Word: cinemae
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Listen up, class: we are in the late, or decadent, phase of action-adventure cinema. By now there have been as many variations on the spy-vs.-spy genre as Renaissance artists did on the Piet?. So a presummer blockbuster like Mission: Impossible III, confected by TV auteur J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost), is inevitably a commentary on every action movie that preceded it. Such an endeavor brings out the scholar in its audience and the pedagogue in its reviewers. For real students of the form, straight questions about M:i:III are too easy. (What film is this film most...
...Polonsky, taking VES classes as a freshman got him hooked on the department and made him realize what he could do in it. In fact, the idea for his thesis was born in J.D. Connor’s “VES 172h: Histories of Cinema 2: Sound, Space & Image to 1960” class, which he took sophomore year. Semesters of interpretation later, he decided to focus on the musical sequences of 1930s musical director Busby Berkeley as they have come to be viewed since being shown in a montage at a 1960s revival theater. Connor, who worked closely...
...Well, George Kennan lived to be 101, so he must have be doing something right, but I think I would rather have been a French New Wave director, one of the people who were inspired by the American movies of the 1940s and 1950s to reinvent cinema. Students in my course, who have seen a sample of my own early camera-work, know that I might have done great things in that field, given the proper funding...
...book by Buffett's old friend and fellow Floridian Carl Hiaasen. "That's important." On the advice of his daughter, 13, Buffett bought the film rights to the mystery about scrappy 8th-graders trying to save endangered owls. Another daughter, 26, supervised the sound track. But don't expect cinema to surpass song as the Buffett family biz. "Too much sitting-around time," says Mr. Margaritaville. And not enough roles for guys in flip-flops...
...subsidiary of the well-known coffee chain, is a major driving force behind the movie. As a consequence, you’ve probably noticed that the movie title is blazoned in every shop, on each cup and coaster, and some cases even accompanied by special edition Scrabble sets. Recent cinema set in Los Angeles has primarily focused on gangsta rap, crunk dancing, or racial tension. “Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased...