Film historian David Bordwell writes that in his films, " Vacations, parties and artistic pursuits are vain efforts to conceal the characters ' lack of purpose and emotion.

The colony also did big business exporting films to Southeast Asian countries ( especially but not exclusively due to their large Chinese expatriate communities ) and to Chinatowns in Western countries ( Bordwell, 2000 ).

Film scholar David Bordwell outlined the academic definition of " art film " in a 1979 article entitled The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice, which contrasts art films against the mainstream films of classical Hollywood cinema.

The New Wave helped carve out a small niche for art films in Hong Kong's populist cinema, although most were absorbed into the mainstream to one extent or another ( Bordwell, 2000 ).

Also included were the original theatrical trailer, an audio commentary by Donald Richie, Ozu ’ s Films from Behind-the-Scenes, a conversation about Ozu and his working methods between child-actor and sound technician Kojiro Suematsu, assistant cameraman Takashi Kawamata, and Ozu producer Shizuo Yamanouchi, and essays by David Bordwell and Jim Jarmusch.

American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments film theory since the 1970s, i. e., he uses the humorously derogatory term " SLAB theory " to refer to film studies based on the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and / or Barthes.

Because it rests on psychological principles, a reader-response approach readily generalizes to other arts: cinema ( David Bordwell ), music, or visual art ( E. H. Gombrich ), and even to history ( Hayden White ).

A number of scenes in the film — Rupert and Jerry in the restaurant, Jerry meeting Rupert after having listened to his tape and calling him a genius, Rupert getting married " live " on Jerry's show — exist solely in Rupert's imagination, and Bordwell suggested that some viewers would think the final sequence is another fantasy.

" Academic David Bordwell has expressed a liking for the film, placing it in the tradition of 1950s Disney children's adventure movies, and using it as the basis for an essay on scene transitions in classical Hollywood cinema.

* David Bordwell: Essay on Danish Cinema, in Film # 55, Denmark 2007

Film scholar David Bordwell claims that " art cinema itself is a film genre, with its own distinct conventions.

In contrast, Bordwell states that "... the art cinema motivates its narrative by two principles: realism and authorial expressivity.

Bordwell claims that " art cinema itself is a genre, with its own distinct conventions.

Post-show panels are led by his " Far-Flung Correspondents " or other respected film professionals, such as film historian David Bordwell and film critic Christy Lemire.

He was using Hollywood-style cross-media promotional tactics-such as tie-in novels, comic books and other products, and magazine interviews-long before they became common in Hong Kong ( Bordwell, 2000 ).

He works under the umbrellas of two production companies he launched, Wong Jing's Workshop Ltd. and BoB and Partners Co. Ltd. ( Best of the Best ), the latter in partnership with director Andrew Lau and writer-producer Manfred Wong ( Bordwell, 2000 ).

Kramer explains how he tried to differentiate his new company from the others, noting that he was less interested in the money than having the ability to make a statement through his films:

This project alleviated confusion amongst fans of Romero's work by including a scene in which a character acknowledges the George Romero films and explains that while they are based on true events, the events of the Return series are the " true story ".

* Education project on collection " Piano Figures " – George Benjamin explains his work in short films

Newman originally composed " Street Scene " for the film version of Elmer Rice's play Street Scene ( 1931 ), a portrayal of New York ( which explains its distinctly Gershwinesque flavor, a la Rhapsody in Blue ), and used it in numerous subsequent New York-based films ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death, Cry of the City, I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire ).

In his commentary track on the DVD, Lucas explains that Marquand " had done some great suspense films and was really good with actors.

In his introduction to the DVD edition of the film, released in 2005, Scorsese explains that he intended the film as a break from the gritty realism that he had become famous for, and sees it as an homage to the musical films of Classical Hollywood.

In the DVD commentary of Alone in the Dark, Boll explains how he funds his films: " Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total.

The revised and updated edition of the book George Lucas: The Creative Impulse, by Charles Champlin, explains how The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series would be re-edited into the new structure of twenty-two Chapter TV films, for the 1999 VHS release.

He explains that the “ black macho ” image is sustained through performances such as rap music, television shows, the films of Spike Lee, and the comedy routines of Eddie Murphy.

