Word: cinema
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spent the summer in Mumbai. The sites targeted in last week’s terrorist attack read like a checklist of the places where you could have found me this August. The railway station across from my newspaper office. Metro Cinema. Colaba Causeway. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower—better known simply as the Taj—and the Oberoi Hotel...
...which movies ranging from Milk to Revolutionary Road go all sober and morally instructive on us, puts us back in touch with our giddy side, with that old-fashioned, low-minded desire just to know what happens next. There is some elemental human desire - lately largely denied at the cinema - to see pretty people in handsome landscapes assuaging our need for epic romance. On that level, Australia delivers with real panache...
...seems to express everything you feel but never could articulate. Denis did not grow up wanting to be a filmmaker. As the daughter of colonial officials, she spent the majority of her childhood moving through various outposts in French colonial Africa, including Cameroon and Djibouti. Her first encounter with cinema came when she was a college student in Paris, where Denis immediately fell in love with the medium. She did not start making films until years later when she realized she could do nothing else. Denis began working as an assistant director on the sets of both Wim Wenders...
...just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says. “In the not-so-distant future it will be just as easy to get new movies online as opposed to at a cinema or at a rental store...
...almost Dadaist attitude toward a new democratic vision of art, where all materials—no matter how inane or lewd or ephemeral—can be incorporated into an artistic whole.The second, less elusive, but ultimately more personal concept is that of a love for the cinema. As much as Conner subverts the conventions of popular film—filling “A Movie” with abrupt inter-titles that read simply “The End” and “Movie,” or taking a clip of countdown reel as the entire...