Articles written by William Nava
All 13 articles written by William Nava
Category: Film/TV Industry (general)
A recent trend of cynicism in prestige cinema makes its move to the mainstream with The Dark Knight's gloomy tone and nihilist Joker character. more...
Tarantino Gone Lazy: Explaining the Revered Filmmaker's Slow Output
Category: Film Drama Directors
Following Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has seemed content with wowing the world only sparingly, spending the rest of his time referencing himself in his own films. more...
The Fictitious Team Apatow: Analyzing the Relentless Apatow Ad Campaigns
Category: Romantic Films/Comedies (general)
Carefully catering to a specific audience, Hollywood has fabricated a fantasy comedy Team led by Judd Apatow that is not nearly as unified as the ad campaigns suggest. more...
Review: Stop-Loss: Kimberly Peirce Follows Up Boys Don't Cry with Anti Iraq-War Movie
Category: Independent Films (general)
Stop-Loss fails to learn from the mistakes of recent failures such as Lions for Lambs and Redacted. more...
Juno's Excessive Backlash: Understanding where the hate is coming from
Category: Independent Films (general)
For every bit of praise Juno has received, an equivalent backlash has followed. Why the strong dissent? more...
Hell and Wealth in Heaven Can Wait: Associations Between the Devil and American Rich
Category: Classic Films (general)
As an attack on American capitalist values, director Ernst Lubitsch creates visual and ideological associations between Hell and American's wealthiest. more...
Looking Back at Barry Lyndon: Kubrick's Forgotten Classic
Category: Classic Films (general)
Barry Lyndon, a lesser-known work of Stanley Kubrick, stands up to his great classics with powerful direction and innovative cinematography. more...
Film Review: Speed Racer: Explaining the Box Office Flop
Category: Animated Films (general)
Speed Racer suffers from a limited target audience, but as exciting, childish, visually stimulating fun, it is practically peerless. more...
Review: Shine A Light: Rock N' Roll's Twilight Caught on Film
Category: Documentary Films (general)
With Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese makes not only a great concert film, but also celebrates The Rolling Stones' uniquely powerful defiance of age through rock n' roll. more...
Kubrick's Unproduced Films: Masterpieces That Could Have Been
Category: Film Drama Directors
Three films that Stanley Kubrick put a great deal of energy into - Napoleon, The Aryan Papers and A.I. - were eventually shelved and never produced by the director. more...
Eyes Wide Shut Re-Examined: Revisiting Kubrick's Swan Song With Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise
Category: Film Dramas (general)
Kubrick's untimely death, a controversial studio digital edit and unfounded public expectations damaged the reputation of one of the director's greatest masterpieces. more...
There Will Be Blood's Title: Understanding Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Latest Film Title
Category: Film Dramas (general)
There Will Be Blood's title, which does not directly allude to anything in the film, makes a number of associations which attempt to comment on the action in the film. more...
POV in Breaking the Waves: Questioning the Omniscient Point of View
Category: European Films
With Breaking the Waves, director Lars von Trier questions the extent to which the camera's omniscient POV is and should be taken for granted in cinema. more...
