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Film and critic
* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".
Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.
" Film critic Matthew Hays notes that " no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.
Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:
Film critic John Belton called the film Hawks's " most organic comedy.
Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.
Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.
" Indeed, his relationship with the hermit has been interpreted as a same-sex marriage that heterosexual society will not tolerate: " No mistake — this is a marriage, and a viable one ", writes cultural critic Gary Morris for Bright Lights Film Journal.
Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.
" Film critic Raja Sen describes Dixit as " the industry's numero uno in every sense.
Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.
A Film Daily critic commented, " This is a pearl of a horror picture which exhibits all the earmarks of a sleeper.
Film critic Roger Ebert speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( in which the samurai shaves off his topknot, a sign of honor among samurai, in order to pose as a monk to rescue a boy from a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice, now common in action movies, of introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot.
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.
Film critic Roger Ebert lauded the film, stating that Brando and Kazan changed acting in American movies forever and then adding it to his " Great Movies " list.
" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.
Film critic Marie Brenner writes that " for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... performance deserves to be compared with the very finest.
Film critic David Shipman called Muni " an actor of great integrity " and he prepared for his roles meticulously.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that the book was " banal ," and that " The Little Engine That Could is, by comparison, a work of some depth and ambition.
Film critic Paul Rotha said that it " definitely established the film as an independent medium of expression ... Everything that had to be said ... was said entirely through the camera ... The Last Laugh was cine-fiction in its purest form ; exemplary of the rhythmic composition proper to the film.
Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are the stellar performers in this show and their perfect compatibility in comic capers is delightful to see.
* Michael Winner, Film director and producer, restaurant critic

Film and Pauline
" Film critic Pauline Kael dismissed parts of Fantasia as " grotesquely kitschy ".
Film critic Pauline Kael felt the film exaggerated the social impact of GM's closing of the plant and depicted the actual events of Flint's troubles out of chronological order.
Film critic Pauline Kael wrote, " I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and to enjoy Buckaroo Banzai for its inventiveness and the gags that bounce off other adventure movies, other comedies.
Film critic Pauline Kael gave the film a generally positive review.
Using archival footage, Fullman edited Suspended Music, a documentary film on her collaboration with Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening Band, which premiered at the Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley ( 2004 ).
Film author Pauline Kael credits Mankiewicz with having written, alone or with others, " about forty of the films I remember best from the twenties and thirties ," adding, " I hadn ’ t realized how extensive his career was.
He then earned an MA in Film Studies from the UCLA Film School graduate program upon the recommendation of Pauline Kael.
Kael, Pauline, “ Trash, Art, and the Movies ” in Going Steady, Film Writings 1968-69, Marion Boyers, New York, 1994, pp87 – 129
Pauline Kael gave the film a very positive review in The New Yorker: " Jonathan Demme's lyrical comedy Melvin and Howard which opened the New York Film Festival on September 26, is an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination.
Film critic Pauline Kael worked at McCall's from 1965 to 1966, and was reportedly fired after writing a highly unfavorable review of The Sound of Music.
A famous episode in 1986, which included Pauline discovering that Den was the father of Michelle's baby, drew over 30 million viewers, and was listed at Number 36 in The Times 1998 list of " Top 100 cult moments in Film ".
As a founding director of Alberta Culture's Film and Literary Arts Branch, which he headed from 1971 to 1984, he was able to help many writers become established through workshops and contests ; including the author of the book which launched the hit movie and subsequent television series ' Stargate ,' Pauline Gedge.
Film critic Pauline Kael found the film unsatisfactory, but noted that it had influenced Citizen Kane.
Film critic Pauline Kael had this to say of that performance: " Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror.
Richard Corliss appears in the 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, confessing that he was the film critic who, in the 1970s, coined the term " Paulettes " for the ardent followers of Pauline Kael, a label which has stuck.
Elvis Mitchell is featured in the 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism discussing how he was championed as a young writer by Pauline Kael, and the impact on him as an adolescent of the Herschell Gordon Lewis film, Two Thousand Maniacs !.

Film and more
" Film scholar Simon Louvish writes that the film showed the character becoming more fragile and melancholy.
There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.
The Whistler Film Festival, with is amazing location and breathtaking scenery, is getting bigger every year with more than 80 screenings and a well-rounded Industry Summit.
The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.
Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia.
Film noir, which was given its name by Nino Frank, is marked by lower production values, darker images, underlighting, location shooting, and general nihilism: this is because, we are told, during the war and post-war years filmmakers were generally more pessimistic ( as well as filmgoers ).
Film is also classified according to its gauge and the arrangement of its perforations — gauges range from 8 mm to 70 mm or more, while perforations may vary in shape, pitch, and positioning.
He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".
In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.
Nominated more than 40 times for awards, including various lifetime achievement awards, she won the best actress prize three times from the National Society of Film Critics, three times from the National Board of Review, received three awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and a Golden Globe.
Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.
Kevin Lally of the Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that " in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha in her previous roles.
In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.
Xerox remains the company's largest customer ( 50 %), but PARC has numerous other corporate and venture clients in different fields of use than Xerox including: VMware, Fujitsu, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. ( DNP ), Samsung, NEC, SolFocus, Powerset, Thin Film Electronics ASA and many more.
* November 8 – Film Jailhouse Rock opens across the U. S. to reach # 3, and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
In 2008, this recording of " Waltzing Matilda " was added to the " Sounds of Australia Registry " in the National Film and Sound Archive which says that there are more recordings of " Waltzing Matilda " than any other Australian song.
She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US $ 500, 000 per year ( more than five times the salary of the US President ).
" Halliwell's Film Guide claimed the film was " despite some clever special effects, a tedious, overlong fantasy that is more excited by machinery than people.
He similarly gave the Adam Sandler-starring remake of The Longest Yard a positive rating of three stars, but in his review, which he wrote soon after attending the Cannes Film Festival, he recommended readers not see the film because they had access to more satisfying cinematic experiences.
Over the course of the decade, more than 30 silent film studios were established, earning Jacksonville the title of " Winter Film Capital of the World ".
Film critic Roger Ebert, who normally disdains any attempt to keep films from any audience, has supported the non-release position, claiming that most Disney films become a part of the consciousness of American children, who take films more literally than do adults.

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