Sentences with phrase «oldest film critic»

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest film critic organization in the United States, released their list of nominees for the Best Film of 2016.

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest film critic organization in the country, released their nominees for the 50th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards, recognizing the best in film for 2015.

Kansas City, Missouri - The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest film critic organization in the country, released their nominees for the 50th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards, recognizing the best in film for 2015.

1 Day until... Today Blue Caprice competes for two Gotham Film Awards 1 Day until... NYFCC, the oldest film critics organization (not to be confused with NYFCO, a much newer upstart) kicks off critics prize season and we get our first clue as to whether Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine is a steamroller (Dec 3rd) 2 Days until... NBR announces kicking off the not - critics - but - we - also - give - prizes prize season (Dec 4th) 5 Days until... Blue is the Warmest Color wins -LRB-?)

The National Society of Film Critics is the second oldest film critics group, after the grandfather of them all the New York Film Critics Circle.

In the summer of 1958, a 30 - year - old film critic and amateur filmmaker named Jacques Rivette started shooting a movie...

I've been meaning to post something about 11 - year - old film critic Jackson Murphy (aka Lights Camera Jackson) for a while now, but for whatever reason I just never got around to it.

The oldest film critics» organization in existence, the National Board of Review began in 1909 as an act of defiance when then - New York City...

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Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

Since I'm a sucker for Disney films, I took two very sophisticated critics with me to the screening: my 11 and 12 year old goddaughters.

His film output decreased in number and quality in the l980s and 1990s, though critics enjoyed his offbeat 1989 working - class comedy Bert Rigby, You're a Fool and his 1997 Bette Midler starrer That Old Feeling.

Audiences immediately understood that Pee - Wee's Big Adventure was meant to be a nine - year - old's notion of the Perfect World; critics, to whom nothing is ever simple, insisted upon reading all sorts of motivation and subtext into the film, and suddenly Pee - Wee Herman was the darling of the wine - and - cheese crowd.

Critics Consensus: The Santa Clause is utterly undemanding, but it's firmly rooted in the sort of good old - fashioned holiday spirit missing from too many modern yuletide films.

Critic Consensus: The Santa Clause is utterly undemanding, but it's firmly rooted in the sort of good old - fashioned holiday spirit missing from too many modern yuletide films.

Critic Consensus: The cast of Last Vegas keep things amiably watchable, but the film is mostly a mellower Hangover retread for the older set.

The set - up of the film — 12 - year - old Zain sues his parents for being born — turned some critics off, but The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees a «much angrier, tougher — and sometimes funnier — film than you might imagine from its cloying opening premise.»

Critics liked every film the 45 - year - old company had to offer in 2013, especially one - of - a-kind documentary Leviathan and the Vienna - set drama Museum Hours.

With their long takes and deliberate pacing, Kelly Reichardt's films (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy) aren't for everyone, but she does have devoted fans (critics among them).

«Memoirs of a Geisha,» however, found the director cramped by conflicting aspirations of art - film stateliness and the old - Hollywood pizzazz of his previous effort — if not the catastrophe that many critics enjoyed declaring it, it was nonetheless a misfire that awkwardly showed up his limitations as a storyteller.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society is the largest and oldest organization of its kind, and a key catalyst in the expansion of Internet - based film journalism.

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society is the world's oldest and most prominent group for online film critics, comprised of 254 members representing 22 different couCritics Society is the world's oldest and most prominent group for online film critics, comprised of 254 members representing 22 different coucritics, comprised of 254 members representing 22 different countries.

Danny Baldwin is a 21 - year - old writer and film critic operating out of Downtown Los Angeles, California and San Diego, California.

The film drew a rousing standing ovation but less enthusiastic critic reviews for its tale of a 12 - year - old boy living in poverty who sues his parents for neglect.

«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.

Give an Oscar to every old - guard critic who was able to successfully pretend that they'd EVER looked at Entertainment Weekly outside of a dentist's office in the last decade); but I'm really perplexed to see the first one to really take off come from Movie Mezzanine — which I'm a fan of for much the same reason I became a fan of much of the TGWTG crew (and their other affiliates): fresh voices in film criticism coming in from outside the old guard print - media stronghold.

Fully aware that most critics loved seeing the old Hollywood musical reinvented, I found it hard to believe that this film could be as great as the first impressions made it seem.

Critics are somewhat mixed on the film, but the reviews are far more positive than what we read for The Hangover sequels, and they're about on par with the reviews for Phillips» Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and Road Trip, his more well - liked movies.

