To speak of Terry Gilliam without mention of Monty Python is to neglect a key factor in what determines the man’s artistic sensibility or, as is hoped to be analyzed here, his style. His visual talents as a director are clear progressions from his work in Python as the head animator, linking together the comedy [...]
In today’s cinematic Autobahn, the technology moves seemingly as fast as the growth of style. Growth would be better characterized as mutation in terms of how the progress actually occurs, building on itself using the DNA of the former. In film and television today the mutations spread across the entire spectrum, leaking into every nook [...]
There is an air of mystery surrounding the critically acclaimed and instantly recognizable Orson Welles work, Citizen Kane. Apart from its cinematic qualities being far ahead of many films of the time, the allegorical qualities also served to impress and add to its allure. It is between these two aspects that many a dissection and [...]
The horror genre is an octopus category that tends to extend its frighteningly groping appendages across a wide scope of topic. It is this multidirectional nature that inevitably causes the birth of subgenres beneath the larger in an almost unending mutation of the previous. The variety of styles and conventions throughout horror film history have [...]
