Sentences with phrase «many film genres»

David Goldman tries to explain the growth in the American horror - film genre while making the assumption that horror is bad in and of itself, with which I disagree.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the...

But even more than that, absolutely no other film genre is premised on the conviction that there is such a thing as absolute morality.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

Fans become enthusiastic about a band, a film genre, a TV show.

The film genre and years since the film's release had no bearing on the results.

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

Interested in traveling, most film genres, reading, camping, and other outdoor activities.

I think the problem is that the film arrived before local industries set their rules on this, says the helmer about South Korean exhibitors demanding Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and young adults, such

I can say with all honesty that the dick and fart film genre has never been a big draw for me.

An excellent blend of comedy and thriller The Cabin in the Woods has redefined the horror film genre.

After the first Deadpool enthusiastically flipped the bird (and hung a moon, and performed a number of other obscene gestures) at the comic - book - hero film genre, what could the creators of the follow - up do for an encore?

The «Mindf @ * ck» film genre has just gotten a solid new entry with «Black Swan» a psychosexual thriller starring Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Sydney Pollack's directorial list includes a wide variety of film genres including his romantic comedy Sabrina and the parental drama Searching for Bobby Fischer.

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

Named for the frozen treat that appears in each film, the two comedies feature British actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost combining comedy with elements of the horror and action film genres.

Jauja, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, Bone Tomahawk, The Salvation — it's been one heck of a year for re-workings and riffs on this most pliable and perfect of all film genres.

I think the toughest film genre is screwball comedy.

Under the category of adventure films, we can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, «jungle» and «desert» epics, treasure hunts and quests, disaster films, and heroic journeys or searches for the unknown.

Apt Pupil is a welcome attempt to reclaim the horror film genre from teen - driven slasher flick formulas!

Already widely cited and used in courses in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement in post-war cinema, the Slow Cinema movement.

CHICAGO — The subject of the Holocaust has become an entire film genre onto it's own, embracing many different styles.

The biopic or docudrama is one of the most fascinating, if not tickling, film genres.

Nominated for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival and winner of the Special Jury Mention at the San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal, this Sundance Channel co-production by Director Justin Mitchell (Death Cab for Cutie: Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, Jenny Lewis: Welcome to Van Nuys, Ted Leo: Dirty Old Town & Songs for Cassavetes) and Writer Vince Medeiros (Surfing & Huck Magazine) is an inspired and hugely original documentary that takes the surf film genre into never - before - seen territory.

Like «Coraline,» it's not your traditional children's movie, and it dips more than just its toes in the scary film genre.

Few film genres have been so critically despised and disparaged by film critics as the Ancient World epic.

It secured its place among the greatest, at least according to our belief, because of the freshness and audacity of its ambition to use a popular film genre for the exploration of an unexpected subject that gives the whole story an extra dimension.

With the possible exception of horror, sci - fi is the most aggressively self - cannibalising film genre in existence.

Their films were so instantly recognizable that «Merchant Ivory» became not only a brand but also a description of an art film genre often identified in ads with ivy trellises.

They mount their own mini-tributes to fallen out of favour film genres with a ribald glee.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by Hope Madden The fantasy film genre boasts some great sequels, even when those... read more →

Oscar Micheaux offered audiences a black perspective on the Chicago gangster film genre (Little Caesar, Scarface) as emphasised in this poster.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

The character who almost single handedly reversed the criticisms of Marvel's «villain problem,» Erik Killmonger is perhaps the most compelling villain in the entirety of the superhero film genre.

Mr. Beltrami took a few rare moments away from his work to talk with Media Mikes about Jerry Goldsmith's advice, his favorite film genre's and his very busy 2013.

JC: All this is true enough, except that The Shining belongs in a more global sense to the horror film genre.

Filled with both comedy and insight, the Ol Parker script of the Deborah Moggach novel («These Foolish Things») may be the jump start to a new film genre... gray cinema.

But it is certain that the film is less tied to the conventions of some film genre, as, for example, Miller's Crossing is, belonging as it does completely to the tradition of the gangster film.

Dead Man Year: 1995 Director: Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch directed this post-modern examination of the western film genre as American pop culture finally began to veer away from the expected western films.

Faithful to the original: Like any fanatic worth his salt, director Rob Zombie idolizes John Carpenter's 1978 original — we're talking about the defining work of the slasher - film genre, after all.

The worlds, time periods and film genres may change, but Allen the Character virtually stays the same, cracking jokes in the stern, scowling face of the most dire situations.

The horror film genre is so full of dumb teenagers making bad decisions one could all but populate a second planet (or country) with their low - grade stock.

(The title should clue you into this films genre somewhat).

The past stalks the crime film genre too: little has changed over the years, as plots are laid out before an audience increasingly well versed in connecting the dots.

They're more commonly referred to as «Music Videos» but since they have their roots in the Movie Musical, we think of them as short film descendants of that greatest of film genres.

A superb pas - de-deux with American cinema, this ultra-violent futuristic film brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of Road Movie, Western and Science - Fiction elements.

This film gave birth to the car - chase film genre and stars Eleanor, the only Ford Mustang in history to receive starring credit in a movie!

With such a wonderful title, creative concept, stellar cast, the director (Jon Favreau) of Iron Man and Elf, and the collision of two distinct film genres — Westerns and Sci - Fi, we had every right to expect cinematic genius.

The biopic is — with rare but important exceptions — a relatively anaemic film genre, and something here about the reduction of Chubbuck's story to its regimented codes and conventions renders it as little more than a classy TV movie.