Sentences with phrase «american films of»

At a moment when questions of race, equity and representation are paramount, this streak marks an interesting moment for Los Angeles — one that has allowed for the city to take in a broad range of works by black artists: from the intricate assemblages of Purifoy (who passed away in 2004 at the age of 86) to the video work of Joseph, who is just 33, and whose art is inspired by everything from Russian avant - garde cinema to African American films of the 1970s.

Most American films of this grade have no idea how to handle their fight scenes, but Street Fighter flowed along very well.

Guadalajara International Film Festival Guadalajara, one of Mexico's largest cities located in the state of Jalisco, hosts the oldest and most important film festival in Mexico, offering the best selection of Mexican and Latin American films of the year.

The film sets up for an intended third movie, which, given the lucrative success of African - American films of late at the box office, will likely be green - lit long before another 14 years pass.

Gone is the continuation of that unsolvable Oedipal complexity that arose when the father figures were revealed as less than godlike in Yates's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the best film of the series by a nose — and one of the best American films of that year).

by Bryant Frazer Celebrated as an incisive, self - lacerating backstage spectacle and razzed as an indulgent and pretentious passion project, genius director - choreographer Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is one of the most ambitious American films of the 1970s.

I'm a big fan of American films of the»80s and I wanted it to be part of that ilk.

Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the greatest American films of all time and added Arthur Chipping to its» list of 50 Greatest Heroes.

One of the most beloved American films of the last 25 years, this iconic movie filmed key scenes in Savannah, one of America's most beloved historic cities.

Meeting up after a triumphant opening - night premiere of «A Most Violent Year» at Los Angeles» recent AFI Fest, actor Oscar Isaac and director J.C. Chandor didn't look like the creative team behind one of the most complex, rewarding American films of the...

(For all that, I should say that I think Parker's anomalous Angel Heart is one of the best American films of the»80s.)

Maybe now more people will actually get to see one of the most beautifully performed American films of the year.

Dramatic film has long been fascinated with issues of identity, but they've rarely been explored with the degree of eloquence and heartbreaking beauty as in Barry Jenkins» masterful «Moonlight,» one of the essential American films of 2016.

«This is one of the boldest and most invigorating American films of the 21st century.»

One of Altman's masterpieces, and easily one of the finest American films of the 1970s.

Doused in a sonorous score inspired by Cajun idioms, and featuring superb turns from Mary McDonnell as May - Alice, Alfre Woodard as Chantelle and David Strathairn as the «swamp racial» Rennie, Passion Fish remains one of the finest American films of recent years.

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Perhaps it's a question of shot selection, as Gray — who has a painterly, shadowy visual style, often reminiscent of the great American films of the 1970s — has stuck to a largely emotional logic in earlier films; his compositions are wide or tight to reflect how characters feel.

«No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos» (First Run) profiles friends and fellow cinematographers Laszlo Kovaks and Vilmos Zsigmond, who fled Hungary and worked their way from exploitation films to shooting some of the defining American films of the seventies and eighties.

It sits alongside the initial American films of Gillian Armstrong,...

From Chinatown to The French Connection, Saturday Night Fever to The Last Picture Show, many of the era - defining American films of the 1970s spawned unusual, low - key sequels, each concerned with the notions of legacy and transience.

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.

Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.

Far From Heaven would have been one of the great American films of the»50s; it is certainly the finest American melodrama of our time.

It's one of the best independent American films of the last decade, playing on current concerns about the future of the planet.

Destroyed yet defiant, Robbie walks the emotional tightrope of the most fabulously, tragically American film of the year.

As a result, the film missed out on several Oscar nominations and potential wins despite being the best - reviewed American film of the year, most prominently for director Kathryn Bigelow.

The first time he and Anderson got together, for the eccentric 2007 epic «There Will Be Blood,» it resulted in what many consider the finest American film of the new century so far.

He found it to be «the most suspenseful American film of the year, a thriller that feels like lightning across a quiet night sky: sudden, terrifying and excitingly singular.»

Though he's a relative newcomer to the United States, Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie has created the most positively American film of the year.

Carol may well be Haynes most meticulously crafted, richly detailed, sumptuous and stirring work, as well as being perhaps the finest American film of the year.

Jonathan Demme's buoyant mid-Eighties yuppie road movie is, in retrospect, maybe the key American film of its era along with Blue Velvet (also 1986, but Blue Velvet was more popular), but despite excellent reviews very few people went to see it.

Lopate, who's been involved with film much longer than Scott, called it his favorite American film of 2000.

It's easily the most suspenseful American film of the year, a thriller that feels like lightning across a quiet night sky; sudden, terrifying, and excitingly singular.

It's probably wise to consider the brilliance of Lonergan's first film You Can Count On Me (arguably the best American film of 2000) and pray that Margaret approaches its insight and emotional impact.

Despite a few glaring missteps — the result mostly of shrinking a novel to feature length — this rewarding ensemble piece is easily the best American film of the year thus far.

by Walter Chaw As a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevant.

In China, Pacific Rim was the sixth - highest - grossing American film of all time.

Not exact matches

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The controversy he refers to is the portrayal of Italian - Americans in the film as gangsters.

The film, directed by Barry Jenkins and based upon the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, follows Chiron, a young African - American boy coming of age in Miami, navigating his family, both found and biological, and his sexuality.

Roberto Romano, co-director of documentary film, «The Dark Side of Chocolate,» discusses his findings of forced child labor in many of the foods Americans eat.

The film has not only put a long deserved spotlight on the team of African - American women who literally charted the course that would eventually put man on the moon, but it has also inspired many young women to pursue interests in STEM.

Berry left the British programme last week after its # 75 million ($ 97.5 million) switch from the BBC to Channel 4, but has now begun filming the second series of ABC's «The Great American Baking Show.»

«Bokeh (/ ˈboʊkɛ /; boh - keh) A Japanese word referring to the out - of - focus areas of a photograph, and the name of an American sci - fi film released in March.

He became something of a celebrity in North Korea for depicting «evil» American soldiers in propaganda films.

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

Suntory Holdings Limited, the parent company of the whisky and the new owner of American bourbons and whiskeys, doesn't mind the film's connection to the spirit.

The scene in which the POW camp is liberated by an American fighter squadron is one of the greatest single scene ever committed to film.

The import - export strategy hinges on introducing the Japanese to American bourbons, while also convincing Americans to think of Japanese whisky as more than just the inspiration behind a humorous scene in a Coppola film.