Crash is a 2005 American/German drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis.
Crash is about how the characters of different races and social status in the city of Los Angeles are linked together in a series of events that take place in the movie. The film showcases each character’s point of view, their background and how the other characters in the movie affect their role in society.

Randi Tan examines the dramatic conventions of the movie Crash.

Alexander Mackendrick is one of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry. He was one of the finest and least typical directors at Ealing Studios. Perhaps best known for the four comedies, Whiskey Galore! (1949) and The Ladykillers (1955), satire, with The Man in the White Suit (1951), romance, with Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). He made there, he nonetheless created films of a rare blackness, marked by a pessimistic – albeit witty – vision of human cruelty, corruptibility, and self-obsession.
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Revered by such legendary fellow directors as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier is one of the greatest figures in the history of French cinema and of world cinema in general. He is perhaps the most neglected of the “Big Five” of classic French cinema (the other four being Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Jacques Feyder, and Marcel Carne), partly due to the uneven quality of his work. But despite his misfires, the cream of his oeuvre is simply stellar and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as …

Vincente Minnelli is remembered as one of American cinema’s most distinctive and creative visual stylists. His lavish use of color and, in the 1950s, widescreen, was praised by French critics who deemed him a master of “mise-en-scène.” A generation of younger American filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese (whose 1977 New York, New York starring Vincente and Judy Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli, contains many touches in homage to Minnelli) has cited him as an influence. His best-known screen work was done in the musical genre, where he also worked as a stage …

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is a monumental work that blends cinema, philosophy and music in a seamless whole. Kieslowski started his career shooting documentaries and later became associated with the cinema of moral anxiety, which grouped several Polish directors, including ‘Andrzej Wajda’, and aimed to depict the conditions of Poles under communism. His best known work was the three colors series Red, White, and Blue. Red brought him an Academy Award nomination for best director in 1995, Blue shared the Golden Lion at Venice in 1993, and White …