Sentences with phrase «of mainstream film»

On a formal level Shonibare's use of repetition and the lack of dialogue forgo the conventions of mainstream film and those associated with so - called realist narrative.

Point of View is such an example; it includes all the extras we expect when we purchase a DVD of a mainstream film: interviews with the artist, an image bank, and a bibliography.

McAvoy has done a great job playing Charles Xavier in the latest X-Men films, but ever since he made X-Men: First Class in 2011, he's basically removed himself from all other corners of the mainstream film conversation.

It's really exciting to hear the sound world we inhabit becoming more and more part of mainstream film making.

A number of mainstream film critics have hailed his work on the new film — virtually unheard - of for a traditional, orchestral, «proper» film score in the 21st century.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.

From the mid - to late»80s, slender, carrot - topped, and luscious - lipped Molly Ringwald was the reigning teen queen of mainstream films.

C. Scott Combs» idiosyncratic thesis that death in cinema has always depended on registration, either diegetic or non-diegetic, is clearly stated, and allows him to conduct rich textual analyses of a wide range of mainstream films, including Electrocuting an Elephant (Thomas Edison, 1903), The Country Doctor (D.W. Griffith, 1909), The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927), Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950), Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross, 1989), and The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999).

Shearer discerns a gender angle too, whether the critic in question is male or female: «There can be a tendency amongst critics to be particularly dismissive of musicals and of mainstream films that are coded as feminine in some way.»

One of the more interesting developments in the cinema of the past 15 years or so has been the surge of mainstream films with complex narratives...

Left Field Cinema provides alternative analysis of mainstream films, unearths hidden masterpieces in world cinema, and examines the works of the greatest and most influential film makers.

Documenting a 2003 lecture by Piper, which transforms into a spontaneous group performance, the film situates her seminal 1983 work Funk Lessons in the tradition of mainstream films that represent the teaching of popular dance as a means of self - transcendence and cross-cultural contact, and within the broader philosophical context of Piper's The Color Wheel Series, which this video completes.

Not exact matches

Filmmakers, media companies, and the music industry are only taking on small - scale VR projects, like promotional and marketing - related short films, and are not investing huge amounts of money on bigger projects until VR becomes more mainstream.

It will also boast the star power of Aamir Khan, an Indian film legend who signed on to play the villain, and could just be the jolt Imax needs to find its way into the Indian mainstream.

The producer of the «Dark Knight» Batman trilogy and «Godzilla» paves the way for China to broaden its influence over U.S. mainstream films beyond cameos of Chinese actors.

With a dual calling to preach and make films — whether Christian (Heaven is for Real, Miracles from Heaven) or mainstream (The Pursuit of Happyness, Hancock, The Karate Kid)-- DeVon would occasionally see Meagan at industry or church events, but the relationship was strictly professional.

Indeed, Shirer's viewpoint lives on at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (where visitors are shown a film that accuses Luther of being the progenitor of Germany's National Socialism) and in the remarks of an Alan Dershowitz: «It is shocking that Luther's ignoble name is still honored rather than forever cursed by mainstream Protestant churches.»

Whatever the case, I've realised that connecting mainstream witchcraft with conscious worship of the devil is fuelled more by horror films than reality.

The film shows the students» difficulties being accepted into the mainstream education, the bureaucracy that stymies their teachers and administrators, and the passionate battle of three mothers who believe in their children's rights to a public education.

Nevertheless, Chasnoff says, «The experience of engaging in the mainstream media about our film like that was one of the first times that the topic ever surfaced in the mainstream media.»

Here I was, holding out hope that a mainstream media outlet was going to cover this film and really shed light on how chock - full of misinformation it is... only to be let down.

«I completely agree with the film's assertion that a high animal - protein diet, especially devoid of plant foods, feeds a wide variety of health problems, and I also agree with the pervasive corruption of the mainstream food industry,» says Dr. Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner.

Thayer talks about how online dating has become a mainstream aspect of daily life, Tinder was covered in nearly every major news source last year, and yet its influence hasn't extended to TV and film.

«It's become more fashionable to be a geek in the past five or six years,» says Gough, citing the popularity of TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and the mainstream interest in the upcoming Star Trek film.

To Emily Livingston of Match.com, the 1998 film, «You've got Mail», a compelling tale of online romance, can be credited with helping to bring about mainstream acceptance.

Electric cinema is the UK's oldest working cinema and shows a mixture of the latest mainstream, independent and classic films.

Since then, the website has continued the tradition set forth by the magazine; a lone voice shouting into the void of mainstream media, that there is more to film than summer blockbusters and celebrity gossip.

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream

Just as Jackson Pollock stretched the definition of painting and broke away from previous conventions, Malick is challenging the mainstream notion which defines film and more importantly, he offers a comfort to our suffering.

Although Levy does a great job integrating the special effects into the story in an unobtrusive and even seamless way, he remains unable to lend a film a discernible personality beyond what exists in the script, and at best «Real Steel» feels like a convincing argument that he's eminently capable of handling generic mainstream blockbusters.

I just think that Blomkamp is aware of what a mainstream audience want from a film.

To endear it to mainstream audiences Spielberg concentrates on Schindler's inspirational story and alongside the evil, we also get glimpses of humanity throughout, which allow the viewer to make it through the film.

Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

If you've heard one thing about this Sundance hit, it's probably that it was filmed entirely on an iPhone 5s, with some «circling» shots done through Baker filming the actors while riding his bike, and that it's one of the rare movies about transgender people to reach mainstream consciousness that also stars transgender performers.

One of the funnies, most original sex scenes ever seen in a mainstream feature film.

The new film about Salinger's career, Rebel in the Rye, is a work of searing mediocrity about an author who was horrified by the very idea of mediocrity, eventually sealing himself away from public life rather than subject his work to mainstream scrutiny.

Instead of coming off like a vanity project, however, it has a casual kind of intimacy missing from most mainstream - type films.

This is one of those straight to DVD films that remind you why not all films deserve a mainstream release.

Why yes, I did read MAJ's article on the lack of dynamic female characters in modern mainstream film - making...

Displaying the kind of off - kilter charm that makes him a natural for leading roles in independent films and character parts in mainstream features, Liev Schreiber has made a name for himself on both circuits.

This is something of a rarity for a mainstream science - fiction film.

The film stars Keanu Reeves as a former hitman that has left his profession for a happier, mainstream, life, but an unfortunate turn of events force him to return to the seedy underbelly of New York City's hitman culture.

Paul Feig's film has gambled on women, assuming that female moviegoers are sick of being reduced to man - starved, materialistic shopaholics by Hollywood, and want to see a mainstream comedy which gives them a chance to live and breathe as honest to god, funny, interesting people with their own point of view.

And all of this is wrapped in a perspective we don't see enough of in film, especially (if ever) mainstream film: Afrofuturism.

This is the definition of an indie film making its way into the mainstream and I must warn that it's not going to be for everyone.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

In short, Pacific Rim: Uprising is one of the worst sequels ever made and an early contender for worst mainstream film of 2018.

But DuVall's extensive experience in indie films brings a not very mainstream sensibility to this dramedy, which in spirit is closer to the mumblecore works of Joe Swanberg and the Duplass brothers.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

Joe Swanberg continues his march toward the mainstream even as he deepens his signature brand of hangout film in «Digging for Fire,» a lovely slice of everything and nothing centered on a housesitting couple who discover possible evidence of a murder.