Sentences with phrase «with film culture»

Apart from personally being an ardent follower of Senses of Cinema, there's no doubt that this online publication has garnered considerable respect internationally within the film community as an intellectually rigorous — though nonetheless inclusive (in editorial tone)-- site for substantial engagement with film culture.

In our case the conflicts with the Berlinale were not very determining because we wanted to achieve something that has more to do with film culture in general.

Not exact matches

In my job with Esquire, I'm often called upon to be a cocktails expert (I direct most of the spirits / drinking coverage), a pop - culture expert (I direct a lot of the film / TV / music coverage) and a cars expert (I edit the cars column).

The Kevin Smith era (like it or not) started with this different kind of independent film that had countless pop - culture references and adolescent humor.

As with television shows and feature films, brands like to insert themselves into pop culture, and music is no different.

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.

MONTREAL — Quebec's culture minister is asking the province's film industry to withdraw Claude Jutra's name from its annual awards show amid allegations he slept with young boys.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

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He is currently filming the new season of «De Zurda» (a show about sports, politics and culture) together with Argentinian TV star Victor Hugo Morales.

Catch NC Theatre's «Beauty and the Beast,» celebrate a cupcake shop's birthday, learn about Japanese culture and food, and get ready for the solar eclipse with the film «Ladyhawke.»

We decided to supplement our practice with a film — a culture - changing film that is as revolutionary as it is beautiful.

Visually, she is filming and analyzing time - lapse images of human embryos in the incubator and has been able to correlate various parameters of how cells divide with the probability that the embryos will make it to a full blastocyst stage by day 5 - 6 of culture.

The film milks the culture clash for all it's worth, with Anglicised Sajid swearing in full Northern accent all across the Pakistani countryside.

Brüno has been banned from the Ukraine, with the Culture Ministry claiming that the film would «damage the morality of Ukranian citizens.»

A conversation with Ashish Ghadiali, film - maker, party activist, autonomous individual, about reinventing politics through culture and democracy.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Because many of the social cues are subtle — people discussing art films or books with intellectual vigor, for instance — Lamb says finding a way to fit in to a culture that comes with its own set of rules can sometimes be confusing.

The mass culture of film reeled across class, ethnic, racial, and regional lines, drawing one and all into shared stories and imbuing us with the sense that reality itself is as changeable and ephemeral as the names on the movie marquee.

Had the then -67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola - like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?

At the same time, the film seeks to bridge «Eastern» thought and culture with contemporary «Western» perceptions.

Whatever the case, French literature and later film strengthened the stereotype of the French language and culture being associated with love and romance.

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Whether your key interest is in films or theatre shows, you will find that the Watford Palace Theatre is the ideal place for a date with a touch of culture on the Watford dating scene.

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As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

This could easily have turned out to be one of those formula feel good films with their predictable story book endings but, In the capable hands of director Mara Nair («Amelia»), she brings warmth, emotion and an understanding of the Ugandan culture into this lovely and heart warming film.

Indeed, the film's reliance on audience familiarity with sources of so - called high culture has been dismissed in some quarters as a pretentious gimmick, as if it were somehow an eighth deadly sin to expect intelligence either in police detectives or attendees of lowly genre films.

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

Like most Coen movies, it isn't quite the way they used to make them, but is deeply in love not just with the films of the past, but all of popular culture, from product packaging (principally Dapper Dan hair pomade) through period pop music to modes of dress and politics.

Plus the film is loaded with enough funny pop culture references to keep the adults laughing (thank YOU Shrek!)

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

One of the film's key scenes shows the village assembly in Hirut's area carefully debating her case, and when Meaza attempts to leave a meeting with Hirut's parents without staying for a meal, she is brought up short by a mother who insists, «you must not forget our culture.»

The film documents four countries in the Middle East, showcasing the cultures of Dubai, Lebanon, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Egypt with sold out crowds totaling over 20,000 people.

As director, he does solid work, but peppers his film with some bizarrely picked pop culture references.

The article quotes Jamie Broadnax, creator of «pop - culture website» Black Girl Nerds, who enthuses, «It's the first time in a very long time that we're seeing a film with centered black people, where we have a lot of agency... [The cast members] are rulers of a kingdom, inventors and creators of advanced technology.

The film makes use of some kick - ass cinematography (colorful imagery of the summer, and a picture that reflects childhood innocence), while the story sheds light on poverty, and the bad things that come along with it, and how it affects childhood, and for me, that is what pop culture nowadays would describe as «woke», because not a lot of films these days shed light on those important issues.

It's the first one of these films that flows with a genuine sense of culture and identity, memory and musicality.

And the jokes, respectful of the culture the film embraces, rely on the average viewer's familiarity with all - things - Mexican to come off.

A historical film about the Seneca culture featuring the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Bury My Heart with Tonawanda tells the story of a developmentally disabled boy with Downs Syndrome who is rejected by his own family but is accepted and nurtured by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

It doesn't rank up their with the all - time Pixar greats for me personally, but there's still no denying it offers not only many eye - popping sights to behold, but a refreshing examination of Mexican culture that is certainly unique, not only for Pixar but for a major animated film in general.

It's difficult to think of a film more out of step with the current culture than Eli Roth's Death Wish.

Even if one agrees with the disgust they feel at this privileged, entitled class» complacency and complicity, a little more subtlety and a more nuanced approach to the dynamics of this culture clash would have made the film that little bit more effective.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

From anthropologists to pornstars, this film explores our culture's fascination with breasts in a revealing yet humorous investigation.

Writer / director David Caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well - made pizza.

I've heard derision of this film over at IMDB, partly over the minor connection it draws between the sports - culture in America and the connection with wartime machismo.

The fact that Mikkelsen is starring in «The Hunt,» written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, has special resonance in Denmark's movie culture: Vinterberg, along with Lars von Trier and other filmmakers, was one of the founding members of the Dogme 95 film movement, which professed allegiance to an artifice - free visual aesthetic and rough, low - tech production methods.

What's most stunning about the anecdotes recounted by Dick's interviewees is how alike they are, and if his film doesn't delve quite deeply enough into the type of culture that breeds such conduct (specifically, the way in which the army projects strength as a masculine trait, thereby subconsciously disparaging female victimhood as an undesirable weakness), its spartan use of graphics and statistics conveys arguments with little grandstanding.