Is Lady Gaga’s documentary worth watching? (-- removed HTML --) Since she broke into the music scene about a decade ago, Lady Gaga has always been a somewhat rebellious figure and an artist who has never felt the need to fit into any mold. She has repeatedly said she stands for those who are deemed “freaks” in their community. Gaga’s documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two, gives viewers a raw and uncensored look at the person behind the star. The documentary tracks her life around the time…
off, the suspenseful music makes the scene difficult to watch. It makes one feel as if you were amputating your arm too. Considering that the movie does a delicate task of not visually showing the arm being cut through, it can be said that the soundtrack did succeeded in giving the audiences worst moment in not sight but sound. The music also does a great job towards the end when Ralston finally manages to escape after the long devastating of his amputation. As he walks seven miles for a long…
Did you know that the actor who played the Grinch, Jim Carrey, spent a total of 92 days in the Grinch Outfit? He also had to go through two and a half hours just to put it on and then an other hour just to take it off! How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a family favorite Christmas fantasy movie, directed by the talented Ron Howard. The movie has an amazing cast featuring Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier, Molly Shannon as Bette…
Do you prefer watching an old play with classic music and dulcet poetry or a modern movie with beautiful background and excellent acting skill? If the answer were the former, the movie Cyrano de Bergerac would be a good choice for you. In 17th-century, French, a poet and swordsman, Cyrano, who has a huge funny nose, falls in love with a very beautiful lady Roxanne. However he is worried about she will never love him back because of his special looking. At the same time, a handsome man whose…
imperfection drawn from them is overcome by means of raw determination by the protagonist and these concepts are explored through a variety of cinematic techniques utilised by Niccol, notably those exclusive to the medium such as mise en scene, soundtrack and camera angles. Niccol’s film tells the tale of Vincent, a ‘god child’, one born through natural conception with little engineering performed…
Children’s Resources Nonfiction Books (4) Arlon, P. (2014). Ancient Egypt. New York: Scholastic Inc. This source contains a general overview of Ancient Egypt. This resource will be provided to help students understand the features of Ancient Cairo as a civilization. It includes information about food, traditions, pharaohs, gods and goddesses, monuments, afterlife, and general Ancient Egyptian way of life. This resource also includes a section that compares Ancient inventions to current…
Robert Lopez is also an american songwriter. He was born in Manhattan New York on February 23, 1975. He is now forty three years old. He is the son of Katherine and Frank Lopez. He has many Grammys, Emmys, Academy awards, and much more. He is most famous for creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, He is also famous for composing song in the Disney movies Frozen and Coco. Robert is the first person to have won two Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys. He is also the youngest and the fastest,…
myriad of Broadway hits, the soundtrack of this performance is what you would expect on a show-tunes playlist. Instead of making it difficult to live up to, the familiar soundtrack worked in the actors favor, with the entire audience humming along to almost every tune. Each song was brought to life not just through the lyrics, but the choreography as well. Mayme Paul did a fantastic job of matching the choreography not just to the tempo but to the mood of the soundtrack. The song “How Lucky Can…
It appears in the form of soundtrack, sound effects, and voice-over narration. There are just a few sound effects in this movie such as airplane sounds, heart-beating, bird singing, and more. Most of the soundtrack of this movie is very moaning like the chorus soundtrack that open with the picture of ancient ruins to stimulate a feeling of depression. The combination of the image and the sound is…
Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…