Sentences with phrase «notice as a film critic»

A candid and human drama, The 400 Blows not only launched the feature career of Truffaut, a 27 - year - old who had gained notice as a film critic, but also the French New Wave, an era of cinema that is revered by many and often channeled by Wes Anderson, one of today's most acclaimed filmmakers and the active one by far most recognized by Criterion.

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Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely...

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely bereft of «entertaining» movies, or, at least, the kind of movies that aspire to merely entertain and not make you dwell on tragedy («Fruitvale Station»), the emptiness of our culture («The Bling Ring») or the struggles that come with aging and evolving with someone you love («Before Midnight»).