The artistic crime of the century. “Man on Wire”, the breathtaking documentary film directed by James Marsh, who has access to all of Philippe’s video and photographs of his great attempt. The movie is about the story of Philippe Petit crossed eight times on a tight-wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center on Aug. 7, 1974. Philippe Petit, a French wire-walker, who tells us he was sitting in a dentist's office when he found his dream. He drew a line between the two proposed towers.
Paths of Glory was a film by famous director, Stanley Kubrick, based off a novel by Humphrey Cobb that was even further somewhat based off a true story. This film was about three French soldiers who were unjustly executed because of selfish Generals. These soldiers were merely picked at random (or to be silenced) in order to have some kind of scape goat for the blunder in failing to take a heavily fortified German position. The article “War and ‘Politics’: The French Army Munities of 1917” by Leonard
EPIC V. CINEMA In the Epic and the Cinema of Beowulf Cultural values are reflected as extremely different from each other for several reasons. For instance, when the producer of the movie Beowulf and Grendel (Gundersson) produced the film in 2005, they knew what exactly had to be done to make sure the audience could sympathize with the characters, sympathy being a key value of the modern era. The author of the Epic Beowulf, however, expresses a much different view of the world, one reflected more
Introduction: Perna Arts is a movie production company that has gradually branched into related businesses straddling distribution, exhibition, programming and education. The company was among the first to go public after the movie business attained industry status in India. It was also one of the first to recruit a professional manager as its chief executive officer to put in place processes, systems, performance metrics and procedures aligned to its strategic priorities. The company's aim was to