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...critic has with both the filmmaker and the audience about the power and plausibility of the tale. No one has done as much as Roger to connect the creators of movies with their consumers. He has immense power, and he's used it for good, as an apostle of cinema. Reading his work, or listening to him parse the shots of some notable film, the movie lover is also engaged with an alert mind constantly discovering things - discovering them to share them. That's what a great teacher does, and what Roger's done as a writer, public personality...
...slightly put off if you're constantly seeing lurid stories about an actress," says Julian Jarrold, director of Becoming Jane, a Jane Austen biopic starring go-to good gal Anne Hathaway, due in August. "It colors your view of a character. When the audience goes to the cinema, they bring those expectations with them." Thankfully, Hathaway and others have arrived to keep summer safe for the sweet...
...were turning more and more to the computer--rather than the TV, DVD or the video-game console--as their primary form of entertainment," he says. Iger, a longtime technophile, prefers viewing early cuts of his studios' movies and TV shows on the 30-in. cinema-display computer screen on his credenza, not the 50-in. flat-screen television nearby. "The question became, 'What are we as a company going to do about this trend?'" he says. "You can't stand in the way of the consumer juggernaut that technological advances have created because, if you try, you'll lose...
AWARD-winning Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène -- considered the father of African cinema for his 1965 movie Black Girl, the first African feature film--was more influential than most politicians. His warm, internationally acclaimed films included Xala and Moolaadé, the story of a woman who tries to shield a group of girls from genital mutilation. A former dockworker and novelist, he turned to film at age 40 to reach Africa's largely illiterate masses and co-founded the biannual FESPACO film festival, called the Cannes of Africa...
...director's medium and the director will call the shots and make his own decisions and he will take your notes on board and thank you for them, but he is isn't obliged to follow them. It is a difficult process. There is always a problem that cinema has that it can't represent consciousness, the flow of thought or the interior quality of mind that the novel can do so well...