Sentences with phrase «while early cinema»

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Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

While the more critically esteemed New Wave cinema of Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) and My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979) presented a refined image of Australia, early genre films like Stork (Tim Burstall, 1971), The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Bruce Beresford, 1972) and The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Richard Franklin, 1975) were seen as portraying a more crude side of Australian society.

While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Happy End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.

The film will open in cinemas Stateside on April 20th, 2018 while UK audiences will get it a little earlier on April 13th.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

In larger pieces Matt Van Vogt unearths the efforts to reduce theater noise during the early years of sound cinema, while Laura L. Beading shows how the Coens use sound, voiceover, and music to mark the sharp difference between the exhausted masculinity of No Country for Old Men and the implacable, feminine vitality at the heart of their True Grit.

Oh, and anyone thinking of bringing the kids to see this solidly entertaining film should definitely make a point of getting to the cinema early to catch Feast, an utterly delightful short featuring the cutest animated puppy you'll see in many a long while.

While not as well - known perhaps as some of Roeg's earlier films — Performance (1970) Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)-- Fashionista arguably recalls most immediately his comparatively underrated Bad Timing (1980), a film that pits passive - aggressive dickhead Alex (Art Garfunkel in one of the most brilliant performances of early»80s British cinema) against Theresa Russell's Milena, a woman living with mental health issues that he becomes sexually obsessed with.

The 16 mm film — silent, black and white, jerky, and sped - up — evokes early cinema, while its content locates it in the spare minimalism of the late 1960s.