In that respect, the movie it most recalls is not Boogie Nights (despite the obvious sex-cinema connection) but The Lives of Others, the 2006 film about an East German spy who becomes drawn to the subjects of his surveillance operation.
"There is the obvious link to cinema, classic scenes and stars.
Video and DVD have largely created the film's modern reputation, and allow us to see much that wasn't obvious on the cinema screen in 1944.
Despite hummable tunes, heart-stopping arias and a timeless story of love betrayed, Puccini's opera is a far from obvious choice for cinema treatment, let alone in 3D.
It's a wittily self-reflexive moment from a director who for much of his long, astonishing career has been accused of creating mere exercises in style, films without the requisite drama and empathetic characters with obvious motivations, a cinema (or should we say sin?) of the brain instead of the heart.
for much of his long, astonishing career has been accused of creating mere exercises in style, films without the requisite drama and empathetic characters with obvious motivations, a cinema (or should we say sin?) of the brain instead of the heart.
In last Sunday's Times, Manohla Dargis suggests that Resnais, for much of his long, astonishing career has been accused of creating mere exercises in style, films without the requisite drama and empathetic characters with obvious motivations, a cinema (or should we say sin?) of the brain instead of the heart.
The festival began with with Francois Truffaut's thriller The Bride Wore Black (1968) a film with obvious links to new wave cinema of the late 1960s.
Like Jean Gabin, his most obvious forerunner in French cinema, Mr. Depardieu is a Gallic everyman, a flawed hero and a soulful roughneck.
One of the most important filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Scorsese reflects in his work both a cynicism toward modern culture and an obvious love of the cinema.
