Sentences with phrase «romanian films»

Like most recent Romanian films, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is intensely bleak and with high emotional stakes.

Three (3) Romanian films.

That's three Romanian films in the festival, all from a «movement» whose existence is denied by its leading filmmakers.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

(The top prize, the Golden Bear, was awarded, also contrary to expectation, to the Romanian film Child's Pose, which I did not manage to see.)

8:00 pm — Sundance — 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days This unflinching Romanian film remains one of the most powerful things I've seen in the last several years.

3:30 am (27th)-- Sundance — 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days This unflinching Romanian film remains one of the most powerful things I've seen in the last several years.

The glittering quartet will be joined by Britain's Lynne Ramsay, perhaps with time on her hands after exiting the Natalie Portman indie western Jane's Got a Gun, French cinema icon Daniel Auteuil, Romanian film - maker Cristian Mungiu, Japanese director Naomi Kawase and Bollywood star Vidya Balan.

Not exact matches

Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain by dubbing English dialogue over lines delivered by Romanian actors.

Mary — hauntingly played by Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern, whose performance carries the film — serves as the viewers» guide to the stations.

Later that day, the German - Romanian actress wowed at the film's premiere.

A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.

While 2013 may have seen foreign language films take a back seat to the large number of truly great English - language features and documentaries, Romanian cinema and its current king, Cristian Mungiu, hit 2013 with one of its truly great pictures.

The challenges of shooting a film with Romanian extras, which necessitated script changes (so that dialogue could be avoided) and the importing of American actors, is commented upon as well.

The talky Romanian drama «Sieranevada» lasts for 2:53, Park Chan - hook's «The Handmaiden» has two hours and 25 minutes of stylish sex and intrigue, and Maren Ade and Andrea Arnold both came up with films that meandered for 2:42 in «Toni Erdmann» and «American Honey,» respectively.

The Romanian found - footage movie Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is about an aspiring filmmaker who goes to some unusual lengths to convince actress Anne Hathaway to appear in one of his films.

We assume they are from the Romanian distributor who are releasing the film there on 30th August.

Cristi Puiu «s black comedy started the buzz on what everyone considers the Romanian New Wave, and echoes of this film are still felt in its bleak, oppressive worldview, comically overwhelmed protagonist, and exceedingly flawed mortality.

The new production circumstances of Code Unknown gave him the space and budget to retry and perfect some of the thematic strategies risked in the glaciation trilogy, but it is the combination of the fates of semi-established African residents in Paris with those of Romanians in the country illegally and begging in the streets that makes the film feel more global in scope than his earlier work.

Ade's film showed German executives feeding handsomely on the resources of Eastern Europe, in that case the Romanian market.

Last but certainly not least, few if any films at Cannes this year were as highly anticipated as Beyond the Hills, the third feature by director Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d'Or in 2007 for the astonishing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the movie most responsible for drawing international attention to the exciting new wave of young Romanian filmmakers.

As in the Romanian writer - director's previous film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a young woman strides purposefully while a handheld camera follows mere inches behind.

The Romanian actor on delivering lambs, the severe filming conditions of Yorkshire, and the likelihood of God's Own Country 2.

The jury for the first film prize comprises recent Cannes Grand Prix winner Alice Rohrwacher, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, Canadian direction Ron Mann, Chinese producer Vivian Qu, and Romanian director and writer Razvan Radulescu.

Adrian Sitaru is a Romanian filmmaker whose films explore moral dilemmas with strong formal structures, including Best Intentions (2011), which won the Best Director prize at Locarno.

The Romanian filmmaker whose films explore moral dilemmas with strong formal structures, discusses his latest film, The Fixer, which looks at the impact that journalists have on the subjects of a sex scandal story, as well as his own moral dilemma as a filmmaker.

New borders: films by Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Bogdan Mirica are redrawing the map of Romanian cinema at Cannes

Sundance Selects announced today that it was snapping up the North American rights to «Beyond the Hills,» Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's third film.

I say test yourself, as this film from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu earns every moment of frustration.

That top prize was given to a film called Touch Me Not, an experimental feature about intimacy and touch, directed by Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie (seen above).

The film focuses on a handful of the city's musicians, including Micha Biton, whose music is heavily influenced by Moroccan sounds; singer Hagit Yaso, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia and who sings in Hebrew, English and Arabic, among other languages; Teapacs, a band whose members have Tunisian, Moroccan, Romanian, Syrian, Polish, Russian and Yemenite heritage and whose album sales exceed 300,000; and Avi Vaknin, a singer, composer and music producer who for many years managed Sderock, a music club and educational center for teenagers.

Digital Editor Violet Lucca spoke with FILM COMMENT and Artforum contributing editor Amy Taubin; Brandon Harris, assistant professor at SUNY Purchase and Vice contributor; and FILM COMMENT editor Nicolas Rapold about films including Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Michael O'Shea's The Transfiguration, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman, Albert Serra's The Death of Louis XIV, Alain Guiraudie's Staying Vertical, The Romanians, and more.

Sundance Selects + IFC Films have debuted the official US trailer for a film titled Graduation, made by acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu.

Very Good (3 stars) Unrated In Romanian with subtitles Running time: 115 minutes Studio: Zeitgeist Films DVD Extras: A new transfer of the film enhanced for widescreen viewing, an 8 - page press booklet, and the theatrical trailer.

With its icy photography and handheld camerawork, Mungiu's film is shot in typical Romanian New Wave style, and certain scenes (the litany of sins, the police interrogation) may well lead Beyond the Hills to be seen as both a summation and an exemplary instance of the movement's aesthetic tendencies.

(This includes superiors played, bizarrely, by the Finnish actress Kati Outinen, a mainstay of the deadpan films of Aki Kaurismäki, and the Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, who played the literally by - the - book police captain in Police, Adjective.)

A beautiful and heartfelt story of a gay love affair between a young farmer and a Romanian migrant worker, it was also the only U.K. film to make it into the drama section of this year's Sundance festival.

1:30 am (5th)-- Sundance — The Death of Mr. Lazrescu One of the major films in Romania's current cinematic resurgence — emphasis on realism, slow pacing, and in this case, the failures of the Romanian health care system, which shunts poor Mr. Lazarescu around from hospital to hospital as he gets sicker and sicker.

10:30 pm — Sundance — The Death of Mr. Lazarescu One of the major films in Romania's current cinematic resurgence — emphasis on realism, slow pacing, and in this case, the failures of the Romanian health care system, which shunts poor Mr. Lazarescu around from hospital to hospital as he gets sicker and sicker.

Videograms of a Revolution is a landmark in the history of film, as well as a captivating account of the Romanian Revolution - the last in the series of events starting with the Tian «anmen massacre, that collectively made 1989 the most decisive year for the world in living memory.

The film associates footage from the few amateur cameras available in Bucharest during the revolution, broadcasts from foreign televisions and primarily from the continuous transmission of the occupied Romanian Television, which had become one of the centres of power during the first live revolution in history.

The film, which forms the centrepiece of the exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, is based around the recording of a live choreography event involving amateur Romanian dancers and acting students in Iasi, Romania during the Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art in October 2008.

Despite getting expelled from art school and essentially blacklisted by the Communist party in Bucharest, the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, who is representing her country's pavilion in Venice as well as taking part in the Athens section of Documenta, has churned out a steady stream of film, photography, drawings, and even books for decades.