Sentences with phrase «superlative film»

Not exact matches

However, the surreal, epic - type film counterposes its superlative photography with a slim tale of working class protagonists, told with sparse dialogue and the jarring, quirky, drawling, and dispassionate, colloquial voice - over narration of a streetwise, but unschooled 13 year old girl (Manz).

The unfamiliarity wears off swiftly since the quality of the riffing is superlative here, exhaustively poking a particularly primitive film pulled from the overflowing 1970's vault of celluloid shame.

Beauvois, whose previous films include the Baye - starring «Le Petit Lieutenant» and the superlative Cesar - winning «Of Gods and Men,» is a quiet visionary who thinks stories of subdued emotional conflict are as good as it gets.

There are so many superlatives you could heap on this exceptional film, and certainly its brilliance has been rightfully recognised by international festivals (including Sydney Film Festival) as well as glitzy film awards.

Superlative work is also done by multiple Oscar - nominees Bruno Delbonnel (the cinematographer who worked with Burton on Dark Shadows in 2012), and Danny Elfman (the composer who has written wonderful scores for many Burton films beginning with Bettlejuice in 1988).

The standard wisdom about Orson Welles's 1946 thriller The Stranger — broadly, that it's Welles's weakest film, the runt in his otherwise superlative litter — needs challenging, even if Welles himself seemed mostly disinclined to do so.

Amanda Peet has been a welcome presence in film and TV for the last decade, but she's doing superlative work on HBO's «Togetherness» as the gorgeous, floundering sister to Melanie Lynskey's unhappily married mother.

Wise and his stable of superlative actors brought to life Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, and by the time the film's narrator quoted those famous last words from the novel — «whatever walked there, walked alone» — it was time to go to bed and pray that my own bedroom door didn't start pounding.

Nic Roeg's DO N'T LOOK NOW starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie is a superlative supernatural film with some of the best editing in cinematic history.

(the sound of a punch landing in 60's Bollywood films) of Indian cinema and its superlative culinary delights.

Of course, the film wouldn't be successful in its singular triumphs were it not for the superlative central performances from Huller and Simionschek.

It is hard to describe a film experience so sublime without resorting to cliché or ridiculous runs of superlatives.

With an excellent screenplay, perfect casting and a superlative theme song and score, it is not an overstatement to assert that Back to the Future is one of the finest films of all time.

But while I don't suspect Scott Cooper's film will win any Oscars as Michael Cimino's did, his all - star cast also gives superlative performances that will keep audiences engaged for the entire 116 suspenseful (albeit slow moving) minutes.

Not only does that reading explain the fervent use of voice - over, never more present here, recounting and musing on each experience with that hushed, inimitable whisper, but it also explains the unique aesthetic of Malick's films: his desire to capture fragmented but ideal forms of corporeal, natural and architectural beauty, rendered so by Emmanuel Lubezki's superlative cinematography and some elliptical, compelling editing.

To that end, the best scenes in their superlative blockbuster are the ones that rely on the rapport between Cap and his cohorts — especially Johansson's affable agent, who steals a strategic smooch during one of the film's most playful passages.

However, the ones that are here are woefully uninspired; the usually awesome composing team of Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy, who have reliably turned in some superlative work in even the most mediocre of films, seem to have given Carroll leftovers from their scrap bin for him to mangle in his ho - hum picturizations, robotically performed by Larter and Khan, who has never been anything better than an adequate dancer on his best days, making his casting as some brilliant choreographer even more head - scratching (where is Hrithik Roshan where you need him?).

Everything else is superlative nonsense stuffed in purely to milk the material into three films.

I am more than happy to report, then, that not only is Black Panther a superlative representative of the Marvel model, in terms of acting and script, but also a film where the central conflict is more human - scale, with social relevance that resonates beyond the confines of the narrative.

At any rate, here are my picks for the 10 best movies of 2015, followed by 10 worthy runner - ups, other assorted superlatives, and one final look at the worst films I endured over the past 12 months.

Inspired by Preston Sturges» superlative comedy «The Miracle of Morgan's Creek» (1944), this first Tashlin - helmed film for the solo actor borrows almost nothing from the original story.

Josh O'Connor gives a superlative, emotionally layered performance as the film's emotionally closed - off protagonist, a miserable twentysomething, prone to getting blackout drunk, who is unable to cope with the burden of running the family farm for his grandmother (Gemma Jones) and ailing father (Ian Hart).

In Personal Shopper, his superlative follow up, she is unfailingly present — the film's center of gravity and the anchor of its mise - en - scène — but she occupies a state of existential uncertainty.

Though Life magazine named him «the most influential person» of his generation — the most superlative of the infinite list of accolades he's gotten over the years, including two Oscars for Best Director — a large and vocal segment of the «serious» film community still views Spielberg as the New York Yankees of cinema.

Though superlatives can mischaracterize any movie's qualities, it is not an overstatement, I think, to call «Citizenfour,» Laura Poitras» film about Edward Snowden, the movie of the century (to date).

Movie Mezzanine's writers and editors keep up the weeklong event of talking about the best in film in 2016, continuing with superlative categories.

On Monday and Tuesday, we had superlative categories aplenty in which to award various films, filmmakers, and more, as well as our writers» picks for the best discoveries of older films that they made in 2016.

My writing certainly won't do justice to the greatness of them, so rather than struggle with superlatives and words that won't satisfy me in the way the film does, I'll pass almost altogether on reviewing The Lion King.

Movie Mezzanine's writers and editors begin the weeklong event of talking about the best in film in 2016, starting with superlative categories.

Still, this predetermined ending never takes away from the film's superlative suspense.

The films represented by the superlative actresses in this year's Hollywood Portfolio offer intimate studies of resilience, pluck, faded glory, and the everyday heroics of forging ahead against backward pressure.

I could actually dwell into an infinite list of superlatives to describe how good the film is and how it contains the most gorgeous shots that I've seen this year on a big screen.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

Superlative work is rather expected from the likes of Davis, Stone (whom it is good to see show off her dramatic chops in a high - profile film after her excellent work in the virtually unseen — and frankly overall forgettable — Paper Man), Howard, Sissy Spacek (as her lush of a mother), Allison Janney (as Stone's cancer - stricken mom) and Cicely Tyson (as Stone's family's former maid), so perhaps making an even more memorable impression is the work by two less familiar stars.

The lesson introduces comparatives and superlatives (I missed this out though as there wasn't time, so you might want to split the activities over 2 lessons) and uses them to compare the school in the film with the pupils» school.

By now, as everyone knows, the film can be described only in superlatives.

A Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski, is a superlative horror film because it does all the little things right.

Objective Statement — Eager to bring my experience and enthusiasm about filmmaking to the filming set of a company looking for only superlative, dependable, reliable and enthusiastic filming staff.