Sentences with phrase «year in film studies»

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She also pursued studies at Oxford University during her Ivy years, and took a year off in 2011 to film.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

«It's kind of an unusual year - almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,» said Brent Plate, a writer who teaches religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

That's a product of years of playing and more significantly his ability to forecast plays is a product of a lot of film study during the week and his basic understanding of what might work in a circumstance.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

For example, a May 2015 study in the journal Pediatrics involved more than 5,000 15 - year - olds in the U.K. and measured their exposure to films featuring alcohol use.

Her team studied bears» paws and their scent, and used camera traps to film wild bears in Spain's Cantabrian mountains over three years.

The vivax malaria patients (n = 312) who were enrolled in this study complied with the following criteria: they sought medical assistance presenting clinical malaria symptoms, were over 18 years old and had positive results for thick blood film / molecular diagnosis.

The study goes on to state «There have been significant improvements to disposable nappies in recent years, for example a 40 % reduction in weight and volume, compact shrink wrapping in single film packaging and increased energy efficiency.

You started hearing rumors and half - whispered, cryptic comments last year: Paul Thomas Anderson is working on a new film; it has something to do with the London fashion world in the 1950s, maybe; it will reunite him with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day - Lewis, potentially; it's loosely based off the life of either Charles James or Cristobal Balenciaga, possibly; the actor could be studying how to be a real - life tailor for the part, we think.

For while it is technically a sequel, taking place in the same world as Scott's film and extending the narrative to thirty years later, Blade Runner 2049 at the same time wants to provide a sumptuously studied remake of Blade Runner, copying countless elements from it in order to evoke rich sense - memories of the original film.

Already widely cited and used in courses in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement in post-war cinema, the Slow Cinema movement.

Writer - director Noah Baumbach did some obvious studying of French New Wave and early Woody Allen films in preparation for Frances Ha, his jumpy and charming new film that deals with the life of a 27 - year - old woman named Frances.

Officially released in Japan in 1991 and finally getting it's re-release 25 years later, Only Yesterday is a quiet and contemplative master class on character study in film.

«Three years ago, no one had looked at independent film in all of the studies.

The film was co-written by Anderson and Day - Lewis over a number of years spent obsessing on the topic (Day - Lewis goes uncredited), and is, in part, a fascinating character study of a fastidious solitary man devoted to the creation of the graceful silhouettes in his mind's eye.

This is Hou's first film in eight years; his brilliant, blithe Parisian character study «The Flight of the Red Balloon» screened here at Cannes in 2007.

This week's comprehensive study of how violent PG - 13 films have become — gunplay has tripled in such films in the last 30 years, and PG - 13 movies are now more violent than R - rated releases — did not single out specific films.

Replacing Kevin Spacey (because of sexual misconduct allegations) with Oscar winner Christopher Plummer («Beginners»), and having him tap into the psyche of a new, unfamiliar character, and execute it with the sheer ferocity in which he displays, is an achievement that film students and filmmakers will study for years to come.

In the last film, directed by Italy's Luca Guadagnino, Chalamet stars as a high schooler who falls in love with the dashing 24 - year - old grad student (Armie Hammer) studying under his father for a summeIn the last film, directed by Italy's Luca Guadagnino, Chalamet stars as a high schooler who falls in love with the dashing 24 - year - old grad student (Armie Hammer) studying under his father for a summein love with the dashing 24 - year - old grad student (Armie Hammer) studying under his father for a summer.

According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, over the past three years, only 1 to 2 percent of composers working on the top 250 films at the box office were women.

While there is something to be said about the film's truly madcap and increasingly absurd multilingual clusterfucks - and they are perhaps the most potent and precise of any Palme d'Or nominee in years - those that know Ade's previous films (The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else) should also expect a work that is achingly human and nuanced, working marvelously as both an intimate and awkward study of a father - daughter relationship and as an immersive look into the corporate landscapes of post-wall Europe.

As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman» shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films released by the major studios hit a six - year low.

As a former 6» 11» professional basketball player, he played basketball at Penn State, graduated in three and a half years with honors studying film and video.

In the late 90s, during a five - year hiatus from film work, he moved to Florence to study shoemaking.

