Sentence examples for cinema matters from inspiring English sources

It became clear to me that Italian cinema matters to Scorsese as something far more than intellectual fodder.

Mr. Godard's despair is moderated by the care and urgency with which he speaks: the sense in everything he says that cinema matters, but people matter more, and cinema matters at all only in that it creates moments that, because of how much and how intensely they mean, one has to call real.

Redmond, the creator of BBC1 children's drama Grange Hill and Channel 4 soap Brookside, will make the first contribution, putting the case for "culture for all"; while Chariots of Fire producer Puttnam will deliver a talk on "why cinema matters".

"We were cowed into thinking that only European cinema mattered.

"We were cowed into thinking that only European cinema mattered," Mr. Scorsese, who once shared a closet-size office in Times Square with Mr. Sarris, said in a 2009 interview.

Glancing at the LFF line-up, I would say our national cinema's subject matters haven't changed much over the years - expect council estates (Shifty), criminals (Bronson), drugs (Better Things), pop music (1 2 3 4 and Telstar), football and street fashion (Awaydays).

Not so long ago, in the early 1990s in fact, art cinema actually mattered – far more than thrillers with TV-show-quoting hitmen or superheroes in tight trousers.

That film was intended as a cautionary tale as was Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," but unfortunately, by nature of the needs of cinema to make subject matter as exciting as possible, any moral message in the end is pulverized by the likes of charismatic characters like Gordon Gekko, Tony Montana and now Jordan Belfort.

According to Martin Scorsese, "cinema is a matter of what's in the frame, and what's out".

Modern criticism labors under an aphoristic misconception — or, rather, the misconception of an aphorism — even more grievous than the fixation of mise en scène: a phrase by Martin Scorsese, "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out".

Martin Scorsese has famously said that "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out," but he's one of the masters of making films that are as much about what's out as what's in.