Sentences with phrase «period in cinema history»

The level of control in Biller's newest, The Love Witch, is remarkable; from the mannered performance of its lead actress to the rich interplay of colors in its mise en scène, The Love Witch is designed to evoke an extremely specific period in cinema history and to subtly undermine its ideology through that very faithfulness.

For my two cents I'll say with a great deal of assurance that the best period in cinema history was the 1970's.

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Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

We were emerging at the tail end of the»80s, which was the worst period for cinema in American history because the movie - brat generation [meaning Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese, among others — the bearded, libertine directors who were reared on Hollywood's golden age] for the most part self - destructed in the late»70s, and for a decade, the studios took the movie business back.

One of the most prolific directors in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg, returns to the silver screen with his new period thriller «Bridge of Spies» starring two - time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks.

Beautifully directed and brilliantly acted, A Nightingale Falling is a moving, authentic piece of cinema about a turbulent period in Irish history where loyalty and trust were for many the only means of protection.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

16 Aug 2006 American Underground Film Season at IMMA A season of rarely - seen films from a defining period in the history of American underground cinema opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 15 September 2006.