Sentences with phrase «own cinephilia»

In a review of a book on the history of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes: Cinephilia, is the condition of a sexual attraction to movies.

Despite its flaws and will to kitsch, «The Lovers and the Despot» has enough enigmas and chills to merit a look, even if some of its spookier moments involve cinephilia rather than the usual weapons of mass destruction.

Josh Mond's film feels like a careful curation of western cinephilia's most overdone narrative arcs and exhausted character clichés.

What keeps Reverse Shot's writers in the game, as much as any hope of others reading their work, is the journal's palpable sense of community and cinephilia.

Summertime moviegoing, especially in a big city with a healthy appetite for both cinephilia and nostalgia, means more than simply waiting around for franchise blockbusters to take your money and run.

If cinephilia has a literal holy text, to be referred to and examined in times of joy and stress and sorrow, it is this.

Yasujiro Ozu's cinephilia has been well known for some time now, especially his love of American movies.

The idea of the lost or broken film is central to cinephilia, but its implications are ambiguous.

His signature is unmistakable, and this is a film that insists on its own cinephilia: it is set partly in a flat positioned over a magnificent but sadly almost empty movie theatre.

In its kneejerk nostalgia, Wonder Wheel fillets bits and pieces of Manhattan (the declamatory opening), Broadway Danny Rose (the guys yakking, the mob), The Purple Rose of Cairo (the cinephilia, the hopeless romanticism) and Bullets over Broadway (the period love, the mob) among sundry others.

In fact, Naremore's work involves unifying this brand of cinephilia — what Jonathan Rosenbaum once referred to as «maniacal, unreasoning» cinephilia — with the critical theories and cultural studies that have dominated academic film discourse.

Naremore's interest in all aspects of cinema, his total and single cinephilia, draws me to cinematic subjects, such as movie acting, that I normally would not have much interest in.

A continuing, poetic dialogue on a «sacred» film and a reflection on film criticism and cinephilia.

Isn't cinephilia at heart the love of the un - or barely seen, such that cinephilic passion increases to the measure of the rarity of the cine - object?)

The videos are a great expression of Greg's cinephilia, but what's the use in making so many movies if none of them are truly your own?

As the only festival in the US to be accredited by FIAPF, and having developed under the shadow of the formidable American Film Institute, the event entertains a complex relationship to mainstream US film culture and international cinephilia.

Del Toro further revealed his infectious cinephilia when asked in the press room why he chose to set his film in Baltimore.

The glory of Cannes — and of cinephilia in general, for that matter — is that you never know for sure from which direction the long - awaited lightning bolt will strike.

The videos are a great expression of Greg's cinephilia, but what's the use in making so many movies if none of them are truly his own?

If you also factor in that the film is full of nods to the French New Wave, including an obnoxious overuse of classic scores by Georges Delerue, you might deduce that Baumbach's reverential hyper - cinephilia has gotten the better of him again.

Still, I'd be willing to accept Bertolucci's nostalgic fantasy if I could find something believable in the three central characters — their cinephilia, their politics, their nonpolitics, even their by - the - numbers sex.

Either way, from then on, I was hooked on and doomed to a life of cinephilia.

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN By Kent Jones The repertory programmer of New York's Film Forum talks about life in the trenches of cinephilia

Ozu, more than even Hou Hsiao - hsien, John Ford, Jean - luc Godard and Powell & Pressburger is the happiest discovery I've made since reconnecting with my cinephilia just over three years ago.

It is woefully inadequate and incomplete, but nothing ever is in cinephilia.

But this is not merely cinephilia cranked up to the eleventh degree, his use of juxtaposition and the random appearance of actors such as Nicolas Cage, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and Donald Sutherland somehow making this the best outright comedy of the Berlinale so far.

That great wave of cinephilia from the sixties and seventies got less intense, so a lot of the older shows were forgotten.

Like with Boogie Nights in 1997 and Pulp Fiction in 1994, the exuberance of Trainspotting defines for me a stage of cinephilia, when I first began to really believe in the joy of making cinema.

Special cinephilia highlight of 2016: The Cinéma du Réel retrospective co-organized with the Albanian National Film Archive.

Yes the parameters may be looser — we encourage submissions of older films, for example, firmly believing that such viewing keeps cinephilia alive and is always in dialogue with contemporary film viewing.

Jonathan Rosenbaum In the late Nineties and early Aughts, the Chicago Reader film section was a major hub of cinephilia's online landscape.

Kehr observes that the culture of cinephilia «used to be about, for instance, hanging out in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art and starting a discussion or argument.»

As stated in the comments of an earlier post, my whole indoctrination into cinephilia was prompted by the Oscars and I sought out and learned so much Old Hollywood BECAUSE of the ceremony's focus on multiple generations.

It is in this quality of perennially being a level playing field for film criticism that 21st century cinephilia is most promising, rejects as it does both the intellectual priesthood of the academia and the oligarchic taste - making of print criticism.

«This society puts my freedom above your hypocrisy,» one character declares, and this line resonates throughout the film as Almodóvar employs an elaborate flashback construction to square the circle between Catholicism and cinephilia, mirroring regimes that forge together trauma and nostalgia, oppression and rapture.

These experiences are key to my understanding and participation in cinephilia, essential to the fabric of my relationship with the cinema.

This conflict of motives tended to be allegorized in the privileged objects of cinephilia.

Dan Santelli is a lapsed Midwesterner, hailing from Youngstown, Ohio, whose lifelong cinephilia has led to him to seeing over 6,000 films during the course of his 27 years.

As I burnt the candle at both ends attending the city's various theaters in a hypnotic state of solitary immersion for three days, I disconnected from reality and rekindled my cinephilia in excellent company: Henri - Georges Clouzot, William Friedkin, Jean - Pierre Melville, and Wong Kar Wai, who were given retrospectives alongside Harold Lloyd, Diane Kurys, Jean - François Stévenin, and Michael Mann.

«Can cinephilia be recounted?

The promise of cinephilia is found in the potential of images to have an effect that does not conform to our preconceived ideas or expectations.

And while the sense of humor and tone we chalk up to longtime director Hideo Kojima often take weird left turns into perviness, poop jokes and dorky, jarring cinephilia, that offbeat approach just as often creates elegant, wonderful surprises.

Pearl Vision (2012), a video that Leckey produced during a residency at the Hammer Museum, exhibits a similar kind of cinephilia, but in Leckey's case the desire isn't so much for film itself but for digital video's capacity for analysis and capture.

Brice Dellsperger: «Body Double: Vous N'en Croirez Pas Vos Yeux» (through Aug. 1) Taking cinephilia to absurdist extremes, this French artist makes ultra-low-budget films in which he and a few other actors, usually in drag, recreate scenes and full - length versions of well - known movies, retaining the original soundtracks.