To support their categorization of certain films as noirs and their rejection of others, many critics refer to a set of elements they see as marking examples of the mode.
The releases of certain films with terrorist themes were delayed or postponed indefinitely.
If certain films are of the moment, Selma seems like divine intervention: the civil-rights drama is set to hit cinemas as protesters across the US rally against the mistreatment of black people by police officers.
The ardent embrace or skeptical dismissal of certain films can feel less like a matter of opinion than of principle, and to talk about them is not so much to compare contrasting impressions as to engage opposing positions.
While directors, producers, buyers and sellers bemoaned the inclusion of certain films, they mostly bewailed the exclusion of others, among them Leonard Retel Helmrich's "Position Among the Stars," which had won the festival's top prize the year before.
In Sicily, Scorsese and Donato did what they always do — talked about movies, especially Italian movies, discussions that, according to Scorsese, "would go on for hours, about how certain films depicted the ways of life, the philosophy of the people".
On the other hand, the effect of certain films can be utterly lost when inauthentic locations are substituted for genuine ones.
Meanwhile tickets are sold for one film and then a ticket for another written out by hand, so that cinemas meet quotas set for certain films – and deprive others of revenue.
Philip French: Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) At the end of every year when nominations are made, shortlists drawn up and prizes given, I'm always surprised, disappointed and annoyed by the absence of certain films.
It's a fine section, but rather than effectively adapting a movie, it's more revealing of how certain aspects of films, or maybe certain films wholesale, don't transfer well to games as we broadly understand them.
What do you think?" Louise Frogley, the costume designer of "Traffic," says: "I think they can be very stylized without looking stylized -- sneaky stylization -- like in certain French films of the early 60's.
