Jaromil Jires» 1970 Czech New Wave classic delves into the subconscious of a 13 - year - old girl, which takes her through a fantasy realm, but reflects the adolescent experience as well as any coming - of -
age film ever made.
Not exact matches
PG - 13
films account for nearly two - thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen, according to the two - year study, which surveyed roughly 5,000 children
ages 10 to 14 about the movies they'd seen and whether they'd
ever tried a cigarette.
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age of the dark room and
film photography over 15 years ago and have been inspired
ever since.
Indiewire's Eric Kohn believes Climax might be Noé's «best movie yet,» and Vulture's Emily Yoshida agrees, claiming it's «the best Noé has been in
ages, and perhaps the most humane
film he's
ever done.»
Those elements are also at work here, but not since «Up» has an animated
film delved so deeply into the web of relationships woven on the way to old
age, nor has Pixar
ever looked so closely at a specific cultural tradition.
Time is the unifying theme of Linklater's work, and his sequels and remakes feature some of his most perceptive takes on the topic, from
ageing in the face of love's
ever - fixed mark in the Before
films to the precarious boundary of adulthood in Everybody Wants Some!!.
Soderbergh's cinematography is, as
ever, superb — a shot of Carano and Tatum in the LED light of an airport departure lounge has the world - weary blearily - lit hum of a John Le Carre
film updated for our digital
age, while a climactic fight under the morning sun on the beachside shore feels like someone dropped a Donnie Yen battle into a Michelangelo Antonioni art
film.
The Whistler
Film Festival combines an esteemed international
film competition with a concentrated onscreen industry Summit organized to address the
ever - evolving landscape crossing borders and platforms in the digital
age.
Yes, I've seen some happy
films this year, some of which were incredible, but
films like Toy Story 2 was ground into a form that could be accessible to all
ages (for the record, I actually do think that Toy Story 2 is the superior
film), and The Straight Story was too serene to
ever be thought of as having much zeal.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle
age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has
ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
The 3 - D
film may have its faults, but I couldn't have asked for a better opening - night guest, a man who has made
films all over the world and remains as passionate as
ever about his work at the
age of 71.
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.
Do you
ever watch a young actress in a
film, and say to yourself, «What a good actress, and at such a young
age...
As a teenage girl obsessed with selfies trapped inside the body of a rotund, middle
aged man with more bodily hair than you'd
ever probably want, Jack Black is impeccably wonderful while Bobby Cannavale (one of the best actors working in
film today) has the time of his life hamming it up as the villain of the piece.
It's worth pointing out, because Cera —
ever the boyish one — once again plays a teenager in his latest
film, the sexually frustrated, coming - of -
age satire «Youth in Revolt,» which opens today.
But nearly a couple of months after being released in the United States, the
film hit the big screen in China where it landed $ 27 million in a single day, making it the 4th best opening day
ever for a Hollywood movie in China, just behind Furious 7, The Avengers:
Age of Ultron and Transformers:
Age of Extinction.
Examples of those this year include the coming - of -
age cannibal
film «Raw» and «The Disaster Artist,» an apparent great
film about the making of one of the worst
films ever made.
The
film is an earnest look at love, friendship, and gender in an
ever - evolving
age.
In an
age when music
films seem to take themselves more seriously than
ever — name one time you even chuckled during Shut Up and Play the Hits — Supersonic does the opposite.
- New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray - Audio commentary featuring
film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles - New interview with actor Keith Baxter - New interview with director Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the
film at
age nine - New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow - New interview with
film historian Joseph McBride, author of What
Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
1:00 am (19th)-- TCM — Almost Famous Cameron Crowe turns his semi-autobiographical lens on rock stars, groupies, and rock journalists in one of the greatest combinations of road movie, coming of
age movie, and music
film ever made.
The 2.35:1 visuals aren't merely great for their
age, they're just plain great, showing off this
film, its sets and costumes with far greater clarity than
ever before.
Aside from the ridiculous
aging process, the other issue is that nothing
ever turns Black Mass into an engaging
film.
Nevertheless,
Age of Ultron opened huge and should be on its way to becoming one of the highest - grossing
films ever made.
The result is one of the most realistic coming - of
age films I've
ever seen.
At once a brilliant riff on Star Trek and also one of the best Star Trek movies
ever made, Dean Parisot's
film revolved around the
aging stars of a once - popular sci - fi TV series called Galaxy Quest who, after attending yet another sci - fi convention, are beamed up into space by a group of aliens that think the TV series was a collection of «historical documents.»
Wikipedia tells me that the
film takes place between 1983 and 1996, yet none of the characters
ever show any signs to
aging, clothing and hair styles don't seem to change, and we're never given any dates onscreen.
Le Mans (1971) set the bar for racing scenes higher than any other
film has reached, especially in the digital
age when
ever..
Boyhood - Richard Linklater has created an achievement in cinema that marks the most expansive coming - of -
age story
film has
ever seen.
42nd Street unavoidably suffers from the gauzy, low - texture quality of many
films from the early talkie
age, but the Blu - ray maximizes fine detail without
ever sanding away the flaws that give such
films part of their throwback charm.
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age of the dark room and
film photography over 15 years ago and have been inspired
ever since.
Wunderkind Ryan Trecartin was incredibly well reviewed with «
Ever After,» a manic series of
films at MoMA PS1 that offered a memorable portrait of the polymorphous, info - saturated Internet
age and its discontents.
While Part I: Dreams addressed
film's ability to transport viewers out of their everyday lives and into the darker recesses of the imagination, Realisms explores the irony that in an
age where documenting «real life» is made
ever easier, the line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly complicated.
Ever Since Gore's
film, the attempt to link ice
ages to CO2 has been one of the most egregious examples of confusing cause with effect.
If you have
ever seen
Age of Innocence, Scent of a woman, The Emperor's Club or The Time Machine you have caught a glimpse of Troy, New York, as all the mentioned movies
filmed on location.
About Blog I began photographing in the
age of the dark room and
film photography over 15 years ago and have been inspired
ever since.