Sentences with phrase «american film classics»

Tracing the warnings from four American film classics about self - involved demagogues and their relations to the current GOP nominee for President.

Not exact matches

I use the Wizard of Oz — that great book, that classic American film — as one of the sort of parables that helps us sort of know how to work with the enneagram.

But contrary to Mr. Nelson's blithe assumption that the film only provided Americans with what they wanted to hear, Casablanca was not a box - office smash, and only later acquired its status as a classic.

Filmed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida (home to the restaurant Martorano's Italian - American Kitchen), «The Italian - American Cook» web series features Martorano preparing the classic South Philly Italian - American dishes that were part of his childhood and inspired him to build his culinary empire.

From the 1977 classic Pumping Iron that tells the story of the intense competition between Lou Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to the very American story of Kai Green and a historical film on the evolution of bodybuilding — there is a lot to learn and discover by watching these films.

Classic rock fan, many tattoos, I play guitar, Favourite band is ac / dc, love Star Wars, 80's films, I go to lots of gigs, love the American office, daredevil, Gotham, narcos, the flash, etc...

Following his acclaimed role in American Beauty, Bentley appeared in The White River Kid, in which he played the film's titular murderer.In the wake of American Beauty, Bentley starred in Michael Winterbottom's The Claim, as well as yet another version of the classic adventure tale The Four Feathers.

Still, that's the magic of it — this film is the quintessential American classic, and that's the way it should and will stay forever.

This is an enjoyable, violent, well acted film that is a classic of American cinema.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

From there, he went back and forth between German and American films, eventually working on such classics as «Working Girl» and «Goodfellas.»

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not just as a terrific genre film but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

In the classic Linklater tradition, it's a profound reflection on American values played as a hilarious and profane hangout film.

Directed with stirring beauty and lyricism by the Chinese American filmmaker Chloé Zhao, the film was acquired for North American distribution by Sony Pictures Classics during the festival.

More recently, a few Hollywood productions have let him explore a more tongue - in - cheek side to his persona («Horrible Bosses» and «Fright Night» for example), but before that in American films, he was largely squeezed into straight - up hero or classic villain roles.

Released in theaters on August 21, 1981, John Landis» classic An American Werewolf in London became the standard by which all subsequent lycanthrope films are judged.

In this case, former The State alums David Wain and Michael Showalter took that sweet, sweet Netflix cash, called everyone they knew, and made this deliriously funny prequel series to their enduringly hilarious cult classic film Wet Hot American Summer.

Features both the American and British versions of the film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»

Anthony Mann's T - Men (1947) is a significant entry in the classic American film noir cycle and, arguably, the best of the subcycle of «docu - noirs» that was released by Hollywood in the wake of the...

Brazilian actor - musician, who covered Bowie classics in Wes Anderson film, revives concept for 13 North American dates

Glass, part of a commercial fur expedition, escapes with others on a boat and sails into an adventure that takes him through a crucible of suffering — including a near - fatal grizzly attack — that evokes by turns classics of American literature and a «Perils of Pauline» - style silent - film serial.

Rita Hayworth is at her most iconic as the forties sex - bomb in Gilda (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), a 1946 film noir classic co-starring Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell, an American tough guy in Buenos Aires, and George Macready as Ballin Mundson, the owner of a nightclub and illegal casino who hires Johnny as his club manager.

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.

To make a prequel to the genuine American 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz is a huge risk, even for the Disney studios.

Coming, as James Naremore wrote in 1973, «between the repressive manners of the classic Hollywood studio movie and the «liberated» ethos of the R - rated contemporary film,» Psycho did previously unthinkable, willfully perverse things — killing off its heroine and thereby taking its star actor offscreen at the end of act 1; leaving us only a homicidal maniac to identify with for the rest of the film; intimating necrophilia and incest within an American family.

As well as the murkier corners of classic film noir, Boorman drew inspiration from art photography and the French New Wave, including Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, which was itself «speaking back» to American crime movies.

John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.

