Sentences with phrase «american films of the year»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

Not exact matches

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

It's a safe bet that the film will win at least a few of those, but even if it doesn't, 12 Years a Slave has undoubtedly brought back up an important, though often glossed over, part of American history.

That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.

The film is part of a curious new trend of British works on American racial issues, following last year's British - directed 12 Years a Slave.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

In March, the company opened a new factory in Tucson, where it plans to produce enough thin - film CIGS solar cells to generate 40 megawatts of electricity next year — enough to power roughly 15,000 average American homes; it hopes to boost the juice to 100 megawatts by 2010 in response to what it predicts will be a growing market.

In their analysis, the researchers found the number of times a movie 25 years or older is referenced by other movies best predicts inclusion in this registry of American films deemed «culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.»

Later that year, Hildebrand presented that film at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, revealing the news to the scientific community for the first time.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

One year later, the American physicist Robert Williams Wood recognized the possibility of improving the sensitivity of infrared photographic film using kryptocyanine emulsion, the chemical cousin of dicyanine.

Years later, with dreams of starring in films, he attempted to pitch an act to Hollywood executives, but he was rejected on the spot because they felt the act itself was far too ridiculous to sell to the American public.

There's something in your look here that reminds me very much of Natalie Wood, playing the 15 year old abducted - by - Native - Americans in the 195s film «The Searchers».

Once a year, the elite of the American film industry get together to celebrate excellence in cinematic achievements.

Victoria Beckham first wore this violet Giral strapless dress from her Fall 2009 collection during filming for «American Idol» back in August of last year.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy - drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends The Rules is a way of dating that really works!

American Idol runner up Katharine McPhee films a Scorpion scene with ex Elyes Gabel amid confirmation she's dating music producer David Foster Katharine McPhee and Elyes Gabel have split after almost two years of dating, a source confirms to Us Weekly — details

Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes» American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

The third of John Woo's American - made feature films, Face / Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent.

This was the film that Terrence Malick made in 1978 before heading off for his 20 - year sabbatical: an inspired American pastoral, perhaps inspired by Henry James's The Wings of the Dove.

Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1956) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

An invaluable film that documents the flat - out lies and public deceits that the Bush regime (military, White House, and CIA) has used to subvert the fundamentals of the American institution of democracy and over 700 years of English law in its monomaniacal pursuit of «the bad guys.»

Currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Film Theatre and riding high on the strength of The Tree of Life, his fifth film in 37 years and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick is an American visionary and cinematic poet.

It was a later sound film, 1930's Little Caesar, that brought him to the attention of American audiences; portraying gangster boss Rico Bandello, he established a prototype for a number of gangster roles he played in the ensuing years.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

Set at the end of the 19th century, the film stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as Jay Cavendish, a 16 - year - old boy on a journey across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves (Caren Pistorius).

Only three of the six studios were able to capitalize on growing foreign appetites for American films, however, with Paramount leading the pack with a 60 % increase in foreign receipts compared to the previous year.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Better known in the last few years for directing episodes of such shows as The Wire, Treme, and the American version of The Killing, Agnieszka Holland returns to her native Poland for another film of hers concerning the plight of people during the Second World War.

Just watch Scorsese's 100 years of American Cinema and you'll behold the true glory of a great film geek.

American actor Cliff DeYoung began a stop - and - start film career with Pilgrimage in 1972; most of his work for the next several years was on stage and in television.

For years John Ford's «The Grapes of Wrath» was called not only his best film but, by some, the greatest American film.

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Some of these films won't get American distribution until next year - one in particular, maybe not at all - but I can't leave them off my 2017 list, so much did they add to my moviegoing experience.

Kurt Loder named this film «American Cannibal» the best Documentary of the year.

The 31 year - old star of «Mad Men» (which wrapped its third season this week, though me and my fellow Brits haven't even got started) has essayed the best female character in American film or TV in two years, gives great interview and, -LSB-...]

Last year's Jackie was a psychologically devastating look at the widowed Jackie Kennedy boasting one of the absolute best performances of the year by Natalie Portman, whereas in comparison LBJ is a film that will be thrown on in American History classes only for teenagers to fall asleep.

The prominent American film critic spent almost 40 years at Time Magazine, as well as a library of books and created many documentaries about film.

The American remake of the French Canadian film Starbuck features Vince Vaughn as affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.