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January 16, 2011

Era, Toward and World War ( History of Documentary Film )

Documentary films grown increasingly complex in the era of the 30s. The emergence of voice technology also has established a documentary film with narrative technique and accompaniment music illustration. Governments, institutions, and large companies began to support the production of documentary films for the sake of variety. One of the most influential film is Triump of the Will (1934) the work of female film-maker Leni Riefenstahl, who used as a tool of Nazi propaganda. For the same interests, Riefenstahl also produce other important documentary films, namely Olympia (1936) which contains the documentation at the Berlin Olympic events. Through editing and camera techniques that brilliant, German athletes as a symbol of the Aryan nation are shown to be superior athletes than other countries.

History of Documentary Film "Age of Silent Film"

Since the initial discovery of cinema, the filmmakers in America and France have tried to document what is around them by means of their findings. Like the Lumiere brothers, they recorded the daily events going on around them, like the workers who left the factory, a train entering the station, a construction worker who worked, and so forth. The shape is still very simple (only one shot) and its duration was only a few seconds. The films are more often termed "actuality films". Several decades later in line with technology improvements developed into a film camera or expedition travel documentation, like South (1919) which tells the failure of an expedition to Antarctica.

History of Documentary Film

The documentary does not like fiction movie (story) is a record of events taken from real events or really happened. The definition of "documentary" itself is always changing in line with the development of documentary films from time to time. Since the era of silent film, documentary film evolved from simple to increasingly complex with the type and function of the increasingly varied. Innovation camera and sound technology has an important role for the development of documentary film. Since the first film only refers to the production of a documentary that uses the standard film (celluloid) but extends further up to now use the video format (digital). Here is a brief review of the historical development of documentary films from time to time.

January 13, 2011

Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love is an adaptation of the novel, titled the same name by Elizabeth Gilbert which reputedly inspired by the story of his own life journey. Once Gilbert (Roberts) was a career woman who failed in her marriage to Steven (Crudup). He feels there is something missing in her life. Gilbert then a relationship with a player theater, David, but their relationship was not long. Gilbert finally decided to travel to Italy, India, and Indonesia to search for a lost identity.

Julia Roberts Biography

Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967 in Atlanta, Georgia. Roberts's parents, Betty Lou and Walter Grady Roberts. His father was an actor and theater players, when Roberts was still in the womb, with his wife, he opened a theater school for children in Decatur, Georgia. When her parents divorced, his family then moved to Smyrna, Georgia. After graduating from Smyrna's Campbell High School, Roberts joined her sister Lisa Roberts Gillan second and Eric Roberts to New York to start a career in acting. In 1987, Roberts received a small role in the movie Blood Red which also stars his brother where he only spoke just two words. Previously, Roberts also had a chance to get a role in the movie Fire House. His first appearance on television was in the series Crime Story in 1987.

History of the French New Wave

At about mid-20th century cinema movement which emerged some very influential on the development of film industry in the world. One of the cinema movement of the largest and most influential at that time was the French New Wave. French New Wave was pioneered by such names, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette.

April 15, 2010

Quentin Tarantino Biography

Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee United States. Tarantino is the son of a nurse named Connie McHugh Zastoupil, and Tony Tarantino named his father who was an amateur actor and musician. Tarantino grew up in Los Angeles and since then this became interested in the film. At the age of 15 years, Tarantino dropped out of school and continue her studies in acting school at James Best Theatre Company. Because of his love of the movies, at the age of 22 years Tarantino also briefly worked at a video rental place in Manhattan, where he met Roger Avary, who later both of them often collaborate to write some scripts of films such as True Romance, and Pulp Fiction. While working there, along with Avary Tarantino spent much time to discuss the film.