Sentences with phrase «as cinephiles»

As cinephiles look for any edge they can get in their betting pools, perhaps old fashioned math can serve as the crystal ball for how things will go down.

Every year, as we head into spring, the Cannes Film Festival unveils it's lineup as cinephiles around the world wait anxiously to find out what films will be premiering at the prestigious festival.

And even though I'm in the wrong as a cinephile, I'm WAY more curious about the tech than the actual film (in this case).

As a cinephile, Hazanavicius should have known this.

Essentially this new column can be seen as cinema homework, each week one writer will watch a film they know they should have seen as a cinephile, but never have.

Their cutesiness can be grating, and clearly pandering to cinephiles, but as a cinephile myself it is nice being included on an inside joke.

But he returned time and again to noir, almost as if he felt it his duty as a cinephile and disciple of the great Hollywood auteurs, especially his idol Alfred Hitchcock.

Not exact matches

IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.

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And as always, opinions on his films vary wildly from film to film, from cinephile to cinephile.

Tarantino's film is not as explicit as it can be, yet it still resonates when the realization sets in (a realization cinephile Tarantino knows all too well) that slavery is usually treated in cinema with kid gloves.

Fans of Cooper's previous work will want to give this one a look at some point, as will those cinephiles interested in seeing what this film has to add to the larger trend of revisionist westerns released over the past decade.

History buffs and cinephiles will find something to enjoy here, and The Post is certainly worth catching in theaters as it awaits whatever Academy Award nominations come its way.

A Lover's Discourse was published in 1977, three years before Barthes's death and eleven years before Denis made her first feature, and he was certainly a known quantity among the Parisian cinephile generation of the 1970s, when Denis was coming of age — for example, before starring in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973), Françoise Lebrun was a contributor to his journal Communications, and several critics, including Alain Philippon, have speculated as to Barthes's influence on the lovers» dialogues in Eustache's movie.

So it's a remarkable gift to fans and cinephiles that Lucky serves as a first - rate showcase for its star as well as an ideal swan song.»

That's definitely who this movie is aimed at, although the pedigree of director Juan José Campanella, who also did the Academy Award winner The Secret In Their Eyes, might draw in a few curious cinephiles as well.

Barry Jenkins» film marked the first time cinephile - friendly studio A24 produced a movie from end - to - end and the result is just as staggering as those familiar with the studio's work might expect.

But before that arrives, lucky cinephiles will have the chance to revisit the original film as a pristine 35 mm print of an uncut version of the film was found by the Chicago Cinema Society.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

Second, he's made a movie that feels like it has the capacity to win over the average moviegoer as quickly as it wins the hearts of his fellow cinephiles.

There is also some strange Hollywood history that will have cinephiles pondering weird what - if scenarios such as: what would it have been like if De Palma had ended up directing Flashdance instead of Scarface?

Cinephiles will also notice homages to some directorial greats - such as Kubrickian and Hitchcockian technique for creating intense and effective moments of horror and suspense, respectively.

In the years since, Affleck has earned high marks for his acting performances in David Fincher's Gone Girl and Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, but cinephiles have been eager to see what Affleck would do for a followup as a helmsman.

Ex Machina helmer Alex Garland also carries clout with cinephiles thanks to screenwriter credits on such Danny Boyle faves as The Beach (he penned the novel), zombie pic 28 Days Later and Sunshine.

Since then I have been a devoted cinephile, film student and critic, absorbing as many films as I possibly can into my already over-loaded brain.

Like many cinephiles, I was first drawn to Ozu by his serene compositions, the meditative «pillow shots» of train stations and empty rooms that served as scene transitions, and the exquisite way that his films explore the architecture of domestic and urban life.

When cinephiles discuss films of the aughts that were mysteriously unloved or misunderstood, a title that often comes up is Jonathan Glazer's Birth, a taboo tale crudely summarized as one of resurrection and cradle - robbing love.

Sure, his name doesn't ring a bell for a lot of cinephiles and doesn't carry the same weight as internationally renowned Iranian auteurs such as Kiarostami, Panahi or Asghar Farhadi, but consider this: He is the only filmmaker to have had his films shunned by both the Academy and the Iranian committee that submits them!

Wright had invited producer Steve Golin, which was enough to satisfy the die - hard cinephiles in the audience who knew him as the architect of Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films, but even without that, he charmed everyone with stories of Lynch's good luck rituals before a film like checking license plates in a parking lot for his initials and how he had a lunch meeting with Lynch where moments after he said he wanted Nicolas Cage for the part of bad boy Sailor Ripley, Cage walked into the restaurant they were eating at.

-- to be drawn between the relationship of huckleberry hustler Joe Buck and his crippled pal Ratso and Forrest and his crippled pal Dan, no sense to the reference unless it's there entirely as a sop to the same group of cinephiles anxiously awaiting Shrek 4.

The International Cinephile Society (of which I am a voting member) have revealed the nominations for their 12th annual awards and, as is usual for this group, the nominees are eclectic, exciting and sometimes baffling.

The International Cinephile Society (ICS) has chimed in with their awards for 2014 films and have chosen Stranger by the Lake, from director Alain Guiraudie as the best film of the year.

Yet, cinephiles from the city, as well as their interstate brethren, flock to the Victorian capital to revel in the experience.

As the summer begins to wind down, cinephiles begin to flock to Canada as the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off another yeaAs the summer begins to wind down, cinephiles begin to flock to Canada as the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off another yeaas the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off another year.

She's a name that's known to ardent cinephiles, but rarely mentioned with as much frequency as her contemporaries Jean - Luc Godard, François Truffaut or Claude Chabrol.

I personally enjoyed it but can't say I was as enamored with it as other cinephiles.

Never feeling like a hagiography, in part because it shares the humility of its subject, The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his work.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

He's a well - known cinephile and Turner Classic Movies superfan, so I'm incredibly eager to see him put all that knowledge to work as a director on this series.

As one of the greatest actors of the 70s with some of the best films of that decade to his name, De Niro has a pretty high standing in the cinephile world.

Featuring interviews from modern day greats such as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson, even the most devoted cinephile is bound to learns something from this doc.

Christopher Nolan's name arouses a special kind of attention, not only among cinephiles but, crucially, for once - a-year film - goers as well, an audience majority whose decision to go see a film relies...

The discourse — as articulated by serious cinephiles like Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, as well as their younger colleagues around the country — was essentially about freedom.

Before the films of Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean Renoir, Preminger or Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray or Satyajit Ray — or, indeed, Bertolucci — cinephiles rightly gasp at the expressive eloquence and power of that three - point relation of camera - actor - environment as it clicks into place with precision.

Ingeniously conceived, meticulously crafted and effortlessly breezy, this is a movie for true cinephiles that their kids can have a blast with as well.

Richard Linklater is known to cinephiles for his look at generational rites as in «Suburbia,» wherein teens support each other in their advance to adulthood.

As many cinephiles predicted, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri dominated at the Baftas, taking home five awards, including the night's two most prestigious awards: Best Film and Outstanding British Film.

This year, as Europe and the U.S. retreat from each other politically, cinephiles seem to have cut back on Hollywood fare, leaving us with a wealth of decidedly left - field film fodder that address topics such as discrimination against refugees, an adolescent Karl Marx, and all kinds of sexual diversity.

This irreverent show mixed footage of creator and host John Pierson and his band of cinephiles gathering impressions from the fringes of the movie - loving community in the late 1990s, intimate encounters with icons such as John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis, and sneak peeks of new work, including a little juggernaut known as The Blair Witch Project.

At the press screening I attended, the cinephiles in the room did the next best thing: they stayed pinned to their seats as the final credits rolled.