The plot of The Fall is incredibly straightforward; the police are out to catch a serial killer. On its own, that doesn’t sound very interesting. What makes The Fall interesting is the time it takes allowing the audience to get to know the serial killer. We know that Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) is the killer; […]
Film Studies: An Introduction
Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the […]
Waking Ned Devine
When word reaches Jackie O’Shea (Ian Bannen) and Michael O’Sullivan (David Kelly), two elderly best friends, that someone in their tiny Irish village of 52 people in Tulaigh Mhór (Tullymore) has won the Irish National Lottery’s Lotto game, they, along with Jackie’s wife Annie (Fionnula Flanagan), go to great lengths to find the winner so […]
The Honorable Woman: The Series
While Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and her brother Ephra (Andrew Buchan) appear philanthropic on the surface, using their wealth to foster better relationships between the Israelis and the Palestinians – they are also involved in underhand schemes, none of which are overtly revealed in the opening episodes. Instead director/writer Hugo Blick uses a montage technique […]
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