Sentences with phrase «film scholars»
Reception from western critics was much more positive; many critics and film scholars have come to proclaim its action scenes as among the best ever filmed.
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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.
The Coens introduce an aspect of UFOs and aliens, the meaning of which eludes me, but will serve to foster discussion among film scholars and the like for years to come.
The DVD box set winds up with an interesting new documentary, Film Noir: Bringing Darkness Into Light, that interviews film scholars, filmmakers and other noir experts from Christopher Nolan to Frank Miller and James Ellroy.
122 industry professionals took part in the survey, including film scholars, festival programmers, film directors, actors and producers.
Prior to Hughes» presentation of Film - Work at the inaugural History and Film Conference in 1981, few filmmakers and film scholars had substantial knowledge of the WWFFU.
The Blu - ray and DVD editions both feature a new interview with film critic David Thomson, who offers a crash course introduction to the art and themes of Hawks (it runs about 17 minutes), the new 20 - minute program «Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies» with film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, and excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 interviews with Howard Hawks (audio only, about 19 minutes), plus the 1939 «Lux radio Theatre» adaptation of the film with stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell all reprising their roles, and the trailer.
In honor of Latin America's countless contributions to the silver screen, a group of local actors, producers and film scholars unites to host the first annual Festival...
This cameo was a well - kept secret, film scholars didn't discover it until 2009, 66 years after it's release.
Formed in 2003, the International Cinephile Society is an online group comprised of approximately 100 accredited journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals who cover film festivals and events on five continents.
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.
The key items are a very good documentary on Amarcord featuring Fellini and an audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke.
It's a must - read: Pity the film scholar who tries to discern something about our times from surveying this list of best picture nominees 10, or 30, or 50 years from now.
There are also some archival interviews: Terry Gilliam in discussion with film scholar Peter von Bagh as the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival and actress Shelley Duvall with Ton Snyder on Tomorrow from 1981.
The famed film scholar talks about four writers who redefined film criticism (and cinema): Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler
You didn't have to be a film scholar to understand his writing.
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.»
Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.
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
The critics, of course, were shocked and the Marxist film scholar Umberto Barbaro attacked White Nights vociferously as «a formalistic nightmare.»
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.
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa - Gavras
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
A lengthy interview with film scholar Paul Arthur adds proper context to the film's Shakespearian linkage.
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson and the medieval ballad on which the film is based
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria's National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French - Algerian War
Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
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.
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.
It is here that the author as an especially well - read film scholar really comes into his own.
The following is excerpted from a 1972 interview that film scholar Joan Mellen conducted with director Kaneto Shindo.
The young film scholar went on to write and direct prodigiously, some might say profligately, over the next four decades, manifesting his theories in his body of work in a way reminiscent of French New Wave cineastes.
Now it has been lovingly remastered from the negatives and Janus films (a partner with Criterion) has applied digital technology to create a new digital restoration for the U.S., which is the source of Criterion's special edition, which features commentary by film scholar James Naremore and new interviews with Keith Baxter, Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles (who has a small role in the film), and Welles historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride among the supplements.
Bonus materials on the Blu - ray release include a Wurlitzer organ score by Gaylord Carter, audio commentary by film historian Toby Roan, booklet essay by film scholar Matt Hauske, and the one - reel 1932 spoof, The Pie - Covered Wagon, starring Shirley Temple.
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 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.
Extras: New interview with Mungiu; «The Making of Beyond the Hills,» a documentary from 2013, produced by Mungiu; press conference from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu and actors Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, and Dana Tapalaga; deleted scenes; trailer; an essay by film scholar Doru Pop.
PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, a 2001 interview with Breillat, and a piece by Breillat on the title
Extras: New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride («Searching for John Ford: A Life»); «Omnibus: John Ford, Part One»: director Lindsay Anderson's profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II; talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975; audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the filmmaker's grandson Dan Ford; Academy Award radio dramatization of the film; an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: three scores: Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, one by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Portishead's Adrian Utley, and one by composer and pianist Mie Yanashita; an audio commentary from 1999 by film scholar Casper Tybjerg; an interview from 1995 with actor Renée Falconetti's daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti; and more.
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.
Extras: Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Suchenski, new interview with Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns, the 2017 rerelease trailer.
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.
Extras: New program on the film's cinematography featuring a conversation between Lassally and critic Peter Cowie; excerpt from a 1982 episode of «The Dick Cavett Show» featuring Finney; new interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on director Tony Richardson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1967; new interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie's impact on British cinema; illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar - winning score for the film; new interview with the director's - cut editor, Robert Lambert; an essay by scholar Neil Sinyard.
The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.
The dark film was a departure for MGM — known for upbeat, lavish, escapist fare — but the studio's production chief Dore Schary ushered in a period of social consciousness for the company, notes Drew Casper, film scholar and author of «Post-War Hollywood Cinema 1946 - 1962,» in his DVD commentary.
We begin with «Paolo Sorrentino in conversation with Antonio Monda» (37:59), an October 2013 chat between the director and a film scholar you may recognize from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou's Criterion DVD.
Conversation between Gilliam and film scholar Peter von Bagh, recorded at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
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.
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.