Sentences with phrase «american cinema»

D - love recalls a brief period from the 1990s when a new - agey spiritualism entered mainstream American cinema.

The film fails to grow beyond the white, male lens that is the status quo for American cinema.

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Case in point: the most well - regarded critic of Latin American cinema stateside is American B. Ruby Rich, who may well be the face of New Queer Cinema criticism, but who was one of the few English - language critics paying attention to the changing Latin American cinema scene since the seventies.

In 2012 at the Virginia Film Festival, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reflected upon their role in the Watergate saga and the film that became a landmark of American cinema.

It's safe to say that ever since his third feature, the irresistibly charming and endearing The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson has managed to establish himself as one of the most distinguishable and idiosyncratic directors in contemporary American cinema.

I can not wait for what Edward's next project will be; he is a true champion of filmmaking and a new voice in American cinema.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

Although Kiarostami rejects the notion of paying homage to other movies and laments the patness of American cinema, he admits to wanting to give Like Someone in Love a classic Hollywood finish by writing «The End» on screen in English over the closing shot.

With its mesmerizing black - and - white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.

Sip on delicious drinks while we roll a collection of clips American cinema's best - loved films.

Because really, we should never, ever be forgetting just how much of a gift Frances McDormand is to the world of American cinema.

SUNSHINE STATE By Kent Jones This newest mini-epic from American cinema's most unapologetically leftist director is all about traditions in the making and packaged history in the land of Spring Break and gated communities.

Don Siegel's forty - nine year career has produced some of the most memorable films of the American cinema.

It's hardcore stuff, and proof that American cinema's best kept secret is well and truly out.

The existence of «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is one of the strangest things in recent American cinema.

If Jason Patric had made no other contribution to American cinema than producing and starring in Neil LaBute's second film, YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, that would be reason enough for me to owe him an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

The American cinema owes the French cinema — which is to say French critics and audiences as well as French filmmakers — an enormous debt.

His best works rank among the finest in American cinema, but he has had a number of misfires, notably «The Canyons,» a crowdfunded venture starring Lindsay Lohan.

He's just what the American cinema needs in 2018.

David O Russell may rank as one of the leading talents working in contemporary American cinema.

But there is no more overrated director working in American cinema today.

Out of the Furnace will remind devotees of 1970s American cinema of The Deer Hunter and other gritty, working - class dramas from the period.

The movie's tone is reminiscent of American Beauty as well, and of course, there is no shortage of bank robberies in American cinema either.

It's probably his most accessible picture to date, but it's also a fine piece of American cinema that delivers a much - needed commentary on the affects of violence on society.

Anwandter's creative storytelling, nuanced characters, and social consciousness proves that he's a bright talent rising in Ibero - American cinema.

The film is perfectly paced and doesn't mind spending 20 minutes to develop the main characters, especially when the audience is introduced to such rich personalities as Shaun and Ed, characters you won't find in American cinema.

These concerns can be felt throughout Ford's filmography, which returns again and again to the potentials and pitfalls of group formation at a moment in American history — and within a genre of American cinema — defined by the collisions between people of varying classes, ethnicities, and visions of the nation's future.

But then he doesn't die, and he also doesn't get to kiss the girl, who isn't white but Aaliyah (black)-- mitigating, I would have thought, the taboo against Asian men in American cinema having any kind of sexuality that isn't ridiculous (see: Long Duk Dong) or that involves a white lady.

Whether it's on blogs like this one or in loftier film publications, there appears to be a general consensus that 2008 hasn't been the best year at the movies, particularly in terms of American cinema.

An ambitious, over-budget love letter to both the Big Apple and the classic Hollywood cinema of Scorsese's childhood (its lavish sets were built on the old MGM soundstages), New York, New York is a heady tribute to the outmoded school of filmmaking that gave way to the New Hollywood class who came to dominate American cinema between the late»60s and early»80s.

«These days it seems like American cinema is all there is,» says Scorsese in the opening moments of his second, vast documentary on the movies.

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His 2007 debut, Shotgun Stories, a modest but taut family feud drama, helped establish its star, the ever - unsettling Michael Shannon, as one of the most striking presences in American cinema.

Joe McBride and Mike Wilmington periodically celebrated undervalued John Ford pictures, Sergio Leone received his first serious English - language attention in Film Comment, and John Huston — a «Fallen Idol» in Sarris's 1963 accounting of the American cinema — was hailed as «one of the finest auteurs» in a 1980 «Midsection» feature.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Walter Chaw Where zombies in American cinema seem to have risen with televangelism and its slow - moving white people promising salvation in the life of a sheep (in that sense, they're really just another iteration of the Body Snatcher archetype), in Italy they transmogrified, following the success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead there, into analogies for romance - gone - sour.

Reteaming with Emma Stone on the project, Sandgren brought a documentary feel to the drama, with gorgeously soft film grain and an interesting goal in mind: To create a film that not only depicted the»70s, but was shot in the style of movies made in that period, a pivotal and still influential moment in American cinema.

No doubt the last thing American cinema audiences wanted a decade after WWII were a movie which incessantly whined on about this.

The lovers - on - the - run movie was already a cliché by the time Malick came to shoot his debut feature, but he gave it new life, and refreshed American cinema in the process.

It all adds up to Greta Gerwig standing as a singular and wildly refreshing voice in American cinema, and thank goodness for it.

Since Lee Daniels» 2010 drama Precious, African - American cinema has quietly reinvented itself.

Bertolucci, Storaro, and Scarfiotti showed them that it was possible to marry such expressionism with the strain of seventies realism in American cinema.

And he is one of the most collaborative filmmakers in American cinema.

Reminded me why I love American cinema...!

00:00 — On playing the darker sides of his character Ali 00:45 — On finding the motivations for Ali's arc 02:15 — On transitioning to American films and the differences between European and American cinema

This low - budget arthouse crime thriller draws on the classic American cinema of the 1970s — films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver — when a new mood of pessimism was taking over politics and culture, but comes to articulate its own strange sweetness and hope.

Thursday was NYFF's day of South American cinema.

The film continues the Coens» work as secular theologians whose body of work one astute critic described as «the most sneakily moralistic in recent American cinema.»

These Amazing Shadows (Directors: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton)-- The history and importance of the National Film Registry unfolds in a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

Robbins, son of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, directs this short about one of the first films in American cinema to address climate change — that also happens to be a work of hardcore pornography.