Sentences with phrase «career as a film critic»

And I have never walked out of a movie, not in my ten - year career as a film critic, not before.

Martin Thomas Martin Thomas began his career as a film critic in 1997 on the Austin airwaves with the weekly TV show «The Reel Deal».

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Rebecca Leffler is an author, journalist and consultant who, after a long career in entertainment as France Correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter and film critic on French TV network...

The film did only a fraction of the business of, say, the previous year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.

He has since gone on to enjoy a prolific freelance writing career with regular bylines in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Smithsonian, and Playboy magazine (where he served as film critic for six years).

Of those, A Scanner Darkly does get some actual commentary from critic and New York Film Festival honcho Kent Jones, where he posits it as considerably underrated, but the group's otherwise just put out there as something of a dark stage in the man's career, where he had a string of films failing to be embraced by audiences, critics or both, but with little extrapolation as to why those films were made, or what Linklater thinks of them.

HitFix film critic Drew McWeeny joins the show to talk the films of April 2014, look at why the rest of the world is increasingly getting Hollywood blockbusters before the US, and pay tribute to the great Harold Ramis as we explore his directorial career.

«No [Sundance] film seemed to touch as many attendees, however, as Life Itself, Steve James's intimate look back at the career of the late film critic Roger Ebert.

So you were talking about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these less - well - known films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.

Hoberman («emerges from the mists of time... as a career - capping epic tragedy») to the New Yorker's Anthony Lane («lovers of cinema should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain») to Newsweek's David Ansen («the best foreign film of the year»), critics from across the spectrum, who almost never agreed, rallied around Melville's neglected masterpiece.

A candid and human drama, The 400 Blows not only launched the feature career of Truffaut, a 27 - year - old who had gained notice as a film critic, but also the French New Wave, an era of cinema that is revered by many and often channeled by Wes Anderson, one of today's most acclaimed filmmakers and the active one by far most recognized by Criterion.

At the Wexner, excerpts of Tuymans's early films were shown on a video monitor and sequestered in a side gallery (a situation that made the films, as described by critic Jordan Kantor, «an excursus... in the artist's career»), while here this collection of cinematic fragments is screened only twice a day in the visitor education center (during my first visit, I totally missed this component, having been told by several museum guards that there was no video).