Sentences with phrase «contemporary film criticism»

The question of whether or not a film is entertaining is outside the domain of contemporary film criticism.

Unfortunately, when confronted by images that concentrate so exhaustively upon a celebrity of Pitt's magnitude, the tendency within contemporary film criticism is to dismiss such compositions as the consequences of a director lavishing an inordinate amount of attention upon his, or her, star's ego, thereby creating empty images devoid of substance.

He dropped off FILM COMMENT's radar until 2005, but not before giving the magazine a statement of intent it might have claimed as its own: «If I still have a role to play in contemporary film criticism, I am convinced it is that of a freelance operator, open — potentially at least — to all influences, critical of all influences, subject exclusively to none.»

Her love of cinema was matched only by an equal love of combat, qualities that quickly catapulted her to the pinnacle of contemporary film criticism.

Naremore's introductory essay, «An Invention without a Future,» discusses one of the most relevant issues of contemporary film criticism: what is the authentic movie experience?

I was instantly hypnotized reading just the first paragraph, realizing exactly the quality of the film review this was to be... Obviously drastically different from ANY and all contemporary film criticism I am familiar with, at any rate... Vaguely reminiscent of the output of Pauline Kael, only much, much more microscopically detailed.

His The Makes (2009) is a displacement of Michelangelo Antonioni's unrealised screenplays that simultaneously functions as a tongue - in - cheek evaluation of contemporary film criticism.

November 18 — 27, 2005 «Independent Cinema» is one of the most slippery categories in the lexicon of contemporary film criticism.

A seminal piece of contemporary film criticism, written late in Daney's career, which interweaves personal reflection and sharp analysis in a moving meditation on cinema, history and criticism.