Relive the Oscars
with film critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang, who weighed in with live commentary and analysis and answered questions from readers during the show.
The Sundance 2011 Film Festival hit Terri turns out to be a hit
with film critics as well, at least in New York and Los Angeles, where the film opens...
The first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, was a huge global success, both in the box office and
with film critics.
On Bonus Disc One is «Critics» Corner: The Films of Quentin Tarantino,» a discussion
with film critics Scott Foundas, Stephanie Zacharek, Tim Lucas, and Andy Klein, moderated by Tarantino fan and friend Elvis Mitchell.
The other three features are First Name: Carmen (1983), Detective (1984), and Helas Pour Moi (aka Oh, Woe Is Me, 1993), and the disc features the half - hour documentary «Jean - Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,»
with film critics and historians Kent Jones, Winston Wheeler Dixon and David Sterritt.
Informal interviews
with film critics included in this study indicate that reviewer choices and editorial assignments produce the reported percentages.
Documentarian Steve James partnered
with film critic Roger Ebert to give a look back at his life and career.
Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview
with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.
This salute to Hollywood's best included Comedy Awards, conceived by Sharee Pemberton who produced the show along
with film critic and Chicago Film Critics...
This is a quick chat (shot quick and gritty and a tad noisy) that I had last month at the Chicago film festival
with film critic Lisa Nesselson.
Extras: Booklet essay by novelist Grady Hendrix, interview
with film critic Tony Rayns, video essay by film critic Travis Crawford, photo gallery, trailer.
Extras include a liner notes essay by novelist Grady Hendrix, an interview
with film critic Tony Rayns, a video essay by film critic Travis Crawford, a photo gallery, and a trailer.
The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat
with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.
The Blu - ray and DVD editions both feature a new interview
with film critic David Thomson, who offers a crash course introduction to the art and themes of Hawks (it runs about 17 minutes), the new 20 - minute program «Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies» with film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, and excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 interviews with Howard Hawks (audio only, about 19 minutes), plus the 1939 «Lux radio Theatre» adaptation of the film with stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell all reprising their roles, and the trailer.
The first
with film critic Roger Ebert and the second with historian Rudy Behlmer.
I did several with Award Circuit's Mark Johnson and one
with film critic Tomris Laffly, but I made a mistake with those recordings so we decided to do a whole podcast.
Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview
with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
Academy Award Nominee Nancy Olson Livingston will participate in a Q&A
with film critic Stephen Farber at a 65th anniversary screening of «Sunset Blvd.» The event starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Laemmle Royal in West LA.
Don't miss: Extras include an interview with cinematographer John Bailey about Conrad Hall, the movie's cinematographer, an interview with film historian Bobbie O'Steen about the film's editing, an interview
with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddens about Quincy Jones» score for the movie, a 1988 French TV interview with Brooks, a short 1966 documentary about Capote, interviews with Capote from 1966 and 1967, an interview with writer Douglas K. Daniel about Brooks and an essay about the movie.
An interview
with film critic Owen Gleiberman about his new book Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies.
It's perhaps surprising that for the most moving and autobiographically probing of his documentaries, Scorsese shares a credit as writer and director (
with film critic, Kent Jones).
Right: Filmmaker Rachel Reichman
with film critic Amy Taubin and art historian and curator Douglas Crimp.
Not exact matches
While Bay's
films are hits
with audiences grossing more than $ 4.6 billion dollars worldwide, they're not always loved by
critics.
The buddy - cop
film,
with elements of «Lord of the Rings» - style fantasy, only got positive reviews from 12 % of top movie
critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The
film drew mostly favorable reviews,
with 78 percent of
critics giving it positive notices, according to RottenTomatoes.com.
Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from
film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion
film have taken issue
with the director's representation of Japanese culture.
In 2016,
critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts
films on the streaming service simultaneously
with theatrical releases.
But when people did actually see it, the movie was greeted
with generally positive reviews — the
film scored 77 % among «Top
Critics» on Rotten Tomatoes — and a strong audience reaction.
Critics embraced the
film, hailing it as a comic book movie
with bite,
with Variety's Owen Gleiberman writing that Logan ``... brings the saga to a satisfying finish.»
CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some
film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after
with a microtargeted marketing strategy.
Anyone familiar
with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or
film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone
critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:
Though some
critics took issue
with Gibson's creative choice, beyond its artistic merits, The Passion remains one of the more important Bible
films ever made: Taking in nearly $ 400 million, it is the highest - grossing R - rated
film of all time, and it helped usher in a new era of Hollywood creating content for Christian audiences.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,»
critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl
with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the
film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults
with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
Filmed over two years, Michelin Stars — Tales From The Kitchen, gives us a behind the scenes look at the lives and stresses of starred chefs
with a tale woven together by food
critics and diners.
Since I'm a sucker for Disney
films, I took two very sophisticated
critics with me to the screening: my 11 and 12 year old goddaughters.
He enjoyed the perks of being a
film critic before moving on to New Scientist, and he became a television reporter
with the advent of Channel 4.
One of the most respected publications on
film, uniting experienced
critics with new writers.
About Blog Renegade Cinema is a website created by longtime
film critic Shawn S. Lealos by movie geeks for movie geeks,
with the best in news, reviews and interviews.
About Blog Entertainment blog covering movies, TV, and anything
with a screen by online
film critic and member of The Broadcast
Film Critics Association, Marc Eastman.
Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story
with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her
film debut.
So far the
critics are being kind to Quentin Tarantino's bloody Western - down - South, singing the praises of the
film's stellar cast and its fierce yet disturbingly funny confrontation
with the most shameful chapter of American history.
Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story
with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her
film debut.
Much of the (unwarranted) criticism of The Two Towers focussed on the idea that the
film couldn't be taken on its own,
with critics (wrongly) claiming that it didn't have a meaningful beginning and end.
Immediately lambasted by
critics upon release in 2002, the visually extravagant
film proved a notable failure at the box office -
with the dubbed stateside version of the
film taking exceptional heat.
The individual instalments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for instance, are perfectly successful
films in whichever order you choose to view them - and it is interesting that the same
critics who defended Kill Bill did not necessarily take the same line
with Peter Jackson's work.
That's right, Ryan Gosling fans,
with this
film, Refn first got his Danish derrière (Oh, wait, that's French) over here to America, and you know what, that was the time
critics decided to question some of his storytelling methods, either because foreign
films are much easier to forgive for their pretentiousness - I mean, «experimental artistic vision», or simply because Refn had so little of an idea on how to bring his visions to America that he decided to get John Turturro, of all people, as his lead.
He went on to play wisecracking leading roles in such «B «s as Night of Terror (1933), The Nut Farm (1935) and The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1935); the
critics paid no heed to these minor efforts, though they always showered Ford
with praise for his supporting roles in
films like John Ford's The Informer (1935) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
I can continue on but I don't recall enough of the
film to speak about it
with the lucidity you professional
critics possess.
It frustrates me sometimes when
critics honor Goblet of Fire
with such prestiege when in fact the true magic lies in what both Cuaron and Yates were able to achieve in regards to
film artistic integrity.
I thought this was going to be a dry
film with big names for
critics to slobber over.