Sentences with phrase «british film classic»

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The new streaming service will also be the exclusive streaming home to the full catalog of classic British sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which has been remastered in HD for the first time, along with Monty Python films.

To mark the 60th anniversary of its original release, a restored HD version of the classic British animation film has hit the shelves.

LOOK AROUND YOU Open your math textbooks to chapter 3.1415926 and enjoy the subtle but distinctly British humor in this straight - faced send - up of classic classroom film strips.

A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.

Bergman's film quickly made its passage into classic status; the 1972 poll of the world's film critics by Sight and Sound, the British film magazine, listed it among the ten greatest films ever made, and it is now considered by many Bergman scholars to be his best.

But the 1973 British classic has become the latest film set to undergo a Hollywood remake with the production company behind Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop poised for a modern take on it.

Like David Lean's classic Lawrence of Arabia, the film offers a dashing hero, played by Charlie Hunnam, and the powerful theme of British culture colliding with a brutal world it only dimly understands.

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.»

But his career definitely got tripped up by his directorial debut «London Boulevard,» a film in the would - be mold of the classic British gangster films from the «60s and early «70s like «Get Carter,» Nicolas Roeg's «Performance,» and even Antonioni's «Blow Up.»

Released in 1969, classic British film Kes follows a young, English working - class boy who spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Directed with the equal energy by British director John Hough, whose lean, high - powered action scenes are energized by the dynamic, almost child - like performances of his thrill - addicted characters, it's a classic of seventies speed cinema, where car chase and stunt films were really about rubber hitting — and leaving — the road.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

The British actor - who previously starred in the «Hobbit» franchise - added: «I grew up watching classic films from the 1950s and 60s and this film has borrowed from them.

The sequel to the 1996 British classic Trainspotting is now filming in Scotland.

It was a moment to bring a grin to the face of even the most red - blooded republican, a brilliant instance of classic British humour that created a ripple of laughter around the entirety of the globe, when Queen Elizabeth II appeared in a short film clip as part of the 2012 London Olympic Games opening ceremony.

But the Buckinghams come to realize to their dismay that classic English theater is falling out of favor in a changing country where the public has become more excited by the explosion of vibrant Bollywood films — and, more deeply, is looking to move beyond everything British.

Kim Wilson at the Classic Film and TV Cafe reviews Man in Grey, a little - known British film that sounds rather transgressive for its time!

But even as the film takes its cues from the classic British publisher, 2000AD is drawing from the movie to entice fans of the film to the comics line.

On the occasion of this week's U.K. release of a new film adaptation of Graham Greene's sinister classic 1938 novel Brighton Rock, Boyd Tonkin has written a piece for the Independent examining the esteemed British author's relationship with movies.

He is also known for playing the protagonist Pip in British film adaptation of Charles Dickens» famous classic novel Great Expectations.

Kino Lorber has just released three of Lester's British film on Blu - ray for the first time on their Studio Classics label, including one of his best.

THE LADYKILLERS (Grade: D): This Coen brothers remake of the classic 1955 British comedy — with Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role as the leader of a gang of crooks who plan a heist in the home of a dotty old woman (Irma P. Hall)-- not only misses all the wit and charm of the original, but it may stand as the clumsiest, crudest, least funny and most pandering of all their films.

Tom Courtenay stars in John Schlesinger's 1963 classic film from the British New Wave, which follows a clerk whose overactive fantasies compensate for a dull provincial life.

John Hurt died in January of this year and was remembered by some as the presence behind so many classic British films and by others as Mr. Ollivander in the «Harry Potter» films.

It might have been intimidating for British actress Hayley Atwell to sign on for the lead in Starz's adaptation of E.M. Forster's literary classic «Howards End,» given the long shadow cast by Emma Thompson, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1992 Merchant - Ivory film version.

Lee follows in the path of British films like Duane Hopkins's Better Things and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, or even Peter Hall's 70s classic Akenfield: films which show that the countryside is not a bland picturesque place, gentle and calming.

Their latest film Early Man maintains its distinct British charm and unique stop - motion models though it can't quite reach the heights of classics such as Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit and Chicken Run though it does possess something special of its own.

Volume 2 will offer «Missing Links: Restored and Rediscovered Classics of American Independent Cinema,» guest - edited by British film magazine Little White Lies.

But even before he made film history with those unforgettable classics, he was writing about the state of contemporary film as a critic for the British newspaper the Spectator in the late 1930s.

In this edition of Now Stream This, we have a Stephen Hawking documentary, a scary - as - hell international horror movie, an influential classic, a surprisingly clever thriller, a gothic vampire film, a raunch comedy, an»80s action movie, a chilly British ghost story, and, believe it or not, Power Rangers.

Starting our list off is the wonderful, timeless classic British film, 1970's The Railway Children.

Filmed in a classic minimalist style, British artist Martin Creed's Work No. 1701 (2013) shows a series of people with atypical gaits as eah crosses the same New York Street.

Set in a blasted post-apocalyptic landscape, the film revisits the legacy of the British Empire, drawing on video games like Prince of Persia, mining current political debates and touching on classic movie fare of foreign adventures and cross-cultural love affairs.

«A large - scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture — the classic red barn and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho — will comprise the fourth... Read More

This generous Victorian home in Oxford was once the family home of T.E Lawrence, the noted British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer, whose life was immortalised in the classic 1962 film «Lawrence of Arabia» starring Peter O'Toole.