On The Town 
.... As
film critic Richard Corliss states, it was a magical time in Broadway history, "When On The Town opened in 1944, New York, New York really was a helluva town ....
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Hollywood Racism
.... prejudices continued. As one Black
film critic contends, "Three seconds into the
film and Bam! The brother-actor gets offed. So ....
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12
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Jean Luc-Godard's film Pierrot le Fou
American
film critic Andrew Sarris, defining the auteur theory, wrote that "
film should ideally be a medium of personal artistic expression, and the best ....
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4
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Appeal of 1960s Counterculture Film "Easy Rider"
....
Film critic Charles Champlin notes that while all films take their place in cultural history, Easy Rider "was instant history, blurring the lines between art ....
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8
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History & Evolution of American Silent Film
....
Film critic James Agee wrote that Griffith "achieved what no other known man has ever achievedà.To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of ....
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DW Griffith and Film Technique
....
Critic/historian Arthur Knight wrote that in "The Birth of a Nation," Griffith "had made all his major contributions to the medium, had transformed
film from a ....
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Birth of a Nation
.... In his review of the
film,
critic Roger Ebert (4/2003) maintained, "As slavery is the great sin of America, so The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's sin, for ....
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3
)
Racism in Birth of a Nation
.... In his review of the
film,
critic Roger Ebert (4/2003) maintained, "As slavery is the great sin of America, so The Birth of a Nation is Griffith's sin, for ....
(800
3
)
The Score of The Suspended Step of the Stork
.... The Greek
film critic and novelist, Nikos Triantafillides, once wrote that Karaindrou's music is as vast n scope as the time-transgressing sequence shots of ....
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5
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Tenets of the Romantic Comedy
.... As one
film critic offers, "genre can affect the form, structure, style and content of a movie" (Genre, 2008, p. 1). Characters in different genres act and are ....
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Cinematic Innovations & Techniques in Birth of a Nation
.... Controversial in its depiction of graphic violence, warfare, and relations between blacks and whites,
film critic Roger Ebert relates that upon seeing the
film ....
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3
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Soviet Film Theory & Eisenstein
.... Ivor Montagu, a friend to Eisenstein as well as a
film critic and filmmaker, has stated: Two aspects of Eisenstein's career are apparent in every foot of Strike ....
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12
)
Kurosawa's Film, Rashomon The purpose of this research is t
.... and so on, but the problem with a programmatically theoretical approach to all cinema is that it places the theoretical
critic and not the
film at the center ....
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19
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The counterculture of the 1960s
....
Film critic Charles Champlin notes that while all films take their place in cultural history, Easy Rider "was instant history, blurring the lines between art ....
(1941
8
)
1960s Culture in Easy Rider
....
Film critic Charles Champlin notes that while all films take their place in cultural history, Easy Rider was instant history, blurring the lines between art ....
(1941
8
)
Italian neorealism in Open City & The Bicycle Thief
....
Film critic Pietrangeli wrote: "With Ossessione our cinema was invaded by brutal reality." Leprohon agrees: Indeed, the important thing about Visconti's
film ....
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8
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Studying Ideologies in Movies
....
Film critic Roger Ebert (2009) maintains the message "Is about Americans of different races growing more open to one another in the new century" (p. 2). The ....
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6
)
Roger and Me
....
Film critic Pauline Kael wrote a scathing review of the
film herself in which she accused Moore of "gonzo demagoguery…whereby members of the audience can ....
(1312
5
)
Cinema Studies
.... either. As
film critic James Berardinelli (1) comments "There are no big battles and only a few small-scale skirmishes. Instead, this ....
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)
Blue Velvet
In his review of the David Lynch
film Blue Velvet,
film critic Roger Ebert shares a recollection from the director of this small town mystery where average ....
(1021
4
)
Italian neorealism
....
Film critic Antonio Pietrangeli writes, "With Ossessione our cinema was invaded by brutal reality."
Critic Leprohon agrees: Indeed, the important thing about ....
(3396
14
)
The Story of Sideways
.... Their trip is one of "male self-discovery" and "bonding," in the view of
film critic Carla Meyer (1). The
film is a comedy but also tinged with sadness and ....
(507
2
)
Wild Strawberries
.... life for that of a vagabond.
Film critic Roger Ebert argues that Mona is blank, devoid of ambition. "She has gone on the road, not ....
(1385
6
)
Wild Strawberries & Vagabond as Road Movies
.... life for that of a vagabond.
Film critic Roger Ebert argues that Mona is blank, devoid of ambition. "She has gone on the road, not ....
(1385
6
)
"Blonde Ambition" Documentary
....
Film critic Stanley Kauffmann asks whether Madonna is a symbol of our times and states: Well, she certainly provides tens of thousands of young people in many ....
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6
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Conspiracy Theories
.... One
film critic described the
film as follows: Disturbing, infuriating yet undeniably effective, less a motion picture than an impassioned, insistent 3 hour ....
(1601
6
)
Martin Scorsese
.... After the script was rewritten, it was renamed Mean Streets, a phrase taken from Raymond Chandler and suggested by
film critic Jay Cocks, a friend of Scorsese. ....
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Martin Scorsese
.... After the script was rewritten, it was renamed Mean Streets, a phrase taken from Raymond Chandler and suggested by
film critic Jay Cocks, a friend of Scorsese. ....
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6
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Leni Riefenstahl
.... As one
film critic says of the
film's remarkable and innovative use of camera work: "The
film shrieks with camera aptitude, integrated design, sense of ....
(1504
6
)
Films & Career of Paul Thomas Anderson
.... By this point in the movie, as
film critic Roger Ebert points out, Anderson "has us so hooked that we're watching for the sheer pleasure of the dialogue and ....
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