Sentences with phrase «british films of all time»

To date it has grossed an incredible $ 437m worldwide on box office sales, making it one of the highest - grossing British films of all time.

It is as good as a sequel to one of the most iconic British films of all time ever could be.

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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.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

,» etc — in no way dominate this exhibition of over 200 propaganda pieces: posters, film footage, books, playing cards, boardgames, most of which have been sheltered all this time in the British Library itself.

etc — in no way dominate this exhibition of over 200 propaganda pieces: posters, film footage, books, playing cards, board games, most of which have been sheltered all this time in The British Library itself.

If you can find it, look at the great British documentary Song of Ceylon (1934), one of the most poetically structured films of all time.

There have been few better British films than Brief Encounter even at a time when our studios are taking their place in the vanguard of this great contemporary art.

A film that I considered my all - time favourite for years (which may be a little out - dated now) it has the stunning, British - representing main cast of Zeta - Jones and Connery.

The film is told from the perspective of Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell), a brand new recruit in the British Army, who is sent to Northern Ireland after barely having time to finish his basic training.

Other rarities I've recently found include Chekhov's Motifs (aka Chekhovian Motifs), one of the craziest features by the Russian eccentric Kira Muratova (it's on a Russian label with optional English subtitles and available in the U.S.); a fascinating collection of animated World War II propaganda from Disney, some of it unavailable since that time; a splendid French letterboxed copy of Anthony Mann's Man of the West; Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and two Kenji Mizoguchi films (released on the British labels BFI and Artificial Eye, respectively); and Louis Feuillade's stunning 1916 French serial Judex on an American label.

On Michael Reeves and British gothic film [New York Times] Credited with directing three déclassé horror movies, dead from an overdose of barbiturates at 25, the British filmmaker Michael Reeves (1943 - 1969) is a quintessential cult figure.

The iconic British director Terence Davies talks to Jason Solomons about his career and his latest film, Of Time and the City

I'm not sure why the British broadsheets are all falling over themselves to publish their «best of the 2000s» lists in early November, but mere days after The Telegraph critics declared Michael Moore's «Fahrenheit 9/11» the film of the decade, The Times has weighed in with their own Top 100.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

Director Sarah Gavron returns to the Festival for a third time with a film that tells the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

The Observer has just assembled one of the more interesting lists I've seen in some time — a collective of the 25 best British films of the last quarter - century, compiled from the votes of over 60 critics, film professionals and assorted outside voices, ranging from Ben Kingsley to Peter Morgan to our friend Anne Thompson.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

As the film ends, its title will prompt many British viewers to think of those weathered medieval figures in Philip Larkin's «An Arundel Tomb» («Time has transfigured them into untruth»), and of the poem's final line: «What will survive of us is love.»

Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley's A Field in England is drastically different from the British filmmaker's previous works, to the point that fans of his other films are having a difficult time wrapping their tastes — and minds — around this new one.

Last but not least, British films, and two of my all - time favourite British directors didn't let me down.

«Sieranevada» is one of a trio of films in competition whose running time veers dangerously close to three hours, and in its own way feels like a riff on a film by a more nuanced British realist.

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.

Though The Red Shoes is possibly the most popular and visually entrancing dance film of all time, the producing, directing, and writing team of the British Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger created numerous other odes to the power of art and the imagination, always going against the realist strain of British cinema.

Sometimes, the British action star chooses the perfect action movie, like «Crank» or «Transporter», but other times, his choice of film could turn into a major flop, like «Killer Elite» or «The Italian Job».

The large majority of the film deals with his time working for the British government at Bletchley Park during World War II as part of a team of codebreakers to crack the Enigma code.

Luckily for DreamWorks, with the British weather keeping most of us indoors, this film could not have been released at a better time.

LMD: But you were doing the sort of indie British actor roles around that time, working with people like Ken Russell and Roman Polanski and making films like Maurice, and then your career took a huge turn with Four Weddings and a Funeral.

In addition to original insights gleaned from Snowden and other real - life sources, Stone and Fitzgerald turned to two books about Snowden: The Snowden Files by British journalist Luke Harding (who co-authored another book that led to the WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate); and the fictionalized novel Time of the Octopus by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who represents Snowden in Russia.

Nighy was interviewed by British newspaper The Times and revealed that he had been plagued with worries during the filming of his part, which began in Yorkshire in October last year.

While the film does not flinch from the consequences of Republican Army killings (or shootings by the British army, for that matter), it also exposes the hypocrisy of a government which insisted publicly that Republicans were criminal rather than political prisoners, while at the same time treating them with a barbarity that no criminal would ever face.

British film director Steve McQueen's 2008 debut film, Hunger, is notable for many reasons: It is a great film, a great debut film, uses an innovative narrative structure, uses interesting cinematography in concert with its soundtrack, makes the best use of ambient sound to have the best non-musical soundtrack I've heard in a long time (if not ever), is the work of a black artist that is not obsessed with black only topics, and shows a maturity and grace that goes beyond even the first films of directors like David Gordon Green, in George Washington, and Terrence Malick, in Badlands.

