Sentences with phrase «film history class»

It was like going to film history class.»

If you've ever taken any sort of film history class, one of the first things you'll hear from your instructor is the importance of watching films within the context of their time.

Not exact matches

In contrast, Christian films have quietly been punching above their weight class this year, and March was one of the strongest financial months in Christian movie history.

Not history, but teleology (Harry the «chosen one»); not economics, but morality (good and evil); and not class, but race (wizards and humans) are the primary and overarching thematic elements integral to the novels and films.

In my History of Documentary film course, the classes were always split: there were those who loved it and those who hated it because it didn't tell a story.

Last year's Jackie was a psychologically devastating look at the widowed Jackie Kennedy boasting one of the absolute best performances of the year by Natalie Portman, whereas in comparison LBJ is a film that will be thrown on in American History classes only for teenagers to fall asleep.

Plus, you certainly want to catch another world - class performance from, whom I consider, the greatest actress in film history.

The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).

Limited Edition 2 Disc DVD set & Blu - Ray Extras: 36 minute Black Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with Fenriz

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

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.

Over 2004 — 2005 I took two classes in the history of aesthetics taught by Lydia Goehr and another in the history of film aesthetics by James Schamus (the same James Schamus who is CEO of Focus Features).

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).

This is that version and it is essential viewing for anyone into sci - fi, film history, massive sets, Fritz Lang, pre-war German culture, class warfare, Expressionism, and robots that magically turn into beautiful ladies.

Bahrani's history of filmmaking has been deep into the lower - middle class of the world in films like Goodbye Solo and Chop Shop.

However, it generally includes class discussions about readings from the Facing History and Ourselves Resource Book: Holocaust and Human Behavior (Parsons & Strom, 1977); films with FHAO study guides; guest speakers; literature; and journal writing.

While the action moves from imperialist adventures in far flung lands to domestic conflicts over race and class, there is a constant sense of history being written, drawn, and filmed as it unfolds.

On Wednesday, July 31, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy will showcase its proposal for the Presidio Exchange (PX)-- an open - platform cultural center in this world - class location that will maintain the prime views of the Golden Gate Bridge, forge a new pedestrian link between the Presidio Main Post and the waterfront, and engage the public in a dynamic and ever - evolving series of public programs — from art installations to «hackathons», film festivals to green - tech expositions, dance performances to history lectures.

Though I loved painting more than anything, I took classes in photography, art history, film, video, sculpture, among others.

With photographs, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, his works recontextualize and rework these quotations, often infusing them with Monk's personal history and working - class family upbringing.

Somewhere between the avant garde and the amateur, between theatre and cartoon, history lesson and literature class, their films are equally curious in their subject matter.

In Massage the History, the artist combines footage of young men in Alabama performing an erotically charged, provocative dance with living - room furniture in middle - class homes, with found footage of violent or surreal events filmed in anonymous American suburbs.

Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, Shonibare's work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

By the time I finished with his two classes, the history of cinema and the history of experimental cinema, I was making experimental films myself in his basement.