Unlike Donnie Darko, it doesn’t even *kinda* make sense the first time – no traditional payoff for most of us staring dumbfounded at the screen. You may find it deep, you may find it pretentious. You have been warned. On the other hand, Grand Jury Prize for Sundance 2004!

Preface:
Since the 1920s, Hollywood has been dominating the film industry and in most cases, it is not unusual to find someone who has not watched a film that is produced by his own country. Thus, national films, especially those from the Asian region suffer as Hollywood films draw away their audiences.
In recent years however, there has been a rapid surge in international recognition of Asian films. Though this is partly due to them being more readily available on video and DVD, films from Asia are also increasingly winning top …

This paper briefly explores the depiction of Japanese female central characters in
the classical cinema of Ozu and Mizoguchi and the reasons surrounding why
these directors chose to do use women as protagonists.

The authorities claim that censorship is a necessary element of Singapore’s society simply because the general population is still largely conservative and such controversial content would prove too much to handle. But is this truly the case? Is censorship a necessary evil or merely a hindrance to local filmmakers? This paper will attempt to take a closer look at the beast that is censorship and study its role and necessity in 21st century Singapore.

Nicolas Roeg is a British film director known for breaking the conventions of editing and his ability to use atmosphere well, Roeg stretched the boundaries of what could be done with film.
He is famed for stringing together disjointed stories in which everything was semi-coherent until the very end, where a crucial piece of information was given to help make sense of the story. He has a foreboding sense of atmosphere that is still influencing the directors of today, and his original approach to editing resulted in some of the …