I know the word brilliant gets thrown around way too
much in film criticism, but there is really no other word to describe this work.
I do think that my chances of
remaining in film criticism are somewhat up in the air at best because of the scarcity of places to write the kind of film criticism I like.
Established in 2009 by a dedicated group of six Indiana journalists, the Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) is a growing organization of Indiana - based journalists and broadcasters who
specialize in film criticism and commentary.
This idea of familiarity with extra-textual elements or training in a specific method of watching as essential in the evaluation process is a perennial issue
in film criticism for me.
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».
They came together five years ago to form the first women critics organization ever in the country, in the belief that women's perspectives and voices
in film criticism need to be recognized fully.
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.
A touchstone for the highly politicised
debates in film criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, the work of Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet...
A touchstone for the highly politicised debates
in film criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, the work of Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet appeared, by the early 2000s, to have suffered a terminal decline in the level of interest it provoked.
Film Comment's comprehensive best - of survey of the most plugged - in
minds in film criticism inevitably includes many features that haven't been released in the United States.
But I associated him with the auteurist
moment in film criticism, and I wanted to pick someone like Nicholas Ray or Minnelli, who had been important to the French in the 1950s.
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.
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.
It's no secret that women are underrepresented in the film industry (we've all seen the infamous infographic by now), and when asked whether there are any challenges to being a
woman in film criticism specifically, Adams replied emphatically, «Yes — unequivocally, yes.»
It's also true that analysis of visual style is woefully rare in film culture, so the fact that they focus on it at the expense of plot - and - theme analysis has value in and of itself by helping to turn the conversation toward unexamined
possibilities in film criticism.
I know before I ventured off on this
journey in film criticism, I always wanted to see what people in the industry were receiving as they became available.
Although the term «poetic» is an overused
one in film criticism, and a term whose actuality on the screen is nebulous enough that it can be used to mean almost anything, it certainly seems appropriate when describing how Vigo handles le pére Jules.
«There is such a gender bias
found in film criticism, and one of our goals was to break that wall down,» said Mantz.
John Cassavetes is one of those names that constantly crops up
in film criticism about other films, such is the breadth of his influence on modern cinema.
Call it a
primer in film criticism and analysis, as well as a testament to Alfred Hitchcock's mastery of form, which allows for a feature - length film to be made out of three minutes or so from one film in his six - decade career.
The double
standard in film criticism and film awards diminishes the importance and achievements of the female director and the female voice on - screen.
After
working in film criticism and commencing his filmography in the docu form, Massoud Bakhshi saw his feature debut land a spot at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors» Fortnight with 2012's A Respectable Family.
Established in 1997, the Toronto Film Critics Association is comprised of Toronto - based journalists and broadcasters who
specialize in film criticism and commentary.
Most critics have been down on Sandler since his start, but my appreciation for his comedy long predates my
career in film criticism and the two have overlapped.
They came together in 2004 to form the first women critics» organization in the United States, in the belief that women's perspectives and voices
in film criticism need to be recognized fully.
Ever since I first became
interested in film criticism I've been fascinated by a 1946 article by Jacques Bourgeois — published in La revue du cinema, a postwar precursor of Cahiers du cinema — arguing that Proust's novelistic techniques anticipate those of cinema in general and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane in particular.
at The Atlantic and «The Curious Case of the Missing Women in Film Criticism» at Variety both pushed the question of
diversity in film criticism to its necessary boiling point.
Launched in 2004, WFCC became the first women critics» organization in the United States, in the belief that women's perspectives and
voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully.
In film criticism, auditory perception is rarely prioritized in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull of the visuals.