Below, we've got a clip from the film that makes that above paragraph a bit more clear, as well as some early buzz from
noted film critics.
Noted film critic Roger Ebert who counts himself as a fan of the film also supplies an audio commentary in addition to the film's creative team.
There are plenty of interesting points raised, but as for me I decided to abstain from rehashing the same argument that's been going on for years and instead share an insightful quote from
noted film critic Roger Ebert.
Not exact matches
Note: The list only includes
films that were released in 600 or more theaters and / or had 80 or more
critic reviews.
But Variety
critic Scott Foundas, who reviewed both the Toronto and Cannes editions,
noted, «In all its versions The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a
film of marked ambition that turns out to know a fair bit about love and loss and the various ways in which we do and don't grow up to become our parents.»
Note that if a
critic ranks more than the standard 10
films, we will not include
films ranked 11th or worse.
An assessment of the
film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely
note that the
film was not pre-screened for
critics in advance.
Numerous
critics have
noted the
film's association of Louie with Jesus Christ.
In its 20th year as an organization, the Las Vegas
Film Critics Society has solidified itself as a
noted and trustworthy source for
film criticism by all lovers of
film and cinema.
The «N.Y. Times» Vincent Canby, a usually generous
critic, slammed the
film for its utter lack of realism,
noting that in this Georgia farm, the corn remains harvest - ripe year - round and seems to pick itself.
After the
film premiered at the 2010 Sundance
Film Festival where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize, Variety
film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, «Gosling and Williams interact beautifully and without a false
note, their deep immersion in their roles resulting in nothing but behavioral truths.»
Home Video
Notes: The Breakfast Club Release Date: 2 January 2018 Criterion releases The Breakfast Club on home video (Blu - ray) with the following extras: - Audio commentary from 2015 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson - New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy - New video essay featuring director John Hughes's production notes, read by Nelson - Documentary from 2015 featuring interviews with cast and crew - 50 minutes of never - before - seen deleted and extended scenes - Rare promotional and archival interviews and footage - Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes 1999 radio interview with Hughes - Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC's Today show featuring the film's cast - Audio interview with Molly Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic David
Notes: The Breakfast Club Release Date: 2 January 2018 Criterion releases The Breakfast Club on home video (Blu - ray) with the following extras: - Audio commentary from 2015 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson - New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy - New video essay featuring director John Hughes's production
notes, read by Nelson - Documentary from 2015 featuring interviews with cast and crew - 50 minutes of never - before - seen deleted and extended scenes - Rare promotional and archival interviews and footage - Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes 1999 radio interview with Hughes - Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC's Today show featuring the film's cast - Audio interview with Molly Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic David
notes, read by Nelson - Documentary from 2015 featuring interviews with cast and crew - 50 minutes of never - before - seen deleted and extended scenes - Rare promotional and archival interviews and footage - Excerpts from a 1985 American
Film Institute seminar with Hughes 1999 radio interview with Hughes - Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC's Today show featuring the
film's cast - Audio interview with Molly Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by
critic David Kamp
Film
critic Rich Haridy joins the Hyphenates to talk the
films of December 2012, compare
notes on the five best
films of the year, and look at the ongoing filmography of American provocateur Oliver Stone.
Monitor
film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final
film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's ever done,» though he
noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and war, never falls into focus.»
Critics have
noted that director Zack Snyder has used a lighter tone than the morose clash between «Batman v Superman,» but criticized the
film's plot and overuse of CGI in action scenes.
Many
critics noted how the
film is slow to start off with, with one describing the first part as «clunky».
Pull up a chair and take
notes as The Times»
film critics, Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang, discuss the holiday movies they're most looking forward to.
After this revelation,
film critics noted the «manic pixie» similarities in female love interests throughout cinematic history.
I can assure you, Rashad, that most
film critics taking
notes during screenings aren't merely writing down what happens in the
film.
In fact, she linked the low number of female filmmakers to the low number of female
film critics,
noting that
critics are the gatekeepers of cinema — and when all of them are men, fewer women are likely to make it through.
Extras include a liner
notes essay by novelist Grady Hendrix, an interview with
film critic Tony Rayns, a video essay by
film critic Travis Crawford, a photo gallery, and a trailer.
(
Note: Time
film critic Richard Corliss passed away this Thursday.
Mark Brown (The Salon)
Note: Thanks to fellow
film critic Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com for his very valuable assistance in researching this article, although the picks and pans strictly reflect the opinion of Kam Williams.
Features a video interview with director Chuck Workman conducted by
film scholar and
critic Annette Insdorff and a booklet with stills but no
film notes.
It is also with such hope that
film critics go to
film screenings on cold winter mornings and sit in cold theaters with cold fingers trying to take
notes — you get a pleasant surprise.
With The Spectacular Now «s Miles Teller in the role of a young drummer, many
critics note that the
film provides its other star, J.K. Simmons, a near - perfect vehicle for the former J. Jonah Jameson's brand of half - screamed scolding.
