Sentences with phrase «of film scholars»

The aforementioned commentary with James Schamus, a Ph. D. and something of a film scholar, and the thoughtful and sincere Ang Lee, is a treat for fans of the many outstanding films the two have collaborated on throughout their respective careers.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

IF liberal scholars can blame the near - miss aspect of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the U.S. military brass being too aggressive (the case factually made by the 13 Days book and film), what does the blame amount to?

The films are «Killing Cancer: Cytotoxic T - Cells on Patrol» by Alex Ritter, NIH Oxford - Cambridge Scholars Program; «Companions in Discovery» by Amy Gladfelter, Dartmouth; and «Cell Repair» by Bill Bement, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

It's a must - read: Pity the film scholar who tries to discern something about our times from surveying this list of best picture nominees 10, or 30, or 50 years from now.

A number of scholars pay attention to how the films of this period in America (roughly the late 1930s to the middle of the 1950s, depending on who you ask) construct themes of paranoia, madness, secrecy, and disillusionment through their use of shadows, visual space, and innovative cinematic techniques.

Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.

Special Features High - definition digital transfer from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir «Around the River,» a 60 - minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 2004 Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney from 2000 «Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India,» a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir

Shadows has presumably received the bulk of attention from film critics because Parajanov's subsequent experiments were linked to cultural realities far outside the competence of many a Western scholar.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

The critics, of course, were shocked and the Marxist film scholar Umberto Barbaro attacked White Nights vociferously as «a formalistic nightmare.»

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

Bergman's film quickly made its passage into classic status; the 1972 poll of the world's film critics by Sight and Sound, the British film magazine, listed it among the ten greatest films ever made, and it is now considered by many Bergman scholars to be his best.

That said, it is doubtful that a mainstream Korean movie that challenged this kind of nationalist myth could be made, if the treatment of local scholars is any indication.8 Other films from earlier in the year that I was able to catch up with were E J - yong's Jook - yeo - ju - neun Yeo - ja (The Bacchus Lady) and Lee Kyoung - mi's Bi-mil-eun Eop - da (The Truth Beneath).

Included are video interviews with director Mike Leigh (whose film Topsy Turvy dealt with the original genesis of «The Mikado») and with Gilbert & Sullivan scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr..

The occasion is the passing of her father, an influential leader and Talmudic scholar — the Rav of the community — who drops dead, portentously, at the beginning of the film after delivering a tract on human beings and free will.

Misguided notions about the work of Stanley Kubrick in general and his eighteenth - century costume drama Barry Lyndon persist, despite the film's growing reputation since its initial lukewarm reception, and the work of conscientious scholars and critics.

That includes an insightful feature - length commentary from scholar Glenn Erickson, who spends the bulk of his breathless offerings analyzing character types, production details, and commenting of the film's importance as an unorthodox film noir.

In a video essay on our release of Robert Bresson's final film, scholar James Quandt explores some of the formal elements that make the master's vision of moral corruption so transfixing.

My default position is that the two things don't have that much to do with each other: Learning more about a film can deepen an appreciation that was already there, but the initial call of yea or nay is one that every king, scholar, and prole is equally qualified to make.

Director Gabe Klinger is a scholar of cinema history, and he was keen to invoke the textures and traditions of older films and filmmakers for this project.

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria's National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French - Algerian War

His recent role in the blockbuster film «Black Panther» reminds us of the excellence found in the African diaspora and how Howard continues to be a gem that produces the next generation of artist - scholars, humanitarians, scientists, engineers, and doctors.

Mise en Scène and Film Style is a truly ambitious book, offering the most sustained «academic» piece of writing yet published by this most prodigious and prolific of Australian film critics and scholars.

The young film scholar went on to write and direct prodigiously, some might say profligately, over the next four decades, manifesting his theories in his body of work in a way reminiscent of French New Wave cineastes.

Maybe said scholar was also a fan of Winston Churchill and likes to think that the great British PM was the very reincarnation of the 1st - century figure; maybe in a fit of frustration at the film, WIKIPEDIA was consulted.

