Place seems in its reality transformed, and by the mystery of
the movie as an art form.
When you ponder the landscape of cinema as it exists today, it can feel as if a movie like «Get Out» or «Dunkirk,» and — indeed — the holy trinity of popularity, acclaim, and relevance, which used to go such a long way toward defining
movies as an art form, now lines up about as often as an eclipse.
Not exact matches
Although it's been used repeatedly
as a
movie title, Alive and Kicking perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer's debut documentary, which presents swing dance
as a vibrant, living
art form.
It weaves the disgusting, raunchy Kevin Smith dialogue into a vulgar
art form and still the
movie comes across
as sweet at the end.
As spectacularly wrong as organizations like the Academy, and the odd critics» groups, can get it sometimes, nobody can rival the collective movie - going public for sheer cluelessness when it comes to determining the best of the art for
As spectacularly wrong
as organizations like the Academy, and the odd critics» groups, can get it sometimes, nobody can rival the collective movie - going public for sheer cluelessness when it comes to determining the best of the art for
as organizations like the Academy, and the odd critics» groups, can get it sometimes, nobody can rival the collective
movie - going public for sheer cluelessness when it comes to determining the best of the
art form.
I remember that it made me passionate about film in a summer that was full of forgettable
movies, and it continues to further my love for the
art form as I watch it again and again.
It also looks at
art — what it is, and what it isn't — and prompts our subjectivity to draw its own conclusion about the
movie, much
as it would any
form of
art.
Using the incredible
art form of Japanese anime, the
movie opens with two young sisters peeking out of a moving truck
as it heads toward their new home.
John L. Sullivan, played by Joel McCrea, is a successful Hollywood comedy director — but he wants to create serious
art, in the form of a movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.&raq
art, in the
form of a
movie called O Brother, Where
Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.&raq
Art Thou, and
as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised
as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.»
The great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael said the film «altered the face of an
art form» and described it
as the most «powerfully erotic
movie ever made».
I am interested in the change from the period when the meaning of
art and
form in
art was in making complex experience simple and lucid,
as is still the case in «Knife in the Water» [Roman Polanski, 1962] or «Bandits of Orgosolo» [Vittorio De Seta, 1960], to the current acceptance of
art as technique, the technique which in a
movie like «This Sporting Life» [Lindsay Anderson, 1963] makes a simple, though psychologically confused, story look complex, and modern because inexplicable.
There's no shortage of hyperbole on display here,
as indicated by a narrator who solemnly intones, «It has been suggested that the
movie blockbuster is the new
art form of the 20th century.»
In 2002, a group of Seattle film professionals, enthusiasts, teachers, and critics
formed Parallax View, a small film society whose goal was to champion the cause of film literacy, foster public discussion of the place of
movies in society, and promote the serious, sometimes delirious cause of film
as art.
As proven by the three above examples, creative individuals can be easily influenced by other
forms of
art, which is why so many gravitate toward books, music,
movies and other inspirational avenues.
Interactive entertainment is today's most compelling
art form and shares the same creative freedom
as books, television, and
movies.
In this context Point of View
as a collection represents how artists offer up an alternative to mainstream, mass - produced culture's content by combining the imaginative and innovative properties identified with high
art with
forms and subjects drawn from advertisements, commercial
movies, graphic and industrial design, science fiction, and popular music.
BK: I've always had a very broad definition of
art, and it always struck me
as funny that any piece of canvas with some pigment on it is called
art, and some
movies or
forms of music are considered
art and some aren't.
It has been the main
art form of our time, though its boundaries are eroding and it's running into similar distribution problems
as music and literature... so it's hard to say how much longer the
movies will be with us in the format we recognize.