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CFP: Contemporary Film Form and Criticism

2008-03-25 08:27:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism University of Reading Film Conference 5th 7th September 2008 Contemporary film displays both its debt to the established forms and practices of narrative cinema, and to international developments in aesthetic practice and in new technologies that subtly shift the boundaries of cinemas aural and...
 
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SHIRLEY BASSEY RAILS AGAINST CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND

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2007-12-27 09:08:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...contemporary England. She feels crime is out of control (she was recently robbed) and that the tidal wave of immigrants to the UK are not interested in assimilating into British society. To read the interview click here
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Death Race (2008)

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2009-01-09 06:10:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...contemporary society (and media); a kind of bread and circuses/Decay of the Empire-type tale The seventies Corman film (which starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone) concerned a futuristic cross-country race in which racers would mow down pedestrians, thereby scoring points in a popular driving contest Death Race 2000 also concerned...
 
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Art Directors Guild Noms

2009-01-09 18:05:51 by Sasha Stone in Awards Daily 2008
 
...Contemporary Films BURN AFTER READING Production Designer: Jess Gonchor GRAN TORINO Production Designer: James J. Murakami QUANTUM OF SOLACE Production Designer: Dennis Gassner SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Production Designer: Mark Digby THE WRESTLER Production Designer: Timothy Grimes
 
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50th Annual Grammy Awards

2008-02-13 03:29:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Contemporary R&B Album: "Because of You," Ne-Yo Female R&B Vocal Performance: "No One," Alicia Keys Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Future Baby Mama," Prince R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: "Disrespectful," Chaka Khan, featuring Mary J. Blige Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "In My Songs," Gerald Levert Urban/Alternative...
 
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Nonzee Nimibutr wins Silpathorn Award

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2008-08-05 20:30:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Contemporary Art and Culture to living contemporary artists between the ages of 30 and 50, who are considered to be in their mid-career, and have made notable contributions to the Thai arts scene and been an influence on other artists. Initiated in 2004, the award is named after Silpa Bhirasri , the influential Italian sculptor who is...
 
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Paul Newman: A Talent to Savour

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2008-09-30 11:28:44 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...contemporary Dean, he exemplified a new concept of screen actorgritty, tough, often perverse, slightly dangerous, no longer centred by clichéd machismo, febrile in their manly poses, with the glorious vulnerability of endangered angels. Unlike these actors, he never seemed to mind the business of being a movie star. He could play a part for...
 
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Béla Tarr by David Bordwell

2007-10-02 23:39:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...contemporary tradition of ensemble staging. Like Tarkovsky, he shifts our attention from human action toward the touch and smells of the physical world. Like Antonioni and Angelopoulos, he employs dead time and landscapes to create a palpable sense of duration and distance. Like Sokurov in Whispering Pages (1993), he takes us into an eerie,...
 
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Giallo is not gothic

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2007-01-13 00:44:00 by Sylvain L. in Killing in Style.
...contemporary flavour: Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (Baron Blood Because Italian genres, or should we say filone , tend to feed one another, most of the time in extremely interesting ways, it could only happen that Giallo would be at some point mixed with Gothic Antonio Margheriti's La Morte Negli Occhi del Gatto (Seven deaths in the...
 
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Review: The Fountain (2006)

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2008-02-13 05:22:44 by HASH0x8c553ac in Matte Havoc
...contemporary film to that of several classic poetic stories What strikes me as the most intriguing attributes of the film was the visual style and use of microphotography. But the style of storytelling was written in such a way that allows the viewer to place his or her own pers