Sentences with phrase «working film critics»

Every single one of our films has been approved by a committee of working film critics, giving them a stamp of quality that you don't get from every film festival.

The sixth annual edition of the only week - long film festival curated by working film critics starts this Friday, and you simply have to be there.

Ask any working film critic who's the best director today, and you'll probably get a lot of P.T. Anderson responses.

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Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who run Miramax, entered Kids in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and began an extensive campaign to convince critics that Kids is an important work of art that should be given the more profitable R rating, which allows parents to take their youngsters to the film and also opens up the video and cable television markets.

First - time director, producer and film - maker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the outspoken critic while working as a journalist in Beijing.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Dismissing the characters as crazy rednecks, most critics have skipped the work of character analysis that should be part of any review, especially of a film that originated as a stage play.

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.

For her work in the film, Mulligan won a number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.

Critics Consensus: Robert De Niro and especially Dakota Fanning have earned some praise for their work in Hide and Seek, but critics have called the rest of the film derivative, illogical and somewhatCritics Consensus: Robert De Niro and especially Dakota Fanning have earned some praise for their work in Hide and Seek, but critics have called the rest of the film derivative, illogical and somewhatcritics have called the rest of the film derivative, illogical and somewhat silly.

When Kill Bill: Volume 1 came out, some critics made the point that it would be difficult to judge how well the film worked until Volume 2 was out in the open.

His film output decreased in number and quality in the l980s and 1990s, though critics enjoyed his offbeat 1989 working - class comedy Bert Rigby, You're a Fool and his 1997 Bette Midler starrer That Old Feeling.

A film critic and entertainment journalist with more than ten years of experience working in Los Angeles, Todd Gilchrist is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

There is promise in the one episode of Dome sent to critics and the series could work well, despite the fact that the general conceit of people living in a microcosm has been a staple of literature, film and TV forever.

Critics raved and the film was a hit, but Kubrick was frustrated by his lack of artistic control — he had no say in the script or final cut — and largely disowned the work.

Although Douglas was again praised for her work — here portraying a Carole King - like singer / songwriter — the film did poorly among critics and at the box office.The actress went on to do a number of made - for - TV films, including the satirical Weapons of Mass Distraction in 1997.

Those films were widely rejected by critics, who had almost unanimously celebrated Rossellini's prior works.

So who's to say that Todd Solondz or Skip Woods or Peter Berg or Danny Boyle or Robert Frank or Lance Mungia or John Dahl or Vincenzo Natali couldn't very well go on to have some quite significant bodies of work... or at the very least become a film critic.

New York's Museum of Modern Art has created a YouTube series, «How To See,» that features museum curators and sometimes the artists themselves delving into the work, Monitor movie critic Peter Rainer's pick for best film of the year, «The Florida Project,» is available on DVD and Blu - ray, and more top picks.

There is a tendency among film critics, programmers, and academics to dismiss filmmakers who work within genres as entertainers, not accepting them as artists.

A number of mainstream film critics have hailed his work on the new film — virtually unheard - of for a traditional, orchestral, «proper» film score in the 21st century.

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

His latest, Nocturnal Animals, sounds like a real trip, almost like two films in one that, according to critics, calls to mind the works of Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah.

Kubrick fanatics will probably be the most gladdened at the participation of critic and Kubrick: The Definitive Edition author Michel Ciment, who goes full - tilt film studies in his 20 - minute conversation, picking Barry Lyndon apart like a mechanic dismantling an engine to show how it works, and its place of importance within the director's body of work.

The Spirit Awards Nominating Committees are comprised of writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, critics, casting directors, film festival programmers and other working film professionals.

As probably the most celebrated and beloved film critic around, a man whose work has appeared in the Chicago Sun - Times for 45 years, who co-hosted «At The Movies» with Gene Siskel for almost 25, and who was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, it's almost surprising that Roger Ebert has never been the subject of a movie himself.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

Meanwhile, Olivia Munn hosted the show, at which a cast of celebrity presenters announced film and TV critics» picks for the best work of 2017.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Founded in 1996, the FFCC strives to recognize outstanding work in film, further the cause of good movies, and maintain the highest level of professionalism among film critics in Florida: www.floridafilmcritics.com.

Usually, whenever critics start writing about films in purely mechanical terms -LRB-»em otional batteries») it means that those mechanical systems failed to work.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

Misguided notions about the work of Stanley Kubrick in general and his eighteenth - century costume drama Barry Lyndon persist, despite the film's growing reputation since its initial lukewarm reception, and the work of conscientious scholars and critics.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

Blu - ray and DVD, with plenty of supplements: new interviews with Otto Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch and music critic Gary Giddins, a featurette on graphic designer Saul Bass and his long collaborative relationship with Preminger, excerpts from a 1967 episode of «Firing Line» featuring Preminger, newsreel footage from the set, and excerpts from a work - in - progress documentary on the making of the film, plus stills, a trailer and booklet with a new essay and an archival article.

Jones, who has charmed London critics with her work on stage, is a newcomer to feature films but she is a screen natural.

After all, the film is already shattering box office records and receiving glowing reviews from critics, so it's safe to say Marvel Studios has a pretty firm grasp on what works and what's better left to our imaginations.

Plus, these are not film critics, they are working professional, and most haven't had a chance to see all the films in contention before their ballots are due for the nominations.

In 2004 I worked as the field producer for Boston film critic Gerald Peary's documentary about American film criticism «For The Love of Movies,» which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009.

Some wag commented on Twitter during the festival that when a film is described as «soporific,» it means that the critic fell asleep during the screening, but here, we'd mean the word as a compliment; Tsai conjures up a surreal tone closest to the moments after waking where you try and work out if your dreams were real or not, and it's a feeling that lingers long after the credits roll.

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

I suppose he doesn't really have to worry about repeating himself to a certain extent, as many audiences in the US and other countries may not be intimately familiar with his previous works, though they certainly have been lauded by critics and film buffs alike.

In my 20 + years as a film critic I think Roger's approach to his work is probably the closest to what I was aiming at in my fumbling attempts to write about cinema.

Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled the re...

Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled...

Though he got many fine reviews for his work in such films as «Chasing Amy,» «Dogma» and «Changing Lanes,» he said he often felt critics judged him too harshly because of his gossip value.