Sentences with phrase «british film history»

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E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

History of BBC studios in London offers news, comment and features about british arts scene sections books, films, music, theatre, art architecture.

From the Studio: The film details the inspiring exploits of Michael Edwards, better known as «Eddie the Eagle,» the most famous ski jumper in British history.

Turning a rarely dramatised chapter of British history into a riotously grisly romp, this film starts out strongly as an exploration of people power then soon degenerates into a series of increasingly gory clashes.After signing...

Directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Naked Lunch, Crash), adapted from John Wagner and Vince Locke's graphic novel by screenwriter Josh Olson, shot by the British cinematographer and Cronenberg's favorite collaborator Peter Suschitzky, enhanced by the score of another Cronenberg's career - long partner Howard Shore, A History of Violence is a gorgeous film with a dark heart and a message that's impossible to shake.

Perhaps the most realistic and gritty film on this list, Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was considered to be a huge turning point in the history of British cinema.

We're negotiating for films from UCLA Film & Television Archive, George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the National Museum of African American History Culture, the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection at SMU and private collectors — we're calling in all favors.

Keira said that she felt proud to see The Imitation Game launching the festival: «All of the cast are London born and it's a very British film about a very important part of British history so it feels lovely to be here.»

Telling a story from a rarely examined period of British history, this pre-war drama is a bundle of suspense, mystery and personal emotion that's beautifully filmed and sharply played by a first - rate cast.Anne (Garai) is...

The pageantry of British rule in India is something to behold and this film is a history lesson in what not to do.

British director Lynne Ramsay is set to lead a quartet of female film - makers into competition at next month's Cannes film festival — the largest representation in the event's 64 - year history.

LONDON — For the second straight year, a story taken from the pages of American history triumphed at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, with «12 Years a Slave» winning prizes for best film and for leading actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.In a...

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the great works of art in the history of film, and yet, except for some recent television screenings, this British production is largely unknown in the United States.

EMILY BLUNT has defended her movie THE YOUNG VICTORIA after critics slammed the film's historical inaccuracies - she insists unhappy reviewers should just «watch the History Channel» instead.Blunt stars as legendary British monarch Queen Victoria...

For example, David Fincher looks well positioned to extend the awards» history of film - director splits, even if Tom Hooper is a local son; it's worth noting that BAFTA denied two British directors of Best Film winners, Anthony Minghella and Sam Mendes, in the year of the Oscar victories.

Having done all right with the last film to cover the romantic tribulations of King Edward VIII — it was called «The King's Speech,» it won a few Oscars, you might have heard of it — The Weinstein Company clearly feels there's an appetite among audiences for more on that chapter of British royal history, -LSB-...]

What makes the film refreshing is that it tackles a little - known incident in British history, rather than being a yet another take on a more famous event.

Post World War II British Cinema was one of the richest periods in film history.

«King & Country» is a very harsh and bleak anti-war film that's been largely relegated to the cinematic dustbin of history, despite being very well - regarded at the time — enough to earn four BAFTA Awards nominations (the British equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Picture.

But perhaps two British films about the same exact period in history is one too many?

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.

Such is certainly the case with Julie Christie, a blond, British Helen of Troy with the most frankly carnal lower lip in film history.

The problem, for British audiences at least, is this sorry episode in French history has been so roundly and repeatedly parodied — principally by long - running sitcom» Allo» Allo — it's hard at times to take Dibb's film seriously.

Literature, Installation Art, and Films on Partition A Visual History of the India - Pakistan Partition by Aanchal Malhorti Short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto Earth, film by Deepa Mehta Cracking India, a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa (the film Earth was based on this) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie «The Seer of Pakistan,» essay on Manto in The New Yorker by Ali Sethi 1947 Archive, A global movement to collect and preserve witness accounts of Partition Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Indian Summers, a British TV drama series, various writers Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh Tamas, a movie by Govind Nihalani.

The film brings together many of the ideas behind the works in the Pavilion and features visual and thematic elements that reflect Deller's interest in the diverse nature of British society and its broad cultural, socio - political and economic history.

I know one thing — MacGregor's liberal history of cultural encounters and global diversity, which he communicates through books and radio as well as British Museum's displays, has taught people a lot more about global art than anyone will learn from Campbell's film.

Emerging from a tradition that originates in China's Tang period (618 — 907), the phrase «one hand clapping» encompasses a history of cross-cultural translation and appropriation that continues into the present, from its citation as the epigraph to J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories (1953) to its referencing in the titles of a Cantopop song and an Australian film and the name of a British band.

Since emerging from the Glasgow art scene in the early 1990s, Simon Starling (British, b. 1967) has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation, working in a wide variety of media (film, installation, photography) to interrogate the histories of art and design, scientific discoveries, and global economic and ecological issues, among other subjects.

The first exhibition celebrating British history painting will include the haunting image of a tree once used to hang slaves in the US, taken by artist and director Steve McQueen when scouting locations for his Oscar - winning film 12 Years a Slave.

British conceptual artist Simon Starling (born 1967) interrogates the histories of art and science, as well as other subjects such as economic and environmental issues, through a wide variety of media including film, installation and photography.

Piercing Brightness presents new works by British and London - based artist Shezad Dawood, who employs a combinatorial practice of film, light sculpture and painting that forms and reshapes connections through disparate histories, techniques and landscapes.