Sentences with phrase «film studies series»

Not exact matches

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

At once an astute study of the banality of modern life and a banal student film wrapped around a series of inside jokes.

Her books include Rape - Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a 2016 monograph on Dario Argento's Suspiria (part of Auteur's Devil's Advocates series), a 2017 book on Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 as part of Wallflower / Columbia University Press's Cultographies series, and in 2018, a book on Robert Harmon's 1986 film The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books.

The film struggles to create a context in which the climactic murder seems inevitable, but the facts don't support a psychological case study — all indications are that du Pont more or less lost his mind in the weeks leading up to the murder, whereas most of Foxcatcher takes place almost a decade earlier — and screenwriters Dan Futterman (who also wrote Capote) and E. Max Frye (Something Wild — this is not) never manage to build a series of petty rivalries and resentments into tragedy.

A New York - raised daughter of Iranian immigrants, Akhavan studied film at Tisch at New York University, and was best known before this year for web series «The Slope.»

Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series of brutal murders and the three men whose lives are on a collision course as a result: the father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....

Commonly employing two editors on each of his films, Tony Scott's films are essentially case studies of an ongoing series I would like to title «When MTV Editing Goes Wrong.»

Book - length film studies by amateurs can be traced back to Salman Rushdie's 1992 The Wizard of Oz, the volume that launched the BFI Film Classics — possibly the most bountiful book series in the history of film criticism in any language, and one that sums up some of the gains criticism generally can boast over the same period, when DVD extras, building on the precedents established with laserdiscs, started to become institutionalized.

The Toronto True Crime Film Festival is organized by Lisa Gallagher (programmer at Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival, formerly producer of The MUFF Society screening series), Steven Landry (Programming Director at Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival and programmer at Ithaca Fantastik, Toronto After Dark Film Festival), Kier - La Janisse (owner / artistic director of Spectacular Optical Publications, founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies), Gina Rim (staff at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival), and Jeff Wright (founder of Refocus film series and Programmer at Calgary Underground Film Festival, CUFF Docs).

A crime thriller crossed with a character study, the film is an engaging hybrid of the brooding masculinity that will be familiar to fans of his «True Detective» series with something more emotionally resonant.

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.

Jen Durbin presents her her ongoing, sixteen - year study on The Zapruder film as a series of sculptural meditations on Jackie O's pink hat.

For his 12 × 12 exhibition, Russell presents a site - specific installation of the most recent installment of Trypps, a series of seven films that the artist describes as «an ongoing study in trance, travel, and psychedelic ethnography.»

From 1909 to 1913 many experimental works in the search for this «pure art» had been created by a number of artists: Francis Picabia painted Caoutchouc, 1909, [20] The Spring, 1912, [21] Dances at the Spring [22] and The Procession, Seville, 1912; [23] Wassily Kandinsky painted Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor), 1910, [24] Improvisation 21A, the Impression series, and Picture with a Circle (1911); [25] František Kupka had painted the Orphist works, Discs of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colors), 1912 [26] and Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), 1912; Robert Delaunay painted a series entitled Simultaneous Windows and Formes Circulaires, Soleil n ° 2 (1912 — 13); [27] Léopold Survage created Colored Rhythm (Study for the film), 1913; [28] Piet Mondrian, painted Tableau No. 1 and Composition No. 11, 1913.

Online visitors will also be able to access a series of resources, such as films and study guides related to the digitised archive collections.

The second one, STUDY FILM (s) from the series water, paper, sun, stones, wind, consists of seven minutes of yellow grid paper soaking in water.

During her doctoral studies she produced a series of films of «ethnographic fictions».

British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's new project The Humanizer places Roger Casement's extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic, while Irish born artist Duncan Campbell is working on his first film based in the Republic of Ireland, which takes as a starting point a series of American anthropological studies of Gaelic speaking rural communities in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.

This DVD was recorded in 2005 and is session 9 in the series Psychotherapy Live, prepared by the California Institute of Integral Studies, produced by Philip Brooks, and filmed and edited by Travis Mathews.