Sentences with phrase «film essay about»

Duncan Campbell is showing his film If for Others (2013) which is a response to a 1953 film essay about historical African art and colonialism, and features a range of archive clips and photos, re-enactments and monologues.

Much like his documentary Filming Othello (1978), Orson Welles planned on making a similar film essay about the making of...

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To learn more about the attraction of these films, you of course need to go purchase the Doomed Bourgeoise in Love book, with its fantastic essays by our Peter and Lauren Weiner, among others.

Scout Tafoya celebrates two underrated Prince films in his latest video essay about maligned masterpieces.

That film is to 2001 what a first grader's essay about summer vacation is to «War and Peace.»

I was not solely thinking about Ebert's essay (he hasn't written a review that I have seen so far), but also Tod Browning's FREAKS which even has a bit of a similar ending, Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss which has the female lead «realize» a horrific situation at the and several modern films.

Special Features High - definition digital transfer from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir «Around the River,» a 60 - minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 2004 Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney from 2000 «Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India,» a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir

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

DVD Extras Making Of, Shane Meadows interview, illuminating commentaries involving nearly everyone involved, pretty poor deleted scenes, two text - only essays about the film's themes - very good value for money.

There is a very clear sense in which I am being unfair to The Congress as I am writing about a dramatic film rather than a philosophical essay but Folman's decision to critique dramatic artifice whilst engaging in dramatic artifice means that The Congress draws your attention away from the drama and towards the film's flawed philosophical argument.

Dan Heaton writes reviews and essays about films, TV, and other pop culture.

Jen Yamato wrote an essay about how he may, in fact, be digging himself further into a hole with his explanations, rather than letting the film's enigmatic storytelling speak for itself.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

EXTRAS: There's a new audio commentary by Chaplin historian Charles Maland, a video essay about Jackie Coogan, interviews with Coogan and Lita Grey Chaplin, deleted scenes, archival footage, the 1922 silent short «Nice and Friendly,» an essay by film scholar Tom Gunning and much more.

Finally, each disc includes an assortment of outtakes and photo galleries, and the set contains a 58 - page booklet with four essays, one on each individual film and one about the collection as a whole.

Bonus materials on the new 4K digital restoration Blu - ray release include a new interview with critic Gary Gibbons about director Leo McCarey; new video essay about Cary Grant's performance; illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Duane; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert; and an essay by film critic Molly Haskell.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

Extras: Interview from 2005 with Moreau; archival interviews with Moreau, Malle, actor Maurice Ronet, and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger; footage of Miles Davis and Malle from the soundtrack recording session; program from 2005 about the score featuring jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins; Malle's student film «Crazeologie,» featuring Charlie Parker's song «Crazeology»; trailers; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.

Extras: «Night of Anubis,» a never - before - presented work - print edit of the film; new program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez; never - before - seen 16 mm dailies reel; new piece featuring Russo about the commercial and industrial - film production company where key «Night of the Living Dead» filmmakers got their start; audio commentaries from 1994, featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and more; archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley; new programs about the editing, the score, and directing ghouls; new interviews with Gary R. Streiner and Russel W. Streiner; trailer, radio spots, and TV spots; an essay by critic Stuart Klawans.

Extras: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul; interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka; interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview from 2008 with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; «The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima,» a 55 - minute documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets.

Extras: New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey; new video essay by film critic David Cairns on actor Cary Grant's performance; illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring actor Claudette Colbert and Grant; an essay by film critic Molly Haskell.

The booklet includes a sharp essay from critic Carrie Rickey about the film's engagement with the frightening realities of divorce and its unintended wreckage, though the real treat is on the flip side.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns; new video essay on the film's symbols and references, featuring scholar James Steffen; new interview with Steffen detailing the production of the film; «Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel,» a 2003 documentary about the filmmaker, featuring him and actor Sofiko Chiaureli; «The Life of Sayat - Nova,» a 1977 documentary about the Armenian poet who inspired «The Color of Pomegranates»; an essay by film scholar Ian Christie.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

It's accompanied by a postscript essay by Collins about his friendship with Spillane and the writer's changed opinion on the film Kiss Me Deadly.

PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey Nowell - Smith, Antonioni's statements about the film after its 1960 Cannes Film Festival premiere, and an open letter distributed at the festival

EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of new interviews with British cinema scholar John Hill and music scholar Jeff Smith, there's a new featurette about the film's production, the 1972 documentary «Home, James,» the 1952 radio adaptation of the movie, and an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.

