Sentences with phrase «film scholar»
A "film scholar" is someone who is knowledgeable and well-versed in the study of movies. They study and analyze films from different perspectives such as history, cinematography, storytelling, and cultural impact. They may provide insights and interpretations about movies to help others understand and appreciate the art of filmmaking. Full definition
In college, I had a professor who was, ironically, one of the great film scholars in the world, but a mediocre lecturer and guide to the group as a whole.
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It is here that the author as an especially well - read film scholar really comes into his own.
This cameo was a well - kept secret, film scholars didn't discover it until 2009, 66 years after it's release.
122 industry professionals took part in the survey, including film scholars, festival programmers, film directors, actors and producers.
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson and the medieval ballad on which the film is based
Bonus features include I Was Born, But..., Ozu's 1932 silent comedy with a 2008 score by Donald Sosin; new interview with film scholar David Bordwell; new video essay on Ozu's use of humor by critic David Cairns; a fragment of A Straightforward Boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu; and a critical essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
A gay Marxist film scholar who died of an AIDS - related illness in 1994 (at the age of just 42), Andrew Britton began his tragically short career with the words that may stand as his epitaph.
The key items are a very good documentary on Amarcord featuring Fellini and an audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke.
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.
This 44 - page piece provides an essay from film scholar Tom Gunning and a 2006 interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Luzbecki.
Also included is a Collectible Illustrated Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard.
Welcoming the movie's auteur to the stage, film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Cinema and Media Studies, said, «Here we have a living pioneer of African - American cinema.
The famed film scholar talks about four writers who redefined film criticism (and cinema): Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa - Gavras
This new Criterion re-issue contains a new feature - length audio commentary from film scholar Joseph McBride (Searching for John Ford: A Life).
As film scholar Tom Gunning puts it in the catalogue, «Cinema still is — but what is it?»
Please join us for a candid and intimate conversation between film scholar B. Ruby Rich and Isaac Julien on the occasion of his solo exhibition «Vintage.»
The critics, of course, were shocked and the Marxist film scholar Umberto Barbaro attacked White Nights vociferously as «a formalistic nightmare.»
A lengthy interview with film scholar Paul Arthur adds proper context to the film's Shakespearian linkage.
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.
Bonus materials on the newly restored Blu - ray release include audio commentary by film scholar Richard Suchenski, new interview with Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns, and 2017 re-release trailer.
Extras: Hour - long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the film in 1969; 2016 interview with film scholar Jan - Christopher Horak; new restoration demonstration featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek; an essay by author and critic Luc Sante.
The film comes with an audio essay by film scholar Casper Tybjerg, an audio interview with star Renee Falconetti's daughter, a detailed history of the film's many versions and other features.
Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.
Finally, there's a booklet featuring an informative essay by renowned film scholar Ruby B. Rich on the film's placement within the pantheon of lesbian love stories.
A booklet featuring essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, as well as an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood's 1998 piece «Leo McCarey and «Family Values»»
This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century.
EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of audio commentaries (a 2007 track featuring directors Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh, and a 1987 track featuring film scholar Howard Suber), there are new interviews with actor Dustin Hoffman, producer Lawrence Turman and writer Buck Henry, a 1992 featurette about making the film, a 2007 short documentary on the film's influence, an essay by journalist Frank Rich and more.
«Palmer and Pomerance on Seconds» (12:38) is a new visual essay in which film scholars R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance shed light on the film on its own and in relation to Frankenheimer's career and politics.
In this episode, film scholar Professor Charles Barr describes the significant changes that took place in British film criticism during the early 1960s.
Leonard Maltin's love of movies and vast knowledge of their history shines through from HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD's first page to the last, which is sure to prove as wildly entertaining to readers as it does deeply informative to future film scholars.
The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»
Not only did he work in more distant Soviet republics, but he also built upon a knowledge of Transcaucasian art rarely within the scope of a single film scholar.
I thought I knew a great deal about Ford, but, as taught by talented filmmaker and learned film scholar Michael G. Smith, the courses proved to be a revelation.
Two audio commentaries: one featuring coscreenwriter Jean Gruault, longtime François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouché, and film scholar Annette Insdorf; the other featuring actor Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana
The direction by Robert Aldrich (The Choirboys, The Dirty Dozen) is perhaps the biggest reason why film scholars have occasionally praised the film, although one could presumably argue that Aldrich simply didn't know how to make a sports movie and instead made a political movie instead.
There are also video interviews with film scholar Ludovic Cortade, actresses Herzi and Bouraouïa Marzouk, and the film's musicians, and a booklet with an essay by film critic Wesley Morris.
The following is excerpted from a 1972 interview that film scholar Joan Mellen conducted with director Kaneto Shindo.