If great films invent their own rules, reinventing some of the standards
of film criticism in the process, Bela Tarr's Satantango surely belongs in their company.
Book - length film studies by amateurs can be traced back to Salman Rushdie's 1992 The Wizard of Oz, the volume that launched the BFI Film Classics — possibly the most bountiful book series in the history
of film criticism in any language, and one that sums up some of the gains criticism generally can boast over the same period, when DVD extras, building on the precedents established with laserdiscs, started to become institutionalized.
With all these feuds now is as good a time as any to address one of the stranger aspects
of film criticism in the post-modern era: the obsessive pursuit of critical consensus.
Aaron Gerow lays out a history
of film criticism in Japan to the present day, underscoring a narrative about cinema negotiated by professionals who gradually lose the ability to make a substantial impact on either audiences or the industry.
IFJA was established to promote the art
of film criticism in the Hoosier state, to support Indiana's growing film industry and to promote quality film criticism in Indiana.
But first you have to accept their limitations (they're mostly old white guys), accept the limitations of Hollywood overall (mostly run by white guys), accept the limitations
of film criticism in 2015 (mostly white guys), accept the limitations of ticket buyers and the you can start to imagine what's possible.
Noel: As much as it pains me to say it — in part because it sounds like sour grapes, and in part because it's almost too big a topic to tack onto this discussion — I think the rise of the OPs corresponds with the rapid decline
of film criticism in the mainstream media.
Not exact matches
Desperate and out
of money, Disney found his way to Hollywood and faced even more
criticism and failure until finally, his first few classic
films started to skyrocket
in popularity.
In January, Paul drew immense criticism for filming and uploading a video of a dead body hanging in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the «suicide forest.&raqu
In January, Paul drew immense
criticism for
filming and uploading a video
of a dead body hanging
in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the «suicide forest.&raqu
in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the «suicide forest.»
Paul drew intense
criticism in January for
filming the body
of a man hanging from a tree
in Japan's Aokigahara forest.
Parker faces renewed
criticism after details
of his 2001 trial on charges
of raping a college classmate resurfaced earlier this week, and it was disclosed that the 18 - year - old woman who accused Parker and the
film's co-writer, Jean Celestin,
of raping her had committed suicide
in 2012.
In fact, while these
criticisms are likely true
of the execution
of the
film, they're not the intent
of the
film at all.
For Muslim terrorists, there is no difference between any reasonable, based on facts,
criticism of their religion, on the one hand, and hateful and provocative statements such as those included
in the above mentioned
film.
At a press event for Perry's newest
film Madea's Big Happy Family, which came out on Friday, Perry addressed Spike Lee's
criticisms in a most unexpected fashion — by railing at me for a question I was making about a completely different kind
of potential backlash.
Robert Barron,
in one
of his regular (and regularly illuminating) forays into
film criticism (when does this guy have time to go to the movies?)
Who else
films every practice and then sits through it all over again, so that if a player is fool enough to question a single one
of her
criticisms, Pat takes her right to the videotape
in her office and stops the dang thing so often to prove she's right that it takes an hour to cover the first 10 minutes?
Duncan Smith, who is personally targeted for
criticism by characters
in the
film, said he did appreciate some
of Loach's previous work.
David Cameron has joined
in the chorus
of criticism against the biopic
of Margaret Thatcher, saying he could not understand the timing
of the
film.
James Woods is embroiled
in a Twitter brawl over his
criticism of Armie Hammer's new
film, and his habit
of dating younger women Today's liberated lifestyle has made room for a whole new set
of relationships — older women dating younger men.
James Woods is embroiled
in a Twitter brawl over his
criticism of Armie Hammer's new
film, and his habit
of dating younger women Stonebridge lanterns were produced
in galvanized steel, solid brass and aluminum.
2018-04-07 16:28 James Woods is embroiled
in a Twitter brawl over his
criticism of Armie Hammer's new
film, and his habit
of dating younger women Stonebridge lanterns were produced
in galvanized steel, solid brass and aluminum.
Often reviled
in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much
of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms
of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions
of his sight gags, his subversions
of standard comedic patterns, and his
films» acute
criticisms of American values.
, Australia suffered a case
of critic tall - poppy syndrome,
in which it seemed the
film was doomed for universal
criticism before anyone had laid eyes on it.
In his seminal 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....&raqu
In his seminal 1972 book Transcendental Style
in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....&raqu
in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from
film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made
in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....&raqu
in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis
of his
films (a statement which can be made
of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....»
One
of my rules
of criticism is to never recommend a movie that has an element
of time
in the title if it feels like it takes that amount
of time to watch the
film.
