Sentences with phrase «cineaste in»

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.

But «White Material,» the Frenchwoman's indirect tribute to the Southern African novelist Doris Lessing, would doubtless top my list in many a year: the cineaste in me thrilled to its tactile, tingly command of atmosphere, its laudably complicated politics and its on - edge performance from a peak - form Isabelle Huppert, but it was the personal connection I felt to its finely - drawn conflict between lines of blood and birth that drew an extra shiver from me.

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.

This nonsensical labyrinth of variously purple, archaic and absurd tales naturally incorporates numerous cineaste in - jokes.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Not exact matches

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 AmericaIn 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 Americain - 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.

In 1955, Nick Ray's most famous film was adored by American teenagers and by French intellectual cinephiles and cineastes.

-- Bertolucci in Cineaste

Soderbergh asks perfunctory questions and offers lazy analyses, though Ross is alert and responsive, if difficult to engage in a cineaste dialogue: When Soderbergh mentions Jeff Bridges's «New Wave» period of» 69 -» 76, Ross cites 1981's Cutter's Way in concurrence, and you can practically hear the other man gritting his teeth.

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.

For the occasion, Cineaste's associate editor Martha P. Nochimson ventured to Italy to explore Cinecittà's hallowed halls for an excellent feature that's in the magazine's latest issue and is now available online — an in - depth and evocative portrait of a place that's seen more than its share of turmoil over the past eight decades, including war, censorship, fire, and bankruptcy.

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.

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,...

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.»

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.

Darren Aronofsky is the kind of artiste director whose films tend to play well with the cineaste crowd and prompt cricket chirps at the cineplex, but he's also got savvy commercial instincts and a gift for casting (Mickey Rourke, whose career was brought back to life thanks to his star turn in Aronofsky's «The Wrestler,» would surely agree).

Gomez - Rejon wears his cineaste heart on his sleeve and turns what could have been a hipster Fault in Our Stars into something genuinely funny and moving.

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.

The French cineaste, just like in her first feature «Augustine,» explores the protagonist's physical malfunction.

Somewhere in between There Will Be Blood and The Master, the arrival of a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie became an event for cineastes.

He reviews regularly for Sight and Sound, Little While Lies and Reverse Shot and been published in The Walrus, The Village Voice, Elle Canada, Film Comment and Cineaste.

Dunkirk is Nolan's hardest sell since The Prestige, but I'm guessing that the critical acclaim and cineaste buzz (it's already well on its way to joining other Nolan films in the Top 250) has this performing more like a minor blockbuster than just a mid-range hit.

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.

Behind «Holy Motors» — the strange, perverse and entertaining neo-noir film by Léos Carax — lies a near century of movie surrealism: of deliberately fantastic, illogical and sometimes pathological filmmaking in which the cineaste (whether it's Luis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau or Maya Deren or Carax) tries to dream on screen and carry us into the maddest of reveries.

But this goes beyond bizarre with its gleefully off - putting content, as if Leigh is putting all the arthouse goodwill he has developed over the years to the test, to determine if critics and cineastes are ravenous enough for the unusual to see the value in this.

His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, and elsewhere.

In the»50s, critic - cineaste Jean - Luc Godard put «Angel Face» on his Cahiers du Cinema list of the Ten Best American Sound Films, along with another classic film noir: Orson Welles» «The Lady from Shanghai.»

His byline has appeared in a number of international publications, including Film Comment, Cinema Scope, MUBI, Fandor, IndieWire, and Cineaste.

Her articles, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in numerous publications in the UK and the US including The New York Times, The Times (of London), The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily News Magazine, The Amsterdam News, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, Woman's World, Family Circle, Art Times, Cineaste, and Salon.com.