Nomanland (2020)
Thought provoking. This film was extremely thought provoking, I feel it really questions the nature of humanity and societies...
NTU Design for Film and Television Student 2020
Hello my name is Ally and I am currently studying Design for Film and Television at NTU. This blog is to track my progress and discoveries throughout my first year. Enjoy!
Thought provoking. This film was extremely thought provoking, I feel it really questions the nature of humanity and societies...
Blade Runner was released in 1982 and was directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Harrison Ford as a futuristic cop who hunts robotic people....
I absolutely loved this movie. It was directed by Emerald Fennel and stars Carey Mulligan as Carrie, a medical student drop out who was...
Directed by David Lynch, The Elephant Man is based on a true story of a man called John Merrick who suffered from a very rare disease,...
The Naked Civil Servant was released in 1975 and was directed by Jack Gold. It stars a very young John Hurt (I almost did not recognise...
Imitation of Life was directed by Douglas Sirk A very poignant moment at the start, was when Sarah Jane and Lora's daughter (Meredith)...
The Man with the Golden Arm was directed by Otto Preminger and stars Frank Sinatra Trying to tackle drug addiction at the time was...
Released in 1955, The Night of the Hunter was directed by Charles Laughton. I really enjoyed this film, my favourite Film Noir so far. I...
British film noir directed by Carol Reed When first watching the film, weirdly for me, I felt some parallels in plot with Citizen Kane...
A Matter of Life and Death (known in the U.S as Stairway to Heaven) was directed, produced and written by Michael Powell and Emeric...
Citizen Kane is a classic (directed, produced and starring Orson Welles). Watching it now, it is really hard not to see it as almost an...
Directed by Jean Cocteau I loved was how they created magic in the visual techniques. From mysterious moving of the branches always...
One of the first shots is of a herd of sheep and then a crowd of people. I love how this comparison is used to comment on human nature,...
Scarlet Empress (1934) was directed by Josef von Sternberg and starred his wife Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great. I found this...
Four words: synchronized swimming above water. Berkley's musical style in a nutshell. I watched snippets from 42nd Street (1933) and Gold...
This film was particularly intriguing to me as I used to work as a dinner lady in a boarding school for boys a similar age, making some...
It was intriguing to see a surrealist film that was more modern in comparison to . I found the use of sound in this film particularly...
Dali and Brunels' "Un Chien Andalou" was a disturbingly shocking experience to watch making it a very successful surrealist film in my...
It was evident from the start that there was a class divide (the haves and have nots) through the use in the architecture of the two...
The set is very angular and distorted keeping in the genre of the German Expressionist and is meant to represent the inner turmoil and...