partner Abdon (Julio Diaz). Aunt Lukray is an aging prostitute while Abdon is a corrupt and fraudulent policeman who also happens to be a drug pusher‚ with Tikboy as his delivery boy or batang “Tulak”. Together they are
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Chelsea Tibbetts CMS 202 10/3/12 Beyond the Pane is Pleasure: A Chocolat Review None are allowed to see what Vianne is concocting behind the windows concealed with newspaper. Away from the public eye‚ Vianne paints the walls of her shop with Mayan designs and places tribal sculptures on the shelves with care. Young schoolboys peek through the miniscule slivers in between the newspaper; their only means to observe the magic happening within its walls. They watch as the grinding of
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December 30‚ 2011 Catherine Cox Oliver! Movie Review Grade 9 Drama A The movie watched from November 18th to the 21st in Mr. Sheridan’s drama class was the 1968 musical‚ Oliver! This musical was freely adapted from the book “Oliver Twist” by Charles dickens‚ with screenplay written by Vernon Harris. The film was produced by John Woolf‚ directed by Carol Reed with music by Johnny Green‚ choreography by Onna White‚ and costumes by Phyllis Dalton. The talented cast was chosen by Jenia Reissar
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Movie Review in Rizal 1 “Noli Me Tangere” I. INTRODUCTION A. Title of the movie: Noli Me Tangere (“Touch Me Not”) Director: Gerardo De Leon Characters: Edwardo Del Mar as Crisostomo Ibarra Edita Vidal as Maria Clara Leopordo Salcedo as Elias Cristina Sampang as Sisa Oscar Keesee as Padre Damaso Zandro Muhlach as Basilio Carlos Dala as Crispin Engracio Ibarra as Kapitan Tiago Lilian Laing De Leon as Donya Victorina Fred Gonzales as Pilosopong Tasyo A. Noli
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Movie Review of “Cleopatra” The legendary story of Cleopatra has endured for over two thousand years. Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic movie‚ “Cleopatra”‚ starring Elizabeth Taylor‚ Rex Harrison and Richtard Burton depicts the end of Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty with the fall of Cleopatra. Cleopatra was in fact the last of the great the pharaohs of Egypt and it can be said that she was as famous as Elizabeth Taylor who had been chosen to portray the fascinating ruler. Cleopatra was an intelligent
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