Sentences with phrase «of film historians»

1492: Conquest of Paradise arrives on Blu - ray in North America in a release that features some deleted scenes and a commentary track by a pair of film historians.

Thanks to this heuristic practice the figure of Albert Capellani was brought back to the attention of film historians with screenings in the program 100 Years Ago.

SYNOPSIS: 1492: Conquest of Paradise arrives on Blu - ray in North America in a release that features some deleted scenes and a commentary track by a pair of film historians.

This is one of the few titles to get an «Encore Edition,» with 3000 more copies, and this edition includes additional supplements: new commentary by Twilight Time's house team of film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman, plus video introductions by Martin Scorsese (6 minutes, carried over from the «Columbia Film Noir Classics» DVD box set) and Michael Mann (11 minutes).

with an interview of film historian William Scott Wilson, and the film's trailer.

Those hoping for the exhaustive contextual analysis of a film historian are likely to be a bit disappointed, but those with an interest in how Cardiff achieved the evocative look of the film will be mesmerized.

In this double feature, I looked at the impact of film historian and gay rights activist Vito Russo.

Not exact matches

He is neither a historian nor theologian, but the film, «Monumental,» shows him consumed with Christianity - and with rage over what he says has been the systematic removal of religion's role from American history.

Heffner, himself a historian, finds JFK filled with «not - quite - provable speculations about the end of Camelot,» but he is intrigued by the angry response to the film on the part of print media and television journalists.

One of the producers, Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts, discusses how the film came to be.

«They are not the same films that most people are used to seeing,» says Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who is not involved with the project.

In the film's lyrical telling of the story, which relies on historical photographs, an inventive use of animation, and interviews with Egan and western historians, «flaming embers shot down from the sky» as an ad - hoc army of firefighters tried to control the fast - spreading blaze.

The film series features 14 of the world's leading scientists and three historians of science discussing exciting scientific advances — and their own wonder and amazement as they explore our world.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

Once there was a film historian who opined that Wallace Ford was in more movies than any other character actor of his prominence.

«The Grand Old Man of Westerns,» as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early»40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper.

At the time of his death, Albert Parker was assisting film historian - preservationist Kevin Brownlow in the restoration of the recently rediscovered Sherlock Holmes.

Actress Mary Field kept her private life such a well - guarded secret that not even her most devoted fans (including several film historians who've attempted to write biographies of the actress) have ever been able to find out anything about her background.

Despite Barrymore picking up a Best Actor Oscar, the movie has faded into obscurity and is really only of interest to film historians (or those who insist on writing about Pre-Code Hollywood).

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

by Leonard Maltin Leonard Maltin is one of the world's most respected film critics and historians.

Leonard Maltin is one of the world's most respected film critics and historians.

EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by Roy E. Disney and historian John Canemaker, the Signature Collection edition includes new featurettes on the film's iconography and character design, archival recordings of Walt Disney discussing the project, deleted scenes, an alternate sequence and much more.

• Thomas Gladysz on the rarity of giving an Honorary Oscar to a film historian, in this case, 2010 honoree Kevin Brownlow.

Written by David Hare (The Reader) and directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard, Temple Grandin), the film vigorously conveys the tense story of Lipstadt's legal battle with British historian David Irving, of whom she was accused of libel.

NBR also stands out as the only film organization that bestows an annual film history award in honor of former member and film historian William K. Everson.

«There's Always Vanilla Film Locations» (11 mins., 1080p) has «Romero historian» Lawrence DeVincentz talking over a slideshow of contemporary photographs of locations used for scenes in the film (some of them featuring him or his buddy Spooky Daz Sargeant in the frame matching the pose of the original actors) with authentic production stills occasionally appearing in an inset.

The final bonus feature is an audio commentary by film historians Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman, who prepared a discussion that covers the movie from its origin to its release, with plenty of information about Marvin, Mifune, Boorman, and others.

More satirically - oriented delights from the 1930s that deal not in resignation but social revolt, like Boudu sauvè des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning, Jean Renoir, 1932) and Zèro de conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933), do seem more modern in their openness and much looser in style, but lack, in the words of Swedish film historian Rune Waldekranz, the «attractive 1930s patina» that Carné's films have by now acquired (6).

I owe this convincing explanation to Kevin Heffernan, an American scholar and historian of films and horror.

Each title gets a full - length audio commentary from Travis Crawford, a dogged film critic and programmer with the instincts of a historian, who goes into detail on the background of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his vision on screen.

«Snapshot in Time: 1967 -» 68» (19:15) discusses the history of the Vietnam War in the period dramatized in the film with comments from Stone, historians, and an assortment of military veterans.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by producer Pancho Kohner, casting director John Crowther and film historian David Del Valle; and an isolated track of Robert O. Ragland's score.

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman; the theatrical trailer; and an isolated track of Thomas Newman's score.

As I've stated before, Ebert has serious limitations as a serious critic of film, but he is eminently qualified as a film historian.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

It's hard to think of a major filmmaker who came so close to being ruined by technology, just as it's hard to believe that anyone except film historians will be watching Beowulf, The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol even a decade hence.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historian Glenn Erickson and the theatrical trailer.

This year's National Society of Film Critics awards are dedicated to Richard Schickel, the legendary film critic and historian, author of 37 books and director of 37 documentaries, and a founding member of the Society.

«Spielberg» has the feel of official business, with the man himself happily participating in long conversations about his creative process, while dozens of other sources — his 100 - year - old father, Arnold, and his mother, Leah, who died at 97 in February; his siblings, peers, longtime collaborators, actors, film critics and historians — supply their own observations and asides.

Blu - ray extras consist of audio commentary by film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman; the theatrical trailer; TV spots; and an isolated track of Michael Small's score.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

The sequel The Return of Count Yorga (Scream Factory, Blu - ray), which reunites director Bob Kelljan and star Robert Quarry, comes from another label and features commentary by film historian Steve Haberman and actor Rudy De Luca.

House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.

HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will honor Oscar ® - nominated actress Gloria Stuart's career in film and celebrate her 100th birthday with a program featuring film clips and an onstage conversation between Stuart and her longtime friend, film historian Leonard Maltin, on Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m., -LSB-...]

Kent Jones, the film's director, is a notable film criticism writer, film historian, and artistic director of the World Cinema Foundation.

This edition has commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Tim Sullivan, who also deliver a reading of a print interview with Robert Quarry, plus stills, a radio tribute to Robert Quarry, isolated score audio track, and booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.

Also on board is an audio commentary from» 09 — Disney, alas, has dropped the picture - in - picture option that made this a full - blown «Cine - Explore feature» on the PE — teaming Leonard Maltin with Disney animator («and unashamed animation geek») Eric Goldberg and film historian J.B. Kaufman, who at the time was writing a book about the making of Pinocchio that finally got published in 2015.

As the world prepares to bid farewell to George W. Bush following tomorrow's election, I came across an apt article in the new edition of Sight and Sound, in which critic Michael Atkinson evaluates how the Bush presidency affected American film, and how the period might be interpreted by future film historians.