Sentences with phrase «early film history»

Those festival guests who missed the Capellani films missed, in my opinion, the rewriting of early film history.

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The artifacts are part of an oral history project shown in 1986 that were digitized from black - and - white film, capturing children in the Bronx from 1895 to the early 1980s, all done by Georgeen Comerford.

The discourse is cut together with clips from early Merchant Ivory films like Bombay Talkie and The Guru, providing an interesting platform for the way film history invariably impacts each generation differently.

Made with the full support and cooperation of the Royal Air Force, Battle for the Skies is the definitive film history of the RAF from the early days of the Air Battalion and the Royal Flying Corps right up to its role in the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.

This hilarious film is part history lesson, part succession drama, and part comedy of errors set in the upper echelons of the Soviet Communist hierarchy in the tumultuous early 1950s.

Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

Peary builds his film as a sort of history lesson on the rise and development of film criticism from the early days prior to the release of The Birth of a Nation, the Sarris / Kael war, to Bowsley Crowther's 27 - year reign as top critic at The New York Times and even touching a little on the New World of the internet where everyone has the potential to be a critic.

But this film, despite the excellent lead performance of Michael Fassbender (with a decent American accent — I'm American), moves too slickly between the technical, and often incomprehensible, history of Apple early computing and Jobs» seemingly autistic behaviour in terms of his personal relationships.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

One of the film's earliest shots even feels like it's ripped straight out of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, a film in which Scorsese himself performed, evoking authenticity from cinematic history and actual history in even measure.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

The film, drawing sell - out crowds in early limited release across North America, scored 12 nominations — a record in the event's 16 - year history, organizers said Monday.

American History films tend to sit well with Academy voters (Lincoln, 12 Years A Slavery), so don't act too surprised if The Keeping Room ends up being an early Oscar candidate.

(3) Yet it needs to be mentioned, as variations on this kind of argument have shaped views of both Spielberg's place in film history, and his artistic merit, from early in his career.

As an early winner of the Best Picture Oscar, Cavalcade is one of the weaker films to hold a place in film history books.

They aren't all masterpieces, of course, but they do offer a history of the evolution of film comedy through the silent era to early sound films.

Living passionately despite ominous ill health is a theme of this social - history drama about a group of Aids activists in early - 1990s Paris, and the film's director, Robin Campillo, accordingly fills every scene with vitality.

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

Join producer James Tucker, producer / director Brandon Vietti, WAC Podcast hosts Matthew Patterson and DW Ferranti and surprise guests, as they examine Batman iterations and oddities throughout history, from early films like «Public Defender» and the Batman cartoons, to new versions of the character, the off - kilter takes and new media.

Director Joe and Anthony Russo's film is already pacing to be the top superhero preseller in Fandango history, a title that was nabbed by «Black Panther» just earlier this year.

My own research reveals that by the early 1990s, most Hollywood films held the «main» credits for the end, reversing a long history of studio filmmaking that announced up - front who was responsible for the film you were about to see.

I immediately identified with the film's protagonist, solid A student Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes), who, in an early scene, presents a much - worked - on project in her history class, only to have her presentation abruptly cut short by vicious barbs hurled by the class's instructor, Mrs. Eve Tingle (Helen Mirren).

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.

Starring Hemlock Grove's Kaniehtiio Horn — a First Nations Mohawk who grew up on the Kahnawake Reserve — as a Mohawk woman driven to violence by soldiers» assault on her family and her ancestral home in early 19th - century New York, the film engages with the horrors of American history in an uncommonly blunt way, using them to tell a tale of supernaturally tinged revenge.

Born in Australia, Doyle studied Chinese art history at the University of Maryland, became a sailor, and settled in Taiwan, where he became an apprentice to Chen Kun - hou, the cinematographer on Hou Hsiao - hsien's early films.

It's too early in the game, in my opinion, to think this film won't be a player, as recent history points in favor of Tarantino's bloodiest work.

When Australian cinematographer John Seale got word of the Sisyphean development of Mad Max: Fury Road in its early stages, he was just glad that it wasn't his cross to bear, not realizing that he would soon find himself working on one of the most infamously challenging productions in recent film history.

