Sentences with word «cinephilia»

The glory of Cannes — and of cinephilia in general, for that matter — is that you never know for sure from which direction the long - awaited lightning bolt will strike.

Isn't cinephilia at heart the love of the un - or barely seen, such that cinephilic passion increases to the measure of the rarity of the cine - object?)

Despite its flaws and will to kitsch, «The Lovers and the Despot» has enough enigmas and chills to merit a look, even if some of its spookier moments involve cinephilia rather than the usual weapons of mass destruction.

Feminist cinephilia has always been a complicated proposition, but it should surely demand better than this blunder.

Josh Mond's film feels like a careful curation of western cinephilia's most overdone narrative arcs and exhausted character clichés.

Full of Bogdanovich's cinephilia all over, and two outstanding performances by the leads, the little known Tim O'Kelly and the immortal horror star Boris Karloff.

If cinephilia has a literal holy text, to be referred to and examined in times of joy and stress and sorrow, it is this.

His signature is unmistakable, and this is a film that insists on its own cinephilia: it is set partly in a flat positioned over a magnificent but sadly almost empty movie theatre.

Like Rosenbaum's work, An Invention Without a Future is a book that implies a unified cinephilia — academy and journalism, film and film writing, all modes of criticism (cultural, historical, evaluative, theoretical) scholarly research and weekly reviewing, politics and aesthetics.

Naremore's interest in all aspects of cinema, his total and single cinephilia, draws me to cinematic subjects, such as movie acting, that I normally would not have much interest in.

As the only festival in the US to be accredited by FIAPF, and having developed under the shadow of the formidable American Film Institute, the event entertains a complex relationship to mainstream US film culture and international cinephilia.

But this is not merely cinephilia cranked up to the eleventh degree, his use of juxtaposition and the random appearance of actors such as Nicolas Cage, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and Donald Sutherland somehow making this the best outright comedy of the Berlinale so far.

That great wave of cinephilia from the sixties and seventies got less intense, so a lot of the older shows were forgotten.

Yes the parameters may be looser — we encourage submissions of older films, for example, firmly believing that such viewing keeps cinephilia alive and is always in dialogue with contemporary film viewing.

As stated in the comments of an earlier post, my whole indoctrination into cinephilia was prompted by the Oscars and I sought out and learned so much Old Hollywood BECAUSE of the ceremony's focus on multiple generations.

It is in this quality of perennially being a level playing field for film criticism that 21st century cinephilia is most promising, rejects as it does both the intellectual priesthood of the academia and the oligarchic taste - making of print criticism.

Dan Santelli is a lapsed Midwesterner, hailing from Youngstown, Ohio, whose lifelong cinephilia has led to him to seeing over 6,000 films during the course of his 27 years.

And while the sense of humor and tone we chalk up to longtime director Hideo Kojima often take weird left turns into perviness, poop jokes and dorky, jarring cinephilia, that offbeat approach just as often creates elegant, wonderful surprises.

Brice Dellsperger: «Body Double: Vous N'en Croirez Pas Vos Yeux» (through Aug. 1) Taking cinephilia to absurdist extremes, this French artist makes ultra-low-budget films in which he and a few other actors, usually in drag, recreate scenes and full - length versions of well - known movies, retaining the original soundtracks.

In a review of a book on the history of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes: Cinephilia, is the condition of a sexual attraction to movies.

What keeps Reverse Shot's writers in the game, as much as any hope of others reading their work, is the journal's palpable sense of community and cinephilia.

The journal's particular brand of cinephilia is obsessive but inclusive; it does not contain citations like fellow film journals Rouge or La Furia Umana, and words like «intertextuality» and «heteroglossia» are not thrown around.

Summertime moviegoing, especially in a big city with a healthy appetite for both cinephilia and nostalgia, means more than simply waiting around for franchise blockbusters to take your money and run.

Yasujiro Ozu's cinephilia has been well known for some time now, especially his love of American movies.

Peppered with remarks from Disney artists of old, it's an extremely amiable slice of cinephilia and really the sum total of the remaining extras.

The idea of the lost or broken film is central to cinephilia, but its implications are ambiguous.

In its kneejerk nostalgia, Wonder Wheel fillets bits and pieces of Manhattan (the declamatory opening), Broadway Danny Rose (the guys yakking, the mob), The Purple Rose of Cairo (the cinephilia, the hopeless romanticism) and Bullets over Broadway (the period love, the mob) among sundry others.

In fact, Naremore's work involves unifying this brand of cinephilia — what Jonathan Rosenbaum once referred to as «maniacal, unreasoning» cinephilia — with the critical theories and cultural studies that have dominated academic film discourse.

A continuing, poetic dialogue on a «sacred» film and a reflection on film criticism and cinephilia.

It's a film which reaches out to cinema history and cinephilia, and perhaps it is true (just as it was for Alejandro González Iñárittu's Birdman) that fantasy is something that goes over very well for awards voters, especially when it is mixed with eroticism and romance.

The videos are a great expression of Greg's cinephilia, but what's the use in making so many movies if none of them are truly your own?

Applied to cinephilia, you get umpteen tweets about «ugly - crying» at Lady Bird or (usually men) jokingly bemoaning the dust that made them tear up during Coco.

Did we mention the eccentric animated asides and the cinephilia fetishim that runs throughout the picture?

If you also factor in that the film is full of nods to the French New Wave, including an obnoxious overuse of classic scores by Georges Delerue, you might deduce that Baumbach's reverential hyper - cinephilia has gotten the better of him again.

Still, I'd be willing to accept Bertolucci's nostalgic fantasy if I could find something believable in the three central characters — their cinephilia, their politics, their nonpolitics, even their by - the - numbers sex.

This may not be the best film Criterion put out this year, but it is the one that best displays Criterion's ongoing contribution to cinephilia: not merely preserving the totemic works but making available wonderful movies that fell through the cracks of even dedicated film buffdom.

Either way, from then on, I was hooked on and doomed to a life of cinephilia.

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN By Kent Jones The repertory programmer of New York's Film Forum talks about life in the trenches of cinephilia

Ozu, more than even Hou Hsiao - hsien, John Ford, Jean - luc Godard and Powell & Pressburger is the happiest discovery I've made since reconnecting with my cinephilia just over three years ago.

Host Eric Hynes talks to French auteur Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours) about visual style, the paradox of cinephilia, and the connections between cinema and real life.

It is woefully inadequate and incomplete, but nothing ever is in cinephilia.

2016 definitely wasn't my first year of cinephilia, but it feels in many ways like the first concrete step towards it becoming my all - consuming passion.