Sentences with phrase «french film classic»

The exhibition takes a closer look at the creative dialogue between film and the visual arts, presenting works by contemporary international artists who found inspiration in the eponymous French film classic.

«Human Desire» is one of two Lang American remakes of French film classics directed by Lang «s great colleague Jean Renoir, a generous - hearted, humanistic Frenchman who seems at first, the temperamental opposite of the icy - eyed Lang.

Not exact matches

Inspired by French films of the 1930s, the romantic collection was an array of cinched silks, intimate lace bodysuits and classic pinstripes.

Her film falls squarely within the «rape / revenge» genre, represented in the past by Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45, Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, Gaspar Noé's Irréversible, and the grotty grindhouse «classic» I Spit on Your Grave, but also aligns itself with the «new French extremity» movement defined by Martyrs and Frontier (s).

Above all, the film is a classic of «poetic realism,» that distinct brand of pessimistic»30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working - class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Nora Ephron Actors: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen.

Director Jonathan Lynn and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon have adapted Pierre Salvadori's «Cible Emouvante,» which is described in the film's production notes as a «classic French comedy» — although I've never heard of it — and perhaps this is the core problem.

The festival will present two classic French films by master director Jean - Pierre Melville, Léon Morin, Priest and The Red Circle, as well as a number of school matinees with Educational Kits organised by the festival in partnership with the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which provide an ideal French cinematic experience to the young audience.

King and Knight are also partnered on the action - thriller «The Red Circle,» a remake of the classic French film that will be reset in Hong Kong.

The undead are alive and well and up to no good in Scandinavia, as a stunning film rings the changes on the classic Dracula format, writes Philip French

Inspired by the classic 1962 French short film La Jetée, 12 Monkeys went on to become the rare financial success in the notoriously disaster - prone career of former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam.

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.

Franck Khalhoun's (P2) latest film — a French / American co-production made all the more obvious by a technical snafu that saw the movie play with French subtitles for some 15 minutes — does some things very well, but being a remake of William Lustig's 1980 horror classic, also titled Maniac, isn't exactly one of them.

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The film is the second French - language adaptation of the classic fable following Jean Cocteau's 1946 version.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

It's been six long years since we've witnessed a new feature film from Hou Hsiao Hsien; that being his French - Taiwanese production of Flight of the Red Balloon, an ode to the classic 1956 French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

Interestingly, for such a popular historical figure, there is a dearth of biographical films about her life (the only notable film is the Norma Shearer / Tyrone Power classic from way back in 1938), except through incidental events depicting her as a supporting figure, such as tales of the French Revolution or other stories taking place in the late 18th Century.

On Sunday, November 24, Turner Classic Movies presents Le Beau Serge (1958) and Les Cousins (1959), the first two films by French film legend Claude Chabrol and the official birth of the French nouvelle vague.

In 1948, a year before they made the nonpareil thriller «The Third Man,» director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene collaborated on another tilted - camera film - noir classic: this mesmerizing story of a French diplomat's son (Bobby Henrey), who hero - worships the embassy butler (Ralph Richardson).

If you also factor in that the film is full of nods to the French New Wave, including an obnoxious overuse of classic scores by Georges Delerue, you might deduce that Baumbach's reverential hyper - cinephilia has gotten the better of him again.

Ozu's journals — which I also know only from the French edition, an 800 - page monolith titled Carnets 1933 - 1963, published the year after Sontag's essay — contain a record of the numerous films he saw on a regular basis, many of them Hollywood classics.

Even in fine Christmas season films from the US, Santa Claus has been tarnished with a cynical brush that paints him as a rather desperate loser or out - and - out nutcase — Gene Hackman's undercover cop Santa in William Friedkin's The French Connection (1970); Dan Aykroyd's smashed Santa in John Landis» Trading Places (1983); and the one - two combination of cinema's worst shopping mall Santas, Jeff Gillen in Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) and Billy Bob Thornton in Terry Zwigoff's bad - taste, big - heart classic Bad Santa (2003).

This terrifying French film delivers classic chills from marginally pubescent punks who remain mostly in the shadows, stalking and tormenting a couple staying in an isolated mansion.

Major names highlighted the winners for Cannes 2017's Directors» Fortnight prizes with Chloe Zhao's The Rider, which was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, grabbing the Art Cinema Award and French directing legend Claire Denis tying with Philippe Garrel for the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize with their films Let the Sunshine In (with Juliette Binoche) and Lover For a Day, respectively.

South Korean horror films, romantic French classics, and timeless Hollywood thrillers are all coming to streaming services in Australia this month

The film, a remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear (1953), was swiftly buried at the box office by George Lucas» Star Wars (1977) and nearly ended the New Hollywood auteur's career.

Other observations include the fact that of the four French films in competition, two are biopics, Jacques Doillon's Rodin stars Vincent Lindon as the celebrated father of modern sculpture, which suggests a classic treatment for the story.

Jean - Pierre Melville (October 20, 1917 - August 2, 1973) was a truly moody master of French film noir classics.

Thelonious Bernard is the impish French boy who quotes classic films as sweeps her off her feet.

2:45 am (21st)-- TCM — Children of Paradise A shy mime loves a popular actress in this classic French film set in the artsy district in Paris.

If your school does not yet own a copy of Julia Donaldson's brilliant book or the animated short film in French, I've attached links to the three clips available online, a copy of my HIgh - Interest - Easy - Vocabulary adaptation of the story in script format and a link to a site that sells the award - winning dvd based on Ms. Donaldson's classic.

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Filmed to depict French Polynesia, Kauai became Haleakaloha Island in the 1960's classic Donovan's Reef featuring John Wayne.

The name of the gallery refers to the Mafia film classic «The Sicilian Clan» (Original French title: Le Clan des Siciliens) directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura and Alain Delon.

The same concept characterized Fiona Banner's word experiments (such as Car Chases: French Connection and Bullitt, 1998) for which the artist translated classic film scenes into her own words and, in the vein of works by Art & Language, showed a two - dimensional text work on canvas.