Sentence examples for founding films from inspiring English sources

SAVAGE GRACE Tom Kalin, whose 1992 "Swoon" was one of the founding films of what came to be known as the New Queer Cinema, returns after a long absence with the sensational story of the Baekeland clan of England.

(Kehr) 'Swoon' (Thursday) There will be a 20th-anniversary screening of Tom Kalin's 1992 independent feature, one of the founding films — with Gregg Araki's "Living End" and Todd Haynes's "Poison" — in a movement that the critic B. Ruby Rich promptly called New Queer Cinema.

Her commentary had many homes: The New York Herald Tribune; New York magazine, where she was the founding film critic; and TV Guide, which most defined her to readers.

Later, the founding film critic of New York magazine.

But Crist, who later became founding film critic for New York magazine and spent 22 years as a critic for "TV Guide," didn't just find fault with films.

Their enthusiasm would cross the Atlantic, and in the United States, the film was almost single-handedly championed by James Card, the founding film curator at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester.

He co-founded Films We Like in 2003 with music promoter Gary Topp because the activist documentary The Weather Underground hadn't been picked up by any Canadian distributor.

He founded Film Quarterly in 1958 and edited it for 33 years.

Steven founded film production company Indian Paintbrush, which has backed flicks like Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom".

He worked at five other distribution companies, including New Yorker Films and Avenue Pictures, where he oversaw the release of Gus Van Sant's "Drugstore Cowboy" in 1989 before founding October Films.

More recently, it was the subject of a seven-minute video, "This Must Be the Place," by Lost and Found Films.