Sentences with phrase «focus on cinema»

But beyond the focus on cinema, there was also a small but noticeable shift toward another direction: virtual reality.
Organized thematically, the exhibition covers more than two decades of Huyghe's career, with a focus on cinema as both model and matrix.
With a focus on cinema, Hans wrote a thesis analyzing Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey against the Hollywood form.
After operating with a «15 -3-8» structure, FAAAF Executive Director and Black Reel Awards CEO Tim Gordon announced that the awards will expand from 26 categories to 28, adopting an updated «13 -7-8» structure that will allow the awards to increase the focus on cinema from the African diaspora.
This drops behind all of the focus on cinema and becomes a more generalised tale about living through fantasy akin to the likes of THE MATRIX.
Frank Carre is an amateur photographer with a background in cultural magazines focused on cinema and music.
NOSFERATU (The Undead) is a film installation by New York - based artist Javier Téllez that focuses on cinema and mental illness.
An exhibition focusing on cinema and politics in 1970s Italy curated by Mark Nash.
Screening all of Schnabel's movies, Moos features them along with a selection of paintings made between 1975 and the present that show just how consistently the artist has focused on the cinema in what now seems his fallback job.

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Wang, whose group controls U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc and U.S. studio Legendary Entertainment, promised generous subsidies for film makers but indicated a focus on China's domestic film market.
Summer release movies are usually focused on the action packed variety, but fall and winter theatrical releases are all about the awesome storytelling of the cinema.
Not because there's lack of singles in that age group that are interested in dating, but because there's a distinct lack of places you can go to meet them, the bars, clubs, cinemas, all has been invaded by new culture that is more focused on speed dating and instant gratification then on what a mature person is looking for, a stable relationship.
By focusing on the creation of one of contemporary cinema's most beloved «so bad it's good» movies, «The Disaster Artist» weaves a potently funny and bizarrely heartwarming story about dreams, determination, creativity, and friendship.
Focused on the tradition of the Day of the Dead, in which families gather to celebrate their deceased ancestors, Coco offers a festive, reverent, and wide - ranging pastiche of Mexican culture, touching on everything from Frida Kahlo to luchadores to the golden age of Mexican cinema.
During the 1990s, when Kiarostami's reputation was growing, I was not that focused on international high - art cinema.
Film festival protests of 1968 led major festivals — Cannes, Berlin, Venice — to create special sections focusing on young, experimental, and non-Western cinema.
In a festival where most of the focus is on new movies, Duchaussoy says that he and Frémaux are hoping to instigate a dialogue between the past and the present of cinema:
With just three weeks to go until Peter Rabbit arrives in US cinemas, Sony Pictures has released two new character featurettes for the upcoming live - action / CG - hybrid focusing on Daisy Ridley's Cotton - Tail and Elizabeth Debicki's Mopsy; check them out here...
Anthony Stokes with a response to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and directors who might be jealous of comic book movies... We're in the age of cinema that focuses on comic book movies and as such everybody is talking about them, even big powerhouse directors.
This shift of perspective towards Europe was also noticeable in the heightened focus on European cinema.
The Seventh Art is a Toronto - based online magazine about cinema founded in 2012, with a focus on in - depth interviews with filmmakers.
Actor Morgan Freeman attends the premiere of Focus Features» «London Has Fallen» at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on March 1, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
Sydney Film Festival has unveiled a surprising program this year, with a notable focus on Asian cinema and lesser known directors.
Although the title suggests the possibility of an exercise in the pre-digested, pre-fab cynicism which seems to be a staple of contemporary American cinema, this action film focuses on its people as much as its action, and a good deal of its power comes from the way its sharply etched characters develop in various convincingly observed milieux.
But «Godard Mon Amour,» the director's half - parodic / half - earnest stab at turning his country's rule - breaking enfant terrible (played by Louis Garrel) into one - half of a prickly movie couple — focusing on his then - new marriage to his «La Chinoise» star Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin)-- is the kind of curiously inconsequential homage that neither stokes your interest in cinema / Godard nor illuminates a turbulent love story between artists.
Stuart Richards focuses on the legacy of «grossness» in the films of John Waters on contemporary queer cinema, and James Aston provides an overview of the current hardcore horror scene in the United States.
