Sentences with phrase «american film critics»

As the largest collection of African - American film critics in North America, the AAFCA is highly respected by some of the biggest figures within the industry, including Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and former AAFCA publicist Ava DuVernay.

The actual poll can be found at: www.indiewire.com/critics2007/, it is a survey of over 100 leading North American film critics and is an incredible resource and interesting take on the previous year in cinema.

The dean of American film critics, Pauline Kael, thought it was Spielberg's bold confidence — undergirded with a suburban - bred innocence and wonder — and innate kindness that made him unafraid to turn timeless themes on their head.

«Days Of Being Wild» and «Fallen Angels» both participated in past festivals and won European and American film critics word of mouth.

LANGELLA, JOLIE, LEDGER & DAVIS HONORED BY AFRICAN - AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION Melvin Van Peebles Recognized With Special Achievement Award Los Angeles, CA (December 19, 2008)-- The African - American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named «The Dark Knight» as the Best Picture of 2008.

The prominent American film critic spent almost 40 years at Time Magazine, as well as a library of books and created many documentaries about film.

«It's very embarrassing when your friends and colleagues are getting into a movie and you can't,» says Kael, generally regarded as the best American film critic since James Agee.

MANNY FARBER By Kent Jones He used to argue movies with James Agee, can still go toe - to - toe with Pauline Kael, and has influenced every American film critic with a pulse in the past half - century.

For decades, Academy voters subscribed to American film critic Andrew Sarris» auteur theory, the concept that a film's director is its driving artistic force.

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Earlier this month, The Atlantic listed the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, televangelist Tim Bakker, and evangelical film critic Ted Baehr among Putin's evangelical supporters, particularly for his restrictions on Russia's LGBT community.

So far the critics are being kind to Quentin Tarantino's bloody Western - down - South, singing the praises of the film's stellar cast and its fierce yet disturbingly funny confrontation with the most shameful chapter of American history.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Ramin Bahrani has enjoyed the praise of critics for each of his first three films (Man Push Cart 71, Chop Shop 83, Goodbye Solo 89), so expectations were high for his latest, an Iowa farm - set drama about a family's struggles with each other and the American Dream.

Women saving film criticism; The wonderfully unique Shailene Woodley; BuzzFeed hires Allison Wilmore as their first film critic; Revisiting George Lucas» American Graffiti; Sex in Pasolini films.

American Graffiti became the darling of the critical fraternity, but it was upstaged at the last minute by the release of Truffaut's Day for Night, which won both the New York Critics and the National Society of Film Critics best film award.

Our film critics review this week's big releases, including Jesse Eisenberg as stoner sleeper agent in American Ultra and Owen Wilson in tourist - in - trauma thriller No Escape

This comedy about conjoined twins has had American critics in a froth of moral indignation, and its relatively poor opening weekend figures at the US box office suggest that it may be a freakshow too far for the film - going public.

Commenting on the dearth of women directors and lead characters in films released during the summer of 2008, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis opined, «Welcome to the new, post-female American cinema» («Is There a Real Woman in this Multiplex?»

I apologize on behalf of my Online Film Critics Society, who didn't give the film a single nomination despite screeners having been sent in a timely fashion to our American majority.

As the world prepares to bid farewell to George W. Bush following tomorrow's election, I came across an apt article in the new edition of Sight and Sound, in which critic Michael Atkinson evaluates how the Bush presidency affected American film, and how the period might be interpreted by future film historians.

Home Video Notes: The Breakfast Club Release Date: 2 January 2018 Criterion releases The Breakfast Club on home video (Blu - ray) with the following extras: - Audio commentary from 2015 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson - New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy - New video essay featuring director John Hughes's production notes, read by Nelson - Documentary from 2015 featuring interviews with cast and crew - 50 minutes of never - before - seen deleted and extended scenes - Rare promotional and archival interviews and footage - Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes 1999 radio interview with Hughes - Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC's Today show featuring the film's cast - Audio interview with Molly Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic David Kamp

Film critic Rich Haridy joins the Hyphenates to talk the films of December 2012, compare notes on the five best films of the year, and look at the ongoing filmography of American provocateur Oliver Stone.