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.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey New video essay by film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant's performance Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert PLUS: An essay by film critic Molly Haskell

Special Features Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster New making - of documentary, featuring members of the Cast and Crew New conversation about the film and Altman's career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell Featurette from the film's 1970 production Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael Trailer PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich

AV Club deep screen capture to reveal how well constructed shots in Divergent do nt make for a good film BuzzFeed great essay on the current relevancy of Before Sunrise (1995) and instant nostalgia Heat Vision Tyrese Gibson obsessed with playing Green Lantern in a film that's at least 5 years away based on a character already ruined by the movies Decider 10 essential movies about nuns from our beloved Black Narcissus to less impressive but famous offerings like Doubt

Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

New interview with director Martin Rosen New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about the film's importance in animation history Picture - in - picture storyboard for the entire film «Defining a Style,» a 2005 featurette about the film's aesthetic Trailer PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones

PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and (Blu - ray only) excerpts from Soderbergh's 1990 book about the film

Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the film - Deleted scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong - Archival interview with Wong and a «cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray ediessay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray ediEssay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray ediessay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray ediessay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray edition)

Students of this form of narrated diary will surely link it to Martin Scorsese's own richly immersive «Personal Journey» essay films about American and Italian cinema, and they indeed inspired Tavernier to do his own.

In this 44 - page piece, we get an essay from filmmaker Michael Almereyda, «A Statement» offered by Elia Kazan in 1952 that discussed his Congressional testimony, a 1948 Malcolm Johnson article that connects to the film's historical influences, and a Budd Schulberg piece about Father John Corridan, the person on whom the movie's Father Pete Barry was based.

Charles Kiselyak composes a long essay about the film's creation as well as differences between the book and the movie as well as some cast / crew biographies.

For the former, we find an essay about the film along with excerpts from newspaper articles.

His early aspiration was to be a writer, but as he told Matt Zoller Seitz in his book of interviews with and essays on the director, The Wes Anderson Collection, he was drawn to film when he started reading books by and about filmmakers as a student at the University of Texas, where he met his frequent collaborator Owen Wilson in a playwriting class.

Special Features New interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski Interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 2003 Nine sections from the film originally censored in Poland Plus: An essay by film critic Dennis Lim and a 1993 interview about the film with director Krzysztof Kieslowski

This is the type of film that will inspire a multitude of essays (both visual and written) and think pieces about how Villeneuve and DP Roger Deakins (who also shot PRISONERS with the auteur) construct their bold visual narrative alongside screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's written one.

«Breaker Morant» Special Features Audio commentary featuring Beresford from 2004 New interviews with Beresford, cinematographer Donald McAlpine, and actor Bryan Brown Interview with actor Edward Woodward from 2004 New piece about the Boer War with historian Stephen Miller «The Breaker,» a 1973 documentary profiling the real Harry «Breaker» Morant, with a 2010 statement by its director, Frank Shields Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard

It features commentary (in French, with English subtitled) by Truffaut's co-screenwriter Jean - Louis Richard and Truffaut scholar Serge Toubiana (originally recorded in 2000), the half - hour 1999 documentary Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock (about the famous interview book), a new video essay by film critic Kent Jones, and an archival interview with Truffaut from 1965 about the film, plus a leaflet with an essay by Molly Haskell.

The supplemental section includes Richard Dyer on Nino Rota and Orchestra Rehearsal, a 21 - minute interview speaking about the film's composer and his last collaboration with Fellini; Orchestrating Discord, a 23 - minute visual essay on the film by Fellini biographer John Baxter; 30 images from the «Felliniana Collection», including rare posters and press materials for the film; a 24 - page insert booklet featuring the film essays «In a Nutshell» by Adrian Martin and «Orchestral Rehearsal: In the Picture» by Tony Mitchell, as well as restoration details.

Don't miss: Extras include an interview with cinematographer John Bailey about Conrad Hall, the movie's cinematographer, an interview with film historian Bobbie O'Steen about the film's editing, an interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddens about Quincy Jones» score for the movie, a 1988 French TV interview with Brooks, a short 1966 documentary about Capote, interviews with Capote from 1966 and 1967, an interview with writer Douglas K. Daniel about Brooks and an essay about the movie.

Don't miss: Supplemental materials include interviews with Argento and actor Gildo Di Marco, an analysis of the movie by critic Kat Ellinger, a commentary track, a visual essay about Argento's style and a 60 - page booklet with writings and illustrations on the film.

Blu - ray extras: Commentary, interview, video essay, bonus feature «Crook's Tour,» featuring two characters from «The Lady Vanishes,» video essay, stills gallery of behind - the - scenes photos, 20 - page booklet about the film and featuring «Lady Vanishes» essays.

To celebrate the release of Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, his Italy - set film about the summer romance between 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and older American grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer), we are dedicating a full week to essays on the film.