It does include an instructive curio: a film the Met shot about Hassam during the 1930's, when he was the old pooh-bah of American art.
It's instructive that the film doesn't mention that she also studied with the photographer Lisette Model, whose interest in everyday people, with their odd shapes and suffering faces, was an obvious influence.
Between Allah and America The good soldier Caught in the middle Made in Europe ReprintsThese immigrants came to a country with barely a single ballet company, a few young orchestras, a dramatic tradition of instructive melodrama, a film industry whose greatest director was a nativist bigot (D.W. Griffith) and whose greatest star (Mary Pickford) exuded wholesome blandness.
Affleck missed an instructive moment while filming Argo in Turkey.
The parallels to Jafar Panahi's life, and especially to his new film, are instructive.
I find watching films also instructive.
FOR decades, planetariums and science centers have mixed their offerings of instructive starscapes and educational films with more fanciful fare: laser shows customarily set to thunderous rock music.
I want my film to be instructive, I want to generate discussion and for people to learn from it, which is why the violence is underplayed.
And an account of William Wilberforce's 20-year struggle to abolish slavery might have been as instructive as Spielberg's wordy film Lincoln.
Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film "accessible and instructive, an astute chronicle of big-city politics and the portrait of a warrior whose passion was equaled by his generosity and good humor".
