Sentences with phrase «critique of the first film»

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With his first film Home for Life (1966) Gordon established the direction he would take for the next five decades, making cinéma vérité films that investigate and critique society via the unfolding lives of real people.

Well, Scott Foundas is first out of the gate with an extremely early critique of the film, and it's all thumbs up from Brett Ratner's best bud.

When Yahoo asked the actresses about their thoughts regarding the claims of whitewashing being leveled at the film, Portman and Leigh said this was their first time hearing about it, but that the critiques were entirely valid.

Functioning as a social critique but operating first and foremost as the driest, bleakest type of comedy, the film seeks not chuckles but gasps of amused horror, a goal most ably and hauntingly achieved during a sick - joke finale in which the bubble is finally burst thanks to a sly bit of pop - culture infiltration.

Raised in a strict Calvinist family in Michigan — he saw his first movie in his late teens — Schrader's religious underpinnings and his obsession with film entwined when he critiqued Bresson's «Pickpocket,» about the misfortunes of a thief.

Neshat, whose work critiques the cultural construction of difference, fully turns her attention to American culture for the first time in this show and depicts the ambiguity of feeling for an outsider through enigmatic images, haunting encounters and mystified points of view in her film and photography.