Sentences with phrase «century film history»

In one of the most memorable installations of the exhibition, Daniel R. Small's Excavation II (2016) also draws on Egyptology, albeit filtered through the archaeology of early - 20th - century film history.

Her seven feature films, made between 1972 and 1996, belong to the most extraordinary works of late 20th century film history.

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Women and minorities have largely and wrongly been shut out of places of influence for the century or so of film history.

Our film will counteract the century - long ad campaign that successfully vanquished the collective intuitive knowledge that women shared for most of history.

Intent to Destroy uses a historic feature film production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

Spanning a century of film art and taken from various countries around the world, these posters show the evolution of movie promotion over the years, but more pertinently they also reveal a great deal about how blackness has been portrayed, exploited and indeed commoditised, throughout the history of cinema.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget - challenged AIP, he was hired by 20th Century Fox and given the resources of their studio, casting department, and backlot for his recreation of 1929 Chicago and the most famous gangland slaying in American history.

Director Hong Sang - soo's 2010 film, Hahaha, took place in Tongyeong, the coastal base of Admiral Yi, a 16th - century naval commander revered in Korean history by the public at large.

READINGS Books about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media - Making edited by Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz, reviewed by Nick Davis; William Faulkner at Twentieth Century - Fox: The Annotated Screenplays edited by Sarah Gleeson - White, reviewed by Nick Pinkerton; Everybody Sing!

Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

The film starts with a quick, dense recap of the last half - century or so of Nigeria's political history, combining narration by Hafsat with archival footage, photos, and interviews with former U.S. diplomats and other experts.

The single most influential event in the history of modern newspaper film reviewing took place as recently as 1963, when 20th Century - Fox banned Judith Crist from its screenings after she attacked Cleopatra in the New York Herald - Tribune.

Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow - motion arcs.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

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Both films involve a male protagonist whose unusual circumstances give him a unique view of the world and 20th century history.

Starring Hemlock Grove's Kaniehtiio Horn — a First Nations Mohawk who grew up on the Kahnawake Reserve — as a Mohawk woman driven to violence by soldiers» assault on her family and her ancestral home in early 19th - century New York, the film engages with the horrors of American history in an uncommonly blunt way, using them to tell a tale of supernaturally tinged revenge.

If you've never seen any of Haynes's films before, you're missing out, especially if you like twentieth century American history and Critically Acclaimed Dramas With Strong Female Leads, as Netflix might phrase it.

Both films take on true stories from 20th century American history, albeit one is about tennis and the other is about drug smuggling.

Facile, but good in a pinch; apply it to Todd Haynes's fascinating I'm Not There and suddenly there's the thought that the film is an autopsy of film - as - history to this moment — an analysis of how the moving image has become in this century the only real way we access history as a people, as well as of how the image, eternally malleable within the image - maker, has now become malleable within a mainframe.

The strong showing comes as Searchlight faces uncertainty — a rarity in the stable company's 24 - year history, as the Walt Disney Co. moves forward with a planned acquisition of 21st Century Fox's film and TV divisions.

In a recent article on Tarkovsky, Julian Graffy notes that the Russian journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski (Notes in Cinema Analysis) asked 27 critics from around the world to list the twentieth century's 12 best films «from the point of view of history» and «from the point of view of film criticism».

Restored in 2K with native sounds and traditional songs that Flahertys daughter recorded over a half - century after they shot it, Monica Flaherty's Moana with Sound is a beautiful work of docufiction and an important piece of film history.

In 100 Years of Japanese Cinema he basically turns himself into an academician, and not a very good one at that, giving us a pocket social history of 20th - century Japan in relation to film, in which aesthetic issues play almost no role at all.

He re-read all Tolstoy's essays and novels, all Tolstoy's own 19th - century reading material and Orlando Figes» non-fiction tome, A Cultural History of Russia — but left the script alone until filming began.

The second bit of history would come at the ceremony, if Roger Deakins — the cinematographer of Blade Runner 2049 and also many of this century's most beautiful films — finally wins an Oscar on his 14th nomination.

Set in the fictional country of Zubrowka (a very fine bison - grass vodka IRL), the film displays an unbelievably precise, irreverent and occasionally very funny eye for the minutiae of a vaguely Germanic, vaguely Eastern European country marked by recognizable, if allegorical 20th century history.

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In one masterfully conceived shot, Leigh evocatively situates us within the milieu of a Turner canvas, while almost subliminally shading in one of the film's foremost themes: the once celebrated painter's progressive sidelining by the tumultuous forces of 19th - century history as well as the fickle tide of public opinion.

Partly funded by Kickstarter, and filmed in a 19th century house with its own alleged history of haunting, The House on Pine Street is competently directed, and is lifted considerably by Goss's convincing central performance.

Because both public and private schooling have been deeply embedded in society for the past three centuries, educational technology (by which I mean the various communication and information devices and processes that administrators and teachers use to make schooling efficient and effective) also has a rich history (e.g., textbooks, chalkboard, film, radio, computers).

Down the centuries, Vietnam has come under many different influences, while its recent history has been graphically portrayed in films such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon.

STAN DOUGLAS: Interregnum @ Wiels Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Belgium Recognized for film work exploring lost utopias of the 20th century, Canadian artist Stan Douglas is premiering the six - screen video installation, «The Secret Agent,» which continues his interest in post-war history and film noir.

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Yet Scorsese — who undoubtedly loves the same things about film that she does — sees new possibilities, new magic, and new ways of celebrating and preserving history, in this miraculous 21st century we inhabit.

Here Wilcox revisits the «cinema in - the - round» panoramic presentations that appeared at the dawn of film history in the late 19th century, bringing the concept up to date with state - of - the - art technology to create an immersive cinematic environment.

For his residency at the Hammer, Shaw is conducting research for upcoming film and studio - based projects that engage particular features of California history, sociology, and geography, including skateboarding culture and architecture, and West Coast spiritual cults of the late twentieth century.

Through her performances, films, and installations, Sharon Hayes examines the intersection of history, politics, and speech, with a particular focus on the language of twentieth - century protest groups.

Barba's film offers a portrait of one of his sculptures, which has borne witness over many years to the joyful creative universe of this great figure in twentieth - century art history.

ANNANDALE - ON - HUDSON, NY, May 11, 2016 — Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early eighteenth century.

WHO: Pratt Institute's Department of History of Art and Design and Department of Fine Arts will present a film titled a woman like that, which explores the dramatic life and work of 17th Century female...

Butler writes:»... we often rush past the history paintings, but in the sixteenth century, these paintings were like epic feature films.

Deftly editing the rich and insightful conversation that follows with a fast - paced montage of telling moments from film and media history, Julien and his audience of invited scholars illuminate many of the driving forces and felt repercussions of 21st century capitalism.

«Imponderable» is a combination of a 90 - minute film with a exhibition of «findings» culled from Tony Oursler's extensive research (and personal collection) representing a trove of over 2,500 photographs, documents, publications and unique objects that track a social, spiritual, and intellectual history dating to the early 18th century.

Filmed in Manchester and Kent, the new commission is inspired by the history of these places in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Manchester as the first industrial metropolis and Margate and the Kent coast catering to the related rise of a new leisure culture for the masses.

The Los Angeles - based artist Matt Greene is becoming known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, paintings that explore his favorite shelves in the library: vintage pornography, fairy tales, horticulture, horror films, nineteenth - century Symbolist art, and, of course, the history of Modernism.

In museums today, we often rush past the history paintings, but in the sixteenth century, these paintings were like epic feature films.