Sentences with phrase «works about cinema»

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Working about as far as possible from the commercial mainstream of the movie business, Costa has again made a singular docu - fiction hybrid that defies classification as readily as it reimagines the possibilities of cinema for the post-spectacle, post-theatrical era.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

We support work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (best and worst) in cinema each year.

Just about to skip into UK cinemas with the toe - tapping La La Land, Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle are already set to work together again.

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.

For me, the reason The Hateful Eight doesn't work is that Tarantino has a lot to teach about exploitation cinema and not very much to teach about Howard Hawks.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

In this presentation he'll talk about «what's next for him», as well as the influence of cinema on his work, according to the schedule on the official Tribeca website.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy Program: Special Presentations Headline: Let's Get It On Scott's Take: The Sessions is the type of earnest Sundance programmer that gets praised at cinema's peril — which is to say, it's sensitively wrought, offers complex, generously accommodating roles for its actors, and is about as visually compelling as a dog's behind.

She is currently working on books including 1000 Women in Horror, a book on art and intertextuality in giallo cinema, and co-editing a collection about the film work of Elaine May for Edinburgh University Press's ReFocus series.

Four masterclasses with directors Christopher Nolan and Ryan Coogler and actors John Travolta and newly minted Oscar - winner Gary Oldman will share their work and passion about cinema during this year's Rendez - vous with... for the festival goers of the Cannes Film Festival.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

Then, I wrote about Ethan's love of the film, and how he said working with Sally was a «match made in cinema heaven.»

«Anna and the Killer» (13 mins., HD) interviews a still fetching Munro, who reminisces about working with Spinell here and on Starcrash as well as her life in exploitation cinema and, best, her feelings upon seeing Maniac for the first time.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's preeminent movie - related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema.

An enormous amount of literature has been generated about Ozu's work, but a few line items need to be reaffirmed: He is one of the very few cinema giants you could never accuse of pretension (Jean Renoir, Luis Buñuel, and Robert Bresson are the others).

An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky about his deeply personal The Dance of Reality, working with Peter O'Toole, the healing power of cinema and why Twitter is the literature of the 21st century.

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

At Sydney Film Festival, Lidiya Josifova caught up with Teona Strugar Mitevska to talk about the socio - political and economic issues plaguing Macedonia, achieving emotional authenticity in her work, and the avenues for the distribution of Macedonian cinema.

When we talk about «style» in cinema, it's likely in relation to the work of a film director.

People may have liked, to varying degrees, Zemeckis» mocap films, but they weren't as crazy about the technology as he was and many longed for him to return to good old - fashioned live - action cinema, where the director had dazzled with some of the century's most iconic works.

Starring Caroline Ducey and real - life porn star Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat's art - house stunner about a frustrated French libertine opened the floodgates for explicit content within serious works of cinema.

Lament the saturation of CGI - laden franchises, reboots and superhero films all you like, but some fantastic, revelatory works of cinema came out this last year — even some of those comic book movies you're so worried about.

To return to The Shape of Water: however conflicted I feel about its triumph, it is certainly the work of a real artist, and someone who believes in immersive cinema, total cinema, cinema that enfolds you in a complete created world.

Robbins, son of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, directs this short about one of the first films in American cinema to address climate change — that also happens to be a work of hardcore pornography.

Serra sat down with FILM COMMENT at Cannes shortly after The Death of Louis XIV premiered as an Out of Competition selection to talk about his unique on - set process, his film's more restrained tone, and working with one of French cinema's most beloved actors.

He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

CBR News spoke with the South Korean actor about his «RED 2» bad guy, working with cinema legends like Anthony Hopkins, and a possible «G.I. Joe 3.»

Aside from helping to clarify why some viewers revel in downbeat and sometimes downright disturbing movies like The Woman, the sentiment also speaks to why many contemporary filmmakers» own fears and paranoia — about the end of civilization, or indie cinema — increasingly inspire dark, depressing works emphasizing domestic abuse, apocalyptic angst, religious opposition, the after - effects of war, suffering, and death.

Things like Cinema Sins simply suck the life blood of other people and are often just wrong about intent or how cinema works.

He'd done similar, equally compelling work prior to his breakthrough (2009's About Elly stands as arguably his strongest film), but with an increased eye on Middle Eastern cinema in the wake of Kiarostami's Certified Copy and the jailing of the more radical, uncompromising Jafar Panahi, coupled with the film's heart - tugging narrative, A Separation arrived at an opportune time for his country's rise to international cinematic prominence.

In part one of our talk, Walter takes questions from other leading sound designers Ren Klyce and Gary Rydstrom about his work, talks about how documentary film has affected modern cinema style, discusses his work in Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, and ends the episode with a discussion of the use of music in The Godfather and The English Patient.

The day's work is done, the evening is still young, so how about taking a few friends to the cinema?

Elevator Pitch (if you came across an agent in an elevator ride, what couple of lines would you use to summarize your book): When a scream pierces the cinema, forensic psychology student Blue Raynes is forced to work with the man she was about to dump — to find a killer working their way through the Asian Indian community and later, her own address book.

I have never just been so worked up about cinema scenes before until Zelda came.

This free screening will be followed by a discussion with Steve Wurtzler, associate professor of cinema studies, and Diana Tuite, Katz Curator, about the film's representation of landscape and the influence of wide - screen Technicolor cinematography on the early work of artist Alex Katz.

Buñuel's film is a comedy about the insanities of modern life, paralleling the themes of Cytter's works in which she conveys the perils and triumphs of contemporary life through alterations in conventions of narrative cinema.

Martin's work often raises questions about what it means to be «touched» by cinema and alternates playfully between luring the viewer through sensuous images and lush archetypes, and pushing them back into an awareness of artifice.

«What's great about the art world, as opposed to Hollywood or even most independent cinema, is that we have the freedom not to have to work with a lot of other people,» says Miller.

Many contemporary artists are getting to show great interests in the cinema historically or technically, and many works referring to the films in the past have been produced in order to express their ways of understanding about the work or a perspective about the world as a whole.

UK cinema première of artist Dryden Goodwin's feature - length work: a profound essay about perception, identity and the creation of meaning, featuring the UK's leading eye surgeon, planetary geologist and human rights solicitor.

Scott» s 1969 film portrait of Richard Hamilton continued this collaborative formula, with Hamilton musing about cinema, art, and celebrity while images of his works, their original source materials, and related elements from pop culture flash by in rapid succession.

Some of his filmic works are narrative (short) films, while others are reflections and experiments about cinema, and a third group are multi-channeled video works.

In this show, works by 26 international contemporary artists, spanning two decades, fell into one of two categories: works of film and cinema, and works «about» film and cinema.

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