Sentences with phrase «writing about cinema»

Author Bio: Hannah Sayer is a recent English Literature graduate who loves watching and writing about cinema.

When he's not spreading the good word of the digital age to willing listeners, he's busy watching, reading and writing about cinema.

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

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.

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However, Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes, «If narrative cinema is all about the harnessing of character and atmosphere in the service of a strong story, then Matteo Garrone's follow - up to his 2015 Tale of Tales succeeds on every level.»

There's something oddly charming about the film's dogged, goofy attempt to earnestly write the rules of a franchise that will clearly be haunting cinemas, or sleepovers, for years to come.

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

One of the reasons the film feels so fruitful to me is because it does combine that first book I wrote about spirituality in cinema and the first film I wrote, which is about the psychopathology of suicidal glory.

Extras: «Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot»: The French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of «Inferno»; «They Saw Inferno,» a featurette including unseen material, providing further insight into the production of «Inferno»; filmed introduction by Serge Bromberg; interview with Serge Bromberg; stills gallery; original trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil; First Pressing Only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau.

An oneiric swirl of fever dreams, half - remembered childhood terrors, forgotten silent cinema, and tall tales, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's film can only be written about with metaphors and abstractions.

Yakuza stories within a modern gangster framework are immensely popular in the Japanese cinema, and Paul Schrader, former editor of the American film magazine Cinema, wrote a comprehensive survey of the genre for a Film Comment of about a year ago.

In my review of the previous Will Smith comedy also directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (namely the dismal Wild Wild West) I wrote about how the cinema I was in turned into a «laugh - free zone.»

I wrote about this trailer after being surprised by it at the cinema almost two weeks ago.

MY LIFE IN RUINS Several months back, Nia Vardalos (the writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding) wrote an article about the marginalization of women in cinema, and her efforts to help purge the world of this injustice.

The organization honors excellence in cinema by creating awareness for films with universal appeal to black communities, while emphasizing film about the black experience and those produced, written, directed and starring performers of African descent.

4:30 am (31st)-- TCM — Mickey One I wrote about this film a few months ago when I saw it play at the local repertory cinema as part of a Warren Beatty retrospective.

In short, his passions are cinema, science, craft beer and writing about himself in the third person.

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

5:15 am — TCM — Bitter Victory The major thing I know about this film is that it's the one that prompted Jean - Luc Godard to write «Henceforth there is cinema.

In this interview she speaks about women's roles in cinema and the importance of not playing the victim or becoming reedits of roles written for men.

And he added that he found it difficult to write about British cinema «without seeming (and perhaps being) a bit personally jaundiced.»

A speech that Cranston's stray Chief gives about literally biting the hand that fed him when he muffed a chance at a good home is among the most perfectly written, staged and played scenes in recent cinema — it would be a surefire Oscar clip if awards had categories that could encompass achievements in this byway of cinema, where great acting is as much down to the hands of animators as the dialogue delivery.

by Bill Chambers The great Pete Dexter writes tersely about criminal perversity in the southern United States; the problem in adapting him to the cinema is that without his hardboiled prose, which lends everything he writes the whiff of reportage (a newspaperman originally, he turned to novels after drug dealers beat him nearly to death over one of his columns), the psychosexual situations he describes threaten to collapse into camp.

«sex, lies and videotape» (1989) So much has been written about Soderbergh's Palme d'Or - winning debut in terms of its defining influence on the landscape of American indie cinema that the film itself tends to get a little bit lost in the discussion.

One of the many Infinity Wars tweets I read last week bemoaned in advance the predictable rush to produce «hot takes» on the film, another criticized what it saw as the already fatigued strategy in writing about such blockbusters, i.e. to try and present them as being «really» experimental cinema in the guise of mainstream product.

An ex-actor thinking about writing a book project on Turkish cinema, he lives in the shadow of his previous accomplishments, alienated from the community that resents his his privilege.

Our staff of actual cinema nerds come from a variety of vocations and disciplines but the one thing they all have in common is a deep, fundamental love of film and a burning need to write about movies, then share that cinephile goodness with you right here on the pages of this site.

Written and directed by: Wong Kar Wai Starring: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong Background If you want to know something about Hong Kong (HK) cinema,... Read more «Throwback Thursday: Wong Kar Wai's Classic «Chungking Express» (1994)»

In a creative free - fall, he received a scholarship to the University of Tokyo, wrote a PhD dissertation about the love affair between cinema and architecture, earned an MFA in Directing from UCLA, taught college - level filmmaking in Dubai, got his first novel published, and is adapting it into a film.

In essence, please don't take anything we say here seriously, we're writing about the subjective art form of cinema after all and one man's Citizen Kane is another man's Ishtar.

Reams could be written about cinematographer Dan Laustsen's perpetually gliding camera, Paul D Austerberry's green - tinged production design, and the netherworld Disney perfection of every setting from the diner to the cinema to the automobile ownership.

It's been a month since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit cinemas and it's probably as good a time as any to write a bit more about it than I have already.

Christened «the future of American cinema» by Werner Herzog, Korine first garnered critical acclaim at 18 years old for writing the screenplay for Kids, Larry Clark's 1995 cult classic about mischievous New York City youth.

And in the New Statesman, film critic Ryan Gilbey writes about Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or - winning art - world satire The Square, which is finally out in UK cinemas this week.

«This is not a show about cinema,» Iles writes in the show's catalogue.

Steve has been writing about AV and home cinema since the dawn of time, or more accurately, since the glory days of VHS and Betamax.