Film language. How to become an advanced viewer

What non -obvious techniques do Tarantino and Kubrick use in their films? How does the installation of the paintings of Sokurov and Hitchcock? Why do you need modern music in Maria Antoinette Sofia Coppola? And what is common between the final of the “taxi driver” of Scorsese and the “war and the world” of Bondarchuk?

The book Cinema Language will teach you how to notice interesting details and ommes and find unexpected moments even in already well -known ribbons. The main task of the author is not to describe all existing cinematic techniques and tricks, but to give the reader an optics, with which he can look further and see more, make independent discoveries.

“Little girl in a red coat in a black and white“ Schindler list ”” Steven Spielberg constantly changing his pattern from the Corridors of the terrible hotel "Overluk" in the "radiance" Stanley Kubrika, the Dutch corner in "12 monkey "Terry Gilliam , the sound of silence in "Apocalypse Today" Francis Ford Coppola ...
The author calls for readers first of all to rely on their own audience experience, practice thoughtful viewing of films and their independent analysis. About horror, it seems, he decided to leave film critics without work - there is not a word about them in this book! ” - Stanislav Dedinsky, cinema historian, editor -in -chief of the magazine Art of Cinema

Learn to speak the same language with cinema, as critics do, and turn ordinary evenings in front of the screen into fascinating trips to the world of great art.
The author of this book Oleg Kurochkin is a screenwriter, the author of series and animated films. The founder and chief author of the “Understand Cinema” blog, in which cinematic techniques are versed, analyzes quotes and cultural references, and hidden meanings from various popular films are deciphered