Sentences with phrase «mainstream film culture»

However, now one such film has come along, and there is, for whatever reason, a sort of eagerness for it to fail, with people anticipating hating exactly the kind of work that is sadly lacking in mainstream film culture.

Not exact matches

Had the then -67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola - like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?

On some level, Black Panther is a pushback against a Hollywood culture that shies away from «black films» made for mainstream audiences.

The film stars Keanu Reeves as a former hitman that has left his profession for a happier, mainstream, life, but an unfortunate turn of events force him to return to the seedy underbelly of New York City's hitman culture.

In such a film culture utopia, Bonnier can continue showing blockbusters and mainstream films packaged in consumer - arrogant forms, hide behind industrial methods, and haul in cash on popcorn — and I won't complain!

Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what is innovative, challenging, personal and under - recognised in the art of cinema.

After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.

As the only festival in the US to be accredited by FIAPF, and having developed under the shadow of the formidable American Film Institute, the event entertains a complex relationship to mainstream US film culture and international cinephilia.

In 2001, I was invited by the editors of Christianity Today to write a weekly column called «Film Forum,» comparing and contrasting film reviews in the religious and mainstream press, and examining the nature of dialogue about art in the church and popular culture.

The film allows everyone to be a little bit ridiculous and takes digs at an increasingly superficial mainstream American culture without ever being misanthropic or even particularly jaded.

In a year filled with political noise about income inequality and the One Percent lashing out as what they might perceive as government overreach, it's pretty heartening to see a piece of mainstream pop culture embracing imagery that strikes unmistakable parallels between Collins» bruising make believe and the realities that many moviegoers who will be watching this film on opening weekend have to deal with outside the confines of the multiplex.

When: June 14th Why: «Spring Breakers» had some interesting things to say about modern youth culture, and I expect Sofia Coppola's latest film will add to that discussion as well, although packaged in a much more accessible, mainstream way.

NTTFF will enhance the diverse cultural experiences of our community by providing unique and alternative film experiences to mainstream cinema in regional and remote NT, while providing iconic tourism opportunities to share in our unique culture across one of our incredible natural sites.

Canvas makes amazing films about innovative art and culture with a specific focus on disciplines that maybe don't get enough mainstream love (though not here on FAD obv), things like public art, spoken word poetry, street art, street dance and alternative music genres.

I was interested in the way that the film moved between expressions of pleasure, pain, rage, and humor to offer a kind of collective portrait of black gay life, one that was and arguably continues to be almost absent in mainstream media and popular culture.

While her work is informed by mainstream cinema and experimental film, it is mostly concerned with the medium of digital video and its comparative ubiquity in today's culture.

It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image — a place for talented film - makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.

Parallel to the striking, somber Men canvases, materials in the exhibition are organized in strict chronological order so the viewer can appreciate the interrelations of underground and establishment; art, protest, and gay life; painting, sculpture, and film in a key year for Warhol; fine art and mainstream culture; and the lives and careers of the major players.

From album covers to posters to graphic design, the style permeated mass culture, with Peter Max designing advertising for consumer products and mainstream animation producers, such as Al Broadax and Ralph Bakshi, bringing the imagery to the general public with films like Yellow Submarine and Fritz the Cat.