Known to his friends and colleagues as a walking IMDB, he spent his adolescent years in Israel studying all films and has already collaborated with such greats as Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, Kathleen Kennedy, David M. Thompson, Mace Neufeld, BBC Films and the late Michael Jackson.

The film takes place a year after the first one, and the usual gang is back, doing a study in sleep disorder at Hell House overnight.

Australia - born George Miller graduated from medical school in Sydney where during his study years he began to make short films with his associate Byron Kennedy.

For starters, his first film in 20 years is not a comedy — it's a sober, sad - eyed study of an old man on the ropes.

From director Sebastián Lelio («A Fantastic Woman») and based on Naomi Alderman's book, the film is a measured and sometime tedious character study set in a small Orthodox Jewish community in North London about a woman coming home after years away.

For half a year before filming began in «The Grandmasters» in 2009, Chang Chen visited Master Wang Shiquan and he was asked whether he truly wanted to study or only make kung fu poses for the movie.

Tetro Shot in high - definition, in crisp black and white, Francis Ford Coppola's study of two brothers recovering from their childhood with an egotistical, internationally famous conductor is the most beautifully, skillfully and yet intuitively composed films you'll see this year.

Today, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» where we discussed the films out in theaters in May and June of this year, with clips from the following six movies:

I believe that this pattern — the snapshot of films of the year, the poll of the year's festival films — may gradually become a new paradigm for the study of the real way in which films appear and interact in a global public space that is not just imagined.

GLAAD's annual study assessing inclusion in films of 2017 found an «alarming drop» in LGBTQ characters in last year's major studio releases.

Yet, after filming Little Miss Sunshine, the then 22 - year - old decided to enrol in university, studying literature at the New School in Manhattan, rather than throw himself on to the blockbuster treadmill.

Don't be surprised if people are studying and talking about this film in years to come.

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

Since then, he's received an M.A. in Film / Media Studies and written film reviews for three years at his college newspaper, The Daily Egyptian.

One of Vikander's repeat collaborators is the Swedish playwright and film - maker Lisa Langseth, who directed her in her debut film role in 2009's Pure; they reteamed four years later for Hotell, a darkly comic group - therapy study that currently marks the actor's last non-English-speaking role.

The films represented by the superlative actresses in this year's Hollywood Portfolio offer intimate studies of resilience, pluck, faded glory, and the everyday heroics of forging ahead against backward pressure.

For many years before I had steeped myself in Japanese history and literature, reading widely, watching films, studying the language.

After studying film in Uruguay and Cuba, and receiving her Master's in Screenwriting in Spain, she has just completed her first feature film, a documentary co-produced with the United States, which will premiere this year.

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Brian went to school at Kalamazoo College on the west side of the state, studying theater and film and honing his critical skills by working at the school newspaper for all four years.

Via NYTimes: «The artist Laure Prouvost, whose works combine whimsical objects and drawings in evocative settings with an Instagram - like stream of film images, has won this year's Turner Prize, the prestigious and often contentious annual award for a British... read more... «Quick Study: Turner Prize, Miami, Zwirner, and, yes, surfing»

Leckey is currently a professor of film studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, where Daniel Birnbaum, one of this year's Turner prize judges, is director (and where, I might add, two earlier Turner prize winners are also professors).

Although the three most popular movies in 2017 were female - driven, a study from San Diego State University discovered that «women accounted for 24 percent of protagonists in the 100 top - grossing domestic films of 2017, a decrease of five percentage points from the year before.»

He abandoned painting in 1982, studying art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1982 — 6), and spent three years experimenting with video and film until 1985.

In between Eggers's two films in 2009 and Away We Go three years later, Eggers saw his first exhibition of visual art at San Francisco's Electric Works gallery, despite having maintained interest in painting since childhood and studying art in collegIn between Eggers's two films in 2009 and Away We Go three years later, Eggers saw his first exhibition of visual art at San Francisco's Electric Works gallery, despite having maintained interest in painting since childhood and studying art in collegin 2009 and Away We Go three years later, Eggers saw his first exhibition of visual art at San Francisco's Electric Works gallery, despite having maintained interest in painting since childhood and studying art in collegin painting since childhood and studying art in collegin college.

The film earned Julien a cult following and its focus on a Black, Queer experience within the American cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years.