It's a testament to the quality of the acting (not to say Harry Potter 1 had bad actors, but all the venerable British badasses were in support roles, and the kids really didn't know how to act yet), cinematography, special effects and general world building that a film with a (somewhat) structurally flawed script can captivate me to such a level that I spend my hard early free time and money on it on three separate occasions.

Morais» novel was described by the New York Times» Ligaya Mishan as a hybrid of «Slumdog Millionaire» and «Ratatouille,» and Hallstrom seems to have taken that Hollywood formulation to heart: Like «Slumdog,» the film is an underdog story set to the infectious backbeat of Rahman's music (fun fact: Knight created the original British version of «Who Wants to Be a Millionaire»), and like «Ratatouille,» it brings us into an irresistible world of culinary sophistication and features gorgeous nighttime views of Paris, where Hassan eventually arrives in search of his destiny.

British actress Juno Temple didn't share screen time with her idol during the filming of Maleficent.

The film became one of the most successful documentaries of all time and picked up numerous prestigious awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Miami Film Festival, the Golden Eye in Zurich and the Filmmakers» Award at Hotdocs, before winning two British Independent Film Awards, the BAFTA for best debut director and being shortlisted for the 2013 Academy Awards.

«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.

Filmed in Capetown, South Africa, writer Guy Hibbert's home country, «Eye in the Sky» is an «on the home hand, but on the other hand» drama shot in real time on a day in which British and American intelligence locate the presence of top ranking Al - Shabaab terrorists in a Nairobi compound.

I had recently watched the British sci - fi series Black Mirror for the first time, and remembering Gleeson from one of the episodes made comparison between the excellent series and the film inevitable.

It was hailed as a modern masterpiece of British cinema and, to this day, still remains one of my all time favourite films.

Shot sequentially and on location in a Victorian prison in Belfast, with a shaky but minutely calibrated camera style, in at times barely intelligible British prison slang (which actually bolsters the primal impact of the film), Starred Up is no mere depiction but a jolting immersion in the claustrophobic mix of violence and vulnerability that is prison life, and it's powered by Jack O'Connell's riveting performance as violent criminal Eric Love.

While not as well - known perhaps as some of Roeg's earlier films — Performance (1970) Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)-- Fashionista arguably recalls most immediately his comparatively underrated Bad Timing (1980), a film that pits passive - aggressive dickhead Alex (Art Garfunkel in one of the most brilliant performances of early»80s British cinema) against Theresa Russell's Milena, a woman living with mental health issues that he becomes sexually obsessed with.

(The effervescent British import Wright and actress / playwright Gurira, especially, feel like they could easily hold their own films; it's hard to remember the last time any females, let alone women of color, even came close to creating such fully formed roles in a cineplex tentpole.)

Richard D'Cruze, British Airways» in - flight entertainment and technology manager, said: «We know that in - flight entertainment is really important to our customers — being able to relax and watch a film or listen to music helps customers to pass the time enjoyably — so by installing this state - of - the - art equipment we will be able to deliver even more programming on board.»

2012 - 2013 syzygy, project space in a social housing flat in Elephant and Castle, hosting 8 residencies, workshop programs and curated exhibitions with invited UK and international artists, London 2011 - 2016 In The Company of Elders, reflections and performance with a group of Elders, London / Bath AWARDS AND GRANTS 2014 FreeSpace, awarded for impact and participation in The Big Lottery National funding Awards Wenlock Barn TMO, winners of national TMO Awards for involving community through Fourthland projects Awards for All funding, Wenlock Barn Estate, Meeting House 2011 - 2013 Big Lottery Funding, The Back Garden and Public Program, Wenlock Barn Estate 2010 - 2011 Big Lottery Funding, The Growing Kitchen Community, Wenlock Barn Estate 2008 - 2010 Shoreditch Trust Commission, The Growing Kitchen, Wenlock Barn Estate 2009 University of East London, Funding, Making architecture TEACHING 2015 Visiting Artists, Bergen Academy of Art and Design Norway Visiting Artists, CASS School of Art and Design Louise isik Sayarer (1982, British / Turkish) EDUCATION 2007 - 2011 BA Fine Art part time, Sir John Cass school of Art and Design, London 2006 Foundation in Art and Design, Sir John Cass School of Art and Design, London 2002 - 2005 BSc / BA Environmental Science and Development Studies, University of Sussex 2000 BTEC level 3 Tropical Habitat Conservation Madagascar Recent Training 2016 - 2017 Shakti dance 2015 - 2016 Dancing Tao - Movement Medicine circle Previous work 2008 - 2015 Artist associate SASA Works Architecture 2010 - present Bow Arts Trust, Education Artist 2007 - 2008 Education Officer Chelsea Physic Garden 2006 - 2007 Education Officer The Wildlife Trust 2005 Research associate Ethnomedica, Kew Gardens Eva Knutsdotter Vikstrom (1985, Norwegian / Swedish) EDUCATION 2009 - 2011 BA Fine Art, Sir John Cass school of Art and Design, London 2004 - 2005 Foundation in Art and Design, Einar Granum School of Art, Oslo Recent training 2015 - 2016 Kundalini Yoga teacher training Previous work 2014 - 2016 Art director for Ale Tarraf's feature film «Yupanqui» 2009 - 2011 The Readers performance Group LANGUAGES English Norwegian Swedish Spanish

His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.