Sentences with phrase «powerful film culture»

And I was painfully aware of this gap in the Anglo - American situation, whereas in France there is an academic culture and still a very powerful film culture.

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It reflects the fear and paranoia over a changing culture, which makes it a particularly powerful film this year.

Like David Lean's classic Lawrence of Arabia, the film offers a dashing hero, played by Charlie Hunnam, and the powerful theme of British culture colliding with a brutal world it only dimly understands.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

And in its identification of several possible «suspects,» all with access to firearms, the film makes a powerful (if sidelong) case for stricter gun - control: In a culture where anyone can get their hands on a weapon, everyone could be the shooter.

Whether his work is seen as nihilistic and misanthropic or as a profound, existential analysis of the malaise of modern capitalist society and culture, there can be little argument that Haneke's films are powerful, disturbing and, right now with the world as it is, vital.

More than this, The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is (like Kitano's cinema) an evocative and powerful contribution to film culture.

Artist and film - maker Ken McMullen's powerful study of Greek culture and politics, both ancient and modern, fuses acute dramatisations of Antigone with portraits of contemporary resilience.