Sentences with phrase «turn film criticism»
Turning film criticism into an exercise in self - therapy will help neither the critic nor his audience.
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In his seminal 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....»
The film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he - man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.
Joe Barlow is a freelance writer who turned to film criticism after realizing his gross incompetence in everything else.
In the last 5 years, DC films have received a lot of criticism for «taking itself too seriously» and many fans have been turned off by the dark tones and -LSB-...]
In March 2003 I was having dinner in London with Faber and Faber's editor of film books, Walter Donohue, and several others when the conversation turned to the current state of film criticism and lack of knowledge of film history in general.
Affleck's place as one of Hollywood's brightest talents took a series of wrong turns with some less than stellar film roles and before anyone could say «Gigli», one was more likely to hear criticism of the young actor rather than praise.
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.
Gayne turned to film criticism for its therapeutic value to combat his crippling fear and has never looked back since.
This slight tinge of negativity, matched with Travers» discontent at how the final film turned out, finding the animated sequences particularly problematic, could be mistaken as a criticism of Disney and his creative studio, but it all depends on the direction the narrative decides to take.
Weighing in on topical debates — from 3 - D and hyper - fast editing to the culture of the Academy Awards and (yes) the future of film criticism — Emerson isn't afraid to call bullshit when he sees it, but he reliably turns every takedown into a constructive «learning moment.»
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.