Sentences with phrase «for film historians»

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Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

Although not known for enjoying interviews, Clifford was keenly interested in film history and made appearances in two documentaries on the subject: the 1984 Ulster Television program A Seat in the Stars: The Cinema and Ireland and historian Anthony Slide's ground - breaking The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors.

Critic and film historian Cole Smithey is available for speaking engagements, radio and television appearances, teaching opportunities, film festival juries, seminars, and other film related events.

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

Sloan De Forest is a writer, actor, and film historian who has written about film for Sony, Time Warner Cable, the Mary Pickford Foundation, and Bright Lights Film Journal.

«Gray literature» is the term German film historians use to describe the material written purely for publicity purposes and made available to the press, but not meant for official publication.

«There's Always Vanilla Film Locations» (11 mins., 1080p) has «Romero historian» Lawrence DeVincentz talking over a slideshow of contemporary photographs of locations used for scenes in the film (some of them featuring him or his buddy Spooky Daz Sargeant in the frame matching the pose of the original actors) with authentic production stills occasionally appearing in an inset.

Movies on the radio: Phillips and film historian Desiree Garcia, who played Madeline in Damien Chazelle's «Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,» join «Filmspotting» host Adam Kempenaar for a «La La Land» show including their favorite musical numbers in movie history.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

The OFCS is a professional association for online film journalists, historians and scholars.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

Mostly, she starred opposite either Max von Sydow or Erland Josephson, men who critics and film historians often said were stand - ins for Bergman himself.

Join Pixar's Pete Docter and Disney historian and author J.B. Kaufman as they explore artwork recently discovered in Disney's animation research library revealing some of the attractions, gags and games, which Disney animators created for this iconic location of the film, that never made it on screen.

Film historian Stephen Thrower offers a brief introduction for each film, in which he makes an argument for each film's complexity and placement within the»70s horror canon.

Known for roles in such films as «Amistad,» «Blood Diamond» and «Guardians of the Galaxy,» Hounsou will play CJ Mitchum, an original resident of the town and a historian with extensive knowledge of its complex origins — and the one person who can provide a unique bridge between the current world of Wayward Pines and the previous world that humans inhabited.

It feels like production has gone on as long as World War II itself for The Monuments Men, George Clooney's film about a platoon of soldiers comprised of art historians and experts tasked with the job of saving irreplaceable and priceless artwork from getting destroyed by the Nazis.

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.

Both programs feature commentary by film historians and Peckinpah experts Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, and Nick Redman, which is very useful for both and frankly a labor of love when it comes to Noon Wine.

Produced for this edition is a terrific 55 - minute documentary «Way Out on a Limb,» featuring new interviews with actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy, casting director Graeme Clifford, and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury, and a 37 - minute conversation between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell.

The same could be said for film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, the man behind the Treasures line, though that's an interpretation more likely to be differed upon from viewer to viewer.

While it's easy to see the Academy as simply «those people who give out the Oscars,» the institution performs an important function for both filmmakers and film historians, providing symposiums and information for industry professionals and the public alike, access to an extensive film library and archive to researchers and cinematheques, and a valuable reminder of the rich heritage of American cinema.

As reported by Pamela Hutchinson at Silent London, silent film historian Jon Mirsalis unexpectedly rediscovered the second reel of Laurel and Hardy's 1927 film The Battle of the Century, lost for 60 years.

Sadly, there are no extras here save for the film's original theatrical trailer and a booklet featuring an in - depth analysis of the film by cultural historian Audie Bock.

Those features, all in HD, begin with an audio commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, historians who have recorded tracks for nearly twenty noir films of the 1940s and»50s.

This has nothing to do with Crudo's discipline — fellow cinematographer John Bailey came prepared as a historian and film buff and delivered a super commentary track for Sunrise — but Fox erred in not trimming Crudo's sterile comments down to its essentials, and inter-cutting info from other, if not more broad - minded film historians.

This documentary is worthwhile viewing for die - hard film buffs and film historians as well as Dune fans, but there's no palpable sense that the world is worse off for not having been given Jodorowsky's Dune.

