Sentences with phrase «true film culture»

asks director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) in Sullivan's Travels (1941), thereby betraying his lack of true film culture.

Not exact matches

And this is true across cultures, from Japanese squirmers like Audition to French films like Inside.

But, true to its title, the film goes beyond the city they raise in the desert - revealing the Burning Man's plans to bring its unique culture to the rest of the world.

That holds true even when the film quickly rides off the rails, when the women are revealed to be symbolic of a commodifying culture and when James Franco arrives as the symbol of their own projections.

Based on the true story of the film's writers (and real - life couple), Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, this modern culture clash shows how Pakistan - born Kumail and his American girlfriend, Emily, have to overcome the expectations of his family and their 1,400 - year - old traditions.

Let the Right One In Year: 2008 Director: Tomas Alfredson Vampire stories are plastered all over American pop culture these days (True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries), but leave it to the Swedes to produce a vampire film that manages to be both sweet and frightening.

«When Western culture came in, it was like a tsunami because we'd been closed off for so long,» Zhao says, rattling off the titles of films she remembers seeing: «True Lies,» «Sister Act,» «Aliens,» «Indecent Proposal,» «Pretty Woman.»

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

It's also true that analysis of visual style is woefully rare in film culture, so the fact that they focus on it at the expense of plot - and - theme analysis has value in and of itself by helping to turn the conversation toward unexamined possibilities in film criticism.

Co-starring Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska and John Hurt, the film comments on culture, and the lack thereof and underappreciation of true art in the world, but also on relationships that span the tests of time.

Directed with a rare combination of aesthetic vigor and emotional delicacy by Barry Jenkins, and based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney with the beautiful title In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, this is a film that resonates in our culture and moment not because it was manufactured to matter, but because in its every breath it has clearly stayed true to itself.

The film's exhaustive marketing campaign and ongoing mystery surrounding John Harrison's true identity resulted in Benedict Cumberbatch's name making its way into our pop culture lexicon.

This is particularly true of action films, which (unlike culture - based comedies, for example) translate extremely well.

It's taken over the length of a film and a true reflection of life today where so much visual culture is consumed, though very little is remembered.

It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image — a place for talented film - makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.