What is this blog?

My name is Cíara Kain and this is where I write down what I think about the latest movies I’ve watched. These aren’t “Film Reviews” (except Lost River), they are film analyses with my opinion.

Credibility

I’m a Digital Cinema and Filmmaking Major with a minor in Film and Screen Studies as well as Women and Gender Studies. I study at Pace University in New York, and I took a semester abroad in The Netherlands to study Film analysis.

When I watch movies, I study the frame: what’s inside it and what’s not. This includes the physical people, things, places, dialogue, and sound. I am not just a movie buff, I’m a movie analyzer. I have an open mind to all films, not just recent or American. I can recommend movies of all genres and languages. We can discuss landmarks of story telling in Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962, FR); art of camera movement in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954, JAP); representation in Stephan Elliott’s The Adventure of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994, AUS); or the evolution of science fiction in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012, USA).

The Art

Cinema started in France around 1888, but it wasn’t anything more than a simple moving picture. This is until 1902, when Georges Méliès created Le Voyage dans la Lune, which started the makings of motion picture story telling. Soon after, Cinema becomes an Art…