Plus director Bryan Singer «s last film, «Jack The Giant Slayer,» was by some distance the worst of his career, and early marketing materials made it look like «DOFP» had a tiny scope that belied its budget (the second most expensive in Fox's history, after «Avatar «-RRB-, and made it seem like some kind of mid -»90s vision of the future.

As for the «natural history film,» it seems he's talking about the long - gestating documentary «Voyage Of Time» which producers indicated earlier this year would be undergoing additional and new shooting.

If there are moments early on in which the film seems unfocused in its wide - ranging approach to capturing the fraught moment in American history, the perspective soon tightens to one specific location for many of the film's 143 minutes: the Algiers Motel.

by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.

Boasting a history with the Coen brothers dating back to their early films, makeup and hair department heads Jean Ann Black and Cydney Cornell were excited to delve into the pair's latest effort, old Hollywood comedy Hail, Caesar!

Early word of mouth is that the film rounds out the «trilogy» that Spielberg began with Lincoln in 2012 and continued with Bridge of Spies in 2015 - movies that reflect on important moments in U.S. history and hold a mirror up to present - day political concerns and issues.

There's so much to be mined from Australia's colonial history that I feel as if we're on the brink of releasing a whole glut of films re-imagining our stories (both from the last 220 years and earlier).

Perhaps because this relationship, and the history they share together, is never really given enough screen time early on to help us believe in it later when the thriller aspect of the film kicks off.

Earlier this month, the actress made her feature - film debut in Get Out, Jordan Peele's horror film which has earned critical acclaim, made box - office history, and inspired moviegoers to return to theaters for second and third viewings.

«A United Kingdom» starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike premiered earlier this year in the U.S.. Both films deal with race and interracial relationships during fragile times in history for these subject matters to be playing out.

And my mother took advantage of it from an early age...» Profound monologues like this are the theme of choice in Prozac Nation, an ambiguous film with a colorful history starring Christina Ricci as the «anti-heroine» Elizabeth Wurtzel.

The emotional component of this plot turn doesn't really land until Creed, which engages with Rocky history so skillfully that several cheesy touches from the earlier films come out of the new one looking better, smarter, and more satisfying than they ought to be.

Some of the earliest research in social studies education focused on the use of films to teach history (Consitt, 1931; Knowlton & Tilton, 1929).

-- P.H. Heilbron tells the story of this little - known car which was made from 1906 until W.W. I. / l93l Talbot 105 — Mark Gillies drove «GO 53» on the road and on the track at Silverstone / Hillman early history — In Part 1 of this article Michael Worthington - Williams recounts the development of the company from 1907 - 1929 / Bentley performs for TV — How a 3 - litre Bentley took part in film - making for a TV series.

Within this narrative, it shows early films by the likes of the Lumière brothers not to film buffs at festivals or as stills in history books but to a young audience (this is a film for kids) on commercial screens.

Recalling Matthew Barney's early performative work, and the self - transformations in his Cremaster film cycle, Ball's portrait also references art history.

Inspired by classic group portraits throughout art history, she has taken black - and - white film photographs of the artistic crowd inhabiting Bushwick today, which will be exhibited alongside her photos of early Bushwick and Panero's writings on the neighborhood.

Using film stills, publicity materials, photographs, and recollections, Leonard creates a rich history culled from the real lives and stories of black women in the early days of Hollywood.

The publication draws connections between recent works, including those on view at the SITElab exhibition, and earlier series including animated films The Simpson Verdict (2002) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005), as well as his ongoing drawing series The History of Photography Remix.

Travelling through the past 50 years of art history and 50 years of Ligon history, you begin to witness how the artist has responded and «found» a voice to explore different trends, from his early interest in abstract painting to his discovery of conceptual art and film.

Of particular interest for cinema history is Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (1927), Terry Ramsaye's film adaptation of his classic A Million and One Nights (1926) about the early years of the motion picture industry.

Evoking the myths and histories of the «Wild West» and taking the form of vignettes that last under a minute (as per Rule Number One), the films draw on American Western folklore, Situationist psychogeography, early film and primitive cinema, such as flipbooks and kinetoscopes.

A giant in the history of video art, Charles Atlas has been steadily pushing the boundaries of his medium since the early 1970s with his varied and highly influential films and productions, including especially his pioneering work in media - dance or «dance for camera» with renowned choreographer Merce Cunningham.