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“You wrote 100 pages in under two months? How is that possible?” Believe me, I don’t know either, BUT I’ve been having so much fun writing it. Surprise surprise! I’m writing another book… I don’t know whether I should sigh or cheer because the first one’s not going too well at the moment. Before I…
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My Future King has been my passion project since the summer of 2017. When I started it, I didn’t know that it would be a book, but there was a small part of me that came to that realization pretty quick. I have been working on this story for the past 8 years, give or…
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While I have many titles and identities, such as daughter, sister, friend, coworker, etc., I usually tend to forget the one consistent title. I am someone with a physical disability. I have left-sided weakness in my arm and leg. The muscles are much weaker on my left side than my fully working right side, and,…
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This week’s topics were personal and political cinema. Both subjects are very different, and their ideal message to the audience is vastly different. While personal cinema focuses on how filmmakers convey something about their lives to the audience, political cinema addresses a specific problem and sometimes offers a solution or advice for it. In The…
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For the sixth week of Film Art, I paid attention to Realism and Expressionism in the movies “Playground” and “Rumble Fish”. In The Last Detail, it’s explained that Realism is when a filmmaker uses a film’s “formal properties and storytelling conventions to depict the real world—at least, as closely as possible”. Normally, that is established…
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Hello! For this week’s movies, the focus was on color and its implementation in films. Since there is no color in black and white films, I focused on the use of light and shadow. “Mo’ Better Blues” is a Musical/Romance directed by Spike Lee in 1990, and “Cat People” is a Horror/Fantasy directed by Jacques…
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This week, as I watched “Flashdance” & “Undine”, I paid attention to things “outside the frame”, like music and sound. I looked for examples of diegetic and non-diegetic music and sound. In The Last Detail, it’s explained that “Diegesis refers to the interior world of the film; if any sound is diegetic, that means the…
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This week, I watched “Children of Men” directed by Cuaron in 2006 and “Laura” directed by Preminger in 1944. Compared to last week, where I focused on the visuals and how the film looked, this week, I paid closer attention to mise-en-scene and staging. Both of these concepts focus on the placement and movement of…
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For this week’s post, I watched “Seconds” and “Strangers on a Train”. “Seconds” is a Sci-fi/Thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer in 1966. “Strangers on a Train” is a Thriller/Crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. While watching both movies, I focused on the visuals and the camerawork of the film. Some of the…
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You Hurt My Feelings & After Hours For the first post, I watched “You Hurt My Feelings” (2023, Holofcener) and “After Hours” (1985, Scorsese) “You Hurt My Feelings” “You Hurt My Feelings” is a movie that was released in 2023 and directed by Nicole Holofcener. It starts off right away with a couple sitting on…