Sentences with phrase «in film criticism about»

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At a press event for Perry's newest film Madea's Big Happy Family, which came out on Friday, Perry addressed Spike Lee's criticisms in a most unexpected fashion — by railing at me for a question I was making about a completely different kind of potential backlash.

Almost 30 years have passed since I wrote a heated article about French filmmaker Luc Moullet for Film Comment — the first extended defense of his movies and his film criticism in English.

When it comes to film criticism... well, most people know as much about it as they do about the self - defrost mechanisms in their freezers.

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?

We spoke to Kaluuya, who knew he'd «kill it» in the role as soon as he read the script, about the prejudice depicted in the film, his own experiences of racism, and Samuel L Jackson's recent criticism of black British actors taking African American roles in Hollywood films.

At this year's South by Southwest, filmmaker Miranda Bailey spoke on a panel with critics Anne Powers and Claudia Puig and actor Samantha Mathis about the lack of female representation in film and music criticism before announcing the launch of a new website, CherryPicks, aiming to upend the male majority and offer an alternative rankings roundup to Rotten Tomatoes.

In 2004 I worked as the field producer for Boston film critic Gerald Peary's documentary about American film criticism «For The Love of Movies,» which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 200In 2004 I worked as the field producer for Boston film critic Gerald Peary's documentary about American film criticism «For The Love of Movies,» which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 200in 2009.

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.

Aaron Gerow lays out a history of film criticism in Japan to the present day, underscoring a narrative about cinema negotiated by professionals who gradually lose the ability to make a substantial impact on either audiences or the industry.

In the whole history of film criticism and analysis there almost certainly hasn't been a film so heavily written about in the vein of how much better it could have been had the studio left it in its author's handIn the whole history of film criticism and analysis there almost certainly hasn't been a film so heavily written about in the vein of how much better it could have been had the studio left it in its author's handin the vein of how much better it could have been had the studio left it in its author's handin its author's hands.

Carroll, a unique figure notable for his exemplary rigour in discussions of the avant - garde and film criticism, talks freely here about his work and past.

The kind of faulty reasoning that Stanley Fish writes about so incisively in the New York Times («So's Your Old Man») derails meaningful discussions in politics and film criticism all the time, and it's so transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting away with it.

Fan sites were born in worship of these films and slowly but surely those fan sites took over the dialogue about film and pretty soon there wasn't a lot of difference between fandom and film criticism.

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.

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.

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

About Prieur I can say a little more, because I own a rather good 1980 collection of his film criticism, Nuits blanches («White Nights»), that includes an essay on «Artaud and the Cinema»; the book's jacket informs me that Prieur was born in Paris in 1951, writes on film and literature, and is — or was — the film critic for La nouvelle revue francaise.

We're increasingly in a world of film criticism that often feels like it's built around consensus, in which everyone has to agree that something is fantastic or awful, but Roger never cared about that.

Quentin Tarantino's speech about this movie in the film Sleep With Me is one of the classic bits of film criticism.

After a brief, bonding conversation about the sorry state of modern film criticism (fed by the sorry state of modern major - daily entertainment editors) and the lack of a critical tradition in the United States in comparison to Europe, we moved on to Suture.

In recent years, the CFCA has expanded its presence on the Chicago arts scene, promoting critical thinking about cinema to a wider base through several initiatives, including the re-launch of a late - winter film awards ceremony; CFCA - hosted film screenings throughout Chicagoland; and a Young People's Film Criticism Workshop at Facets Multimedia.

But to go back to what I wrote in the Frances McDormand post and the criticism of Three Billboards, and a lot of that criticism is about his character in particular, can you separate the performance from the story, can and should Sam Rockwell be celebrated for his work in a film that might be the Crash of 2017/18?

This Week: Kevin weighs in on the swirling Harvey Weinstein controversy by offering his opinion about the movie business in general and how such allegations are also striking the film criticism community.

April 8, 2011 Valley Christian High School, San Jose, CA I spoke about film criticism to high school students in a media communications class, and then presented my «Through a Screen Darkly» lecture to students and parents at an evening event.

Jon Favreau, who made the first two Iron Man movies, adapted a less established comic book for Cowboys & Aliens, which bombed, before rebounding with the smaller indie film Chef, which he also starred in (playing a frustrated cook in a barely veiled allegory about Favreau struggling to deal with criticism and creative interference).

Now, the film's star, Daniel Kaluuya, has responded to a criticism from actor Samuel L. Jackson, who recently questioned why a British man was cast in a film about American racism.

As Jones puts it in PNC, film criticism at its best is not only about film but about «the whole wide world around it.»

In order to answer your question about film criticism, however, I read film criticism occasionally.

In response to the outcry, the film's screenwriter C. Robert Cargill and Marvel Studios itself have made statements about the matter, and director Scott Derrickson made it clear that he was observing the criticism, «listening and learning.»

What's most exciting about film criticism in the internet age is that it is truly democratic: the best criticism can come from the most unexpected quarters, from personalities without any history or credentials in film criticism or studies.

This film criticism is fantastic to read: http://www.filmquarterly.org/2012/03/a-matter-of-life-and-death-a-i/ They also talk about the recent Simon Pegg and Alan Moore (incorrectly referred to in the episode as Frank Miller) discussions of geek content infantilizing or destroying culture.

TD: We've been talking about your project in terms of film criticism.

The idea of artists openly dismissing ideas they disagree with isn't new — certainly not for Godard, anyway — but there is something interesting about how film in 2014 has brought us several works that openly discuss the nature in which artists perceive harsh and brutal criticism.

The Critic Speak Podcast, hosted by Internet film critics Danny Baldwin and James Frazier, is a weekly show about current happenings in the film industry and in film criticism.

They also need to write about them and, in the process, incorporate media theory, game studies, film criticism, anthropology, history, philosophy, and scientific studies, perhaps as a way of indicating that they are engaging in art making rather than basic Internet use.

Back in 2007, a giant 176 page official complaint was lodged at Ofcom, (the UK's communications regulator of broadcasts) about skeptic climate scientists seen in the British video «The Great Global Warming Swindle», and the complaint went so far as to include its criticism of Dr Soon's non-speaking contribution to the film, while noting his «big oil» funding.

And despite changes in Pixar's team, criticism about recent films, and an increased number of movies on its slate, it's clear that the team clearly feels they're following the same creative process that worked for them in the first place.