Films @ Dave’s Info Cafe

I know I’ve already done a post about Continuity and Montage editing some time ago but I’ve had some more thoughts recently that help explain and develop the idea of Montage. As you will know from my previous post, the idea of montage is to put seemingly unrelated pictures or scenes together that leaves the [...]

Isn’t it wonderful how the mind works? No matter what pictures are put in front of our eyes our mind tries to make sense of it. It took a Russian called Kuleshev near the turn of the 20th century to bring it to the world’s attention and had a profound effect on film art and [...]

Many critics place Citizen Kane at the top of their list of best films of all time. I think it would be best described as the most influential film of all time.

Personally, I have no great love for the film. I find it hard to have empathy for the central characters and it leaves me [...]