The World of Fashion is ready to welcome the virtual models: Santo Versace explains that :“ we can see in many films the use of CGI in the right amount and with a clever perspective, in animated films it is considered normal the use of the most up to date technology available, and we can see it in fashion shows too.

The newsagent was next door to a cinema, and as Hitch explains, he could go straight from enjoying Christopher Reeve Superman films and other genre films to the store to buy Superman comics drawn by artists such as Curt Swan and José Luis García-López.

Although much of the technical information is now obsolete, Alton, who worked on the films noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, The Amazing Mr. X, and The Big Combo, explains how lighting, shooting locations, and various camera techniques can be used to create a visual mood in film.

In her introduction to Daniel Ekeroth's book Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, Christina Lindberg explains that after leaving exploitation films behind, she has been busy with numerous other projects.

The article explains the differences between modernist, post-modernist and remodernist cinema, describing Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky as " early Remodernist filmmakers ", and notes films that make emphasis of " small moments ", including Bela Tarr's film Satantango, "... every moment of the film Satantango is a good example of this kind of exploration of " moments "- the film starts with a ten minute shot following cows coming out of a barn and wandering around a run-down agriculture collective.

Caymanian folklore explains that the island's first inhabitants were a Welshman named Walters ( or Watler ) and his companion named Bawden ( or Bodden ), who first arrived in Cayman in 1658 after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica.

Xavier explains to Cyclops about the recent events with Mr. Sinister and tries to explain to Cyclops how Sinister has been manipulating Scott's and Jean's lives since when they were children.

" The website further explains that in many cases alternative malaria control measures were judged to be more cost-effective that DDT spraying, and so were funded instead.

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

Lay responses to ELIZA were disturbing to Weizenbaum and motivated him to write his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, in which he explains the limits of computers, as he wants to make clear in people's minds his opinion that the anthropomorphic views of computers are just a reduction of the human being and any life form for that matter.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

As explains, his plantation operations were at best marginally profitable.

The unusual stability of the helium-4 nucleus is also important cosmologically: it explains the fact that in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, as the " soup " of free protons and neutrons which had initially been created in about 6: 1 ratio cooled to the point that nuclear binding was possible, almost all first compound atomic nuclei to form were helium-4 nuclei.

He also explains how brutal and unscrupulous these Romans must have been: " They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force "-After some silence, Marlow abruptly starts up again saying, in a hesitating voice, " I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit.

Then Marlow and his listeners were silent ; our first narrator explains: " Nobody moved for a time.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

As archaeologist Robert Liddiard explains " Pitched battles, particularly in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, were rare.

Halliday explains this preoccupation in the following way: " It seemed to me that explanations of linguistic phenomena needed to be sought in relationships among systems rather than among structures – in what I once called " deep paradigms " – since these were essentially where speakers made their choices ".

For the special case where is a joint probability distribution and the loss function is the negative log likelihood a risk minimization algorithm is said to perform generative training, because can be regarded as a generative model that explains how the data were generated.

There are many similarities-both in overall functionality and in the division of functionality into the three component chips-between the OCS chipset and the much earlier and simpler chipset of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, consisting of the ANTIC, GTIA and POKEY chips ; both chipsets were conceptually designed by Jay Miner, which explains the similarity.

Verse 5 explains that " the more wicked part of the Nephites were destroyed.

Since the foreigners were driven from the island empire, explains the Reciter, there has been nothing to threaten the changeless cycle of their days.

This mechanism also explains why quasars were more common in the early universe, as this energy production ends when the supermassive black hole consumes all of the gas and dust near it.

Film historian Linda Badley explains that the film was so horrifying because the monsters were not creatures from Outer Space or some exotic environment, " They're us ".

The Ninth Doctor explains that if, for example, a TARDIS ( with a working chameleon circuit ) were to materialise in ancient Rome it might disguise itself as a statue on a plinth.

In his 1993 autobiography This Wheel's on Fire – Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, Helm disputes the validity of the official songwriting credits as listed on the albums, and explains that The Band's songs were often honed and recorded through collaboration between all members.

Nephi chastises them for not asking the Lord for the interpretation, and explains the point they were disputing.

This was the first TAT cable to use a ring structure, involving two stretches of cable across the ocean floor, which explains why two numbers ( 12 and 13 ) were used.