Blu - ray and DVD with hosted by Geek Nation film critic Scott Weinberg and featuring William Goss (Austin Chronicle), Drew Mcweeny (Hitfix.com), Jennifer Yamato (Deadline), Peter S. Hall (Movies.com), and my old colleague James Rocchi (who is identified as MSN Movies, despite the fact the site effectively shut down a year ago).

The results of Sight & Sound's annual film poll — one of the oldest and most venerable of critics» polls — are out, and it will please Slate's Julia Turner, among others, to see that Get Out has topped the list.

In the span of only a few days, I received Mondo's first board game, a clever riff on John Carpenter's «The Thing» called Infection at Outpost 31, saw a Facebook ad for a screening of the 35 - year - old film hosted by the Chicago Film Critics Association, and read about a new Arrow Blu - ray release of the film coming in November.

I personally know two gay film critics who despised that film because to them, James Whale represented sort of a worst - case - scenario gay artist, the broken down old queen lusting after the hunky young straight handyman.

• I was at a party the other night (not a film crowd) and an older gentlemen, hearing that I was a film critic, asked me what my favorite movies were.

The jurors — filmmaker Emily Yoshida, film critic Justin Chang, and IMDb founder Col Needham — also singled out director Carly Stone's comedy «The New Romantic,» about a college girl who starts dating older men, and presented a special jury prize for writing to Nijla Mu» min's «Jinn,» about a 17 - year - old girl whose mother suddenly converts to Islam.

The 28 - year - old critics» darling and fan favorite opens up about overcoming «debilitating» childhood anxiety through acting, moving to Hollywood at 15 (and changing her name and dyeing her hair), finding magical chemistry with Ryan Gosling in three films and, under the oversight of Damien Chazelle, breathing new life into the American movie musical.

If you're only basing your decisions on what an 11 year old says, or three 30 somethings (hope I didn't just insult Jay, Sean and Gregg) or a 60 year old professional film critic, then you may as well be flipping a coin anyways.

Of course there is a difference between the 20 - 40 year - old blogger and this child film critic.

Our film critic Erika Olson is not taking her 5 - year - old child to see this film.

As an eighteen year old I don't feel you can call yourself a critic before the age of 17 at that age you can build up both analytical and film knowledge.

Opening its membership to L.A. - based film critics whose reviews appeared regularly in newspapers, trade publications and magazines, as well as on radio and television, LAFCA voted in its first batch of awards on Feb. 13, 1976 at the old Cock»n' Bull Restaurant.

While other awards bodies and critics groups jostle and move their dates around to position themselves as the «tastemakers» of the race, the NBR is the oldest and longest - running organization to give out film awards, even preceding the creation of the Academy Awards.

Although director Stephen Frears has twice landed Oscar nominations for Best Director (The Queen and The Grifters) and twice guided a film to a Best Picture nomination (The Queen and Philomena), it is unreasonable to expect anything like that from this rather lightweight period comedy, which will fare well with older moviegoers but less so with the public at large despite favorable reviews from most critics.

«The Wolverine» marks Hugh Jackman's sixth movie appearance as the clawed antihero of the same name, and film critics agree the 44 - year - old actor has maintained his edge.

To form and be a part of the first ever Hawaii Film Critics Society, in which our varying / shared views of film, old and new, can find greater exposure and a wide platform.

San Francisco Examiner critics Jeff Anderson and Anita Katz's varied top 10 lists both include «Detroit,» director Kathryn Bigelow's account of the siege of the Algiers Motel during 1967 riots in that city; «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» writer - director Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about maternal revenge; and «Wonderstruck,» director Todd Haynes» film (based on a young adult novel) about parallel tales of fearless, curious 12 - year - olds — in 1977 and 1927.

Of course the very venerable «No Country For Old Men» would take the top prize, leaving film bloggers and critics of all shapes and sizes mostly very pleased.

(I discussed the film on WBUR»S Weekend Edition Sunday) In 1962, the 63 year - old «Master of Suspense» Alfred Hitchcock agreed to sit down for a series of filmed conversations with the 30 year - old «nouvelle vague» filmmaker and critic Francois Truffaut who idolized him.

The program is open to young film critics or journalists under 30 years old and who have published articles either in print or online.

It's full of direct emotion, full of feeling, the sort of score that film critics tend to hate (even more so today than when it was written), the sort that James Horner detractors tend to hate but old softies like me tend to love.

Click over to the Shrek 4 page at the Rotten Tomatoes film criticism aggregator and sort the field for Top Critics, the site's designation for reviewers accredited by name - brand news sites and old - media incumbents.