Sentences with phrase «film about cinema»
This is a film about cinema, specifically an early proponent, magician - turned - filmmaker, Georges Méliès, who made films such as A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), and The Impossible Voyage / Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904).
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You know, I went to the cinema, back in the»70s, and saw this film about military surgeons wearing Hawaiian clothes, saving lives in a war, and I thought, «This is the neatest thing there is.
The Big Short, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis» book of the same name about the causes of the financial crisis, opens in UK cinemas this weekend.
European concerns about Hollywood films are largely based upon the existing trade deficit with the USA in audiovisual trade and the fact that over half of the movies exhibited in European cinemas are made in the USA against only 2 % European films released in the USA.
There were some iffy - looking films made at the time, and in French cinema there's the fine Louis Malle comedy May Fools about May 1968, but that's about all that I'm recalling.
On Rixa's blog Stand and Deliver she lists 61 film clips she compiled for a conference presentation about depictions of childbirth in cinema.
The Big Short, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis» book of the same name about the causes of the financial crisis, opens in UK cinemas this weekend.
They've struggled to get funding or get it shown in cinemas and on television: who would want to see a film about stillbirth, after all?
We will keep you updated with breaking news about this film — and let you know how you can help arrange to have it shown at your local cinema.
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How could he leave out the wonderful Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit (about a chemist who invents a fabric that never gets dirty, never needs ironing, never wears out — and nearly causes a revolution because it is too perfect) Fortunately, Perkowitz does include The Day the Earth Stood Still (the film in which Patricia Neal delivers one of cinema's most famous geek catchphrases: «Gort!
The Big Short hits UK cinemas these are the best films about.
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Although we joked about «Warrior» above, we actually really enjoyed Gavin O'Connor's MMA film, perhaps even because of (rather than in spite of) its commitment to exploiting every underdog sports movie convention in cinema history.
Don't bother to see this film unless you expect to be tested in film class about the Coens» serial dissertation on American cinema.
It's really good, deserves respect for its treatment of the subject matter, and is a great example of what I love about 70s cinema, but I just didn't get blown away by it, Maybe I just wasn't quite in the right frame of mind, or maybe I've just seen too many films like this already, but I don't think it's quite as good as everyone else does.
Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of cinema's most eternally beguiling films, with a seemingly endless amount of theories bandied about on what it all means.
There's something oddly charming about the film's dogged, goofy attempt to earnestly write the rules of a franchise that will clearly be haunting cinemas, or sleepovers, for years to come.
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The famed film scholar talks about four writers who redefined film criticism (and cinema): Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler
Clip is one of those rare films about young people, directed by a very young filmmaker, but with the gravitas of cinema crafted by very old European masters.
Eloise braved the heat to talk some film with us for an hour, and for the sake of audio quality we had to turn off the air conditioner and the fan and swelter as we tried to be erudite about all aspects of cinema.
Allan Cameron's Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they often resemble.
Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.
Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
Running alongside this generational misplacement is a bubbling undercurrent about the erosion of «truth» in cinema — a fretfulness about what being a film - maker means in a world where everyone wields a camera.
Asghar Farhadi's 2009 film About Elly — only released in the U.S. four years after the triumph of Farhadi's 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar - winner A Separation — was praised for, among other things, its canny self - positioning in relation to the history of European art cinema.
It's clearly early days — there's as yet no word if the film will be a straight - up biography of Ebert or something more wide - reaching about cinema, but either way it's exciting news.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Except for a delightful coda during the closing credits, where Tavernier wonders whether the Lumière brothers «directed» the passersby in their first film, there's nothing about silent cinema.
On a deeper level, though, this brief opening battle establishes the central theme of Lincoln, and it's a theme that lies very much at the heart of Spielberg's cinema: if Lincoln is intended to be a biopic about arguably the most revered commander - in - chief in the history of the Republic, it also positions itself with its opening images as a film about race.
It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.
Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot, the French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of Inferno
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But in his new introduction, his observations about slow cinema from Tarkovsky to Kiarostami to Tarr are every bit as compelling as his earlier insights into film noir.»
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Scarface Rated R Available on Blu - ray It's easy to appreciate the influence this Cuban American gangster film has had on world cinema, but after watching it again, I just don't see what all the fuss is about.
Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.
One of the reasons the film feels so fruitful to me is because it does combine that first book I wrote about spirituality in cinema and the first film I wrote, which is about the psychopathology of suicidal glory.
Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.
Enter the world of Hammer Horror with our exlusive interview with Aidan Gillen about his latest feature «Wake Wood» (in cinemas this Friday), the first Hammer horror film to be shot in Ireland.
• Finally, reader questions, including queries about a hypothetical five - film Best Picture slate, an apparent influx in populist cinema finding room in the Oscar race and how we all got our starts in the blogosphere.
With the film released in UK cinemas this Friday, ahead of a Christmas Day streaming debut on MUBI UK, we chat with Green about his direction of actors and collaborating with producers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
But we are all about cinema and we wish to have films that play in competition get released in theaters.
(p. 37) Yet, whereas Daire sees Mauprat as a dynamic, complex, and ostensibly queer studio film (the gender play he notes in the biography), Keller sees the film as a «costume drama [that] lacks almost entirely the vigour described by Epstein about the effects of cinema on an audience.»
The hot topics included discussions about more and more movies being released in 3D, the ongoing conversion to high definition digital projection, and the newest innovations: films being shot in a higher frame rate, and what was described as «the cinema of the future»; the introduction of laser projection which offers the promise of a brighter light source and savings on bulb costs.