Sentences with phrase «golden age film»

Rob Nichol is an Rugby coach and referee, librarian, historian, cyclist, canoeist, photographer, Golden Age film buff, author, anarcho - dandyist.

No one filmmaker better represents the spectrum of Hollywood Golden Age films than he.

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As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

Here's yet another animated feature from Disney's mostly barren stretch between its two golden ages, a film that plays better in nostalgia - tinged memories than in the here - and - now.

Although Lassie may seem like a unusual film for Morton to appear in, she has a history of working in family friendly fare having provided the voice for Ruby in the Max and Ruby animated television series based on the popular children's books by Rosemary Wells.In 2007 she appeared as Mary Stuart in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and appeared in the Ian Curtis biopic Control.

These words are spoken by Sir Walter Raleigh to Elizabeth I in the new film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

The follow up to1998's highly successful «Elizabeth,» «The Golden Age» covers the height of her rule and the problems she faced, but nowhere near as successfully, either as a sequel or as a film in its own right.

The Golden Age comes nine years after Elizabeth, the film that secured Blanchett's reputation, and I'd be surprised if anyone had been hanging out for it before it was announced.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age doesn't offer anything new, and it doesn't feel like it builds enough upon the previous film to be a worthwhile endeavour.

Cate Blanchett reprises her role as «Elizabeth,» but the film lacks the golden - age touch of its 1998 predecessor.

Her luck runs out, though, with «Elizabeth: The Golden Age,» a gorgeous but flaccid film about that incident that is all the more disappointing for being a sequel to 1998's superb «Elizabeth.»

THE great Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the English monarch in «Elizabeth: The Golden Age,» Shekhar Kapur's inferior follow - up to their 1998 film, which is still quite lavish and entertaining in the

The next year he starred alongside Paul Giamatti in the film Shoot»Em Up and appeared as Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I of England in the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

By that point, the film was almost a decade old (I wasn't even born when it opened in June 1988), part of the Golden Age of Murphy's Hollywood career that included works such as 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.

As with The Hudsucker Proxy, it harkens back to the golden age of the screwball, though this time out the Coens dispensed with the stylized 1930s / 1950s tone and setting, instead placing the film in the present day.

«Daniel Day - Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.

Many people point to Sleeping Beauty (1959) as the last film in the Golden Age of Disney Animation and consider the seven full - length animated features that the House of Mouse made over the next three decades to be lesser accomplishments.

It was a golden age of action films, and there was no better person to head it up than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Damien Power's debut feature harks back to the golden age of Australian genre film but its approach to landscape is sadly ahistorical.

These films also prove that while 2016 was not a banner year in all areas, for cinema we are currently enjoying a golden age.»

The film project, based on the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, is about an Army veteran named Roger Holder and girlfriend Cathy Kerkow hijacking a Western Airlines Flight in a protest against the war in Vietnam.

Author, editor and film critic Jess Lomas joins the show to talk the films of January 2015, and look back over the legendary and varied films of versatile Hollywood Golden Age director Vincente Minnelli.

Only two years after Return of the Jedi and one year after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, this film centered itself in the middle of the golden age of blockbusters.

Mostly very serious, with that unmistakable «golden age» film music sensibility that just about lived on in 1960, it's a very strong score now given the kind of release it deserves for the first time.

Sony Masterworks Classic Film Scores In 1972 Charles Gerhardt released his famous Classic Film Score Series featuring the music of some of the greatest composers of the Golden Age of film.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

With some 10,000 entries, including hundreds of titles we never covered in our annual guide, this is the perfect companion for anyone who watches TCM or dotes on silent films, European classics, and the golden age of Hollywood.

Every week, we at Movie Mezzanine will spotlight some of the best films the archive has to offer, from all - time classics to obscure gems fostered during the studio's golden age.

Martin Scorsese's nostalgic family film fills every frame with gorgeous images of the golden age of silent cinema.