Features newly - recorded commentary by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and Iranian scholar Mehrnaz Saeed - Vafa, a 90 - minute Q&A with director Abbas Kiarostami hosted and moderated by New York Film Festival director Richard Peña at the University of Indiana and a booklet with an essay be Peter Tonguette.

Formed in 2003, the International Cinephile Society is an online group comprised of approximately 100 accredited journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals who cover film festivals and events on five continents.

Now it has been lovingly remastered from the negatives and Janus films (a partner with Criterion) has applied digital technology to create a new digital restoration for the U.S., which is the source of Criterion's special edition, which features commentary by film scholar James Naremore and new interviews with Keith Baxter, Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles (who has a small role in the film), and Welles historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride among the supplements.

A recurring image of bees (part of the Candyman's torment) hints at the picture's eventual nod towards a matriarchy, while the evolution of the Helen character from scholar to myth points to film itself as the modern equivalent of firesides and oral history.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

Bonus features include I Was Born, But..., Ozu's 1932 silent comedy with a 2008 score by Donald Sosin; new interview with film scholar David Bordwell; new video essay on Ozu's use of humor by critic David Cairns; a fragment of A Straightforward Boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu; and a critical essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

The marginality of the films has bestowed upon them the status of being «illegitimate» and to be treated as «worthless» or with indifference by critics and scholars.

Extras: New interview with Mungiu; «The Making of Beyond the Hills,» a documentary from 2013, produced by Mungiu; press conference from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu and actors Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, and Dana Tapalaga; deleted scenes; trailer; an essay by film scholar Doru Pop.

Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride («Searching for John Ford: A Life»); «Omnibus: John Ford, Part One»: director Lindsay Anderson's profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II; talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975; audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the filmmaker's grandson Dan Ford; Academy Award radio dramatization of the film; an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: three scores: Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, one by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Portishead's Adrian Utley, and one by composer and pianist Mie Yanashita; an audio commentary from 1999 by film scholar Casper Tybjerg; an interview from 1995 with actor Renée Falconetti's daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti; and more.

The film is about Mitch Rapp, an «ordinary every day all - American athlete and scholar» recruited by the CIA, becoming one of the best assassins they've ever seen, but he gets into trouble on an assignment in Beirut.

Extras: Hour - long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the film in 1969; 2016 interview with film scholar Jan - Christopher Horak; new restoration demonstration featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek; an essay by author and critic Luc Sante.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns; new video essay on the film's symbols and references, featuring scholar James Steffen; new interview with Steffen detailing the production of the film; «Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel,» a 2003 documentary about the filmmaker, featuring him and actor Sofiko Chiaureli; «The Life of Sayat - Nova,» a 1977 documentary about the Armenian poet who inspired «The Color of Pomegranates»; an essay by film scholar Ian Christie.

Extras: New program on the film's cinematography featuring a conversation between Lassally and critic Peter Cowie; excerpt from a 1982 episode of «The Dick Cavett Show» featuring Finney; new interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on director Tony Richardson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1967; new interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie's impact on British cinema; illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar - winning score for the film; new interview with the director's - cut editor, Robert Lambert; an essay by scholar Neil Sinyard.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

The film follows Turing, a mathematical genius, as he leads a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, who are tasked with cracking the so - called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.

The special features that have been provided by The Criterion Collection will entertain fans of the genre for hours, with many scholars discussing the film at length through various interviews and featurettes.

The dark film was a departure for MGM — known for upbeat, lavish, escapist fare — but the studio's production chief Dore Schary ushered in a period of social consciousness for the company, notes Drew Casper, film scholar and author of «Post-War Hollywood Cinema 1946 - 1962,» in his DVD commentary.

The film comes with an audio essay by film scholar Casper Tybjerg, an audio interview with star Renee Falconetti's daughter, a detailed history of the film's many versions and other features.

Finally, there's a booklet featuring an informative essay by renowned film scholar Ruby B. Rich on the film's placement within the pantheon of lesbian love stories.

In honor of Latin America's countless contributions to the silver screen, a group of local actors, producers and film scholars unites to host the first annual Festival...