Sentences with phrase «challenge film in general»

It doesn't challenge film in general (as his best films do) so much as it criticizes it with a dim - witted, punchable smirk.

Not exact matches

The financial realities facing movies often have no place in my reviews — I find it boring if not depressing to bring up numbers and statistics, and I'm sure I've already lost people here — but I feel an obligation to come to the defense of producer Scott Rudin, who said damn the torpedoes and pushed through Garland's original vision for the film, despite fears from Paramount over Annihilation posing too much of an intellectual challenge for the general moviegoing public.

On a more auspicious note, Funny Games will likely challenge the audience's own precepts on how to watch films in general.

by Bill Chambers The Lucio Fulci apologists like to say that gore and general impropriety are the raisons d'être of his work, not storytelling, but there's a built - in fallacy to that implicitly macho challenge: It presumes that his films are light on narrative when in fact it's narrative drive that they lack.

Speaking on the process of movie selection and shortlisting, Emirati writer and filmmaker Manal Bin Amro, said: «The main challenge was the large number of entries received from many countries and filmmakers, and also the multitude of excellent films in terms of production, content and cinematic creativity, which created a deep discussion to sincerely try to come up with unbiased and fair results based on a comprehensive cinematic vision that takes into consideration the general approach and categories of the competition.»