More out - there offerings for the cult
cineaste in us all includes music video director Geremy Jasper's feature debut Patti Cake $; about an aspiring rapper in a triumphant tale of how music can give a nobody a voice.
If Track of the Cat is commonly thought of as neglected territory
for cineastes, Westward the Women isn't even on the map.
But since people are so sensitive these days I imagine it will upset all but the most hardcore of
cult cineastes.
Jean Renoir, the Boss was made during the richest period of
Cineastes de Notre Temps, a remarkable long - running French TV series devoted to filmmakers.
Actually, it's a great place to see lots and lots of movies, which is why, in my heart of hearts, I'm committed to a
major cineaste sin: Deep down, I kind of prefer the Tribeca Film Festival to the classier,...
Many of the interviews have aired on the AMC Network's series of the same name, and now 16 choice chats have been packaged together as a treat for
serious cineastes.
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Film Noir has many faces and that's proven once again with the French noirs, old and new, shown this year at the 21st edition of the COLCOA French Film Festival, April 24 to May 2 at the Directors Guild theaters — which are appropriately named for three great
French cineastes, Jean Renoir, François Truffaut and Jean - Pierre Melville.
However it will appeal to a certain type of film school
cineaste who will find it endlessly fascinating.
Actually, it's a great place to see lots and lots of movies, which is why, in my heart of hearts, I'm committed to a major
cineaste sin: Deep down, I kind of prefer the Tribeca Film Festival to the classier, more exclusive New York Film Festival, held annually in the fall.
Underscoring the new - found
respect cineastes have bestowed on animated features, the London Film Festival announced today (Monday) that it will open...
This paean to classic cinema will keep your
average cineaste and ardent Almodóvarite entertained playing spot - the - reference.
And in 1968, the restoration of Lola Montès, for which he said the late and
great cineaste writer Andrew Sarris called it «the greatest film ever made.»
Not resting on the laurel, the actress immediately set to work with a pair of
venerable cineastes, directors Julien Temple (in Pandemonium) and Amos Gitai (in his first English - language production, Eden).
This nonsensical labyrinth of variously purple, archaic and absurd tales naturally incorporates
numerous cineaste in - jokes.
For the short - attention spans of many of today's audiences, these films are torture, but for the less
beguiling cineaste, they are perfectly realized works of fiction brought to the screen.
The events of May»68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker will transform him profoundly, from a
star cineaste to a Maoist artist entirely outside the system, as misunderstood as he is incomprehensible.
In Double Play, filmmaker and
cineaste Gabe Klinger brings together James Benning and Richard Linklater, a pairing that might cause a double take, until you learn all that they do share: later - in - life turns toward filmmaking, a love of (and history with) baseball, an openness to temporal experiment and formal rebirth, and a curiosity about defining American - ness that is itself particularly American.
Being a fairly
highbrow cineastes» mag, Sight & Sound tends to keep a safe distance from awards season — which is probably just as well, if Nick James's grim - faced editorial on the subject is anything to go by.
Cineastes nostalgic for that brand of mediocre moviemaking will find themselves magically transported back to that era via this hilarious, high attrition - rate horror parody.
Hugo goes on to find out more about Méliès» past, beautifully realized by
top cineaste Scorsese with writers Brian Selznick and John Logan.
The young film scholar went on to write and direct prodigiously, some might say profligately, over the next four decades, manifesting his theories in his body of work in a way reminiscent of French New
Wave cineastes.
Lee tells no one, not his agent or even his best friend, pot dealer and
fellow cineaste, Jeremy (Nick Offerman).
A handful of
young cineastes showed up to dream, to share, and to receive the sage advice of film professionals who had managed — somehow — to penetrate the walls of Fortress Hollywood.
Room 237 joins the ranks of classic documentaries like Rock Hudson's Home Movies and Los Angeles Plays Itself that
encourage cineastes to take a closer look at the secret messages that movies send, and to ask whether they're intended or not — or whether it matters.
Even
snobby cineastes like me will find the filmmaking visceral, breathless, and extremely engaging.
Porton, R., «The Film Director as Philosopher: An Interview with David Cronenberg» (Interview),
Cineaste Vol 24, No. 4 (Fall 1999)
Like good
little Cineastes, we check out the yearly offering from Clint Eastwood.
After Waiting for Happiness launched him onto the world stage in 2002 — he won the
Foreign Cineaste of the Year and the Fipresci film critics» prize at Cannes — Sissako turned his lens back to Mali and to his own family courtyard in the country's capital.
Hollywood may have been a sclerotic dinosaur, but inspired in equal measure by
European cineastes and America's dharma bums, other eager - beaver bohemians were gnawing away at the system — hanging out at pop art gallery shows and beatnik poetry readings, digging Dylan and the Doors, studying the Method, smoking pot, and finding work at AIP.
The sort of film one can
imagine cineastes parsing in due course via elaborate doctoral theses that would make the likes of Annie and Max glaze over, its delight comes from actors clearly thrilled to be subverting various genres even as they inhabit them.
And then look
at Cineaste and American Film and the specialist fan magazines (you may not read Fangoria, but if you did you would be amazed at the erudition its writers bring to the horror and special - effects genre).
Bergman has always seemed to breed conflict
among cineastes (Phillip Lopate, for example, has written recently a...
The only aspect of Mudbound that may render it worth watching for
casual cineastes is the acting: Rob Morgan's work as Hap is the standout, hitting just the right mix of courage and fear as he balances his pride with the sniveling servility he must show to keep his family safe.
Alternatively mirthful and macabre, while poking fun at modern mating habits and the paranoia of espionage culture, Burn after Reading proves to be a refreshingly - intelligent diversion designed with the more
cerebral cineaste in mind.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski, is known to
cineastes largely for his passionate «My Summer of Love,» which charts a meeting between women with opposite predilections; one a tomboy looking for an alternative to the emptiness of life, the other cynical, spoiled and well - educated.
The great essayist and
cineaste Phillip Lopate (Totally, Tenderly, Tragically) interviews Baumbach during the 2005 New York Film Festival.
Kelly Reichardt's body of work, River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek's Cutoff (2010); and Night Moves (2013) has established her as a major
American cineaste.
The sharp -
eyed cineaste will no doubt have picked up on a few cast changes.
Enterprising cineastes could probably make a few interesting video essays breaking down Wheatley's use of confined space to create tension, and the sheer stubbornness of the filmmaker's approach develops into its own kind of weirdo virtue.
Of any of the films in competition, «Drive» is the most blatantly commercial but if it's truly the «Blue Velvet» meets «Purple Rain «amalgam of influences as Gosling described it, this will get even the staunchest of high
brow cineastes talking.
Despite the love they receive from
most cineastes, Westerns are an acquired taste.
Cineastes holding on steadfastly to the notion that less is more may balk at the degree to which the film reveals its monster.
Last night, a small group of
international cineastes gathered to celebrate the 2012 Sundance / NHK International Filmmaker Award.