Heidi Wilhite’s HUM210 uniblog

This website is on Robert Altman, who is a director of Modern American cinema.  it lists films he has directed and a summary of the film.  I find this information to be valuable, since he has directed 33 feature films since his first major Hollywood film in 1967.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/altman.html
 

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The movie I chose to view for this module was Alien vs. Predator. The plot is preposterous.  The editing is a hack job, with so much footage cut out of the action sequences that they become murky and nearly incomprehensible.  The scares are non-existent and attempts are more of the false-jump variety than from a […]

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This website allows you to save wallpapers from the movie Alien vs. Predator to your computer screen.  It also lists opinions from viewers who have seen the film.
http://www.dailycollage.com/category/movies/alien-vs-predator/
 

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The two film elements I chose to research were Romantic Comedy & Western.
This particular website lists in alphabetical order 199 romantic comedy films.  I find this to be very beneficial to me because I love watching romantic comedies or “chick flicks.”  This makes it easy to pick a movie to watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.Category:Romantic_comedy_films
On this website you can […]

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Annotated Bibliography
April 15, 2006
For my research paper I chose to write on director Steven Spielberg and the following films: Munich, Catch Me If You Can & The Terminal
The following is a New York review of the movie Munich.  It is written by the New York Magazine which is a credible source.  I chose this website […]

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I learned more about the film industry from this week’s reading.  It was great to read everyone’s blogs and find out what they had to say.  I am looking forward to the next module.  I responded to Sarah P., Nora M. and Kari V.

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This website gives pertinant information about the Sundance Institute, a calandar of events, Sundance programs and many others.
http://institute.sundance.org/jsps/site.jsp?resource=pag_ex_programs&sk=41omKrxR6BSZGoht

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This is the official website of Malcolm X.  It lists a timeline of events during his life as well as his biography, just to name a few.  I found this website to be very beneficial to me as I had very little background information on Malcolm X prior to viewing this site.
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/home.php
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This was the first time for me viewing Sex, Lies and Videotape.  Andie MacDowell is married to Peter Gallagher who is having an affair with her sister Laura San Giacomo.  MacDowell is a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go.  When Gallaghers old friend, James Spader shows up all of their lives change.  Graham […]

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The two film elements on sound I chose to research were Diegetic & Voice-over narration.
Sound in films is termed diegetic if it is part of the narrative sphere of the film.  For instance, if a character in the film is playing a piano, or turns on a CD, the resulting sound is “diegetic.”  If on […]

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