Sentences with phrase «american movies»

It's a funny role for Streep when you think about it; she's easily one of the most heralded actors in the history of American movies, and not exactly a persona known for being easily blown aside — remember, she won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher.

It did that rarest of rare things in American movies: it allowed me to form my own ideas.

Runners up: Clueless (Amy Heckerling) La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol), A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese), Home for the Holidays (Jodie Foster), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Richard III (Richard Loncraine), Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo) Smoke (Wayne Wang) Toy Story (John Lasseter)

«The movie's vision, which has a totally independent feel, is completely different from what we see in current American movies.

Back in the day, Turkey basically had no copyright laws and due to the high cost of exhibiting American movies, Turkish filmmakers made their own versions, often borrowing music and / or shots from American blockbusters.

The stakes are small compared to what tends to happen in American movies now; the story is rather slight; the filmmakers pay closer attention to the small details of character interaction than to the fine points of plot.

Still, modern American movies don't get much better than his epic tale of a tragically misanthropic oil magnate.

It's great Alex that you don't only mention American movies... it's a great panel, refreshing and full of hopes... the world and its movies doesn't resume to one place called hollywood and one language called english... well done and happy new year!

But in the nearly 50 years since that one - two punch, he's given us some of the most memorable turns in American movies: Watergate muckrakers and Judge Wapner - loving savants, existential detectives and enraged divorcees, psychopathic gangsters and profane stand - ups, two - bit crooks and first - rate schnooks.

One of his first brushes with American movies was «Red River,» starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift as cattle drivers.

Besides its title — one of the most evocative in the history of American movies — the film was memorable for its merging of art - film reserve with populist seduction.

It's a simple sequence, but speaks volumes to the level of detail given to Nadine that makes her feel immediately iconic and cinematic in a way that very few American movies about teenagers have been in the last few years.

He does not want to travel halfway across the world only to watch American movies and eat at McDonalds.

With its disturbing story of a suburban pedophile (beautifully played by Baker), Happiness was one of the most controversial American movies of 1998 but also one of the most highly regarded; it's hard to imagine many of the original players balking at the chance to appear in a sequel.

He made some of the best American movies and worked for decades.

In 1946, after the German occupation and the end of the war, American movies returned to France.

One of the great American movies of the year, Jordan Peele's directorial debut has a lot on its mind: It's a blistering attack on latent white racism among America's wealthy one percent, and the story merges the interracial dynamics of «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» with a B - movie premise worthy of George Romero.

One misused portal later, and the crew find themselves in late eighties California and meeting Monica Geller and Tom Paris as teens, because all American movies need a sappy love story shoehorned in, even if the movie features a half naked body builder swinging a sword at lizard - men armed with laser guns.

Marcia Pally discusses what is gained and lost in Jewish - American movies.

Much like his previous film on American movies, Scorsese begins on an autobiographical note, the sense of nostalgic reminiscence foregrounded with memories of family viewings of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, before affording the movies in question a greater depth of analysis, of personal resonance.

one of the best American movies of the year and a great double bill with NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies.

There are myriad reasons why the term «torture porn» never made sense and one of the most important is the irrevocable impact Herschell Gordon Lewis's schlocky gore cinema had on American movies.

This is not to say that You Were Never Really Here is superior — or equal to — one of the keynote American movies of the 1970s, just that Ramsay is very much doing her own thing, part of which may be catering to fashion.

Director Oliver Stone, not so long ago the grand provocateur of American movies (JFK, Nixon) but lately lost in a wilderness of misfires (W., Savages), should have grabbed the real - life tale of CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden and shaken it by the neck.

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese): The best director currently working in American movies hit a career peak by turning the life of boxer Jake La Motta into a poetic meditation on the nature of violence.

American movies have been using satire for years to take the edge off sex and violence.

Murray is dead on as usual and confirms his reputation as one of the finest character actors in American movies today but it's Duvall's Felix that steals the show as a lovable nut job that has deep, dark secrets lying inside him.

Time hailed it «one of the most wholly original American movies ever made»; it earned eight Oscar nominations including best director, adapted screenplay and film.

Mythmaking has long been a staple of American movies.

Tell me you have seen A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies.

Ever since the»70s, American movies have been full of scoundrels, hoodlums, and sociopaths who do all kinds of outrageous and indefensible things, but just about all of them are men, and even their worst behavior gets held up to the light as a mirror of our own darkness.

Others, though, are unlikely to fare much better, given that this unflinching debut feature from Russ Harbaugh delivers something rarely seen in American movies: a warts - and - all examination of extended grief.

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» and «Amadeus» won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday.

The lives of Halley and Moonee are lives typically sidelined or ignored in American movies.

Her turn as Mildred is getting all kinds of critical raves, most of which hinge on her character's unrelenting intensity; because American movies constantly fail to deliver powerful female protagonists, there is a tendency to latch onto and celebrate the exceptions, which Mildred certainly is.

Our amicable, extended conversation included detailed discussions about the new American movies in competition.

In American movies, the idea of a road trip is likely to conjure images of Chevy Chase in «National Lampoon's Vacation.»

I'm not trashing Apatow; I'm just discussing this particular film, and its flaws that are all - too - common in modern American movies.

What is it about American movies?

These are mythical films situated between underground American movies and French Nouvelle Vague, close to some avant - garde filmmaking practices during the period when Rivette discovered the American avant - garde and thus extended his own film practice.

I was in love with American movies and music.

It's one of the most Germanic of Lang's American movies, one of the strongest social message dramas of the»30s, and as obvious a precursor of»40s film noir as Lang's 1931 masterpiece «M.» With Walter Brennan, Bruce Cabot, Walter Abel and Frank Albertson.

moment in American movies.

From its 70s roots, through to the likes of Ginger Snaps in 2000, the teenage experience has been mixed with the horrific in American movies to great effect many times before now.

American movies and television almost invariably use Mads Mikkelsen for his steely Euro - charisma.

It was a breakthrough year for Latin American movies.

Like many in the film distribution business, Mimi Steinbauer has a story — «funniest example ever» — of the ingenious sleight of hand in marketing American movies to foreign lands.

This time around, the trailer does immediately bring to mind the tenor and style of Jean - Luc Godard's «Le Pierrot Fou» (itself an ode to American movies).

In celebration of the big, bold USA, we take a trip through all 50 states via 50 indelible American movies