This is
modern cinema at its most technically advanced, a fact that is delightfully shown off in high definition.
A gripping two - and - a-half hour reinvention of the man - in - tights genre that delved into real moral and ethical ambiguities, it showed maturity without going for R - rated grit and gore, and, in Heath Ledger's Joker, had one of the most iconic performances in
modern cinema at its centre.
Not exact matches
Critic Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the - scenes look
at one of
modern cinema's most spellbinding talents, with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.
Critics Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the - scenes look
at one of
modern cinema's most spellbinding talents, with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.
Directed with style by D.J. Caruso as the follow - up to his stylish tweaker noir The Salton Sea, the picture has a way with tension and the jump scare —
at least until a Fatal Attraction / Astronaut's Wife conclusion proves again that the inoperable tumor of
modern mainstream
cinema is the ability to end.
He continues to perform
at a high level, and he's forged a partnership with Villeneuve over the course of three films now («Prisoners» and «Sicario» being the others) that makes for one of the great visual signatures in
modern cinema.
In this week's You Have to See..., Grace Sharkey looks
at WEEKEND from 2011, Andrew Haigh's
modern masterpiece of queer
cinema.
There are filmmakers who are masterful DJs, remixing the
cinema that influenced them, creating
modern versions that,
at their best, are far superior than the films that inspired them.
American Indians used to be treated this way in American
cinema (fool vs. wise fool)-- unsure how to treat them in any different way,
modern American
cinema has chosen not to treat them
at all.
«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the
modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as
cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died
at age 90.
From Patrick Holzapfel's Stray Dogs review: «If Stray Dogs really is the last movie of Tsai Ming - Liang, then it would be one of the harshest losses of
modern cinema, but
at the same time one of the most powerful retirements in the history of the medium.
Though it did premiere
at Cannes, Thief isn't an obvious selection for Criterion, who tends to release vintage, foreign and independent
cinema much more frequently than
modern American studio fare.
That is refreshing
at a time when unoriginality has long factored into discourse of
modern cinema.
Ultra-Orthodox leaders don't allow devout followers to go to the
cinema or have TV or the Internet
at home; there is a great distrust of all
modern media.
It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the
cinema that filmmakers are,
at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the
modern era.
I know that the Universal Monsters Dark Universe might be the worst attempt
at capitalizing on the Marvel movie model in the history of
modern cinema.
Also starting Friday in Westwood: The Crest Theater, in association with Emerging Pictures, will present the 20th annual Rendez - Vous with French
Cinema — a first - time look
at some of France's most exciting
modern cinema.
««The Crown» is storytelling that lives somewhere between television and
cinema from Britain's foremost chroniclers of
modern politics, class and society,» said Cindy Holland, vice president original content
at Netflix.
From his early films Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to his Palm D'Or and Academy Award winning Amour (2012), he has used
cinema to paint a portrait of humankind alienated in
modern society, lacking in compassion
at best and utterly amoral
at worst.
If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of
modern cinema, it's to point a finger
at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.
Slow
cinema lodestone Journey to the West comes across as Tsai's brilliant and clever attempt
at auto - critique, as he places the contemplative fundamentals of his
cinema (as symbolised by Lee Kang - sheng and Denis Lavant) into the frantic, chatty, unwieldy maelstrom of
modern urban life.
In dramatizing Mathison's script, Spielberg and his usual army of key collaborators — led by Janusz Kaminski (director of photography), Rick Carter (production design), Michael Kahn (film editing), and John Williams (original musical score)-- have fashioned a movie for children that looks
at home in
modern cinemas while retaining an «old - fashioned» pacing and temperament.
After celebrating Christmas with one of
cinema's bleakest — and funniest — depictions of religion, MUBI prepares to ring in the new year with a look back
at some of the earlier works of the best
modern and upcoming filmmakers, from Yorgos Lanthimos to (coming soon) The Safdie Brothers.
This film may not be great enough to wonder why it didn't feature in the award season discussion (and its Visual Effects nomination over the more effects - driven Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Tron: Legacy is a real head - scratcher), but it still easily lands
at the better end of
modern cinema.
Juan Antonio Bardem's Death of a Cyclist (1955), one of the first Spanish films to win the critics» prize
at a major European festival, was crucial in launching the
modern Spanish
cinema.
