Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

The Band of Outsiders is a hallmark of the French New Wave Movement. The movement was based on challenging the normal conventions of filmmaking and cinematography. They increased the power of the director during movie production, and changed several essential components of a film. The French New Wave Movement switched up editing conventions such as… Read more

The movie Memories of Matsuko manipulates music in a way that sets it between being a musical and being a regular movie. Scenes are filled with drama and sometimes humor interlaced with musical moments, sometimes small and sometimes large.  The audience gets a riveting preview of the musical nature in the first scenes as the… Read more