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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, this film series excavates the expanded media landscape that shaped urban cinema culture in 1990s Mexico.

Kenneth Turan surveyed the program, noting, «Los Angeles has been many things cinematic, but one of the most important is one of the least known: the 30 - year period when a multitude of downtown theaters functioned as «the undisputed capital of Latin American cinema culture in the United States.»»

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In France, which proudly defends its culture and language against the global dominance of the United States, the decision is a victory for the traditional cinema distribution sector.

Wanda started building cinemas about a decade ago in a foray into a culture industry that Wang said has «no ceiling» on brand influence and profitability.

The images and conventions of the art forms (e.g. the editing technique involving long shots, close - ups, panning and montage in cinema, TV and radio) have one meaning in some cultures and a different or no meaning in others.

The movie industry was blessed with many cinemas but lost them to churches and banks — after the cinema culture died in the late 80s to 90s as a result of curfews as well as sale of government cinemas to foreigners.

Not because there's lack of singles in that age group that are interested in dating, but because there's a distinct lack of places you can go to meet them, the bars, clubs, cinemas, all has been invaded by new culture that is more focused on speed dating and instant gratification then on what a mature person is looking for, a stable relationship.

I very like cinema, music, summer, sun, summer rain, sea, animals, my cat, books, machines, roads, bags, shoes, cultures of other countries, beautiful buildings, also I like to take pictures, draw, dance, sing in a bathr..

London About Blog West London dweller in love with travel, fashion and culture who's often found pottering around Notting Hill or in a cinema.

Coco is steeped in the culture of Mexico, something that has featured surprisingly little in American cinema and almost never in a tasteful or enlightening way.

Revenge clears the air of the hedging and insecurity that are common of prestige cinema and of pop culture at large, tapping the prurient desires that drive most audiences to see genre films in the first place.

Focused on the tradition of the Day of the Dead, in which families gather to celebrate their deceased ancestors, Coco offers a festive, reverent, and wide - ranging pastiche of Mexican culture, touching on everything from Frida Kahlo to luchadores to the golden age of Mexican cinema.

Haneke brings his usual, acutely and ruthlessly observational way of telling a story (in both the narrative and stylistic senses) to bear on that of the trials endured by the strong, abiding, true love between a long - married couple of cultured seniors (French - cinema royalty Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emanuelle Riva) in the wake of the wife's illness, debilitation, and irretrievable, erosive slide toward death.

That might be fine as long as cinema culture has other advocates, but in a time where those advocates are leaving it be, critics need to step in.

The basic premise is that even though film criticism is always something that has a stake in cinema, it needs to have a certain distance to film culture.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

Also, competitions have the tendency to produce debate, and that's a rare, wonderful thing in modern mainstream cinema culture.

There are numerous iconic weapons throughout pop - culture and the gallery plans to highlight some of the most recognizable weapons of choice in the world of cinema.

An unfazed tough guy walking away from an massive explosion in slow motion, it's a tipping point reached long ago — this sequence has become a well - worn cliché in the visual vocabulary of pop culture even beyond cinema.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what is innovative, challenging, personal and under - recognised in the art of cinema.

To be clear, The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is a spectacular and exciting collection of essays, reflecting important developments in the fields of Japanese cinema and visual culture.

Rather, this diversity of perspectives makes the monograph compelling and relevant to both students and researchers of Japanese cinema, and to those interested in visual culture anywhere.

Superhero fans, movie fans and, especially, connoisseurs of black culture — American and African — are all eagerly awaiting the debut of Marvel's «Black Panther» movie starring comic books» first black superhero with an enthusiasm not often seen in American cinema.

But, fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's pictures in general in its self - mocking self - awareness: Spielberg's film is a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a sly auto - critique of his decades - long pandering to the lowest common denominator; to the blinding flash of materialism; and to his almost pathological desire to restore nuclear order at the cost of any faithfulness to theme and mood.

But in fact — it seems to me — both are the «operas» (the alpha - children) of their respective cinemas, and so reflect the deepest impulses of their cultures.

«Roger and I read and admired Michael's film reviews in the competing newspaper because they reflected a wealth of knowledge about literature, culture and cinema.

While the first two chapters of section one dealt with the field of Japanese cinema as one composed around actual films, the other two chapters in this section suggest that the field is one that analyses discourses around cinema culture at large.

In a cinema culture that's increasingly immoral for the hell of it, Demme, with The Truth About Charlie, provides a quiet, revolutionary corrective.

If you find any satisfaction in our work and are keen to continue exploring the rewarding depths of cinema by our side, please consider becoming our subscribers and supporting us with however small donations to give us a helping hand in keeping film culture alive for future generations.

Fincher is appropriately obsessive in his attention to detail as he recreates seventies San Francisco and American culture, right down to his filmmaking choices, which evokes the period cinema without aping it.

With the revival of Korea cinema came a corresponding surge in what is now known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, the rapid spread of Korean culture through China and around the world.

Pop music, cinema and literature converged to spark interest in Korean culture in foreign markets, and the world began to be exposed to the wonders of South Korea cinema.

As with The Shining, Rob Reiner's Stand by Me is difficult to appraise afresh because its iconography, performances and mood are so ingrained in popular culture and have been so influential on American coming of age cinema.

The 92 - minute interview is incredibly candid and covers his filmmaking philosophies, the role of technology on - screen in his films, his thoughts on cinema culture, and his relationship with Greta Gerwig.

2013 saw no shortage of great work being done in the realm of the music video, and while the mode itself continues to be a somewhat marginalized art form in general culture, filmmakers are harnessing the opportunities offered by music video projects to craft stunning works of short - form cinema.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Dreyer from the annals of cinema would undoubtedly result in a vast chasm in both the heritage of Danish culture and European film history, his is not a name readily appropriated in film analysis and discussions of visual rhetoric.

The Independent gets personal about cinema and TV with actors, directors, cinematographers and other people from the continually evolving world of «content» in a fortnightly podcast hosted by Culture Editor Christopher Hooton (embedded below).

Like my hometown Melbourne, my new city Wellington has an amazing film culture, and I arrived in a strong year for New Zealand cinema.

«Morris from America,» the story of Morris» first adventure in a foreign culture, is this week's coming - of - age movie at Sundance Cinemas.

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The reading of his film criticism gave me a very different key to American cinema than the one I used in France, a way to ground it in the culture and its language, to pry it away from its own mythology.

will find a lot to like here: bad taste gags and pop culture references abound, and some jokes — including a reference to one of cinema's more unconventional Westerns — rank among the funniest that MacFarlane has written in years.

«What's important to understand is that everything we have known about the past no longer applies and byNRW is a platform for the evolution of cinema, where there is going to be unadulterated opportunities to experience culture in many different ways.

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While varying from culture to culture and artist to artist, the uplifting of the Indigenous voice in cinema resonates with the tenets of sovereignty and self - determination that all Indigenous Nations strive to achieve.

But we also need to understand the importance of graphics, music, and cinema, which are just as powerful and in some ways more deeply intertwined with young people's culture.