Not everything is noir. Just because a movie has things such as murder, investigations, bribery, or other elements of a criminal plot does not mean that it should be defined as noir. Perhaps it has noir like qualities. There are a number of works in film, television, photography, even ...
What really sets the film apart from most movies, however, are the ways in which it encourages philosophical questions. Virtually all commentators agree that "What does it mean to be human?" – understood as asking something like "What characterizes the real (or authentic) human being?" – ...
This short film is incredibly Lynchian. It's purely a signature of style, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. However, I can't help but wonder, if this short came from anyone else who lacked the renown which Lynch has, would it be viewed as anything more than a pecul...
And by “we,” I mean “Chloe” and by “the races,” I meanFanExpo San Francisco. Yes, it’s the first proper comics convention in San Francisco in some years but what exactly does that mean for S.F., and what was it like? Chloe breaks it down for us. Items discussed: Pat Br...
What does MOVIE MASHUP mean ? It's to create a work in a whole part by mixing several films or by changing the first intention of the pictures, ! Que veut dire MASH-UP* ? C'est créer une oeuvre à part entière en mélangeant p
To do this by complicating the idea I’ve already suggested to you about the notion of the film as a cultural form. What does it actually mean to say that a film is a cultural form? What in a concrete sense, does this phrase signify? Well, one answer I think I can offer by ...
be playing her role by rote but it is just a ruse to set us up for her fall. As does Niven she too digs deeper into her persona as Anne Larson and carries the film to its surprise ending. She is a joy to watch as a film actressand here she is particularly wonderful. Jean ...
While noir fiction began to be popular in the 1940s, film noir has its roots in German Expressionism and therefore examples of film noir can be identified between 1920-1950. While film noir can be new noir stories, there are also many film noir adaptations....
I wanted to quote that because it says something important about creativity — something I’ve found some moviegoers find difficult to accept. Just because we notice something in a film doesn’t mean it has to be intentional; the important thing is that it’sthere. It’s the work we res...
For instance, this is how the Film Noir preset looks like: How Does Sora Work? Like text-to-image generative AI models such as DALL·E 3, StableDiffusion, and Midjourney, Sora is a diffusion model. That means that it starts with each frame of the video consisting of static noise...