"Cinema history" refers to the collective record of movies that have been made over time, comprising all the significant films ever produced, important innovations, and significant moments that have shaped the art and industry of filmmaking.
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Even his most seminal work was met with criticism, though the stature of his place
in cinema history has steadily grown with time.
Most recently these have been drawn from publications
of cinema history; film - stills, portraits of stars or documentary images on - set.
This is
cinema history right here, and a great film to watch back - to - back with Wonder Woman if you want a totally badass double feature.
Although the first one hit screens twenty - three years ago, we haven't had a year in
cinema history with four big releases from this rather derided sub-genre.
The dishonour of being the lowest - grossing film in
British cinema history goes to a drama about the life of a Polish artist.
It is to buy that suggestion made inherent
by cinema history that what we are about to see is something high - concept and arty that demands to be appreciated by anyone with a taste for high - culture.
With Independence Day: Resurgence and the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, we have ranked, by Metascore, those film with the funniest, bravest and most inspirational fake POTUSes in
recent cinema history.
The general critical consensus (in the west) these days is bafflement that a movie that might rank among the greatest in
cinema history went so long without them ever having heard of it.
Half an hour into Tom Hooper's adaptation of the long - running stage musical Les Miserables, he fixes his camera on Anne Hathaway's tortured, tear - streaked face, and she delivers what ought to become one of the great moments in
musical cinema history — right up there with Dorothy singing wistfully of a land far away, Gene Kelly swinging happily around damp lamp poles, and a problem like Maria singing to the grassy Austrian hillsides.
They assail Spielberg for two of the greatest problems in
modern cinema history: the Blockbuster mentality that now permeates the commercial film industry, leaving little room for intellectually challenging works; and the dumbing down of contemporary movies that promotes bloated budgets and relies on wham - bam action flicks.
That tally made it the ninth most successful film of 2009, and by far the highest grossing R - rated comedy in
US cinema history.
An enlightening and entertaining 10 - film retrospective at Japan Society aims to answer that question in the broadest possible way — a necessity given that the genre has been underrepresented in accounts of Japan's
long cinema history.
These films contain aesthetic, narrative and / or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how ideas and styles echo
across cinema history.
It considers the different uses of the non-actor
throughout cinema history and the relevance of this figure for understanding the ontology of film.
The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in
Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.
Apparently, there's not much you can do when the numbers are talking — the original cut of the film is the most successful in
Korean cinema history, and just received Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
It became one of the most famous flops in British
cinema history mostly due to the long list of cameos, which include Tom Conti, Maureen Lipman and Judi Dench.
The Avengers has enjoyed the biggest superhero movie opening in British
cinema history after taking $ 25 million (# 16 million) at the U.K. box...
In 2016, it was named one of 150 essential works in
Canadian cinema history in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
For although we have arrived at a moment in
cinema history where — at last — there are more remarkable cinematic accounts of homosexual love than ever before (Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Francis Lee's God's Own Country, John Trengove's The Wound), this film occupies a subtle category of its own.
Other films were more offensive and / or more pretentious, but perhaps no other film in
cinema history failed to clear a lower bar of expectations.
In a groundbreaking achievement, director Richard Linklater has
created cinema history by filming over the span of twelve years the same cast to tell a story about a six - year - old boy growing up in Texas.
In 1976, Rocky created one of the most indelible images in
cinema history when Sylvester Stallone ran up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Hu's decision to explore the early stages of China's
cinema history rather than the production of China's first narrative film is valid and compelling.
Few things are going to raise the film lover's alarms and defenses more than channeling the spirit of one of, if not, the greatest physical comedians and stunt performers in
cinema history within the opening beats of a movie.
Close - Ups & Two Shots
uses cinema history to explore human distanciation and intimacy as understood in an instant of time.
2001: A Space Odyssey (January 27) The cult sci - fi film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1968 is a landmark in
cinema history thanks to its special effects, scientific realism and avant - garde perspectives.
Inspired by the larger than
life cinema history of Texas, Los Americanos explores the ephemeral through various cinema metaphors for identity, history and culture.
Until 2000, foreign films were largely unavailable in China with the result that Chinese artists view
Western cinema history with fresh eyes.
Museum of Modern Art May 6 - June 6 Curated by Joshua Siegel Few filmmakers in
cinema history adhered to so rigorous an aesthetic as husband - and - wife team Jean - Marie Straub and Daniele...
In time, The Last Jedi and Blade Runner 2049 will go down in
cinema history as films beloved for taking risks.
On the video side, where everything is presented in HD regardless of source limitations, we start with «Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones» (17:34), a brand new conversation between the legendary director and a film critic that celebrates On the Waterfront as part
of cinema history and Scorsese's upbringing.
This summer, Bayona brings his direction to one of the most popular and successful series in
cinema history with an all - new motion - picture event that sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs — along with new breeds more awe - inspiring and terrifying than ever before in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The 75 - year - old filmmaker - who has directed some of the most iconic movies in
recent cinema history, such as «Goodfellas», «Taxi Driver» and «Raging...
Two of his 1962 releases — Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate — basically etched his name in
cinema history books, though strangely none of their six Academy Award nominations went to him.
The 1958 original holds a firm place in
horror cinema history, but for my money very few «studio» horror films come close to the deeply upsetting brilliance of David Cronenberg's 1986 remake.
I think something very interesting could have been made out of The Disaster Artist, a true story retelling of the creation of quite possibly the most famous bad movie in
modern cinema history, The Room, but James Franco's biopic (of a sort) seems far too pleased with itself to get to the core of what it's trying to say.
Malcolm McDowell has written the foreword, and George Perry, film buff and critic, has written a splendid Afterword about Lindsay's work and his place in
British cinema history.
(Note: one can't review Skyline without commenting on the film's ending which is, when one thinks about it, one of the biggest bullshit moments
in cinema history on oh so many levels.)