Sentences with phrase «art movie»

I'm disturbed by a recent trend of art movies not getting Blu - ray releases.

«Making this film was like swimming in winter,» he says, describing his leap into unfamiliar martial - arts movie territory.

An awesome flick if if you're into art movies and cars.

Call me dense, but I don't see how it's obvious for this man to endorse anything other than a martial arts movie marathon on late night cable television.

This is where all of the latest articles, reviews and articles on martial arts movies and action movies in general can be found.

The Raid 2 is one of the best martial arts movies in the last decade, right behind its predecessor The Raid: Redemption.

Anti-drug martial arts movie with a bit more plot and a bit less action than average (but not a lot less action).

This is science fiction spectacle and futuristic detective story as art movie tone poem, a conspiracy thriller with flying cars, blaster handguns, and big brawling fights that defies the breathless pace of the action genre.

Michael Jai White (Spawn, Mortal Kombat) is to B - martial arts movies what Bruce Campbell is to B - horror.

Somehow, despite its focus on commercial cinema, a couple of outstanding art movies make it into FEFF every year.

WHY: It seems a little unfair to refer to «Enter the Dragon» as Bruce Lee's masterpiece, because he was just starting to hit his stride at the time of his unfortunate death, but it's definitely one of the best martial arts movies ever made.

«Chungking Express was the Masculin Féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

This is a full - blown art movie by first - time filmmakers, with all the positive and negative connotations that status comes with.»

An even more pertinent influence is Wong Kar - wai, who draws on Hollywood noir and neonoir himself and whose romanticism and volatile handheld camera work and jump cuts have become major influences in Chinese art movies — he's perhaps as pervasive an influence as Quentin Tarantino was a few years ago in the States (and still is in a few Asian movies).

Martial Arts movie stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li both appear in Forbidden Kingdom.

In New York City, the Met transmitted live operas to five public schools, each equipped with state - of - the - art movie theater equipment.

Aside from crisp visuals and no - fat way with martial arts movie traditions, the biggest achievement of the «Kung Fu Panda» movies is how they distill their star's very Jack Black - ness down to its most bearable form.

I'm a big martial arts movie buff and I felt like this might dishonor the genre.

This is an impressive first film, and it will be interesting to see if Legrand's path takes him towards more cut - and - dried horror, or the chin - strokey, cynical social realist art movie at which directors like Michael Haneke excel.

The first of these scenarios describes the last reel or so of Vincente Minnelli's 1956 MGM feature Lust for Life; the second describes, in abbreviated form, Maurice Pialat's 1990 French art movie Van Gogh.

Chungking Express (1994) was the Masculin féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

Chad Michael Murray is dapper in a suit while posing alongside his wife Sarah Roemer at the premiere of his latest film Outlaws & Angels held at the Ahrya Fine Arts Movie Theater on Tuesday (July 12) in Beverly Hills, Calif..

But it's my favorite, probably because it's the first art movie I really worked to understand (not that I've come near to plumbing all it's depths).

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One of the stranger ironies to be found in Hollywood these days is that some of its most resourceful directors use high - tech wizardry and state - of - the - art movie technology to make films that rail against the tyranny of science.

Compare it to a film like Upstream Color, which is an actual art movie that uses science fiction to make challenging statements about the world and you realize that Under The Skin is exactly the right kind of pretty good, almost difficult movie to burst out of the festival bubble and play in your local theater for people interested in dabbling in intellectual pursuits for the evening.

Claiming some genuine martial arts movie cred, this chapter features some voiceovers from not only Jackie Chan returning as Furious Five member Monkey, but Jean Claude van Damme as the Chinese alligator, Master Croc, who, like his alter - ego, who can drop into a vicious split at the drop of a yuan.

Top Fighter 2: Deadly Fighting Dolls (1996; aka Deadly China Dolls) is a U.K. documentary clip show directed by martial arts movie historian Toby Russell which lays out all the female action stars of the genre in easy - to - understand order.

The 2005 festival, which will be held over Labor Day weekend, still uses the opera house, but has added so many state - of - the - art theaters, some of them constructed inside the old Mason's Hall and the school gyms, that it feels like the most happening art movie town in America.

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

Haneke remains one of the few European practitioners of the morally serious, challenging art movie, of which The Piano Teacher is very much an example.

Pornographers and young - adult novelists alike would slap their foreheads in exasperation over Jack & Diane, the dreamy, abstract art movie writer - director Bradley Rust Gray made from the ripely commercial premise of a teenage lesbian werewolf romance.

And besides, it's a martial arts movie centered around sword fighting, with some downright beautiful choreography and cinematography... Not to mention, it's set in the 1930s, which is a very unique era for these types of movies.

From legendary martial arts movie director Chang Cheh and Shaw Brothers studios comes the 1978 classic The Five Deadly Venoms, a late entry in the old school Hong Kong martial arts spectacle with a fun spin on the familiar revenge plot.

Well, even though Chan is noticeably a step slower, and the real hero of The Forbidden Kingdom is a time - traveling poor white kid from the present, the two still provide a lot of fun in a movie that's a fun riff on a number of martial arts movie themes.

Bloodsport, a martial arts movie dubiously based on a «true story,» kicked off Jean - Claude Van Damme's damn awesome movie career, leading to many more films where the Muscles from Brussels would smile, strut, and splits his way through martial arts tournaments and always get the girl.

Director Richard Linklater's building an odd career for himself, much like Robert Rodriguez, he seems to be alternating art movies and family films, only with less success on both sides of the spectrum.

We need to play trailers in theaters to support art movies, have them put up one sheets.»

A much more pervasive dullness in the upscale art movie Damage unifies the sex scenes, the dialogue scenes, and the contrived plot; they're all in the same universe of discourse — or shall we call it the same hell of good taste?

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).

As with many martial arts movies nowadays, the fighting is «enhanced» by wire - fu and CGI elements, which aren't nearly as titillating as seeing someone perform such feats for real.

Scenes like the incredibly gory but artistic tea house battle with the Crazy 88 or the intensely claustrophobic kitchen showdown are excellent examples of everything that makes a martial - arts movie great and when combined with Tarantino's usual hallmarks, the results are truly transcendent.

It's hard to pull off 90 minutes of wandering through the jungle without things bogging down, and at times they do, but at its best «Canopy» is a tense, tightly wound art movie that can simultaneously scare you and mesmerize you.

They continued to release new martial arts movies over here and began to re-release some of the Hong Kong Legends back catalogue.

If any quick - sell catch phrase could sum this up, it must be The Michael Keaton Art Movie.