Martin Scorsese Film Review

Martin Scorsese Film Review

Your next writing assignment is a film review. Your writing should be of significantly higher quality than those submitted for Indiana Jones. For this review, you will be writing on any of the Martin Scorsese films we have seen in class. These include:

• The Departed
• The Aviator
• Hugo
• Goodfellas
• Raging Bull

Pick the film that stood out to you the most or the film that you have the most to say about. 

Requirements

• Specific references to the film you are reviewing
• Attention paid to at least one aspect of film making (camera work, writing, sound, editing, etc)
• Specific, cited reference to at least one film review
• MLA formatting
• 2-3 pages; Times New Roman font; size 12; double spaced; hard copy

Due: Thursday, April 23. Points will be deducted for lateness.

Indiana Jones and the Film Review of Doom: Due 2/24

In class we have been watching the Indiana Jones trilogy as an introduction to a unit on the work of Steven Spielberg. Yes, there are only three Indiana Jones films. These films are widely accepted as some of the greatest adventure films of all time, though some may beg to differ.

I want you to kill all the gophers on the course.

Read the following two film reviews on Raiders of the Lost Ark. The first is a review by embittered film critic Pauline Kael who rips the movie apart. The second link is to an extremely well written review by an amazing human being, Roger Ebert, who loved the film. You may use these two examples, or any other reviews, as a guide on what to include in a typical film review. Remember, yours will be much shorter.

Pauline Kael
Roger Ebert

For your assignment, you are to write a 750 word review of any one of the three Indiana Jones movies. (You also have the option to review the trilogy as a whole if you watched all three...or you can choose to review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Follow the Crazy Man to the Alien Skull Shrine) Reviews are to be submitted in hard copy (please, no emails) by the start of class Tuesday, 2/24.

What do you mean I can't email it?