As the world prepares to bid farewell to George W. Bush following tomorrow's election, I came across an apt article in the new edition of Sight and Sound, in which critic Michael Atkinson evaluates how the Bush presidency affected American film, and how the period might be interpreted by
future film historians.
When
future film historians look back at the cultural fallout from America's financial collapse, «Take Shelter» will be a key text.
Not exact matches
The Blu - ray and DVD feature Rivette's 1956 short Le coup du berger, which stars Jean - Claude Brialy and features appearances by his fellow
film critics (and
future nouvelle vague filmmakers) Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut, and an interview with critic and
historian Richard Neupert.
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.