American hegemony amongst the film industry is a well known fact. Almost everyone across the globe Foro levitra has seen a Hollywood production and, for the majority of the 20th cen­tury, the term Hollywood had more or less become synonymous with the film industry. In fact 85-90% of box-office takings over the last twenty years [...]

“I’m not perfect, I’m nothing.” These bleak and fatalistic words encapsu­late the struggle for perfection which plagues many of the female characters in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated psychological thriller. The film follows an aspiring ballet dancer, in her prepa­ration for the most important perform­ance of her career. The child-like, naïve Nina must realise the darker, [...]

Tom Vickers discusses artistic turbulence. Foro levitra “…two souls, alas, and their division tears my life in two…” So speaks Faust of his pact with the devil, and so begins a unique journey to which the collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski bears a striking resemblance. Over the course of five films, beginning with [...]

Michael Tansini considers the urban spaces in film The city is one of the most filmed spaces in cinema. Their constant expansion is a process that has provided filmmakers with dynamic locations, and potentiality limitless scenarios to be drawn on. However, interwoven with capturing mankind’s development and progress, is the opportunity to preserve or re-create [...]

How Hollywood Blockbusters changed during the “Noughties” Michael Tansini outlines emerging and evolving themes in Hollywood. 2010 began with a cultural retrospective of the “Noughties”, with shows detailing the ‘100 most shocking incidents with celebrities and peanut butter’ that featured talking heads you’ve never heard of clogging up BBC3’s viewing schedule. Such lists for films were [...]

Anya Benson discusses nature’s voice as an  impossible imagining. The representations of nature we are used to in our world – or at least, in our political world – are of something silent and peaceful, isolated from the realities of human lives. It is depicted through gentle forests where we can be ‘alone’, vast oceans [...]

Sharon Coleclough derives  meaning from vivid  imaginings of the future. “We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives” – so speaks Criswell in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer-Space (1959). Criswell is indeed correct, but what future is a question film makers [...]