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Review by: Ema Elsawi Sutradhar*  Midnight Express is one outstanding movie not only because it tells a true story but also because it contains a lot of humanitarian themes that describe the conflict between laws and their relevance to humanity. Synopsis The son of a US official at age twenty is arrested at a Turkish airport for possession of an illegal substance. The movie follows the events of his arrest as per Turkish laws and his imprisonment as a trip into two estrangements: being a prisoner and being away from home. The movie highlights the other side of law applied through corrupt instruments; delving deeply into the details of the daily life of prisoners and the excessive cruelties they are subjected to. It depicts how these prisoners come together and integrate to share the many details through which high human values manifest themselves despite the dark corridors of prison. Alan Parker 1978 Midnight...

"I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly." Stanley Kubrick. " A film is — or should be — more like music than fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later" Stanley Kubrick. "..a good film normally has to be well written, well acted, well directed, and this may give the impression that good films do resemble one another. But the truth is that they are for the most part quite different, because each one is unique." Stanley Kubrick. ----------------------------- Kubrick, Stanley :   1928--99, US film writer, director, and producer. He directed Lolita (1962), Dr Strangelove   (1963), 2001: A Space Odyssey   (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket   (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut   (1999) S tanle...

The Motorcycle Diaries "The image of Che Guevara before he became a revolutionary symbol." Original article by: Elnour Hamad* Some may share my opinion that Hollywood has lost a lot of its old humane artistic outpour which marked the sixties, seventies and perhaps the eighties of last century. It has become rare for one to watch a movie based on a significantly deep literary work. The film industry has been inclined more and more towards films that generate greater income. Hence the abundance of violence and crime movies which popularize the use of new cinematic tricks launched by the graphic revolution in computer sciences, especially the so-called materialization or "virtual reality". The whole thing has been turned to leisure and entertainment, and what was prevalent before, such as the use of drama in education or enlightenment or in strengthening of human dispositions, has declined. However, there are producers and directors in Hollywood who still i...

Filmmaker Takida おくりびと First time I saw this movie was when I visited a friend who ran a movie theater in London and got an instant invitation from him to watch a movie right behind the spot where we were chatting.  More than a year later, this friend passed a mysterious envelope to my hand when he started to withdraw from the crowded reception room where I was receiving mourners on my brother's death. He said: "A gift for you!" The envelope contained a DVD of none other than the movie we saw together Departures , the Japanese movie that shows how the dead can possibly get a nice help in their departures! It was a well-thought-of expression of grief from my friend. After he left I rummaged the envelope. There wasn't a 'stone letter' lurking behind the DVD! How To Make Death Part Of Life? A Summary Daigo (a musician) who lost his job moves from Tokyo with his good-spirited wife back to his small childhood town to rethink his options. He and his wife ...

On the 40th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange a new enhanced Blu-Ray Disc (BD) of it was released. It is the soundtrack that is particularly excellent in this edition. See trailer: Video is courtesy of The Independent of Britain. Read the article The film has gained a lot of publicity following its second release in 1999, the year its maker died. It was Stanley Kubrick (SK), who adapted this film in 1971 from a successful novela by the British author Anthony Burgess. Following death threats related to the movie's violent and sexual content he and his family had received, SK had to stop the screening of the movie. There were reports  of copycat crimes of rape and murder committed by teenagers who saw A Clockwork Orange which was initially rated X (just like porn) but later acquired the R rating. It might be a bit disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised! Summary Of Film Story A music-loving teen addicted to some drug which is sold as ...

Essay Author: Hafiz Kheir Part Four From Poetic to Lyrical Films In the last two parts we looked into the main features of the cinematic language, from the angle of techniques such camera framing and editing and textual features, such as narrativity . In this part we aim to explore what we described as different levels of poetic language in work. Using some examples from two films we aim to further our definition of the poetic, in opposition to what we will call lyrical, language in cinema. The aim of these two case studies is to later compare the two features in question. We will be looking into two films that we consider being examples of these two types. The first is a film by Wim Wenders ( visit his site ) and the second is a Maya Daren's film. The Sky Over Berlin The film is set in the city of Berlin four decades after the Second World War. Two angels roam the skies over a city that is divided into two parts as a result of the war. Through the angels' me...