Sentences with phrase «silent film culture»

Not exact matches

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

But other than the mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie (2004) and, arguably, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), there haven't been many films that are actually about superhero movies and their place in modern culture.

Four of the highlights of Prospect.3 are the electrifying film, The Living Need Light, And the Dead Need Music by The Propeller Group (Phunam and Tuan Andrew Nguyen from Saigon, Matt Lucero from Los Angeles) with New Yorker Christopher Myers at the UNO St Claude Art Gallery; Silent Parade... or The Soul Rebel's Band vs Robert E Lee, a video by Peruvian - born William Cordova in which a local band serenades — or challenges — a statue of Robert E Lee from a rooftop shown at Dillard University; the exuberant, immersive two - channel video at the CACNO by David Zink Yi, another Peruvian artist, that explores Afro - Cuban music and culture, remixing the visual and the aural; and Kwaku Ananse (2013), a film by Akosua Adoma Owusu, an American of Ghanian descent, presented with the compelling simplicity of a fable in which a young woman returns home to attend her father's funeral, then goes into the wild in search of existential meaning.