Film Review
Film Review
Film Review
According to
Corrigan
Writing about films
can serve one or
several functions. It
can help you:
Understand your own response to a movie better
Convince others why you like or dislike a film
Explain or introduce something about a movie, filmmaker, or a
group of movies that your readers may not know
Make comparisons and contrasts between one movie and others,
as a way of understanding them better
Make connections between a movie and other areas of culture in
order to illuminate both the culture and the movies it produces.
Analyzing Films
Three ways of
looking at a
movie
plot
characters
setting
themes
point of view
recurring images
symbols
Close Up (CU)
HIGH NOON
A relative term
A shot taken from a
sufficient distance to
show a landscape, a
building, or a large
crowd
BULLIT
Helpful Hints:
Writing Exercises
Film Review
Plot Summary
Literary Analysis
Dramatic Analysis
Cinematic Analysis
Complete Review
Summary, analysis,
and evaluation of film
Sample Assignments
Personal Essays
Analytical Essays
Imaginative Writing
Genre Studies
Film History
National Cinema (Culture, Politics, Etc.)
Auteurs (Directors)
Foreign Films
Thematically
Film,
the most powerful medium in the
world, is awesome in its ability to
change thinking and behavior. It has no
peer in its power to impart concepts,
ideas, and information quickly,
interestingly, and, if it is well crafted
indelibly.
-Marion Blue