Sentences with phrase «on film culture»

Even without its extensive butterfly effect on film culture en masse, Kurosawa's landmark film is an epic to behold, especially on 35 mm in Seattle's Cinerama Theater (now one of the most advanced, hi - tech theaters in the world.)

Jones has gained an unusual perspective on film culture in the two cities.

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Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

The show — which was filmed last month at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory and featured performers Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, as well as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Haddid on the runway — is an important part of L Brands» (LB) efforts to keep its Victoria's Secret brand at the center of pop culture.

A free documentary by The Guardian on life in solitary confinement was recently released and a new free short film on nomadic cultures throughout the world was released this Wednesday.

But not just any meal: This one was being filmed as a pilot for a reality TV show based on Tammy Hotsenpiller's book, «Taste of Humanity» — which she described as an attempt to «bring cultures together through cuisine.»

It's not often that one leaves a movie theater feeling speechless, but anyone on the right side of the culture wars who views the recent film Blast from the Past will find his jaw scraping the sidewalk» and not out of disgust.

The film delves deep into the vision of a man whose work, as his daughter Mary notes, has been «to introduce culture into the discussion of agriculture,» amid an agribusiness assault on that way of life.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

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She is also featured in Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck (California Studies in Food & Culture, 2010) and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (HarperCollins, 2006), has been a guest on PBS's To The Contrary, and appears in the documentary film Two Angry Moms.

Specializing in pop culture, film and television, her work appears on Star Reviews and various other websites.

She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.

The university is also working to host an awareness week in which it will host activities throughout the week, including a public viewing of the documentary «The Hunting Ground,» a film about rape culture on college campuses, she added.

Celebrated film maker and Director of Creative Arts, Programmes and Projects at the National Commission on Culture, Mr. Socrate Safo has stated that there is no Juju when it comes to movies.

The mass culture of film reeled across class, ethnic, racial, and regional lines, drawing one and all into shared stories and imbuing us with the sense that reality itself is as changeable and ephemeral as the names on the movie marquee.

The researchers were able to demonstrate, for instance, that factors responsible for hypertrophy — enlargement of cardiac cells for instance in athletes and pregnant women — also led to a growth in volume in the cardiac cells that had been cultured on a film of eADF4 (κ16).

88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ Best if you're dating: a film lover If your date likes their culture on the modern side, Liverpool has its very own Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, which has exhibitions on new media, film and video.

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Whether your key interest is in films or theatre shows, you will find that the Watford Palace Theatre is the ideal place for a date with a touch of culture on the Watford dating scene.

Rhapsody - on - a-theme Interested in meeting like - minded people who are into art, culture, music, food - and - drink, travel, literature, film and theatre...

Indeed, the film's reliance on audience familiarity with sources of so - called high culture has been dismissed in some quarters as a pretentious gimmick, as if it were somehow an eighth deadly sin to expect intelligence either in police detectives or attendees of lowly genre films.

just came back from reading The Subtle Knife review / essay on District 9 and it was extremely well - done, and gave a nice, quick view into South African culture / history / outlook which enhanced my memory of the film.

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

On some level, Black Panther is a pushback against a Hollywood culture that shies away from «black films» made for mainstream audiences.

As the Fifty Shades film trilogy hangs up its paddle and rides off into the sunset on its inexplicable pommelhorse, one is tempted to draw some conclusions about what it gave us, as a culture.

Wiseman toned down his message and began focusing more on American culture to point out the symbolism of daily activities in his film Primate (1974).

The film makes use of some kick - ass cinematography (colorful imagery of the summer, and a picture that reflects childhood innocence), while the story sheds light on poverty, and the bad things that come along with it, and how it affects childhood, and for me, that is what pop culture nowadays would describe as «woke», because not a lot of films these days shed light on those important issues.

And the jokes, respectful of the culture the film embraces, rely on the average viewer's familiarity with all - things - Mexican to come off.

Kiki is an update of sorts on Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning, a canonical portrait of New York ball culture in the 1980s that endures, though not without complications, as an essential investigation of queerness, race, class, and stardom — and a work that noticeably goes unmentioned in Jordenö's film.

Coco doesn't reach the heights of Pixar's best films, perhaps because it is so fixated on doing right by the culture it depicts.

Based on a novel by Bodil Steensen - Leth, the film unfolds in the 1760s, telling the story of Queen Caroline Mathilda (the lovely Alicia Vikander, of the forthcoming «Anna Karenina»), a young but cultured free thinker who finds herself caught between her new husband, Danish King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard) and Johann Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), a man of idealism and enlightenment.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

Writer / director David Caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well - made pizza.

New elements have been added to the Predator culture, and the hunting appears to be sanctioned this time, so there are more Predators on hand then the single rogues of the first two films.

At the end of the day there is nothing here that hasn't really been done before, but the fact its been created around a culture and heritage that hasn't really been explored fully on film before makes all the difference.

Akin's 2004 breakout film, Head - on also speaks to the desperation of a female protagonist centering on culture conflicts in Germany.

Instead Refn has served up a scathing commentary on our image - obsessed culture, a feeling reinforced by the film's most potent line: «Beauty isn't everything... it's the only thing.»

This is a rapturously beautiful and important restoration, complemented by a complex soundtrack that delicately and coherently balances the noises of the film's island setting with the on - screen dialogue with two voiceover narrations with John Barnes's score, which is, itself, an intricate tapestry of the musical heritages of many cultures.

Taking Lives is a socio - political horror film trapped in the body of a game show hostess; smart in spite of itself, it's a statement on a bedazzled culture forever reaching for enlightenment with one hand and distractedly fondling the contents of its corpulent crawlspaces with another.

The screenplay by Rogen and Evan Goldberg (from a story co-written with producer Apatow) doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been before, but it offers a sly take on stoner culture and an accidental buddy film that works...

Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn't just a rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for many audiences.

Modern jazz informs not only Forman's perspective on culture and alienation, but also the structure of his film.

This inspired an unexpected independent film of great visual beauty and unconventional structure which introduced western audiences to Indian culture and music and launched Renoir on a new international phase of his career.

The film centres on the seemingly irreconcilable culture clash between the pernickety British - Australian author and the gosh - darnit informality and enthusiasm of her American wooer.

The Duffer brothers» «Stranger Things» on Netflix and the Jeff Nichols» film «Midnight Special» both call back to a specific attitude and time in pop culture (and in fact, it's the same time for both of them), but they manage to do so masterfully enough that it feels both like going back to something familiar while moving forward into unexplored territory.

Mena Suvari plays a virgin who agrees to allow herself to be deflowered on pay - per - view television in this nasty and comic film that's an indictment of our prurient and hedonistic popular culture.

Joe Wright's film shares with the recent Sucker Punch a fascination with young ass - kicking girls on the hunt for empowerment and actualization, but whereas Zack Snyder's pop - culture upchuck fetishisized via videogame and blockbuster cinema clichés, this saga blends fairy tales with grim Cold War-esque espionage.

The film is the latest to carry on the tradition of seeking out ancient cultures and building ultraviolent thrillers around them.