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Need more proof that 2012 is shaping up to be a great year for film?

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The truly amazing part of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife film - star team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.

We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

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As well as the $ 15 million film hub, the company is building a $ 90 million factory for high - efficiency light bulb manufacturer Soraa — and any other projects Fort Schuyler carries out in the Greater Syracuse area as part of a deal that could run for as long as 10 years.

The WWF said on Thursday that the money from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, set up by the 39 - year - old star of «The Great Gatsby» and the upcoming film «The Wolf of Wall Street,» will be used for an initiative to double the number of tigers in Nepal by 2022 - the next Chinese year of the tiger.

The magazine will be in the Barnes And Nobles stands all over the country in the U.S. Thre is a great cover story in the issue on how he stays lean all year round and how he was able to help Morris Chestnut get in great shape for the Best Man Holiday film.

As the film opens, Ron is in the midst of great personal and professional humiliation, having been passed over for a cushy network position in favour of his wife Veronica (a returning and game Christina Applegate); his response is to walk out on her and their seven - year - old son, taking a job as an announcer at Sea World (where he drinks heavily and insults the dolphins).

Sure it doesn't make much sense that the teenagers of this small town that has outlawed dancing for five years could all dance so well, yet this is an enjoyable film with a great soundtrack and John Lithgow as a character who is more complex than your typical zealot antagonist.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Spike Lee has made one of the few films in the year 2000 that is actually about something, and for that he deserves great credit.

This movie is worth seeing for the three heavies, they are great and it's 15 years before Bogie and Holden teamed up for Sabrina.Sadly this film is hampered by the Hayes Code crime does not pay rule.

* Grades are determined (on a curve) almost entirely by average Metascore, but with a small bonus awarded for each «great» film (with Metascore of 81 or higher) released during the year.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.

Today, after seeing the film again for the first time in years, I feel that Saving Private Ryan is, if not an absolute masterpiece, an extremely powerful and moving work that stands as one of the greatest war films of this or any era.

«Stephanie, David and their team have been great supporters of our films in the past, with the highlight being last year's launch of our Oscar ® - winning documentary, Searching For Sugar Man.

For years John Ford's «The Grapes of Wrath» was called not only his best film but, by some, the greatest American film.

Everyone gave me a different answer for each question, and if you're tired of hearing my opinion, this features a range of opinions mentioning a variety of great films this year.

2017 was a great year for Belgian genre film, with the stylish Let The Corpses Tan and delightful Mon Ange vying for a spot here.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

The Aviator is a well made film, and one of the year's best, with enough great moments to make the three hours not seem so long, although some trimming down of certain characters and scenes could still be done (Jude Law's cameo as Errol Flynn seems to be just an excuse to get him in the movie for a few minutes).

It's amazing, 14 years in, we're still getting great opportunities like getting handpicked by Trent Reznor for a tour, or being approached to work on film projects with friends.

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

The interview with him on the Criterion release in which he speaks about the emotional response he had to the film at 9 years old is a great one for fans of either Renoir or Scorsese.

The film follows Tomas over twelve years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening... Every Thing Will Be Fine carefully and precisely tells a story of guilt and the search for forgiveness, and the fact that it is not time that is a great healer but the courage to face up to things and to forgive.

Seeking brown - haired children with short hair (light to medium skin tone — Caucasian, Latino, or Pacific Islander) aged 4 - 17 years, who are 2» 5 to 3» 6 ″ in height for photodouble work, ongoing from December 2016 - March 2017 in NYC for the feature film THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH.

It won't be long before this movie's late - game success has journos pushing the narrative that it's a great film year for women, and thanks to Bigelow, it may very well be.

As someone that has been waiting for a sequel to Unbreakable since I saw the film so many years ago, I'm happy to report the Glass footage looked fantastic and featured some great stuff between Bruce Willis, James McAvoy and Samuel L. Jackson.

With sincerest appreciation of all the great work that's been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the awards categories for the 2012 - 13 EDA Awards.

It's a great treat for the whole family and one of the best films of the year.

Trust me, it's a great movie, and one you'll be able to see by the end of the year because Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for domestic distribution.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

WHY: 2016 was a great year for horror, and Korean director Yeon Sang - ho's latest film «Train to Busan» is right up there among the best.

For me, it was still great to see «Life, Animated,» my # 3 film of last year, mentioned on Hollywood's biggest night.

In more recent years one such work of brilliant badness was Samurai Cop, an early 90's action film that looked like it was shot in 2 days for 2 dollars and inexplicably starred the late (great) Robert Z'Dar.

Every year I hope for a documentary about a writer of impact, both artistically and politically, a film in which stock footage is laid under a vocal performance of the author's prose, rendered by some great and richly - timbred actor.

A leviathan that has temporarily ducked back under the surface after pulverizing multiplexes all summer long, Christopher Nolan's symphonic blockbuster is not only one of the biggest studio films of the year ($ 523.7 million worldwide for a historical epic about one of modern history's greatest non-events), it's also one of the best.

But if A24 could pull off the biggest surprise Best Picture win in ages with Moonlight, whose budget was just $ 4 million, we probably can't eliminate Florida for being too small, especially as critics heap greater praise on it than any other film this year.

Minority Report — Another great year for Steven Spielberg, as he's got 2 of the top 8 films of the year.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

«Room,» which is now being considered in the running for end - year honors including the Oscars has already picked up the People's Choice award as best film at the 2015 Toronto International Festival, doubtless because the crowd were justifiably amazed by Brie Larson's greater depth as a performer, but most of all by one of the great acting jobs by eight - year - old Jacob Tremblay.

With sincerest appreciation of all the great work that's been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2013 EDA Awards.

Right along side «Argo» the whole time was «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg's best film in years and a powerhouse vehicle for great actors like Daniel Day - Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, and Sally Field.

The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).

Great article and completely agree Stoker is the most interesting film of the year so far for costume — and also for visuals generally.

Despite reports of audience members fainting during the film's TIFF screening, «Raw» is surprisingly palatable for a film about cannibalism, and a lot of that has to do with Marillier, who delivers one of the year's great breakout performances.

The 1080p transfer is very sharp and looks great for a film nearly 40 years old.