'20th Century Women', which is essentially about a mother raising a son, has nice scenes. I really liked the explanation about punk rock music to the 55 year old mother: she complains about the lack of beauty, but exactly that is the strength of it. There are many such scenes, with ...
The title, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century , belies the contents of Scott Bukatman's collection of essays, for it suggests, at [End Page 164] first glance, a critique of the kinds of techniques used in cinema to render the superhero weightless and ...
But perhaps the more lasting effect of Phantom Ride is not in the slightly dreary realm of institutional critique, which here looks a little too much like institutional advertising, but in its melancholy imagining of institutional collapse, as Starling’s camera drifts across a CGI scene of the ...
and it suffered some narrative tinkering by Darryl F. Zanuck, but it still stands as a typically great film by Dassin. It’s also an important part of the wave of post-war/pre-HUAC film noirs that explicitly critiqued the American capitalist system. ...
One thrilling week Ken brought us to Walpole, New Hampshire, towatch and critique the entire twenty-three-hour rough cut of the film. Kenand his team had thoroughly reinterpreted and restructured the history ofthe game, all organized through the lens of racial segregation and reinte-gration ...
(copies) from three very different artists written to my husband during that time. Amongst others he was beloved by Brett Whiteley, Tim Storrier, Peter Wright, Martin Sharp and Lloyd Rees. After his ‘Tribute to Sydney’ exhibition Lloyd said, “It is the best critique I have ever had....