Following on from our previous story, Sony Pictures Classics today confirmed that it has picked up full North American rights to the 2014 Woody Allen film Magic In the Moonlight.

I didn't mean that I hope there's a wave of remakes, just that there might be an interest in classic American genres like film noir and the western once again.

This film makes its home video debut direct to Blu - ray, making it a rare American classic available solely on Blu - ray in this country.

Franck Khalhoun's (P2) latest film — a French / American co-production made all the more obvious by a technical snafu that saw the movie play with French subtitles for some 15 minutes — does some things very well, but being a remake of William Lustig's 1980 horror classic, also titled Maniac, isn't exactly one of them.

Cutter's Way (Twilight Time, Blu - ray), starring Jeff Bridges as an easy - going beach boy and John Heard as a damaged, angry Vietnam vet who get tangled in a murder mystery, is an American classic that got lost during its 1981 release even as it was being championed by film critics like Siskel and Ebert.

In the hands of director Raymond De Felitta, whose «City Island» is a delightfully funny tale of a dad whose poker nights are really spent going to an acting class, the tale reaches proportions that can be compared to the classic film «Bonnie and Clyde» with some aspects that could remind some of «American Hustle.»

Hollywood never managed to get Hemingway or Fitzgerald right in this era (or any era, for that matter), but this film takes a respectable run at the same themes in the Hollywood vernacular: high society meets classic Warner street smarts as four Americans in Paris resort to witty repartee and hard - drinking antics to hide haunted souls.

If anything, this film in many ways is a homage to masters of the American Western like John Ford and Howard Hawks; in fact, there is a direct tribute to Ford's 1956 classic The Searchers, the film Hostiles most recalled for me.

Featuring a powerful performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor and what I consider the best performance of the year (by Lupita Nyong» o), this epic is a must - see and will surely be judged a classic American film in the years to come.

Nichol, who also deftly shot and edited the film, never fetishizes or aggrandizes the typewriter, but instead smartly contextualizes its place as a classic symbol of American ingenuity, practicality and style.

Factory's «Roger Corman's Cult Classics» line of drive - in classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film Classics» line of drive - in classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film artists.

Kino Lorber's veteran producer Bret Wood has breen with Kino for over 25 years and has played a key role in bringing many archival and silent classics to vigorous life, and is currently involved in Kino's most ambitious silent project to date: a definitive multi-disc Blu - ray / DVD anthology of African American silent films: Pioneers of African American Cinema.

It's pretty hard to believe that Roman Polanski's «Chinatown» almost went home empty - handed at the 1975 Academy Awards (it ended up winning Best Original Screenplay), because it's not only one of the best film noirs ever made, but it's an American classic.

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to «The Silent Man,» a film about the life of Mark Felt, the secret high - ranking FBI informant during the Watergate scandal, famously known as «Deep Throat.»

The connection to classic American tough - guy movies isn't always apparent in his celebrated horror films, but it's all over the body of work he produced in relative obscurity before he finally caught a break with Cure.

Gone is the classic John Williams score (except for little bits and pieces), replaced by a very unmemorable one done by Alan Parker (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, American Gothic), his first ever work in a film, having only ever done music for television series.

The classic film, based on the 1927 novel by German author B. Traven, is the tale of two down - and - out Americans in Mexico who join with an older prospector to dig for gold.

Anthony Mann's T - Men (1947) is a significant entry in the classic American film noir cycle and, arguably, the best of the subcycle of...

Many young people may be unfamiliar with or uncaring toward some of the great dancing films (like Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, and Strictly Ballroom) and revered classics (like An American in Paris, West Side Story and 42nd Street) that have come before.

John Carpenter is an American movie writer, music composer, and director of numerous groundbreaking classic films, including «Assault on Precinct 13», «Halloween», «The Fog», «Escape From New York», «The Thing», «Christine», «Starman», «Big Trouble in Little China», «Prince of Darkness», «They Live», «In the Mouth of Madness», «Vampires», «Escape From L.A.», «Ghosts of Mars», «The Ward», and many more.