(Hong Kong
film critic Stephen Teo has
noted that the
film's original title, A Fei Zhengxhuan, alludes to the Chinese title of Rebel Without a Cause:» «A Fei» is local Cantonese slang for unsavory youths and the full title may be interpreted as the life story of one.»)
It should be
noted Verbinski's last two
film's The Lone Ranger and A Cure for Wellness didn't make much of an impact at the box office or with
critics...
Editor's
note: Times
film critic Justin Chang is keeping a regular diary at the 2017 Toronto International
Film Festival.
«Moonrise Kingdom is an adventure movie in the true sense,» writes
critic Geoffrey O'Brien in his liner
notes for our edition of the
film.
In addition to liner
notes by British
film critic Jason Solomons and a feature - length audio commentary track with writer Lothian and director Metzstein, there's the movie's theatrical trailer, a single deleted scene and a couple of featurettes in which Lance and Cilenti showcase two respective bits of sleight - of - hand that their characters employ.
While it doesn't look like we'll be getting much in the way of extras, at least we get a behind the scenes look at the making of the
film, in addition to McDonagh's Academy Award - winning short
film from 2004, so if you were as enamored with this future Oscar winner as the
critics and guilds have been, then be sure to
note the February 13th (Digital HD) and February 27th (Blu - ray / DVD) release dates.
Of course, it's worth
noting that NYFCC is made up of a small group of New York — based
film critics; a larger awards body like the Oscars will be pulling from a much bigger pool of voters working within the
film industry.
As
critic David Sterritt
notes in his liner essay for our edition of the
film, the dazzling Brazil's «verbal and visual wit remain as incisive as ever, and the themes it explores — social alienation, terrorism, the hazards of high technology, and the bureaucratization of absolutely everything — are more urgent now than when the
film premiered.»
Ingram
noted that «most
critics» loved the
film, while fellow industry colleagues who saw the feature in Toronto were mixed.
In a recent article on Tarkovsky, Julian Graffy
notes that the Russian journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski (Notes in Cinema Analysis) asked 27 critics from around the world to list the twentieth century's 12 best films «from the point of view of history» and «from the point of view of film criticism&ra
notes that the Russian journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski (
Notes in Cinema Analysis) asked 27 critics from around the world to list the twentieth century's 12 best films «from the point of view of history» and «from the point of view of film criticism&ra
Notes in Cinema Analysis) asked 27
critics from around the world to list the twentieth century's 12 best
films «from the point of view of history» and «from the point of view of
film criticism».
In the lead - up to its release, Ingram
noted the
film is a New York Times
critics pick and was praised by the Los Angeles Times.
The Times announced the news in a
note to its readers that ran with their 2017 Holiday movie preview, saying that they would continue to review Disney
films, but their
critics would only be able to see them when tickets were available to the general public.
As
film critic Roger Ebert
notes in one of the bonus features on this new 75th anniversary Blu - ray, such questions are silly, since
film fans» favorites tend to change.
As
critic Kent Jones
noted in his excellent Criterion Collection essay, «Hiroshima Mon Amour» carries such a weighty reputation it has become its own worst enemy regarding 21st century audiences unfamiliar with the
film.
The
film ultimately belongs to Riggan, who suffers repeated humiliations (learning a drunk Carver probably wrote a prized
note, having to wander Times Square in his underwear after a mishap with a stage door, and getting a lambasting from Lindsay Duncan's cruel
critic) while the voice of his movie alter - ego prattles in his head about the actor's failures, and Keaton, whose performance finds the right balance between longing determination and outright insanity.
Noted Magnolia Sunday: «It was clear to us over the last week that
critics were really liking Little Men — the
film received more — and better — press than almost anything we've opened this year.
I caught the
film at Sundance and while it left me cold, I should
note that some of my fellow
critics absolutely adored...
Other
critics, like Entertainment Weekly and USA Today were quick to
note that while the
film is undeniably fun, it doesn't always take itself seriously enough.
As many of the best
critics have stressed,
film criticism's function is to resist becoming part of the machine for promoting
films at either the mass market or indie / art
film level, repeating the press
notes and feeding the hype.
The Atlantic piece ends by reminding us that «the absence of women
film critics has been in the news recently thanks to Meryl Streep, who questioned in October how having so few women writers might affect the reception of female - centric
films,» while
noting that «There are no headlines recently about the representation of other races or sexual orientations, though they deserve many of their own.»
The liner
notes booklet includes an essay by
critic Dave Kehr (an early supporter of the
film), and a poster.
It's interesting to
note that the 1993
film, which had low expectations by
critics, has become a cult classic.
It includes essays by the curator Jens Hoffmann, the scholar José Luis Barrios, and the
film critic Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzmán as well as information on all the participating artists and their works, extended
notes on the classic
films selected by the artists, and a special insert featuring a newly commissioned photographic project by Fernando Ortega depicting abandoned or repurposed movie theaters in Mexico City.
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