Unlike The Silent Revolution, The Captain's narrative focus is not on the victims (who eventually become victors) of history but the perpetrators — a true rarity in the history of German cinema that is made even more remarkable by the fact that the film does not concern itself with the famous culprits (as does Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang [Downfall, 2004]-RRB- but, rather, with the «unknown» wrongdoers, that is, the «little guys» who, once afforded the opportunity, displayed the same murderous tendencies than their more famous leaders.
As a side note, Berlin Day In To Night premiered on No Budge, an excellent site which focuses on truly independent cinema.
Little White Lies will be also be on hand to present a quarter, focusing on «Restored and rediscovered classics of independent cinema».
As the attention of the world is focused on the glamour and star - power of the 70th anniversary Cannes Film Festival, this largest and best - known celebration of cinema is also using its bully pulpit to bring attention to the global question of the immigrant.
Each episode was focused on the lives of filmmakers like Herschell Gordon Lewis, Sam Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, Jackie Chan and many other notable filmmakers who had their own interesting style of filmmaking and had made worthy contributions to the world of cinema.
Alexandra Heller - Nicholas has published five books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with a particular focus on gender politics.
Being an early career researcher who focuses on queer cinema, I have a keen interest in films with LGBTI themes.
While both stars of the big and small screen were present, our focus was zeroed in on those who made a splash in cinema and of course, the skewering of stars by host and comedian Ricky Gervais who was just as bored as audiences and attendees.
This surprisingly touching tragicomedy revolves around love and friendship, and it's a gem of low - budget British cinema that ignores discussing the political issues that come with societal collapse, instead focussing on something more emotive and soulful.
The film arrives on DVD just after Focus landed in UK cinemas.
In focusing on the audience, the fest capitalizes on the fact that we're all here and there's not much else to do than just sit in theaters all day long, arguing about the merits of cinema and drinking beer while waiting for the next screening to start.
Unlike a theme park ride which often directs your attention through sound cues placed in a 360 degree fashion around a room (think of the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World), cinema sound must contend with a two - dimensional screen on which audiences must stayed focused, even with 3 - D presentations where your eyes remain fixed on a general axis, where any movement outside that axis might reveal the images to be cardboard cutouts — a phenomenon all too familiar to me.
But while there is something very artificial about making day appear as night, there is also something very magical about it, and it is to the everlasting credit of Truffaut that his film focuses on the magic of cinema, not the deceit.
His thesis examined scenes of non-simulated explicit sex in contemporary cinema, focusing on the films of Travis Mathews and Antonio Da Silva.
The focus on European cinema is hardly a new development in film scholarship.
With Fifty Shades Darker set to arrived in cinemas this Friday, Universal Pictures has released a featurette for the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel which focuses on «Mrs. Robinson» (Kim Basinger), Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), and Leila (Bella Heathcote) and the threats they bring to Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) and Christian's (Jamie Dornan) relationship; watch it -LSB-...]
Davies has always focused on the past rather than the present, but perhaps his perspective is too ancient for cinema now.
It will focus on the work of contemporary actors like Samuel L Jackson, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong» o, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo and Denzel Washington, as well as cinema's first black stars, Josephine Baker, Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge, and enduring icons like Sidney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Robeson and Angela Bassett.
The Long Hair of Death (Raro, Blu - ray, DVD)-- Raro Video, the American arm of an Italian home video company, is one of only a couple of disc labels with a tightly - defined mission, in this case a focus on classics of Italian cinema that ranges from auteur masterworks to genre landmarks and cult items.
I thought his juggling of timeframes in this was masterful: he really is a great combination of a broad appeal, popular cinema focused on spectacle, and intelligent integration of temporal / spatial play that keeps the spectator questioning, anticipating and hypothesising.
Established in 2009 and based in New York City, Sundance Selects is a leading U.S. distributor of prestige films focusing on American independents, documentaries and world cinema.
Focusing on his underseen films from the middle of his career, as Zhang transitioned from an enemy of the state towards state endorsed commercial cinema, MUBI pays tribute to... Read More
Instead, he focuses on Asian cinema and Japanese animation in particular.
8:00 pm — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.
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