Sentences with phrase «essays in film criticism»
Thus, Schrader's early essays in film criticism for the L. A. Free Press stood apart from typical auteur or sociological analysis of the day, but also from the leftism of the underground press.
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Robert Walsh: I saw a passing reference in Susan Sontag's «Against Interpreation» essay, in which she praised Manny's film criticism.
Video essays are increasing in popularity online as a form of film criticism.
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost, edited by Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton, is a book in two parts: the first, Films in a Shifting Landscape, is a series of essays analyzing the historical and cultural legacy that shaped three generations of Soviet film criticism; the second, Glasnost's Top Ten, is a compilation of... read more»
About Prieur I can say a little more, because I own a rather good 1980 collection of his film criticism, Nuits blanches («White Nights»), that includes an essay on «Artaud and the Cinema»; the book's jacket informs me that Prieur was born in Paris in 1951, writes on film and literature, and is — or was — the film critic for La nouvelle revue francaise.
These essays — on Fassbinder, the 1975 New York Film Festival, Taxi Driver, and Jeanne Dielman — found Farber at the peak of his powers, blessed with one of the most distinctive (and idiosyncratic) voices in English - language film criticism.
Not only did the archive include all of the sharp, highly opinionated capsule reviews that Jonathan Rosenbaum and Dave Kehr had written for the alternative weekly, but it also provided access to one of the most vital bodies of work in film criticism: Rosenbaum's brilliantly sustained run of essays on contemporary cinema.
That might sound like contrarian posturing in light of the many, many essays that have recently eulogized the «death of film criticism.»
In an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, the legendary director lauded the film while also taking aim at the state of modern film criticism, particularly that pesky Rotten Tomatoes.