The film opens with an authentic recreation of a vintage newsreel and its admiration of classic cinema doesn't end there.
Not exact matches
Guest post from Mary who blogs about all things to
do with vintage and
classic cinema at We Heart Vintage
There are a wide variety of romantic things to
do in the city; like taking advantage of its vibrant cultural arts scene, or enjoying some of the finest
classic cinemas in the UK.
Plan a daytime - date, and take in an art gallery, matinee show, or take a trip to the
cinema — there's plenty to
do during the day and no need to stick to the
classic coffee shop!
Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the
cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s
classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead
doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.
Flawed though Meet John
Doe may be by its ending, it is the key film in Capra's filmography, and a must - see for anyone interested in
classic cinema.
If his filmography included only half the
classics they
do, he'd still be lauded as one of modern
cinema's most influential visionaries.
He
did after all give us some of
cinemas greatest obsessed (anti--RRB- heroes in Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle in 70s
classic THE FRENCH CONNECTION and William Petersen's Richard Chance in 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
The lack of any nominations for his films which are absolute
classics and an integral part of
cinemas genre history is much more shocking when other filmmakers have simply missed out at the final ballot stage whereas Leone didn't even get to hear the starting pistol fire.
There's no better time of year for fans of
classic cinema, no better place to watch
classic films than movie palaces like the Chinese and Egyptian Theatres in the heart of Hollywood, and no better audiences to watch films with hundreds of people who love the
classics as much as you
do.
However, while Lachman had referenced
classics of European
cinema for other films, including Haynes» singular Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, he didn't reference any specific cinematic world for Carol.
This disjunction of sounds and images is of course a
classic narrative devise of
cinema (27) and functions as a kind of pedagogical entry into the visual regime of the film; it
does interpolate the viewer and ask him or her to connect these tracks, not necessarily to make sense of them, but at least to organise a suspended logic of connectivity.
«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and
cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures
Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it
did.
Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like
classic narrative
cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she
does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.
2011 was a year that didn't deliver a tremendous amount of great
cinema but the great
cinema was really incredible and I think 2011 gave us some future
classics, not least of which is The Skin I Live In, maybe my favourite Almodóvar film of all time... and that's saying a lot.
Nowadays, with technological innovation, new heavy - hitting players, like Netflix and Amazon, enter the lucrative
cinema game and the
classic model of production - distribution - exhibition is again tested and changed and we can ask the existential question:
does a film have to also be available in theatres to be
Cinema?
Criterion isn't the first to
do this — The Godfather and Casablanca embrace the grain also — but it really jumped out at me in The Third Man and started me reevaluating what constitutes a proper restoration and mastering standard for
classic cinema.
I agree with his viewpoint that younger generations and more of the general populace should be more open to watching
classic movies, but I don't think he realizes that there are a lot of young, passionate film enthusiasts that are well versed in the history of
cinema, and many of them attend Fantastic Fest.
His love of
classic cinema made this likely, of course; Hitchcock famously appeared in his own movies, as
does Tarantino, and all you have to
do is complete one little VIP side - op to unlock him as a new recruit.
It is, however, a persuasive treatment of the issue, through the lens of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Yusuf comes across as more exasperated than excoriating: «Though Black Ops blatantly lifts scenes and lines from
cinema classics like Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter, it fails to communicate the same anti-war message that Kubrick and Cimino
did.»
What The Clock
does is survey the narratives that make up
classic cinema, rather than merely reduce its source material to clips of clocks.
That said, it
does feel dated, overdone and a little bit creaky in places, and A View To A Kill really marks the end of the road for «
classic» Connery - Lazenby - Moore Bond -
cinema was moving on, and it was time to bring the iconic spy film franchise into the modern era.