Clicking instantly, Jeunet and Caro began to make short films together. After directing various advertisements and brief animated films, Jeunet embarks on his first acclaimed success. In 1991, Jeunet and Caro’s first feature length film, Delicatessen, put them on the map. Delicatessen “solidified their reputation as filmmakers with a strong visual aesthetic, a predilection for dystopian fantasy, and an off-kilter sense of humor.”(Ezra, 3) Set in post-apocalyptic France, tenants of an apartment building are struggling to survive. The building’s landlord butchers handymen who come to fix his building,
‘EXIT THROUGH A GIFT SHOP’ FILM CRITICISM BASED ON TWO MOVIE REVIEWS UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S NAME ‘EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP’ FILM CRITICISM Introduction “Exit through a Gift Shop” premiered at the 2010 Sundance Festival and received rave reviews as a classic film ‘mockumentary’ or a ‘comedy documentary’. The documentary follows the secret lives of street artists going about creating their art. Thierry ‘Terry’ Guetta, the presumptive ‘director’ is a French businessman living in Los Angeles with an obsessive compulsion to film anything in sight of his camera. This obsession takes him into the mysterious world of graffiti artists when he starts following and filming his cousin and street artist ‘Space Invader’. He manages to befriend street artist Shephard Fairey of the famous ‘Obey’ and ‘Barack Obama’ posters and gets to travel and film him across different countries for eight years.
Exit Through The Gift Shop is a documentary about the man who tried to make a documentary about Banksy. Thierry Guetta is a native Frenchman who relocated to Los Angeles in the 1980's and ran a successful vintage clothing shop. He also had a love of filming everything; from going to the bathroom and washing his hands, to playing with his children, to just walking around town, he captured every moment of his ordinary life on film. Thierry says it is because when he lost his mother at a young age he felt like he
Not only would this story not have been told without him but he is the antagonist of the story, setting everything in motion once he comes across Thierry. The third criteria: Experimental films do not conform to conventional expectations of story and narrative cause and effect. In the beginning of this movie has the audience thinking this is most like other narratives because we see cause and effect through Thierry filming his cousin, finding his passion for street art, then meeting Shepard, who eventually brings together Banksy and him
Is Supreme Overrated? This is an article from my media project exploring the impact social media has had on the brand Supreme has been around for quite a while: eighteen years to be exact. When the first Supreme store opened it’s doors on downtown Manhattan’s Lafayette Street in 1994, James Jebbia, its founder, didn't really know much about the skateboarding crowd but was intrigued by its rebelliousness and creativity. He worked hard, then and now, to be true to that scene by hiring local skaters to work in the store to appeal to his demographic. He said himself in an interview with the New York Times, “A lot of the kids from downtown NY are very, very particular”.
Tim Burton is one of the very few directors who are globally recognized for successfully expressing their unique style through film. He was born in august, making him a Leo who craves attention and studied at the California Institute of Arts. He later found a job at Disney where he illustrated characters, but later decided he wanted to express his imaginative ideas and created his own style. As a child, he loved black and white horror films, especially ones that featured the legendary Vincent Price, who became a great inspiration for Burton throughout his career. Vincent Price played or voiced many characters of Burton’s earlier films, as did Johnny Depp in his later ones.
Nowadays, it refers to the activity of a group of innovative French filmmakers who rejected the classical notions of filmmaking and instead used cinema as an art form; exploring aspects of society, such as death and playfulness, which incite audiences to think. From the opening of the film one can observe how the themes of death and mortality, paralleled with playfulness and impersonation are closely intertwined; Godard does not separate them. At the beginning of the movie, Michel the protagonist, is seen driving down a French country road breaking traditional rules of cinema and film noir by looking directly into the camera and addressing the audience, thus he is breaking the fourth wall. While singing about his love for Patricia he finds a gun in the stolen car he is driving. He starts playing around with the weapon, re-enacting a shooting, comparable to a young child playing.
Basquiat Jean Michel Basquiat was an amazing, yet misunderstood artist. The journey that he took to become famous also took his life at the age of 27. He began as a graffiti artist with the tag-name “SAMO”. His graffiti was well known around the city vagrants and drug addicts, but Basquiat wanted to be known by the people who mattered. He introduced himself to Andy Warhol by selling some art he drew on small cards to Andy’s companion.
The type of unclearness that is shown in the film leads to confusion that frustrates the audience itself. But the Director’s symbolism works that a plot couldn’t do. For example, there is more confusion in the way Maria’s son cut all his hair off out of nowhere and shove it to the maid’s mouth, that type of action describes the son’s motivation of what he is going to do. Basically what Denis does is to describe the character’s motivation and their historical events from the beginning to build suspension. We all know that the film was somehow confusing, but the Director Denis has her own approach to portray the climax to the audience.
With this difference, Pop Art changed the art world, and is still intriguing today. The works of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claus Oldenburg all exemplify this idea of art being created for the common person, through using immediately recognizable subject matter, relevant themes and forms of expression. Andy Warhol began his art career in 1949, doing commercial art jobs in New York, and soon became known as the best shoe drawer in the whole of New York City. It was not surprising then that Warhol liked using commercial art as subject matter. His repertoire includes an array of commercial images; from Brillo Boxes and soup cans to Hollywood actors (whom he had a fascination with since childhood.)