Mary Andersen Art 101
Film review questions for On the Waterfront, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Frida and Pollock.

Assignment:  Please review the film you have just seen using all of the tools we have just gone over to support your final opinion.
IF YOU COPY OR QUOTE SOMEONE ELSES FILM REVIEW OR WORK WITHOUT A CITATION YOU WILL FAIL THE ENTIRE CLASS.
The review must be typed and one to two pages in length.  Please address the following questions within the review:
 

1)Please describe what significant information you received at the beginning of the film.  Note the credits, mise-en-scene, opening scene or scenes.  How did this help you to understand the rest of the film? Did the beginning in some way reflect the ending of the film?

2) Was the film's structure appropriate?  Did you understand it?  Why do you think it was structured as it was?

3)Please describe some things about the cinematography and visual style that you felt were important.  Why were these choices made?   Where they appropriate?

4)Pick one of  the characters and describe how the actors portrayal of that character added or detracted to your enjoyment or understanding of the story/biography.
  Why did the actor or actress make the choices he/she did?  Did it work?

5)How important was the films use of intertextuality? What kinds of other films,  music, works of art, or "texts" are referred to in the film and why?

5)Was the the film "good" or "bad"?  Convince me with at least three main points of evidence.  Please use specific examples from the film.