A golden age of comic book movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of video game - turned film adaptations.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

The music for The Golden Age is powerful and sentimental, and is as strong and vulnerable as Queen Elizabeth herself, making the collaborative score the perfect accompaniment to the film.

The Golden Age of Seventies moviemaking is so far behind us that film companies have the urge to distinguish routine money - grabs from pictures of quality by establishing sub-divisions.

But does all the referencing and homage — and not just to Demy, but also to Golden Age Tinseltown productions like An American in Paris, jazz greats like Miles Davis, and even (in the film's funniest scene) the English new - wave band A Flock of Seagulls — add up to much of anything original?

It is, on the contrary, a ravishing connoisseur's object — a film that rehabilitates stories, themes and images from the golden age of Hollywood melodrama, all in service of a perverse meditation on obsession, duplicity, power and the inherent vice of heterosexual relations.

The knowledgeable Maltin and Alamo expert Frank Thompson lead the track with screen - specific film historian observations, acknowledging each major contributor and their other work and defending the depictions you might describe as dated, while lamenting the end of Hollywood's Golden Age.

may not be on the same plane as the Coens» recent run (last three films nominated for Best Picture), but I'm ready for a sharp, very fun, nostalgic madcap run through the Golden Age of Hollywood that only they could provide.

Ronit's widely varied film scores include, Zen and the Art of Dying, Finding Neighbors, The Skin I'm In, The Golden Age of Fish, Say You Love Me, and Brooklyn.

Instead, Hany Abu - Assad «s film almost feels like a throwback to the golden age of the New Hollywood movement, when filmmakers and studios were interested in character - driven stories.

Here's a few new movie stills featuring Emma Watson in the upcoming film «My Week with Marilyn» by director Simon Curtis (David Copperfield) and starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The Tale of Despereaux), Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie, Pirate Radio), Eddie Redmayne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Good Shepherd), Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Judi Dench (Bond 23, Jane Eyre).

In the golden age of the late Sixties, no film commentary of any sort reached most of the households in most of these markets (although faculty members on the local campus knew who Kael was, and huddled over the glow from their 16 mm projectors like monks in the Dark Ages treasuring manuscripts from far lands).

It seems that we are currently enjoying a golden age of animation, and it's significant that my favourite film of the year, Pixar's Inside Out, is one of three animated features to make my top 10.

Ron Howard's visceral new film «Rush,» with screenplay by Peter Morgan, gets heart and center in the world of Formula 1, depicting one of the sport's greatest rivalries between British driver James Hunt (played by Chris Hemsworth) and legendary Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), during the international racetrack's golden and decadent age in the mid 70's.

Daily newspaper film criticism at the national level is better and deeper than it was in Corliss» golden age.

Its films have won 12 Academy Awards (for Tom Hooper's Les Misérables and The Danish Girl; James Marsh's The Theory of Everything; Tim Robbins» Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age; and Joe Wright's Atonement and Anna Karenina), 39 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, and prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.

1) LA LA LAND: loved the story, the references from Hollywood golden age, the OST; one of those films I could easily watch over and over again.

12:30 am (2nd)-- TCM — The Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film Warner Bros. basically created the gangster film in the 1930s with a series of great, gritty and hard - hitting (for the time) crime films.

The writer or co-writer of films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (both screenplays were nominated for Golden Globes) and the Last Temptation of Christ and director of American Gigolo, Cat People and Auto Focus, he had never seen a film before the age of seventeen, being more occupied by a strict Calvinist upbringing and college studies with a minor in theology.

Pixels weren't in anybody's lexicon when golden - age stars as disparate as Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and James Dean died prior to their final films» releases.

Locate in Night Moves and its brothers the seeds of films like The Dark Knight and No Country for Old Men, and consider that it took the collapse of two towers to bring the United States (after Reagan and his screen analogue, Gump) back into this golden age of bleak self - reflection and, at times, incomparable artistic expressions of fear and trembling.