His latest, American Hustle, combines key cast members from those two films, creating an awards monolith (the New York Film Critics Circle would agree - they named it Best Picture earlier this month).

The best film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and this film critic's top film of 2017 will likely have its North American debut at the majestic Sundance Film Fest.

In 2004 I worked as the field producer for Boston film critic Gerald Peary's documentary about American film criticism «For The Love of Movies,» which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009.

His newest film, Caché (also known as Hidden), received the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as several other American awards, leading to the assumption that a wide variety of reviewers not only liked the film, but also bothered to see it at all.

One is from the BBC has critics voting for the best American films.

I know both French and American critics who consider Olivier Assayas to be among the richest and deepest young talents in film today.

Although there is no reason you'd see this in the theatre (unless you're some kind of sicko or film critic or something), should you find it on TNT late night next month, give it a few minutes — it's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge.

By 1980, the one - time film critic and Pauline Kael protégé had already written the screenplay for two Martin Scorsese masterpieces, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, in addition to having directed three features of his own: Blue Collar, Hardcore, and American Gigolo.

Cutter's Way (Twilight Time, Blu - ray), starring Jeff Bridges as an easy - going beach boy and John Heard as a damaged, angry Vietnam vet who get tangled in a murder mystery, is an American classic that got lost during its 1981 release even as it was being championed by film critics like Siskel and Ebert.

The New York Film Critics Circle is always the first critics group out of the gate, and today they named American Hustle the best film of thCritics Circle is always the first critics group out of the gate, and today they named American Hustle the best film of thcritics group out of the gate, and today they named American Hustle the best film of the year.

Will it be Martin McDonagh, whose Three Billboards screenplay took a blue - hot blowtorch to some of the most incendiary topics in American life (racism, police brutality, criminal justice, the abuse of women)-- and wound up singing its author, after a handful of critics called the film out for its insensitivity to racial dynamics in the U.S.?

Now — just one year later — he comes at us with an edgy, vibrant 1970s period crime thriller, American Hustle, filled with great performances and terrific filmmaking flourishes, which some film critics have already labeled as the best film of the year.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»

The heyday for American film criticism was the»70s because I think the people that got into it at that point were really inspired by the likes of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, both of whom became famous and established the importance of film critics as a cultural force.

(A Toronto - lensed production from a Montreal - based writer, Black Christmas certainly buttresses Canuck critic Geoff Pevere's belief that American films are about actions and Canadian films are about consequences.)

AWARDS Jordan Peele's «Get Out» has won four awards from members of the African American Film Critics Association, taking the trophies for best film, -LSB-...]

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Peter Bradshaw celebrates a peach of a film about ecstatic submission to love — the united No 1 choice of our British and American critics

That same year, Parker starred in the Tuskegee Airmen biopic «Red Tails,» the Spike Lee film «Red Hook Summer,» and the crime thriller «Arbitrage,» the last of which won him a supporting actor award at the African - American Film Critics Association.

In today's film news roundup, «Get Out» wins top awards from the African American Film Critics, Fred Rogers gets a stamp, and Lyor Cohen is selected as a keynoter at SXSW.

Coming just a day after the New York Film Critics kicked off the awards season with a trio of wins for David O. Russell's American Hustle, the NBR not only gave that film no wins but snubbed it entirely from their top 10.

There isn't a critic alive who wouldn't feel, as I just did, a twinge of guilt after writing that, because of all the carping we do about thrill - driven American films.

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2006 film There Will Be Blood was so bold, so original, so breathtakingly good that critics (including me) compared it to Citizen Kane, and declared Anderson the pre-eminent American film - maker of his generation.

After seeing Vincent Gallo's rather ponderous road movie The Brown Bunny in 2003, esteemed American critic Roger Ebert pithily described it as «the worst film ever shown in the history of Cannes».

While American critics won't see Independence Day: Resurgence until Friday, journalists in other countries have already seen the film.