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Cinéma. Film. Blogs cinéma. Philosophy. Film. Geopolitics. Theology. Critikat.com - le site de critique de films. Fin de Seance - Analyse et critique cinéma. Il a osé ! Movie Reviews and Ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert. Rotten Tomatoes (film reviews) MRQE (film reviews) THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA.

Truffaut : la critique à l’état furieux. En plus de donner à relire les analyses de films publiées par François Truffaut au cours de sa carrière de journaliste, ce recueil donne à découvrir un véritable art de la critique cinématographique.

Truffaut : la critique à l’état furieux

L'expression de « critique à l’état furieux » est due à Roger Nimier, qui décrivait ainsi les écrits publiés par François Truffaut durant sa période de journaliste et de critique de cinéma. Elle apparaît dans un article où le critique littéraire saluait son confrère critique de cinéma, afin de relever que ce dernier ne cherchait pas à s’accorder avec les goûts de ses collègues ou du « gros public » , et qu’il avait su remarquer, entre autres, que l’évolution du goût du public témoignait d’une grande exigence, puisqu’avant la guerre on « allait au cinéma » alors que dans son présent (les années 50), on allait désormais « voir un film ». Un idéal éthique. FILMS & ANALYSE | société et humanité ? Film Studies. Film semiotics. Film semiotics is the semiotics of film; the study of signs as they pertain to film on a variety of levels.

Film semiotics

Early semioticians of film[edit] Hollywood has ruined method acting. Of all the stories surfacing about the new DC Comics film Suicide Squad—from the dismal reviews to the box-office reports—the most disconcerting are the ones that detail how Jared Leto got into his role as the Joker.

Hollywood has ruined method acting

Leto was reportedly so committed to the part that he gifted the cast and crew with a litany of horrible items: used condoms, a dead pig, a live rat. L'odyssée du cinéma : analyses et critiques de films, biographie et photos du monde du cinéma. Histoire du cinéma. Histoire du cinéma engagé. Comment définir le cinéma engagé ?

Histoire du cinéma engagé

Thought maybe. Paintings in movies. Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey Zacks – how Hollywood has changed your mind. These days, human beings are nowhere more at home than in front of a screen.

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey Zacks – how Hollywood has changed your mind

I refer you to Gogglebox, the Channel 4 series in which families and friends are filmed as they watch TV. Warm and secure, they exhibit all the behaviours you would expect of a species in its natural habitat: feeding, laughing, crying and fighting. 6 Stupid Characters That Hollywood Now Puts In Every Movie. Writing realistic and compelling characters is, like, really hard to do -- and it only becomes more difficult when you're trying to write realistic characters in a world of rampaging mutant scientists and dinosaur skirmishes.

6 Stupid Characters That Hollywood Now Puts In Every Movie

Since solid (even marginal) character development has lately taken a backseat to finding excuses for the heroes to get tossed from one action setpiece to the next, we've started to see the same inexplicable character traits spring up in our favorite blockbusters over and over again, like big dumb weeds. Cinema. Should we be surprised by John Wayne's racist and homophobic views? Dusting itself off after the excitement of Liam Neeson’s racist meltdown, the film world has settled on its next talking point, an old interview of John Wayne, recently dug up, in which the actor is revealed to have been racist and homophobic.

Should we be surprised by John Wayne's racist and homophobic views?

Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Dr. Strangelove: The Cold War as Sexual Tension. Last week, I made the claim that Stanley Kubrick's Dr.

Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Dr. Strangelove: The Cold War as Sexual Tension

Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was one long sexual metaphor for the Cold War. While this occurred to me unbidden, I'm sure I'm not the first to say so. Still, with the most common discussions of the film taking the political route, with Fascism getting its legs back thanks to the Military Complex, etc., it may be worth exploring the idea on this blog. Punks, UFOs, and Heroin: How ‘Liquid Sky’ Became a Cult Movie. “What connection can there possibly be between UFOs and heroin?”

Punks, UFOs, and Heroin: How ‘Liquid Sky’ Became a Cult Movie

Asks a character in Slava Tsukerman’s cult classic from 1982, Liquid Sky. It’s not really a question I pondered myself during my own years of addiction, but apparently enough people find it intriguing to attend screening after screening, in many countries, wearing makeup and outfits in homage to the specific style of the film, for the last 31 years. 70 Years Later, World War II Still Defines Good and Evil. Vertigo is named 'greatest film' Mulholland Drive leads the pack in list of 21st century's top films. David Lynch’s surrealist masterpiece Mulholland Drive, which even its most ardent fans admit is as maddeningly baffling as it is mesmerising, has been named the greatest film of the 21st century.

Mulholland Drive leads the pack in list of 21st century's top films

A poll by BBC Culture of 177 film critics from 36 countries aimed to find the best films of recent memory. The resulting top 100 list has Mulholland Drive (2001) at No 1, followed by Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000); There Will Be Blood (2007); Spirited Away (2001); and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014). The most popular directors in the list, all with three films each, were Wes Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Christopher Nolan, Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson and Joel and Ethan Coen. Matthew Anderson, the editor of BBC Culture, said greatest film polls often looked right back into the past. “But we wanted to find out about the best films in recent memory. Arrival - Analysis - Narrative First. The Storyform, Influence Character Unique Ability, and Influence Character Critical Flaw The one thing that sets the Dramatica theory of story apart from every other understanding of story is its ability to know both the ending and beginning of your story no matter where you physically start the process of writing a story.

In part, the story of Arrival is the story of Dramatica—a holistic “non-linear” approach to resolving issues that long plagued a traditional linear methodology. Linguist Louise (Amy Adams) begins the story confronted with memories and images of a distant past.