Sentences with phrase «film art history»

Literature, film art history and the depths of an individual's soul are all springboards for Coyne's incessant and unrelenting imagination.

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AIM also operates websites, B2B businesses, a state - of - the - art video unit and Warren Miller Entertainment, the most successful outdoor - film production company in history.

February 21: Explore invention, dance, poetry, art - making, and short films at the Mary Baker Eddy Library's Untold American Stories / Black History Month (Boston)

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

About Site - The Kentishtowner website is dedicated to cultural affairs — art, food, film, booze, fashion, history, music — in this corner of central north London and beyond, we're not bound by boroughs or geography.

I studied an Arts Degree with drama and screen as my majors, so I have an extensive knowledge of theatre and film history which never comes in handy.

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I love good music & enjoy going to see live bands & going to festivals I also enjoy art & urban exploring just to learn the history of a place but that comes about from watching to meany booth brothers documentaries of the unknown I also enjoy horror films And Dumfries is in Scotland

History of BBC studios in London offers news, comment and features about british arts scene sections books, films, music, theatre, art architecture.

Housed in an art deco building almost as interesting as the exhibits within, here you can find 100 years of Australia's film history and sound recordings preserved for posterity.

London About Blog The Kentishtowner website is dedicated to cultural affairs — art, food, film, booze, fashion, history, music — in this corner of central north London and beyond, we're not bound by boroughs or geography.

But the film embraces cultural specificity in a way that no other Pixar production has before, combining the studio's customary emotional directness with a deep dive into a great nation's art, music, history, and customs.

It may try to force too much information into too little time if you don't know about the history and technology of film, but this documentary romanticizes the art with such passion and finesse that it stands as a reaffirmation of the power of movies and the importance of understanding their history and possible future.

Del Toro's commentary track finishes off the extras and, as expected, is filled with the director speaking about influences and inspirations for the film whether from art or film history.

Haynes, with a film light on dialogue and entirely too reliant on Carter Burwell's impressive, ever - expanding and changing but nonetheless incessant score, draws on the hollow sentimentality of his premise rather than the emotional specificity of his characters» engagement with the art and history that saves them.

One of the most prolific film artists in Hollywood history, the German - born art director Hans Dreier worked on more than five hundred films from 1919 to 1951, amassing twenty - three Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

Cooper also manages ARRAY @ The Broad, an on - going film series featuring classic and contemporary films curated with an eye toward the intersection of art, history, and cultural identity.

He and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thompson (who has a book coming out called «Frodo, Fantasy and Franchises: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood»), are also the authors of the two most popular film textbooks, «Film Art» and «Film History.»

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.

The magnitude of what it has accomplished needs to be understood through two paradigms: The context of what this film represents as a milestone, and its greatness as a work of popular art that speaks intelligently about both politics and history.

It's a film that may work differently for you, but I kept trying to find my way into it as history or art and never quite could find either.

Spanning a century of film art and taken from various countries around the world, these posters show the evolution of movie promotion over the years, but more pertinently they also reveal a great deal about how blackness has been portrayed, exploited and indeed commoditised, throughout the history of cinema.

The characters in Hero are understood not simply in terms of the single film they're in, but in relation to the whole history of martial arts films (and perhaps just as significantly for that film, in relation to the careers of its lead actors, Jet Li, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung).

I expect many more posters for this film, as West has a history of getting a lot of key - art for his films (see also, House of the Devil and The Innkeepers in the Rowthree poster archives.)

We're negotiating for films from UCLA Film & Television Archive, George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the National Museum of African American History Culture, the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection at SMU and private collectors — we're calling in all favors.

Entertaining a rich conversation with the history of literature, the history of the world (Europe between WWI and WWII) with its assorted canon of bigotry, persecution and class divide (providing some of the film's most powerful scenes), architecture, fine arts and good acting (the cast is a joy to behold), Anderson has crafted a finely tuned masterpiece.

Culinary Cinema returns with a spread of film delicacies including Bugs, in which Nordic Food Lab chef Ben Reade takes an entertaining journey through one of the last culinary taboos in the west; Sour Grapes, featuring a good humoured take on one of the most impressive wine frauds in modern history; and Barista (above), providing an enlightening and intense glimpse into the art of producing a flawless cup of coffee.

Essentially a biopic wrapped in a kung - fu art film, The Grandmaster's ambition but feeling of incompletion brings to mind Sam Peckinpah's analogous probing of national history, mythology, and masculinity.

As beautiful as the film can be visually from time to time, the ordinary threads underneath the visuals are not enough to sell the extraordinary scope of the art or history.

LONDON — For the second straight year, a story taken from the pages of American history triumphed at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, with «12 Years a Slave» winning prizes for best film and for leading actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.In a...

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.

With its sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic take on one of film history's most durable genres.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the great works of art in the history of film, and yet, except for some recent television screenings, this British production is largely unknown in the United States.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has a long history of recognizing films about the Holocaust.

It's a powerful film and represents cinema as both high - end art, and sober history lesson.

The Nativity may be the most well - trod subject in art history, second only to animated films where seemingly ordinary, humble protagonists discover they have a hidden purpose.

The Wilson Yip films, starring Donnie Yen, follow a more conventional historical biopic structure with the great man caught in the sweep of historic events leading to triumph and tragedy; while Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster uses Ip as a conduit to explore the passing of one age of China's history into another, with martial arts serving a metaphorical purpose.

I'm happy now because I never expected the film could whip up so much debate and discussion about the city and what the martial arts masters» roles were in its history.

Calling Lincoln an heir to these films perhaps does it a disservice however, for, in the film's often misunderstood prologue and following dream sequence, Kushner and Spielberg openly acknowledge their movie's genial relation to the actuality of the 13th Amendment's passage, theater, and cinematic history itself — and by announcing upfront that they're employing the tools afforded by the arts to re-create past events, they let us know that their aims are somewhat closer to folklore than strict reportage.

At this point in the history of film criticism, the auteur theory has become passé as a totalizing framework for understanding moviemaking as art, but Martel's three features (and this one in particular), in their distinctive, shared point - of - view and unique approach to mise - en - scène and sound, provide irrefutable evidence that international art cinema still serves as a showcase for singular directorial talents who are, indeed, the principal creative forces behind their films.

As a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performance.

Following a strong debut at Sundance this year, a new online trailer is out for the darkly comic crime caper film «American Animals» about two friends who attempt one of the most brazen art heists in history.

Besides its title — one of the most evocative in the history of American movies — the film was memorable for its merging of art - film reserve with populist seduction.

There's an element of «seeing it to believe it» built into the presentation: Expectations based on the history of a mostly direct - to - video franchise, an aging action - hero cast, and a patently absurd premise so conspicuously contradict the art - house sensibility of the film itself that you can hardly blame the first wave of audiences for feeling wowed by the shock.

The film — which tells the story of the greatest treasure hunt in history — follows the platoon that was tasked by FDR to rescue art treasures stolen by the Nazis.

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It contains a brief history of all the facets of art, introduces Disney's movie and its characters, explains the process of bringing it to the screen, and features clips of the completed film.

Special midsection on art direction, Stephen Schiff on modern women in film, 1981 film in review, book reviews, David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Hollywood's epic histories of American radicals in Ragtime and Reds, Peter Greenaway, Jean Eustache, Jon Jost

Blumenfeld - Jones, who is taken by a film on homeless youths, Street Rat, writes, «I am obliged to report that I have, up to this point in the relatively short history of the genre, not been privy to a completely unblemished work of arts - based research, one sufficiently powerful, by itself, to redirect the educational conversation....»