How did I Combine Criminology & Film Study?

Quite a few people asked me now: how do criminology and movie combine and how did I do it? This post is for all of you who’ve been wondering.

Watch this Iranian short film: TONIGHT IS NOT A GOOD NIGHT FOR DYING

Here’s a bit of a darker short film for you (certainly compared to the one I shared last week): the Iranian short film Tonight is not a Good Night for Dying (2011), directed by Ali Asgari. This short is shot from the perspective of a man who just fell from a building.

CALVARY Trailer

Although Calvary doesn’t have a U.S. distributor yet, it will hit the big screen for the first time at Sundance Festival, about three months before its scheduled release in the U.

How to Analyse Movies #2: Signs, Codes & Conventions - The Hunger Games
How to Analyse Movies #2: Signs, Codes & Conventions

In this chapter, we’ll cover the signs, codes and conventions in a film that can tell you a lot about the messages that the creators are trying to convey. Some filmmakers are aware of the use of signs, codes and conventions in their work, though some are not. In that case the symbolism may be there, but not on the surface, which makes it a little harder to interpret.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES: Different Does Not Equal Bad

Only God Forgives is a movie not for the faint of heart. It’s highly violent and highlights that violence as if it is a virtue. This movie wasn’t received by the critics nor by the public favorably, but I’d like to vouch for this movie.

Surprisingly Awesome Animated Short Film: WIND

I came across this animated short film called Wind. It’s a graduation film by a film student, Robert Löbel, of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. I loved this.

Inception
6 Movies That Screw with your Sense of Reality

I love movies that present some philosophical notion. What I enjoy even more so is when a movie, ambitiously, tries to screw with your perception or concepts of reality. Here’s a list of the movies that do it best.

How to Analyze Movies #1: The Introduction - Film Analysis - Fight Club
How to Analyse Movies #1: The Introduction

This is the first part in an eight-part series on how to analyse movies. The language of film (or video or TV) can only be detected by analysing the “moving image texts”. The idea is that every image conveys a meaning, like a photograph would convey a feeling or a message.

5 Great Movie Quotes about Drugs

You can’t get around drugs in movies, and we will probably all agree that drugs do make a very interesting subject for movies and other stories. Here are some of my favorite movie (and TV show) quotes about drugs. 5.