The discourse — as articulated by serious
cinephiles like Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, as well as their younger colleagues around the country — was essentially about freedom.
Though Andersson is mostly popular with reclusive
cinephiles like myself, it's nice to see that Pigeon has been garnering hype since it's been on festival prediction lists for a few years now; hopefully this means more people will get to experience the bizarre, hilarious, and foppish world Roy Andersson so meticulously crafts with his distinctly angular, motionless camera style.
Not exact matches
Cinephiles who don't need dramatic material to always be played dead serious will find a ton to
like here.
«I think Elio [the young man played Timothee Chalamet] will be a
cinephile and I'd
like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More,» a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.
The reason many
cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies
like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.
Second, he's made a movie that feels
like it has the capacity to win over the average moviegoer as quickly as it wins the hearts of his fellow
cinephiles.
There is also some strange Hollywood history that will have
cinephiles pondering weird what - if scenarios such as: what would it have been
like if De Palma had ended up directing Flashdance instead of Scarface?
Like many
cinephiles, I was first drawn to Ozu by his serene compositions, the meditative «pillow shots» of train stations and empty rooms that served as scene transitions, and the exquisite way that his films explore the architecture of domestic and urban life.
The Muestra is Christmas in advance for Mexican
cinephiles and,
like I said in a previous piece, this year's lineup is one of the very best in recent memory.
Wright had invited producer Steve Golin, which was enough to satisfy the die - hard
cinephiles in the audience who knew him as the architect of Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films, but even without that, he charmed everyone with stories of Lynch's good luck rituals before a film
like checking license plates in a parking lot for his initials and how he had a lunch meeting with Lynch where moments after he said he wanted Nicolas Cage for the part of bad boy Sailor Ripley, Cage walked into the restaurant they were eating at.
There's nothing wrong... I'm not a fucking,
like,
cinephile,» Phoenix said.
Never feeling
like a hagiography, in part because it shares the humility of its subject, The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most
cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his work.
(Local
cinephiles also appear in cameos,
like director Benny Safdie, critic Eric Hynes, and programmer Jake Perlin.)
Wes Anderson movies are possibly the closest thing to an event movie for the... I was going to say something
like «indie nerd
cinephile set,» but the truth is Anderson's films are beloved by all kinds of audiences — those who love tentpoles, cineastes, sci - fi aficionados, etc..
What I'd really
like to do is hand this award to Bird People, which should have been in Competition (though one notable French
cinephile claims it would have been torn to shreds in that limelight) and is much bolder and more innovative than Mike Leigh's mildly unconventional biopic.
Dearest Edgar: As an aspiring film maker and a self - proclaimed
cinephile, i must say i truly admire your work, although i'm «young» i've always been interested in art and your work is truly inspirational to me, i can't really put into words how happy your movies make me, hopefully in the future i'll get to make great movies
like you too, i'd just
like to thank you for directing such great movies!!!
For
cinephiles, this looks
like a slightly aged film (early coloured Kodak stock would turn magenta over time, so it is common to see pink - clad films from before the mid»70s when different stock was then used).
Thanks to the latter, certain
cinephiles may have Yasujiro Ozu spring to mind when watching, although the director DNA you could read into the film's form spreads wide, from the carefully controlled speeches of Wes Anderson or Hal Hartley to the spiritually - inclined
likes of Robert Bresson.
Films
like Call Me By Your Name, The Post, and Phantom Thread are still making their way to non-coastal markets, expanding at what feels
like a glacial pace for impatient
cinephiles.
Larry loves the industry and yet, barring the adoration offered by hardcore fans and
like - minded
cinephiles such as Joe Dante, John Landis, Mick Garris and Martin Scorses, gets little love in return.
just
like how there's xenomorphs that aren't ever mentioned in the Alien movies but every
cinephile knows their title anyways?
The idea of a Joe Dante zombie romance sounds
like cinephile heaven, but this horror - comedy about a bad girlfriend who hectors a dude from beyond the grave is unfunny, sexist, and out of character.
As has become Criterion's habit, included are a number of features geared toward the
cinephiles who make up its fan base, things
like film historian Bruce Eder's audio commentary, experts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock, and a gallery of production stills.
JUSTIN CHANG: The first time I became distantly aware of the Oscars was the 1992 ceremony, mainly because «Beauty and the Beast» was up for a bunch of awards — I wasn't much of a
cinephile then but I was,
like a lot of 9 - year - old kids, a total Disneyholic.
Seeing, or rather hearing, William Friedkin is a rare treat for horror fans and
cinephiles, given that the celebrated director is best known for his work on behind the camera on films
like The French Connection, which won him an Academy Award for Best Director.
Jarmusch spoke eloquently about his love of Janus film - makers
like Bergman and Ozu, and even the significance of the Janus logo, and he struck a resonant note for the assembled crowd of
cinephiles when he discussed his stash of Criterion Collection laserdiscs, even though his laserdisc player is currently broken.
Like an avalanche of awesomeness, the 2014 edition of SXSW has washed over its attendees, leaving
cinephiles to sift through the rubble and pick up the pieces of our lives.
Of the thirteen titles and personalities that need no introduction, it's the
likes of Hong Sang - soo (Locarno) and the Venice preemed, and not yet picked up items from Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov (all potential Golden Lion winners) that are still sight unseen for several North American based
cinephiles.
Get in while you can, become the first among your group of
cinephiles to see this film, recommend it to others and look
like a genius.
This exposure about the whole rating scandal is nice, but it feel
like it is preaching to the choir b / c outside of
cinephiles who follow more artsy films, the general public still doesn't know what is going on (or care.)
The Extra-Terrestrial Rated PG Available on DVD and Blu - ray In 1982, when I was a mere ten years old, I went from being a kid who
liked movies to a
cinephile.
Set in the medium's native city of Lyon and captained by
cinephiles Thierry Frémaux and Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière Festival, which hosted its 9th edition in 2017, unfolded
like an ethereal, kaleidoscopic journey through cinema joining the living and the departed, the modern and the classical, the marginal and the mainstream via an eclectic lineup of new releases, revivals, and restorations, including American westerns selected by Tavernier, from John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) to King Vidor's Man Without a Star (1955); Henri Decoin's Monelle (1948); Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981); John Cassavetes's A Child Is Waiting (1963); and Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970).