Article Review

Empire: £4.50

Blockbuster main reviews and topic
Adverts based on blockbusters
Large picture covers (covering some whole pages)
Less academic (easy to read)
Smaller reviews on new art-house films
Discussion about the film and its characters, less about production
Entertainment

Sight and Sound: £3.75
Educated
Academic
Art-House
Specialised
Classic archive
Foreign film
Events
Adverts (old film, Curzon cinema)
Small reviews on blockbusters
Main reviews on art-house
Mainly writing in columns
Small pictures
Reviews on social context, political angle, cinematic techniques, directors style and technique, production of the film
Detailed complex vocabulary
Educational
Register i.e language, demographic (who its aimed at), complexity of the language

Sight and Sound magazine would suite my film best because of its touch on social context which is important to my film set in Poland. This magazine also mainly review and discuss foreign films of any kind and any time. Many films are compared to old films respecting many directors styles and cultures. The article I had chosen to reference in composition and style of writing is the Sight and Sound article on Agnieszka Holland. The journalist talked about Holland's life and upbringing in communist Poland, she included other Polish directors and the history of Poland's political issues that influenced many Polish films during a specific era.

My review would cover on the environment that show a true image of Polish culture in a small town. And because my film is an art-house film inspired visually by directors such as Tarkovsky, Coppola and Pawlikowski, the review would heavily touch on film form and rituals.