Today, the film is considered one of the great cult classics of
modern cinema — «the «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» as Ross Morin dubbed it in 2008 while an assistant film professor
at St. Cloud University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
When you finish shopping, get physical with a free Zumba class in the mall's Center Plaza, marvel
at the latest
modern art installation, pick up some new cooking skills
at The Gourmandise School of Sweets & Savories, or view a classic film or newly released movie
at the 14 - screen ArcLight
Cinemas.
Beneath the action and the «pop culture for pop cultures sake» (which does feature heavily in this movie) are a few messages that shine through
at poignant times in the progress of both
modern day
cinema and gaming.
Prominent works include Dresden Dynamo
at Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, in 1976 and her «expanded»
cinema work Light Music, which was motivated by the lack of women composers in classical European composition
at Tate
Modern in 2012.
ARTPROJX
CINEMA PRESENTS
at the SVA THEATRE, NEW YORK 2012 Friday March 9
at 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm The
Modern Institute and Artprojx
Cinema presents A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1 — 3) & All Divided Selves by Luke Fowler Saturday March 10
at 7 pm and 8 pm Artprojx
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McDowell has held curatorial appointments
at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, where she mounted many solo and group exhibitions, including projects on Minimalism, Fluxus, assemblage, and avant - garde
cinema.
From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions
at Artists Space, BAM, the Flaherty Film Seminar, PARTICIPANT INC., the Museum of
Modern Art, the New Museum, and Tate
Modern, as well as the
cinema for Greater New York 2010
at MoMA PS1 and the film and video program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Occupying a space between sculpture,
cinema and drawing, his work's historical importance has been internationally recognized in such exhibitions as Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964 - 77
at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2001 - 2); The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies
at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2003 - 4); The Expanded Eye
at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (2006); Beyond
Cinema: the Art of Projection
at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2006 - 7); The
Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image
at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2008); The Geometry of Motion 1920s / 1970s
at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York (2008); and On Line
at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York (2010 - 11).
The profile of artists working in moving image has been elevated in recent years by those who've made the leap into
cinema — Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor - Wood, Gillian Wearing — and those taking over leading gallery spaces — Tacita Dean
at Tate
Modern, Pipilotti Rist
at The Hayward.
From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions
at Artists Space, BAM, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the ICA, London, the Museum of
Modern Art, the New Museum, PARTICIPANT INC., and Tate
Modern, as well as the
cinema for Greater New York 2010
at MoMA PS1 and the film and video program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
This program is aimed
at artists in every artistic discipline: Architecture / landscape / urbanism, street arts / circus / puppets, digital arts, visual arts, comics,
cinema / movies / video, curating projects, dance / performances, design, literature, youth book, fine arts and crafts,
modern music and jazz, classical and contemporary music, contemporary art performances, photography, theatre, musics for films and video games.
From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions
at Artists Space, BAM Cinématek, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the ICA, London, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Mass Art Film Society, the Museum of
Modern Art, the New Museum, PARTICIPANT INC., the San Francisco Cinematheque, Tate
Modern, and the Walker Art Center, as well as the
cinema for Greater New York 2010
at MoMA PS1 and the film and video program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk
at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various
cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.
Recent grants have included support for the conservation treatment of minimalist paintings
at the Guggenheim; a roundtable addressing video art preservation issues; a conservation survey of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party; publications on the art of Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns, as well as on contemporary Chicano art, art theory,
cinema, and photography; research fellowships focused on contemporary Latino art in the United States, popular Islamic art in urban Senegal, and
modern Japanese architecture; and multicultural internship grants to support student interns
at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LACE, and a number of other local museums, alternative spaces, and community galleries that showcase contemporary artists.
This traditional oral form inspired the region's
cinema at its origins, as well as other
modern narrative genres, and intersects in their work with archival footage assembled to represent contemporary history and engender new cultural forms of post-colonialisation.
Contemporary art from elsewhere gave me far more — the Kabakovs with their tremendous lament for a mother Russia that might have been, using the illusion of
cinema as the purest of metaphors; the lissome visions of the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair in painting and sculpture
at Tate
Modern — Islam meeting modernism.
16 Aug 2006 American Underground Film Season
at IMMA A season of rarely - seen films from a defining period in the history of American underground
cinema opens
at the Irish Museum of
Modern Art on Friday 15 September 2006.
Instead of forcing department store and specialty retailers to compete with newer retail concepts
at nearby centers, Coral Ridge brings together department stores, big - box retailers, entertainment features, a
modern cinema and specialty retail - all working together under the same roof.