Sentences with phrase «french art movie»

The first of these scenarios describes the last reel or so of Vincente Minnelli's 1956 MGM feature Lust for Life; the second describes, in abbreviated form, Maurice Pialat's 1990 French art movie Van Gogh.

One might say, glibly, that Lucie Borleteau's Fidelio, the Odyssey of Alice transplants the standard concerns of French art movies — books and sex — to the unusual setting of a merchant ship.

Not exact matches

If you're worried that the re-teaming of Clooney and Cate Blanchett in a World War II movie signals something like «The Good German,» fear not: She's better here, playing a French art historian who worries the Americans will «rescue» the art in order to steal it for their own country.

Hot tip: A much better movie dealing with a similar scenario is John Frankenheimer's 1964 «The Train,» starring Burt Lancaster, about the French Resistance hijacking a shipment of Germany - bound art treasures.

As well as the murkier corners of classic film noir, Boorman drew inspiration from art photography and the French New Wave, including Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, which was itself «speaking back» to American crime movies.

This movie reminds me of the French movie Delicatessen mixed with Hellboy, with some great art direction and some brooding performances from the cast.

Agnès Varda douses the French landscape with art with the help of her new friend JR in this wonderfully eccentric road movie.

Alain Resnais, the French filmmaker who helped introduce literary modernism to the movies and became an international art - house star with nonlinear narrative films like «Hiroshima Mon Amour» and «Last Year at Marienbad,» died on Saturday in Paris.

What makes «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby» truly stand apart from all the other films of its kind, be they French art - house award winners, your mother's favorite Meg Ryan movie or the myriad of romantic comedies out there, is the emotional depth that is allowed by the film's premise and length, executed almost perfectly.

In Europe, Gillo Pontecorvo made the «The Battle of Algiers» about the Algerian War for Independence and the brutal response of the occupying French forces, while Jean - Luc Godard, one of the world's most highly regarded art - house filmmakers, made «Weekend,» a movie that stops dead in its tracks for a to - the - camera lecture about decolonization (Godard would quit mainstream filmmaking altogether shortly after to make experimental communist tracts as part of the Dziga Vertov group).

With no preset narrative and no specific protocol sequence, everything is a mix of past, present and possible, across multiple circuits: «The news, amazon.com, a make - up tutorial, a movie trailer, fake or real, a Benjamin essay, a French - English dictionary, some porn, our most private correspondence, a fashion photography book, an art magazine, yet another funny cat video all appear together and interchangeable — not to mention our music, photographs, texts, contacts and other material stored in other programs.

The movie is also notable for art director Christian Bérard's stylish costumes and sets, which call to mind scenes from the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and French illustrator Gustave Doré, as well as the enchanting soundtrack by composer George Auric.

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have unveiled a pair of identical glass and steel containers for the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris (+ movie).