Sentences with phrase «arthouse picture»

His lush South Korean thriller, adapted from the British novel «Fingersmith» by Sarah Waters (also made into a British TV miniseries), has the look of a lavish period drama, the elegance of an arthouse picture, the complex plotting of an ingenious caper that only the movies could sustain, and the sex and nudity of an exploitation picture.

He applied his smarts, insights and exquisite prose to every review he wrote, whether it was an obscure arthouse picture or big Hollywood blockbuster.»

It's an arthouse picture for people who don't frequent arthouses — a tale of cultural displacement so sanitized and swooningly romantic that film buffs could recommend it to their parents and grandparents without hesitation.

Not exact matches

One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for «The Shape of Water.»

While it would expand to almost 600 theaters eight days later, a decent count comparable to those given the most narrow of Best Picture nominees (Whiplash and Boyhood), The Interview was just not cut out for arthouse success.

Having taken the arthouse world by storm with his first two pictures - Reprise and Oslo, 31 August - Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier makes the move into English language fare with his third effort while very much maintaining his signature...

Among arthouse players, Sony Pictures Classics» coming - of - age drama «Diary of a Teenage Girl» earned $ 54,525 on four screens, with a per - screen average of $ 13,631.

Shot on a minimal budget (in the six - million dollar range) with a cast of largely non-professional actors (Kenneth Branagh the main exception), the picture is a tremendous hit among the self - congratulatory film festival / arthouse crowd, who, after all, like to feel as though they're applauding the right things.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

From arthouse to mega multiplex, there are pictures in the works that we can't wait to feast our eyes on.

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These movies are essentially exploitation pictures, B - movies with the slick, stylish veneer of arthouse cinema.

Since the last update I have, along with Mike from The George Sanders Show and Seema from They Shot Pictures, launched a new website, Seattle Screen Scene, dedicated to arthouse and repertory film in the Seattle - area.

The date here that interests me most is the comparatively early slot given to European arthouse charmer «The Artist,» which I've already suggested might be the likeliest of the Weinsteins» current titles to find its way into the Best Picture race.

But the best - known contenders include Andrey Zvyagintsev's powerful «Leviathan» (a surprise Russian selection), Pawel Pawlikowski's arthouse hit «Ida» (Poland), Nuri Bilge Ceylan «s Cannes Palme d'Or winner «Winter Sleep» (Turkey), the Dardenne brothers» affecting «Two Days, One Night» with Marion Cotillard (pictured, Belgium), Xavier Dolan's bold «Mommy» (Canada), Kornel Mundruczo's brutal «White God» (Hungary), Abderrahmane Sissako's wrenching «Timbuktu» (first - time competitor Mauritania), Damian Szifron's blackly humorous anthology film «Wild Tales» (Argentina) and Ruben Ostlund's subtle but telling «Force Majeure» (Sweden).

But less than two years later, Wes was back, and the reaction to «The Grand Budapest Hotel» was even warmer: it won rave reviews, and has proven a legitimate arthouse box office smash, taking in over $ 150 million so far, more than twice his previous best haul, and a bigger take than other hefty pictures like «The Monuments Men,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» and «Transcendence,» among others.