The
film tries to paint
in shades
of gray with vague
criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity
of its he - man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.
Not sure I see the problem with a hyper - conservative agenda behind a movie once
in a while... Yes, its not very classy, but I doubt you would providing the same
criticism if the
film had an ultra liberal, pro Obama, US military is made up
of east coast «sophisticated» starbucks coffee drinking hipsters.
Mundcuczo's implicit
criticisms of Europe's attitude to migrants are undone somewhat by his
film's messianic undercurrents, but for all that it's endlessly inventive, and ends
in memorable and unexpected fashion.
Almost 30 years have passed since I wrote a heated article about French filmmaker Luc Moullet for
Film Comment — the first extended defense
of his movies and his
film criticism in English.
Its 30 - plus contributors have gone from being new voices
in the New York
film criticism scene to part
of established
film culture.
It may be surprising for you to learn that
in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing
film industry
in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross
in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional
film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence
of professional
film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack
of regular
film reviews
of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.
In 2007, he was the only non-US
film critic to be invited by the Museum
of the Moving Image and The New York Times to participate on a week - long seminar on
Film Criticism.
It is interesting that visual artists have drawn on the richness
of film titles, exploring the relationship between text and image
in this context, but this is not a subject that has generated much interest
in the area
of film criticism.
The majority
of active, up - to - date
film criticism in China today comes from blogs and websites started by
film lovers.
DV: There's been a shift
in terms
of generations
in film criticism, which manifested
in a new board
in the German
Film Critic's Association.
In film criticism, auditory perception is rarely prioritized in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull of the visual
In film criticism, auditory perception is rarely prioritized
in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull of the visual
in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a
film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated
in a directional sense by the pull of the visual
in a directional sense by the pull
of the visuals.
«No End
in Sight» — Iraq War
criticism that counted because
of its levelheadedness — continues Nick Rogers» daily look back at the 365 best
films of 2000 - 2009.
After a stellar career
in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing
film criticism and,
in 1956, was one
of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson,
of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free
of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.
While he does not offer much
criticism of these
films, Cowie at least recognises their limitations — something Kurosawa transcended with Ikiru, the second
film (the first being Rashomon [1950]-RRB-
in which he truly articulated his genius as a director.
Like I was telling you,
in most
film criticism, certainly before the invention
of VHS, everybody would get everything wrong all the time because they couldn't go back to check it before publication, and one
of the real whoppers is Raymond Durgnat describing «Under Capricorn»
in his writing, and then Francois Truffaut taking Raymond Durgnat's description
in the «Hitchcock / Truffaut» book and getting everything all wrong.
Singular
in its distillation
of Schrader's decades - spanning preoccupations
of film criticism and filmmaking as well as his religious background, First Reformed is a rare object unified
in subject and style.
I've already spoken on how I feel lists have their value
in the realm of film criticism, and I can say that while... Continue reading «POLL: WHICH FILM SHOULD N'T BE IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?&raqu
in the realm
of film criticism, and I can say that while... Continue reading «POLL: WHICH FILM SHOULD N'T BE IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?&raqu
of film criticism, and I can say that while... Continue reading «POLL: WHICH FILM SHOULD N'T BE IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?&ra
film criticism, and I can say that while... Continue reading «POLL: WHICH
FILM SHOULD N'T BE IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?&ra
FILM SHOULD N'T BE
IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?&raqu
IN THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN
FILMS OF ALL TIME?&raqu
OF ALL TIME?»
In the interests of film criticism it may be productive to keep that in min
In the interests
of film criticism it may be productive to keep that
in min
in mind.
Established
in 2009 by a dedicated group
of six Indiana journalists, the Indiana
Film Journalists Association (IFJA) is a growing organization
of Indiana - based journalists and broadcasters who specialize
in film criticism and commentary.
The Indiana
Film Journalists Association, an organization
of journalists dedicated to promoting quality
film criticism in the Hoosier State, is pleased to announce its annual
film awards for 2012.
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 Indiana
Film Journalists Association, an organization
of writers dedicated to promoting quality
film criticism in the Hoosier State, is proud to announce its annual
film awards for 2013.
CRYSTAL DECKER Artistic Director Crystal is a
film - school grad with a background
of film criticism (a Met critic for 3 years), promotion and advertising (with a local PR agency), and festival planning
in the DFW market.
Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative
criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips
of the
film is a step beyond what the vast majority
of populist or even academic
film criticism has done
in the past, let alone other related
films in the genre and
in the director's oeuvre for context.
Film criticism is not something people seek out unless they either love
film or find the critic entertaining on their own — the issue may be more pronounced
in the era
of the Internet and review aggregators, but it's certainly not a new issue.