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Made in Dagenham: 2010 Mad Max: 1979 [5] Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: 1981 [5] Mad Max: Fury Road: 2015 Malcolm X: 1972 Malcolm X: 1992 Man of Iron: 1981 The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip: 2014 [11] Matewan: 1987 Metropolis: 1927 [12] Modern Times: 1936 [13] The Molly Maguires: 1970 Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1984 [1] Norma Rae: 1979 [4] [5] The ...
An anti-war film is a genre of war film that is opposed to warfare in its theming or messaging.. Anti-war films typically argue that war is futile, unjust, a loss for all involved, only serves to benefit few in society (usually an elite or ruling class, or the state), makes people do or support things they normally would not (such as homicide or discrimination), is extremely costly both in ...
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism [1] through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet.
The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, [19] [20] [11] was previously associated with race films, [21] Poverty Row b movies (e.g. Republic Pictures [22]), exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema [23]), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring ...
James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar, at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke ...
It was originally shown in two parts separated by an intermission, and it was the first American-made film to have a musical score for an orchestra. It helped to pioneer closeups and fadeouts, and it includes a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras made to look like thousands. [9] It came with a 13-page Souvenir Program. [10]
The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...
Many of the films released throughout the late 1950s and 1960s focused on spreading a positive image of Soviet life, intent to prove that Soviet life was indeed better than American life. Russian science fiction emerged from a prolonged period of censorship in 1957, opened up by de-Stalinization and real Soviet achievements in the space race ...