Sentences with phrase «contemporary cinema»

A fascinating insight into the working methods, philosophy, and influences of one of contemporary cinema's most important directors.

We've seen this evolution play out in contemporary cinema too.

This seems like perfect casting, and a great opportunity to bring these two back into contemporary cinema.

The film was made as a provocative reflection on the too alluring depiction of violence in much contemporary cinema.

Compared to contemporary cinema at large, though, this is superior entertainment.

If South Korean cinema delivers reliable genre pieces, Japanese contemporary cinema tends to be a bit more innovative.

Really the site is just an exploration and understanding of movie and TV costume design with an eye on trend and fashion influences, particularly those represented in contemporary cinema.

Welcome to Issue 84 of Senses of Cinema, where we proudly once again have the privilege of sharing a range of writing on cinema from around the world, with our focus as always as much on contemporary cinema as...

It's become more and more rare in contemporary cinema for a filmmaker to not only revisit thematic territory, but to essentially re-examine the same basic narrative dynamic from different angles.

Tim Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema's most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, he has proved so adept at wearing the various hats of actor, writer, and director that no less a figure than the legendary filmmaker Robert Altman declared him the second coming of Orson Welles.

Dedicating her time to explore contemporary cinema and art, she has previously worked in film production.

A sterling example of everything that's wrong with contemporary cinema, it was clearly directed by a retard with ADHD and is full of enough irritating and pointless camera trickery to make Tony Scott blush.

Michael Bay, with all his grace, delivers one of his finest peaces of contemporary cinema up to date.

Among mainstream contemporary cinema, Red Sparrow most directly recalls Atomic Blonde, last summer's Charlize Theron vehicle that was well - received critically and an okay box office performer.

MSPIFF programmers have brought in women - directed films that are in the vanguard of global contemporary cinema.

For that we can thank contemporary cinema's «torture porn» craze, which has seen movies in the Saw and Hostel series upping the ante for gore and imagining increasingly twisted ways to torment its characters.

Their programme shows contemporary cinema alongside curated classics.

Meaghan Morris performs a superb cultural reading of Australian contemporary cinema in her essay «Fate and the Family Sedan», in particular, the nagging presence of «inward» male types, the eradication of difference and the absence of romantic or positive representations of the nuclear family.

One of the outstanding films of 2014, Leviathan lives up to its title: it's a behemoth of intelligent contemporary cinema.

Playing the heartless envoy from hell, Malkina, she creates one of the most compelling visions of evil contemporary cinema has given us.

There are few pleasures in contemporary cinema comparable to those of watching Marion Cotillard.

24 April — 4 May 2008 In the State of Cinema Address at the 51st San Francisco Film Festival, delivered annually by a prominent figure» to address complex issues facing contemporary cinema»,...

June 23 - 26, 2011 Laity Lodge Retreat with Rodney Reeves and Jeffrey Overstreet I spoke about ways in which contemporary cinema can nourish our lives through encounters with the sacred, with beauty, and with mystery.

James Ivory's script, adapted from André Aciman's internationally renowned novel, delights in intellectual pleasures absent from most contemporary cinema.

He is guest editor of a special issue focusing on Brazilian contemporary cinema for the Université de Montréal's journal Cinémas (2011), and the film programmer of BRAFFv - Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto.

At one panel, actors Randall Park, Usman Ally, Joy Osmanski, and Lucille Soong discussed ethnic stereotypes in contemporary cinema Read more

Smigiel is associate curator, performance and film, at SFMOMA, where he commissions visual arts - based performances and designs modern and contemporary cinema programs.

JIFF screened selected works of Winterbottom in three categories, and the programme included a master class with the director with the aim to offer a new perspective on Europe's present and consider where contemporary cinema is headed post-1990s.

Ghost in the Shell is a worthy, brutish entry into contemporary cinema's burgeoning crop of post-human inquiry.

Based in London, Giulia dedicates her time to explore contemporary cinema and visual arts.

Today, with more than eight hundred fifty titles, the Ruben Collection brings together classic and contemporary cinema as well as documentaries, avant - garde films, and video works by artists.

Fans of Lawrence's over-ripe turn in American Hustle (2013) will be pleased to know that she remains among contemporary cinema's least subtle performers of drunkenness, even resorting to a comical hiccup this time out.

On contemporary cinema: «I think movies are getting dumber, actually.

In short, if we carefully examine the state of contemporary cinema, we easily acknowledge that even though there is a defining economic and technological imbalance between Hollywood and the rest of national film industries, first, it would short - sighted to understand Hollywood cinema as a monolithic structure which survives through the repeated performance of a practice of top - down cannibalism.

By focusing on the creation of one of contemporary cinema's most beloved «so bad it's good» movies, «The Disaster Artist» weaves a potently funny and bizarrely heartwarming story about dreams, determination, creativity, and friendship.

Depending on your age and level of appreciation for contemporary cinema, this is either a timely throwback or a needless exercise in nostalgia.

So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar.

Jeff's masculinity is toxic and complex in a manner rarely explored in contemporary cinema.

Part of the journal's mission is to pinpoint «the «now» in contemporary cinema,» which includes what Koresky calls «middlebrow films.»

The Senses of Cinema podcast is a monthly podcast that covers wide - ranging discussion of contemporary cinema, retrospectives on films and filmmakers, and includes lively, intelligent debate on the world of...

All of this is a shame, because the seeds of a conceptually daring project are present here: a mainstream Hollywood special - effects action extravaganza retelling a classic Japanese legend with a cast made up mostly of Japanese actors, many of them mainstays in the country's contemporary cinema, and all of whom are allowed to occasionally take the spotlight away from its more widely known marquee star.

Allan Cameron's Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they often resemble.