The film's narrative, set in multiple eras and told through different styles, might suggest a work aimed an audience of sophisticated film historians rather than kids, but Haynes, Lachman notes, had faith in the younger audience and he screened it for audiences of children.

Those hoping for the exhaustive contextual analysis of a film historian are likely to be a bit disappointed, but those with an interest in how Cardiff achieved the evocative look of the film will be mesmerized.

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.

With «Robin Hood,» generations unfamiliar with the Technicolor look can get a really good sampling of why film historians and cinematographers rave and are overcome with a peculiar nostalgia for the color schemes that literally glow, as evidenced from interviews with cinematographers Jack Cardiff and Vittorio Storaro in the excellent documentary on Disc 2, «Glorious Technicolor,» an overview of the company and key personnel, derived from Fred Basten's 1980 book.

Disc 1 offers a single bonus feature, a feature - length audio commentary by film critic / historian Joseph McBride and Marni Nixon, the singing voice for Terry McKay (and the leads in My Fair Lady and The King and I, for that matter).

This release serves up about 8.5 minutes of deleted and extended scenes presented without context, along with a gallery of trailers for other Kino releases and a commentary track with film historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson.

Remember, Hitchcock made films for the masses and was only later beloved by film historians.

Until that day, Paramount's Dragonslayer is a must - have for fans of fantasy and film historians just now beginning to understand that, in spite of its lapses, the Eighties as a decade produced a lion's share of seminal fantasies (not mentioned are perhaps the two best — Back to the Future and Predator): genre pictures home to artful dissent, outrage, and no surfeit of sorrow.

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

Special Features New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent - film specialist Ben Model Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid «Charlie» on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to Europe Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for «The Kid» Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock Trailers Plus: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

I was almost as excited about «Denial,» a film about the true story of historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), an American sued for libel in British courts by David Irving (Timothy Spall), a British Holocaust denier who accused her of defamation.

This Twilight Time release features the original commentary recorded by Frankenheimer for the laserdisc release almost 20 years ago plus a new commentary track with Twilight Time founder and historian Nick Redman and film historians Julie Kirgo and Paul Seydor, as well as the usual isolated score track and eight - page booklet.

He provides commentary for the two films with film historians Bill Krohn and Blake Lucas and personally interviews producer Roger Corman and stars Millie Perkins and Harry Dean Stanton in new featurettes that play like conversations.

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historian Eddie Muller and trailers for 99 River Street as well as three other noirs available on Blu - ray (two newly arrived this week) via Kino: He Ran All the Way (written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo and starring John Garfield), Hidden Fear (also starring Payne) and Shield for Murder (with Edmond O'Brien).

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historian Derek Botello and trailers for The Magnetic Monster, Donovan's Brain (already available from Kino on Blu - ray), Journey to the Seventh Planet (ditto) and Invisible Invaders (due July 12).

Although noting that power ultimately corrupts the militants, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. reminisced that he and fellow black students at Yale loved the film as a utopian fantasy that offered them a realistic path — infiltration, then transformation — for social change.

Veteran sound designer Ben Burtt, composer John Morgan, film historian Rudy Behlmer, and directors Peter Jackson and Joe Dante, among others, describe the revolutionary ideas Steiner and Spivack employed in what remains a standard in blockbuster filmmaking for the action / fantasy genre.

Pity a historian wasn't contacted for a rundown of the film's genesis; Carol Reed's walking off the picture after losing patience with Brando's ego, and Lewis Milestone taking the directorial reigns as a hired gun; nor a separate featurette on the film's cinematographer and composer; but what has been assembled is a good smattering of contemporary and archival productions about the impressive Bounty replica built from the ground up for a major studio production.

Actor, film historian and Vietnam veteran Jim Beaver talks about the experience of seeing Oliver Stone's war memoir «Platoon» for the first time.

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.

In one of his audio commentaries for the set, film historian Tim Lucas describes certain reactions that he encountered online to the news that Kino Lorber would be restoring The Outer Limits for Blu - ray.

Each scene illustration from the lovingly crafted film is a must - have for film and animation fans, art collectors and historians alike.

A valuable document for Hitchcock scholars and film historians.

The audio commentaries by some film historians are a bit on the dry side - one would expect for such fans of Japanese monster movies to be a bit more jovial.