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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.
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* 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 adopts a more neutral stance, while Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel writes " The nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners.
" 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 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 wrote
In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.
** Note: Marker wrote the commentary for this fictional short ( Film Comment ).
** Note: Marker wrote and spoke all the commentary for this short film about fruit juice in Alexandrine verse ( Film Comment ).
** Note: Marker was eventually credited as a writer for this one, apparently, he wrote the dialogue ( Film Comment ).
** Note: Marker wrote the introductory text for this film under the name " Boris Villeneuve " ( Film Comment ).
The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
Two documentary films by Bert Haanstra for which his father wrote the scenarios were nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, one won a Golden Bear for Short Film.
In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
At the ceremony, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront, thanks his lifelong friend saying, “ Elia Kazan has touched us all with his capacity to honor not only the heroic man, but the hero in every man .” In an interview with the American Film Institute in 1976, Kazan spoke of his love of the cinema: " I think it's the most wonderful art in the world.
In August 2010, Eastwood wrote to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to protest the decision to close the UK Film Council, warning that the closure could result in fewer foreign production companies choosing to work in the UK.
Interested as ever in new media, Holst wrote a score for the Associated Sound Film Industries picture ' The Bells ' in which Holst believed he appeared as an extra in a crowd scene.
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.
Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower ( 1949 ) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, " appeared to overact " alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951.
Gavin Collinson of the British Film Institute's website Screenonline wrote " The premise of Blake's 7 held nothing remotely original.
In 2008, Rossellini toured the festival circuit, including the Sundance Film Festival, with a series of short films entitled Green Porno, which she wrote and co-directed with Jody Shapiro.
Film critic Nick Schager wrote, " Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir in which star Ralph Meeker embodies Mickey Spillane's legendary P. I.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote:
Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote of the film, " It's a pleasure to watch the action unfold without resorting to clichés.
Time Out Film Guide wrote of the film, " Absolutely assured in her creation of the bleak, noir atmosphere-whether in the claustrophobic confines of the car, or lost in the arid expanses of the desert-Lupino never relaxes the tension for one moment.
Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and wrote, " The eminent director, John Ford, is a man who has a way with a Western like nobody in the picture trade.
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