Sentences with phrase «contemporary films of this genre»

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Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

The genre is arguably one of the riskier for filmmakers to tackle because the film must not only make the audience believe in a world or setting that is seemingly ambitious, but the filmmaker must also convey a contemporary message of some kind.

This identity disorder — Sofia is one of contemporary cinema's most filmed cities, yet rarely plays itself — is personified by the lead character (Elika Portnoy), a Bulgarian woman with multiple personalities, each one belonging to a different genre: a bespectacled, blonde educator with a controlling husband (domestic drama), a redheaded belly dancer (romance à la Zalman King), and jet - black - haired professional assassin (thriller).

A sensitive and astute consideration of a film working in the seemingly popular contemporary genre of the multiple, interlocking narrative.

The film is set in contemporary Los Angeles with familiar genre nods to the past, anywhere from the thirties to eighties, and a watchful eye on fashions of the future.

It's a contemporary prequel to the genre - defining film, Psycho, and will give us an intimate portrayal of Norman Bates» teenage years.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

by Walter Chaw Lyrical, dislocated, and grim in the fashion of a Derek Jarman film (and director John Maybury served as editor on Jarman's The Last of England), The Jacket, like Altered States, Miracle Mile, Jacob's Ladder, and 12 Monkeys before it, is the sort of doom - filled genre romance that's regularly underestimated in popular contemporary conversation.

Great Directors on TCM: Akira Kurosawa Between his flawless translations of American genre films (especially crime films and westerns) to Japanese settings both contemporary and medieval, his groundbreaking experiments with cinematic point of view and narrative reliability, and his brilliant juxtapositions of Shakespeare with Japanese tradition, Akira Kurosawa can easily claim to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time.

Steeped in Australia's brutal colonialist past and evoking other contemporary classics such as The Proposition and The Tracker, Sweet Country continually defies and undermines genre expectations with its masterful command of film style and its confronting tale of racism and injustice.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, MoviesOnline sat down at a roundtable interview with Chazelle who discussed how he looked for ways to bring a contemporary language that was musical, visual and emotional to a genre that runs the risk of nostalgia.

Michael Almereyda is an interesting and ambitious filmmaker (his 1994 vampire film «Nadja» is one of the better contemporary riffs on the genre) who doesn't work as often as he should.

Along with the contemporary films of Anthony Mann, The Searchers marks a point in the Western genre where we can no longer necessarily accept the motives of the good guys to be pure, and in fact, are forced to question if the good guys are actually good — perhaps the beginning of the revisionist western.

But just as older genre film fans might look back in wonder at the summer of ’82 (featuring E.T., Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof ’82 (featuring E.T., Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain America).

Opening in June 2017, major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is a genre - defining exploration of one of popular culture's most celebrated realms encompassing literature, contemporary art, film, music, comic books and video games to present a new, global perspective on Science Fiction.

Performa: New Visual Art Performance presents an authoritative introduction to the genre, many forms including radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance, and provides a vivid tour through the world of contemporary performance, featuring inventive documentation of works by some of the most significant artists of our time, including Jesper Just, Francis Alys, Christian Marclay, Laurie Simmons, Tamy Ben - Tor, Melik Ohanian, Michael Smith, Christian Holstad, and Gelitin.

A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and the consequences of global capitalism through his critical writings, photographic installations, videos, and films.

Unique in its scope and genre and presently in its 5th edition, the FotoFilmic annual traveling exhibition aims at bringing the entire world community of photographers attached to film and preceding historical processes closer together in an effort to both promote emerging talent and help redefine the artistic significance of the medium's contemporary practices.

In 1964, inspired by both the long history of art and by imagery he found on contemporary printed postcards, Roy Lichtenstein began to explore the genre of land and seascapes, using paint, plastic, enamel, drawings, collage, print, and even film to realize his various works.

Program Exhibitions / film screenings / manga library / performances / talk events / workshops / guided tours etc. — Brings together a total of approximately 120 works selected from 4,347 entries from 84 countries and regions — Presents a cross-section of contemporary artworks from diverse genres — Offers new perspectives on emerging styles of filmic expression through an extensive film program — Holds a program of approximately 40 talk events, workshops, performances etc. throughout the entire duration of the festival — Presents an experience of new cultural forms and ideas made possible by evolving technology