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Countdown is a 1967 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the 1964 novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls. The film stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of an accelerated program to beat the Soviet Union .
Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory , Formalism , Marxism , philosophy of language , or Lacanian psychoanalysis , while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
In the United States and Canada, Countdown was released alongside Black and Blue and The Current War, and was projected to gross around $5 million from 2,675 theaters in its opening weekend. [7] The film made $3.1 million on its first day, including $515,000 from Thursday night previews.
The Major Film Theories. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. André Bazin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-502165-7; Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources with Paul Andrew. G.K. Hall & Co., 1981. Concepts in Film Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Film in the Aura of Art.
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Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing. This approach was proposed by Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, and Béla Balázs. [1]
Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.
Noël Burch (born 1932) is an American film theorist and movie maker who moved to France at a young age. Burch is known for his contribution to terms commonly used by film scholars (such as institutional mode of representation (IMR)) and for his theories compiled in books such as Theory of Film Practice or La lucarne de L'Infini.