Sentences with phrase «if film criticism»

That's why, if film criticism is important to you, you find a critic whose taste seems to coincide more often than not with your own.

Not exact matches

Who else films every practice and then sits through it all over again, so that if a player is fool enough to question a single one of her criticisms, Pat takes her right to the videotape in her office and stops the dang thing so often to prove she's right that it takes an hour to cover the first 10 minutes?

If so - then that's something to discuss, as it provides a direct comparison / contrast to the criticisms of the film.

One of my rules of criticism is to never recommend a movie that has an element of time in the title if it feels like it takes that amount of time to watch the film.

Not sure I see the problem with a hyper - conservative agenda behind a movie once in a while... Yes, its not very classy, but I doubt you would providing the same criticism if the film had an ultra liberal, pro Obama, US military is made up of east coast «sophisticated» starbucks coffee drinking hipsters.

Overall, this is an extremely sharp video, and I couldn't agree with it more, particularly the part where Willems says: «If you like movies, you should read good film criticism.

If there is any one criticism I could level at the film, it would be that the humorous dialogue is simply too tightly packed in there.

Conveying meaning primarily through visual methods is usually preferable within film criticism, but though the scenes may have appeared more artistic in their ambiguity if they weren't interrupted by evocative narration, Dominik also grasps how such scenes would be received when loaded with Pitt's presence.

The incredible Shrinking Critic Joe Griffin ponders the future of film criticism and wonders if the role of the film critic has become redundant.

The particular nature of Sargeant's film writing has much to do with insisting on the material as less the object of film criticism (criticism, too, must undergo a thorough expurgation if one is to think through underground film and write about it), and more an attempt to situate it within a wider context of describing its performance upon the audience.

If you judge by the Internet, you'd probably think film criticism, amateur and otherwise, is a healthy and thriving hobby that a large portion of society partakes in.

If you ask most people (a.k.a. the white male majority that covers film criticism now and holds most of the power that drives the US film industry to churn out the kind of crap it does every summer) what they think of Lincoln they will tell you probably something similar to what this anonymous dude wandering out of a screening just transmitted to the NY Post's Lou Lumenick, who then posted it as credible:

It's hard to go back and pick out a single moment that propelled me towards film criticism, but I suppose if I had to give anyone credit, it's the late Roger Ebert, who I grew up reading and watching on TV.

This is in part because when arts journalism is the topic of discussion today, it's often being discussed in terms of who is doing it (too many cis white knuckle - draggers like yours truly), or if indeed criticism — for our purposes, film criticism — matters anymore at all.

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.

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

But what if «Three Billboards» isn't about the redemption of Dixon, as I, and others, have suggested in our criticisms of the film?

If there is one film to reaffirm the meaning of film criticism, that seeks to define the inimitable bliss of true cinema, that holds a mirror at the world and asks us to seek out foreign — even dissenting — opinions, this is it.»

Even if the rest of the discussion hadn't been painfully boring, this reinforcement of the «boys» club» mentality (which creates an immediate feeling of exclusion that any horror fan who isn't white / cis / male can most likely relate to), coupled with their approach to film criticism (which I heartily disagree with), made it hard for me to take them seriously.

If you go back over the daily reviews of Pickpocket, Les Dames Du Bois De Bologne, Au Hasard Balthazar — an easy matter now that The Times has reprinted its film criticism through 1970 — you will find, not disrespect, but such outright incomprehension that the reviewer might never have experienced, let alone understood, the film.

The omnibus film If You Were Me (Yim Soon - rye, Jeong Jae - eun, Yeo Kyun - dong, Park Jin - pyo, Park Kwang - su, Park Chan - wook, 2003) contains the most direct criticism of Korean society in this festival's offerings.

It might feel personal, but at times it feels as if cinema isn't worth it, that it doesn't matter how much time I spend developing projects, reading criticism, writing it, making some experiments shooting, seeing films... I won't ever be «good» at it.

If anyone knows about the ugly, back - biting world of narcissistic online film criticism, it's us, and every other movie site you may frequent.

If you feel I'm overthinking and analyzing what is only meant to be a cute talking animal movie for children, welcome to film criticism and please hang up your kid gloves.

If you are passionate about film criticism and meet the membership criteria, we urge you to apply.

If nothing else all this end - of - year activity is a rebuke to anyone who thinks film criticism is dead.

After getting out of film criticism I picked up on a hot tip from a friend who said there was money in the mommy - blogging racket, if I could swing it.

And if the existence of an art form can be determined by the art criticism to which it gives rise, then the best gauge of the cinema's health, today, is the quality of film writing.

If you're familiar with any serious film criticism from the past half century, you've encountered a variation on this argument before.

But if we're going to give a pass to every movie that makes money, or hopes to make money, then there's no point in film criticism at all.

If I have to make a serious criticism about the film, it's the poor plotting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Scott, but the way I remember it is that you wrote a letter to Variety complaining abouta survey of film criticism that they published that didn't mention either David or me, two critics you were very generous about praising, and your letter inspired an editor there to invite you over for a job interview.

If great films invent their own rules, reinventing some of the standards of film criticism in the process, Bela Tarr's Satantango surely belongs in their company.

I love film criticism and I love reading negative reviews if the author makes compelling and well written arguments.

Fassbender recently brushed off criticism by Hollywood writer Aaron Sorkin, who said «the world isn't going to care» if he was cast in the Jobs film.

Stunning is a word that is overused in film criticism, but if anything deserves that description, it's that.

If the intention is to understand criticism of environmentalism, why not let a critic of environmentalism author the film?