Sentences with phrase «serious film criticism»

In this age when worthless celebrity gossip is replacing serious film criticism, I may be peculiar when I find myself on a set, because I'm usually more interested in the directors than the stars.

If you're familiar with any serious film criticism from the past half century, you've encountered a variation on this argument before.

despite the seismic changes in critical fashion during the past half century, auteurism — at its most basic, the idea that there is an author to a film — has been central to the historical development of both popular film and serious film criticism and theory... aspects of auteurism have overlapped with virtually every subsequent critical theory and paradigm.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

-LSB-...] interior meaning, a term that gave me a great deal of trouble at the time, but one that has since come to define what all serious film criticism seeks to discover.

What strikes me as slightly disingenuous is his lament for serious film criticism.

Not exact matches

Actually, I never thought about my «bad» «bad» (the double quoted «bad» s is not a typo) Star Trek review reflecting badly on Film Junk as a serious site for film criticism.

Anyone who writes film criticism (at least the «serious» kind), or reads it on a semi-regular basis, probably knows exactly what I'm talking about here.

A special award was also given to the late Roger Ebert, whose decades of work in criticism helped to popularize serious film appreciation to a wider audience, and whose tireless persistence in the face of cancer was as inspiring as any of the films he championed.

It's a serious criticism, but I find myself more inclined to accept the film's good faith, and also to respond to the brilliant and charismatic performance of Frances McDormand, who is surely going to receive this year's best actress Oscar.

If I have to make a serious criticism about the film, it's the poor plotting.

But the light - hearted press event turned a bit serious when EBONY.com asked about the film's seemingly strong criticism of the U.S. government's drug and immigration policies and methods of enforcement — or lack there of.