Sentences with phrase «youth film culture»

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

Not exact matches

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

The capital of art, culture, music, films, youth, trends and libertinism, has so much to offer!

The film explores art, race and politics through youth culture in Cali.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

Continuing Falcone's bizarre penchant for making films that don't acknowledge any flaws in his wife's characters, Deanna is continually portrayed as endearing for her clumsy attempts to reintegrate into youth culture, with nearly every character constantly reminding her of just how loveable she is.

«With such a successful body of work as a commercial and video director, he is ready to take the next step forward and make this incredible film that will be on the cutting edge of youth culture.

So why does every «youth culture» film seem to have a drug scene showing us their high imaginings?

A pure screwball companion to While We're Young, the 2014 film that only recently graced Seattle Screens, the pair form a hilarious portrait of our culture's obsession with a certain kind of youth, a Manhattanite companion to Sylvia Chang's brilliant exploration of Hong Kong womanhood, 20 30 40..

Nevertheless as respectful as the film is to hip - hop culture, the delivery still smacks of Hollywood interpretations of how the real youth of the Bronx live.

With his new film «While We're Young», Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) takes a complex look at the impact of youth culture on the previous, older generation.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

Interpolating the last day of Mishima's life with scenes from his wrenching novels and his youth, Schrader evokes films like Kurosawa's Rashoman and Kobayashi's Kwaidan, while also exploring the themes of masculinity, honor and dedication that resonate both in Japanese culture and in the director's other work.

My personal cultural philosophy mirrors the Native Program's philosophy: For four years I have been the director of the Sundance - supported Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) Native Youth Film Camp, which teaches Native students ages 14 - to - 18 script - to - screen skills as they make 6 - to - 8 short films per camp.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

Perhaps no other film presents so thorough a snapshot of 1990s youth culture as Clueless.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.

Stephens has a rather overripe writing style, more expressive of his love of the films than of the films or the genre itself, but he does offer some context and background on the films and filmmakers and on the youth culture that brought younger and younger faces on to the screens.

As the title suggests, his film wants to explore the relations between blacks and whites, namely the influence of hip - hop culture on white youths — this issue in addition to telling a crime story as a hook.

When: June 14th Why: «Spring Breakers» had some interesting things to say about modern youth culture, and I expect Sofia Coppola's latest film will add to that discussion as well, although packaged in a much more accessible, mainstream way.

Among his long - form documentaries is Zoot Suit Riots, a film on the youth culture of 1940s Los Angeles and the anti-Mexican riots of the same period.

With a penchant for black and white film photography, he covers many areas of youth culture including skateboarding, surfing, photography and youth travel guides.

♥ TRAVEL SHOW SERIES: La Carmina and her professional film crew are constantly on the road, shooting episodes for her ongoing travel series about youth culture, underground fashion and trends.

Ahead of the exhibition, artnet News sat down with the artist to speak about the differences between film and photography, the value of «shock» in the digital media age, and Clark's own fascination with youth culture.

Clark, who later achieved fame and notoriety for the film Kids (1995), trains his lens on American youth culture to poignant and often devastating effect, presenting an unapologetic view of poverty, drug - taking and sex.

Regarded as a seminal figure in gay and lesbian cinema, and in particular, pre-Internet video - work, Benning's short films often feature autobiographical content in fragmented narratives that address feminism, gender identity, and youth and popular cultures.

The growing influence of hip - hop, film, and popular sports on youth culture as well as the community's reliance on storytelling in the form of colorful murals encouraged the development of Rhode's hybrid street - based aesthetic.

Thaddeus Strode appropriates text and images from comic books, philosophy, and horror films, as well as the classic elements of a Southern California youth — punk rock, surf, and skateboard culture - into his paintings.

In 1995, Clark released the shocking film Kids, intent on showing the media's effect on youth culture while reveling in the pure, immersive, and unfettered experience of young people.

In her films, sculptures and installations, Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972 in Van, Turkey) works both with traditional materials and techniques and with elements borrowed from pop and youth culture.