April 30, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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This sonnet was inspired by the parallel lives of an epic hero and the actor portraying him. I’m tossed in tanks for twenty takes until I’m overboard, and suction pulls me down they cut, let me dry off, and eat … Continue reading
April 29, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Seventeen years of life under dirt cicadas collect and in quiet clicks skittering, creaking, burrowing down they mumble about the apocalypse seventeen years to gather thoughts and cooking pots, and preen their wings. Forty feet up a cluster bomb … Continue reading
April 28, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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I wrote this poem as I became annoyed by the flat roles of female characters in many epic films I watched, where female actors have few lines and a good portion of them are just ridiculous screams. I was also inspired … Continue reading
April 20, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Review 1: Auteur Approach Ang Lee can be considered an incredibly versatile director—from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk to Brokeback Mountain to Sense and Sensibility. Life of Pi, after being turned down by director M. Night Shyamalan, became Lee’s twelfth feature film. The versatility of cinematic … Continue reading
April 13, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Before watching Dances with Wolves, I read three reviews from Roger Ebert, Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) and Vincent Canby (The New York Times). The links are below. Here are three of my expectations for this film (made in 1990) based … Continue reading
April 6, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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I hadn’t seen Anne Hathaway in many of her other films, but felt like my impression of her as an actress and as a person was really influenced by the opinions of other people (from friends to critics). Most of … Continue reading
March 31, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Instead of going to the theatre this week for our 6th blog assignment, I’m going to talk about one of my all-time favorite epic films, The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise. While most of the protagonist’s journey is not … Continue reading
March 24, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Step Outline: Journey to the Center of the Earth 132 minutes I provide a brief step outline of a climactic scene towards the conclusion of the 1959 epic film Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on the … Continue reading
March 16, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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Discussions of realism, classicism, and formalism become a little tricky when we’re talking about fantasy films, or, for that matter, films that switch between fantastic worlds (Skull Island) and our own reality (1920s New York City), as they do in … Continue reading
March 10, 2014
by Anna Mullen
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It is an interesting choice to set the battle sequence in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in broad daylight. This pathetic fallacy in a way foreshadows the Narnian victory against the forces of the White Witch. … Continue reading