Sentences with phrase «from film criticism»

What ensues is not perfect; yes, Kirsten Dunst «s unrealistically idyllic flight attendant Claire is occasionally grating as hell (but can we please eliminate «manic pixie dream girl» from our film criticism vocabulary?)

The Nouvelle Vague founders, Rivette, Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, and Rohmer, had many interests in their creative fountains as they moved from film criticism to filmmaking.

Game criticism doesn't flow as naturally from film criticism as film criticism did from literary criticism.

Note: I have retired from film criticism, but keeping this bio because I'm very proud of the things I accomplished during my time as a film journalist.

In his seminal 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....»

Not exact matches

Paul drew intense criticism in January for filming the body of a man hanging from a tree in Japan's Aokigahara forest.

The former Scottish Labour leader's decision to spend three weeks filming on location in Australia while the Scottish parliament was in session attracted criticism from across the political spectrum, including from some previously stalwart supporters.

De Niro, who has a child with autism, initially defended the film's screening, but after a firestorm of criticism, he changed his mind and Tribeca pulled the film from its lineup.

Although the scientific credibility of the film drew criticism from climate scientists, the scenario of an abrupt collapse of the AMOC, as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, was never assessed with a state - of - the - art climate model.

But I don't mention my expectations to give criticism along those lines; consider them more notes on how this is a Tarantino film, but unlike what I've come to expect from the master filmmaker.

Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for controversy, drawing a NC - 17 rating and criticism from several sources, including studio owner Ted Turner, who attempted to prevent the film's American release.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

Though the film's emotional tone is blurry — toward the end it swerves away from farce and back toward anguish - its social criticism could hardly be more clear.

Ford's moving debut A Single Man received similar criticisms from its few detractors, so it sounds like we should expect a similar response to his latest film, although it looks and sounds like a completely different movie.

Its 30 - plus contributors have gone from being new voices in the New York film criticism scene to part of established film culture.

The majority of active, up - to - date film criticism in China today comes from blogs and websites started by film lovers.

Alone among his critical colleagues who became filmmakers, he insisted from the beginning that his writing and filmmaking were essentially alternate vehicles for the same discourse; his early movies functioned as film criticism the same way his reviews anticipated much of his filmmaking.

Peary builds his film as a sort of history lesson on the rise and development of film criticism from the early days prior to the release of The Birth of a Nation, the Sarris / Kael war, to Bowsley Crowther's 27 - year reign as top critic at The New York Times and even touching a little on the New World of the internet where everyone has the potential to be a critic.

These criticisms are the only moments that prevent The Searchers from being the most racist film I've ever seen.

Of all the things to pin the decline of professional film criticism as a career choice on, from changing audience - tastes to the globalization of the theatrical marketplace to the collapse of traditional media outlets overall, the Great Threat is actually... a college - age kid in a funny hat cracking wise (in between actual critical insights, mind you) about Antonioni?

The film could benefit from a smoother structure, but that may be too harsh a criticism.

Give an Oscar to every old - guard critic who was able to successfully pretend that they'd EVER looked at Entertainment Weekly outside of a dentist's office in the last decade); but I'm really perplexed to see the first one to really take off come from Movie Mezzanine — which I'm a fan of for much the same reason I became a fan of much of the TGWTG crew (and their other affiliates): fresh voices in film criticism coming in from outside the old guard print - media stronghold.

For all the advance criticism that «United 93» has received for being a Hollywood version of our national tragedy on September 11, 2001, the actual film itself is about as far from Hollywood as you can get.

One of the criticisms of the second and third films was that everyone so busy saving Katniss, it took away from what made her so cool in the original Hunger Games.

IndieWire has partnered with Locarno and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in previous years to run the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop that fosters new voices in film criticism from around the world.

How he managed to wax eloquently on everything from Mud to influential filmmakers to his future to the state of film criticism (in only 15 - minutes), is beyond comprehension.

Even though Bigelow had to face some harsh criticism from women who saw Strange Days as an anti-women film because of the shocking violence on display, it could be argued Strange Days is a pure feminist picture, as Angela Bassett's Mace is a physically imposing, capable, intelligent yet distinctly feminine character who might be the supporting pillar of Ralph Fiennes» lost soul, but in some ways remains the emotional center of the whole film.

On making the leap from indie films, the rarity of black female protagonists in YA, and addressing criticism about how her new movie portrays disability.

As Gitai's most widely screened film, Kadosh won both admiration and sharp criticism — the criticism predictably coming from the Orthodox community, which disputed the film's portrayal of Orthodox men acting with brutal lack of feeling toward their wives.

Jan 08 (TheWrap.com)- Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained» has already been the subject of criticism for its bloody violence and frequent use of the N - word, but now action figures from the film are causing the next wave of outrage.

The scholarly coverage and detailed analysis of select sequences from films, television and new media art, plus extensive commentary on scholarly film criticism and theory, together packed into its 216 primary pages is quite remarkable.

Thus, Schrader's early essays in film criticism for the L. A. Free Press stood apart from typical auteur or sociological analysis of the day, but also from the leftism of the underground press.

Moving from film directors to film criticism, the range on offer in this issue is wide.

We can't excuse The Scalphunters for being a product of its times, not only because we aren't living in 1968 anymore and such arguments transform film criticism into archaeology, but also because there is an entire bushel of films from that same year that needn't any apology, including George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, another pulp action picture with racial tensions bubbling beneath the surface.

Where much talk of film culture necessarily targets the social conditions enabled (and disabled) by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in film criticism takes a step away from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the visions of special auteurs.

He also made film criticism seem sexy — which, as one of the pasty - faced legions who make a living from it, I can respect as no mean feat.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

Mise en scène, if we choose to learn from the starkly different forms it has taken in the international history if both film practice and film criticism, points us, I believe, in this direction.

(p. 49) Needless to say, this is a long way from the po - faced film criticism one can encounter in academic writing.

He began his career in film criticism with a very positive review of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something of Carax's particular vision, a special feeling of urgency he was demanding from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version of the «smile of speed».

Better are an interview book translated from Spanish, Objects of Desire, and a recently published translation of selected writings by Bunuel in both Spanish and French, An Unspeakable Betrayal, which includes his priceless, poetic early film criticism.

I should point out that one of my main criticisms of that film comes from his choice to make his high school football games too action - oriented to believe, showing feats from amateur teenage players that would rival the most exciting plays in NFL history.

Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis announces itself from the outset as «a book of film criticism, nothing but film criticism».

Each of the films have been a little longer than the one before, which has received some criticism — even from fans.

However, Adam Sandler's net worth comes with a price and that is criticism from film critics.

Unfortunately, that hasn't shielded the project from the inevitable fanboy criticism, whether it's the casting of Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch, or recent rumors of the film's troubled production.

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Willems dives into the current state of online film criticism — what people expect from it, how people are consuming it, and what its true potential really is.

Over the years we've assembled an indispensably talented group of writers and editors from Los Angeles to London, each bringing their own unique perspective on film criticism.