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Sight And Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal ''Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Considered The Greatest Ever
This is a list of films considered the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking. Critics and filmmakers ''Sight and Sound'' Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine ''Sight and Sound'' asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Since 1992, they have invited directors to vote in a separate poll. Sixty-three critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012, and 1639 critics and 480 directors in 2022. The ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Williams (journalist)
Mike Williams (born 4 February 1979) is a British journalist and editor, currently editor in chief of Sight & Sound. Williams was previously the editor in chief of the ''NME,'' which became a free title under his leadership before ceasing publication in print just weeks after his departure. Career Williams studied film and television at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, before moving to Cardiff and launching the independent music magazine Kruger in 2003. Kruger was a mix of music reviews, interviews and features about music and culture. It closed in April 2010. Williams joined NME as features editor in September 2010, was promoted to deputy editor in July 2011, and replaced Krissi Murison as editor in June 2012. While Williams was editor, the NME responded to a continuing fall in readers by removing its cover price and becoming a free publication, "hoping that a boost in ads and sponsorship, both online and in print, can make up for the loss of cover price income". With t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archer Winsten
Archer Winsten (September 18, 1904 - February 21, 1997) was an American film critic from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. He was a graduate of Princeton University and a judge for many years of the International Ski Film Festival when it was held annually in New York City. For many years, he regularly reviewed movies for the ''New York Post The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com. It was established ...''. References 1904 births 1997 deaths American film critics New York Post people Deaths from thyroid cancer American film historians American male non-fiction writers Film theorists Historians from New York (state) {{US-journalist-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Ramsaye
Terry Ramsaye (2 November 1885, Tonganoxie, Kansas - 19 August 1954, Norwalk, Connecticut) was a film historian and author of ''A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture hrough 1925' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926). Biography Ramsaye started his professional career as an engineer but switched to journalism when he joined the staff of the '' Kansas City Star and Times'' in 1905. In the following decade, he worked on newspapers in Leavenworth, Kansas, and in Omaha, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Chicago. The motion picture industry was in its infancy when he joined Mutual Film Corporation in 1915. While at Mutual, he produced some Charlie Chaplin comedies and founded ''Screen Telegram'', which achieved conspicuous success during World War I. He was one of the founding members of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers. Subsequently he was associated with Samuel Roxy Rothafel in the management of Broadway's Rialto and Rivoli theaters. He also launched and edited the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Queval
Jean Queval (1913–1990) was a French translator, writer, journalist, film critic and founding member of Oulipo Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential literature"'', stylized ''OuLiPo'') is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works .... 1913 births 1990 deaths 20th-century French writers Oulipo members 20th-century French translators 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers {{France-translator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilys Powell
Elizabeth Dilys Powell, CBE (20 July 1901 – 3 June 1995) was a British film critic and travel writer who contributed to ''The Sunday Times'' for more than 50 years. Powell was known for her receptiveness to cultural change in the cinema and coined many classic phrases about films and actors. She was a founding member of the Independent Television Authority (ITA), which launched commercial television in the UK. She was also the second female president of the Classical Association. Powell wrote several books on films and her travels in Greece. Early life and education Dilys Powell was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to Thomas Powell (a bank manager) and Mary Jane Lloyd. She attended Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth before winning an exhibition to read Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford. Powell considered studying Classics (Literae Humaniores) – "Greats" – at Oxford University, but she was advised against it by her brother: '"Don't" he said; "the Classics are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Mauriac
Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist. He was born in Paris, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac. Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of ''Le Figaro''. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the movie adaptation of his father's novel '' Thérèse Desqueyroux''. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle. Mauriac was also a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Bibliography Journals *Le Temps immobile **''Le Temps immobile 1'', Grasset, 1974 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1983 **''Le Temps immobile 2 (Les Espaces imaginaires)'', Grasset, 1975 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1985 **''Le Temps immobile 3 (Et comme l'espérance est violente)'', Grasset, 1976 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1986 **''Le Temps immobile 4 (La Terrasse de Malagar)'', Grasset, 1977 ; Le Livre de Poche, 1987 **''Le Temps im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Luft
Friedrich Luft (24 August 1911 – 24 December 1990) was a German feuilletonist and theater critic. Life Born in Friedenau, Luft was the son of a German student councilor and a Scottish mother. His older brother was the German-American physiologist and university teacher . Luft grew up in the Friedenauer ''Kaiserallee 74'' and attended the nearby at Maybachplatz (today: ). He studied German, English and History in Berlin and at the University of Königsberg. He listened with great interest to Max Herrmann lectures on theatre history. From 1936, he was a freelance writer. He wrote feuilletons for the ''Berliner Tageblatt'' and the ''Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''. For the Oberkommando des Heeres, he wrote numerous screenplays, for example for the films ''Die Brieftaube im Einsatz'' and ''Das Pferd und die Gasmaske für das Pferd''. He also produced texts for the cabaret artist Werner Finck. In 1940, he married the draughtswoman Heide Thilo. Immediately after the Second W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Langlois
Henri Langlois (; 13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often credited with providing the ideas that led to the development of the auteur theory. Langlois was co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry and also co-founder of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 1938. Through close collaboration with the Cinémathèque's longtime chief archivist, Lotte Eisner, he worked to preserve films and film history in the post-war era. An eccentric who was often at the center of controversy for his methods, he also served as a key influence on the generation of young cinephiles and critics who would become the French New Wave. In 1974, Langlois received an Academy Honorary Award for "his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Harrington
Gene Curtis Harrington (September 17, 1926 – May 6, 2007) was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films and episodic television. He is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema. Life and career Early life Harrington was born on September 17, 1926 in Los Angeles, the son of Isabel (Dorum) and Raymond Stephen Harrington. He grew up in Beaumont, California. His first cinematic endeavors were amateur films he made while still a teenager. He attended Occidental College and the University of Southern California, then graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a film studies degree. Career beginnings He began his career as a film critic, writing a book on Josef von Sternberg in 1948. He directed several avant-garde short films in the 1940s and 1950s, including ''Fragment of Seeking'', ''Picnic'', and ''The Wormwood Star'' (a film study of the artwork of Marjorie Cameron which was filmed at the home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte H
Lotte may refer to: Businesses * Lotte Corporation, a South Korean industrial conglomerate ** Lotte Holdings, a Japanese holding company ** Lotte Capital, a South Korean financial company ** Lotte Card, a South Korean credit card provider ** Lotte Chilsung, a Korean manufacturer of food products ** Lotte Cinema, a chain of movie theatres in South Korea ** Lotte Confectionery, South Korean confectionery ** Lotte Department Store, a Korean Department Store ** Lotte Liquor, South Korean distiller ** Lotte World, a recreation complex in Seoul, South Korea Entertainment * ''Lotte'' (film), a 1928 German silent film directed by Carl Froelich * ''Lotte in Weimar'', a 1975 East German drama film directed by Egon Günther and produced by DEFA * ''Lotte'' (TV series), a Dutch TV series based on the Colombian telenovela ''Betty, la fea'' * Lotte, the title character of a series of Estonian animated TV programs and films, including: ** '' Lotte from Gadgetville'', a 2006 film ** '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
