Sentences with phrase «american road film»

*** In Ridley Scott's 1991 feminist version of the classic American road film, Thelma and Louise, the protagonists hit the road in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible, hoping to escape the dropkick men in their dreary lives.

Not exact matches

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

As the American drives his Fiat along the winding roads with a superbly spare score playing in the background, the landscape becomes a main character in the film.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

I love Thomas Newman earliest scores, like The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty and The Road to Perdition, but he is not an action film composer.

Glory Road Jerry Bruckheimer's film chronicles the first all - African American starting lineup in NCAA basketball, at Texas Western, which won the 1966 title.

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers (Director & Screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished with all the footage.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

With echoes of Don McKellar's Last Night (a brilliant little film if you've never seen it) blending with a Steve Carell comedy and American indie sensibilities, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World promises two things: a road trip with Keira Knightley and a title that most cinemas will have trouble fitting on their marquees.

Even so, the biggest deal to come out of the festival was for an old - fashioned movie - movie, the spy thriller 355 that will star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong» o. Global Road Entertainment paid US$ 25 million for North American rights to the film.

The first American film and fourth overall directed by Australia's John Hillcoat, The Road is mightily depressing and almost relentlessly dark.

The film will be directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) and will have Daniel Craig reprise his role as the legendary British secret agent.

Inspired by Italian and American horror films of the 1980's, Road Trash is a vibrant fairy tale about a girl and her strange addiction.

Nostalgia is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Mark Pellington, who started his career making music videos before going on to direct the films Going All the Way, Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Henry Poole Is Here, I Melt with You, and The Last Word.

His background includes such fine films as American Beauty and Road To Perdition (also with Daniel Craig).

PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, THURSDAY, 1:36 PM: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the untitled Oliver Stone - directed film that will star Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Edward Snowden, the American who fled to Russia seeking asylum after making public more classified documents than anyone since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.

One of the greatest of all suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field over dangerous mountain roads.

After seeing Vincent Gallo's rather ponderous road movie The Brown Bunny in 2003, esteemed American critic Roger Ebert pithily described it as «the worst film ever shown in the history of Cannes».

A superb pas - de-deux with American cinema, this ultra-violent futuristic film brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of Road Movie, Western and Science - Fiction elements.

The film opens with a carriage plodding along the road until it comes across an African - American Civil War Veteran, Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson, Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2016) whose horse has died and is towing three dead bodies to the city of Red Rock to collect the bounty for his bodies.

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.

Upstream Long believed lost, John Ford's 1927 backstage comedy was one of 75 silent - era American films discovered in the collection of the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation with the collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox.

Lawless is the second American film from Australian director John Hillcoat, whose 2009 post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road was well - reviewed but overlooked by the public.

«Armie's Western Road Trip» (14:37) tags along with the not - leading man as he takes in the sights of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado, where this film was shot with the documented blessing of multiple actual Native Americans.

Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished with all the footage.

We see films like Reservation Road which puts American life in the 50s on display.

Philippe Martinez Productions just released this brand new teaser poster from the upcoming film «Tribes of October» by director Philippe Martinez (The Steam Experiment) and starring Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine, A Fork in the Road), Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Robert Duvall (The Last Full Measure), Ray Stevenson (Rome, Cirque du Freak), James Caan (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and Paul Sloan (An American Hero).

Philippe Martinez Productions released another new teaser image from the upcoming film «Tribes of October» by director Philippe Martinez (The Steam Experiment) and starring Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine, A Fork in the Road), Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Robert Duvall (The Last Full Measure), Ray Stevenson (Rome, Cirque du Freak), James Caan (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and Paul Sloan (An American Hero).

American Honey is her first US - shot film, and it tells of a teenage girl who hits the road with a magazine sales team.

Now we know we're giving some comic book films, like Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World and a A History of Violence the short shrift here, but we wanted to focus in on the type of film we cover the most.

list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.

An exciting return to the great car - culture films of the 1960s and»70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, «Need for Speed» taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

Both McQueen and his star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, were black British men telling a very American story — and that did not go unnoticed throughout the film's long road to the Oscars, where it eventually won best picture.

As Last Flag Flying eases into being a road - trip film (a distinctly American genre I didn't realize I missed so much until I was riding sidecar), Linklater, always better at time - constrained narratives, hits his stride, the guys» camaraderie making Cranston's shenanigans almost palatable.

Installment number four of our series features drag racing's Big Daddy, the Ironman of off - roading, an American driver who won international fame, and a photographer who captured many of the era's greatest racing moments on film.

«I've always enjoyed an American road trip, you know, it's a classic genre,» she said of the film, Italian director Paolo Virzì's first English - language feature.

She disappeared into one role after another, and she showed how art and film noir convention could collude to fashion sex appeal from the trappings of innocence and repression — and from the beauty and implicit dangers of dark shadows, startling camera angles, the open road, and the American city.

I love Robert Frank, not just the famous book, The Americans, a classic of both photography and American road trip literature, but the whole career, including the strange films like Me and My Brother.

In Highway Kind, we see Justine Kurland's on - the - road photographs as if through a film of fantasy - a very masculine, very American fantasy, about freedom and self - reliance and the big wide open.

A recent film, The Long Road to Mazatlan, is about mythology in the American West and cowboys as gay icons.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas