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One of the more difficult Oscars to predict this category is filled with some of the most beautiful films of the year.
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I know it probably won't, but it is simply the most beautiful film of the year, and much of that is due to Ralph Eggleston's inspired, detailed production design.
Interesting that one of the most visually beautiful films of the year is at its essence a picture about promises.
One of the most beautiful films of the year, it's also Del Toro's sweetest fairy tale and strongest narrative in years.
Not exact matches
I would not recommend this film to most people - but if you're up for a VERY non-narrative film (think two and a half hour poem) about life's most serious questions, then you might find Tree of Life (especially the 2nd act) one of the most beautiful and moving films you'll see this year.
To call Mr. Turner one of the year's most overrated films seems unfair, as it's worth watching for beautiful cinematography and a plethora of gentle laughs.
One of the most beautiful animated films in years, with each poem given a separate interpretation by a different master animator.
Like Only God Forgives before it, this one will polarize and is not for everyone, but if you're up for a vivid and distinct sensory treat unlike most films you find in a given year, this arthouse flick is one beautiful satire of beauty.
Subtle, elemental and powerfully beautiful, writer - director Chloe Zhao's «The Rider» is the Western of the new century, and the most enveloping film experience I've had this year.
If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.
2016 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Clever and beautifully endearing, Mike Mills «beautiful portrait of five people in the late 1970s is one of the year's most glamorous efforts.
Ford made his directorial debut six years ago with A Single Man, a beautiful and often painful film about love and loss, and now he's back with a very different type of movie.
Romanek shoots the hell out of the film, turning in one of the most beautiful looking pictures of the last few years.
Look to this film for it's powerful performances and beautiful scenery; the story may be a bit lacking for some, and it's likely this will become more obvious on repeat viewings; however it's more than easy to overlook simplicity for the sake of some of the year's most provocative performances.
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From Laika (The Boxtrolls), this is one of the most beautiful, sophisticated animated films in many years.
This film is breathtakingly beautiful and possibility the best film of the year.
Nestled in one of the most beautiful places in the world, filmmakers, actors, and attendees alike are drawn to Mill Valley every year by the easy, low - stress atmosphere, the gorgeous surroundings, the varied special events and, of course, the films.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, it's here because Guadagnino's decision to shoot on film made this delicate, almost fairy tale story of first love perhaps the year's most breathtakingly beautiful English language film.
I agree that it's routinely misused by hacks but it's often a foundational aspect of some of the most beautiful and / or evocative films each year.
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
There are joys to be found in the beautiful cinematography, though it is this film's misfortune to have been released in the same year as Life of Pi, a film which showed us just how stunning a film about a drifting boat can be.
Melissa Leo, whose beautiful work in both 21 Grams and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada predicted this ability, turns in the most authentic performance I've seen in any film this year.
In this film, that man happens to be Elliott (Showalter), a nerdy accountant that gets stranded at the beginning of this film by his beautiful fiancé, Caroline (Banks, The 40 year Old Virgin), for handsome and adventurous Bradley (Theroux, Duplex).
Australia is brutal and beautiful, and Roeg's film is nothing short of a captivating masterpiece that, like Ted Kotcheff's Wake In Fright the same year, suggests that Australia is never more fascinating than when viewed through the lens of a foreigner.
Declaring it as the «most visually beautiful film of the last 30 years» (kudos to twelve - time Oscar - nominee Roger Deakins), Tafoya discusses the profound impact the film has had on his own life, upon turning 26.
DVD Details: Miramax has released a new 2005 Collector's Series DVD, but I'm not sure how well the film will play 16 years later, since this kind of disease - of - the - week biopic — and variations thereof — has been copied to death (Shine, A Beautiful Mind, etc.).
Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.
by Walter Chaw A very small story set on a very large stage, Phillip Noyce's affecting Rabbit - Proof Fence is perhaps the most visually beautiful film of the director's career, proving between this and his other movie from this year, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American, that not only is it possible to go home again (as in Noyce to Australia) but also that it's often wise.
Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.
«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»
On disc one of «Finding Dory», the special features start off amazing with the beautiful short film «Piper», which better win the Oscar this year!
and the film is from the undervalued but excellent writer / director Mike Mills (Beginners) Demanders looks back at My Beautiful Laundrette which recently got a Criterion release Variety happy news: Season 2 of Transparent arrives in time for Christmas i09 Ridley Scott still planning on filming a Prometheus sequel next year.
A film that affirms our beautiful but fragile existence and it felt like the sum of humankinds estimated 200,000 years on Earth.
The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».
Feeling a bit like an extended episode of the fun and beautiful television show, the film Winnie the Pooh hits all the right emotional chords delivering some of the best smiles and giggles seen in an animated film this year.
THE DVD Fox Family releases My Friend Flicka on DVD in a beautiful full - frame video transfer (preserving the original aspect ratio of the film) that feels sixty - years - old without actually looking it.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, one of the most beautiful films of last year and a current nominee for Best Picture at the GLAAD Awards, is out on Blu - ray and Digital TODAY.
The beautiful women from the James Bond films have intrigued us in many ways over the years, but seeing them join in on the action wielding all sorts of guns definitely added to the sex appeal.
Shot through the haze of humidity on location at a plantation, there were few films as beautiful as «The Beguiled» all year — or as smoldering.
A film full of class, and one of the most aesthetically beautiful films to grace the screens this year, Derek Cianfrance's «The Light Between Oceans» manages some tender and enchanting moments.
«There's something so universal about the human condition of growing up with siblings and parents, with how we maneuver through the world over time — you can't not relate to it on some level, which means the response to this film has been fun and heartfelt and kind of beautiful,» Richard Linklater said of «Boyhood's» 12 year journey.
This is my sixth feature film shot in Scotland and autumn is my favourite time of year to shoot so I am excited to bring this film to light in the beautiful Scottish elements — come rain, shine, storm or snow.
The year lacked a single towering masterpiece, but this John Crowley film, based on the Colm Toibin novel, was a little treasure, with beautiful, invested performances and an air of enchantment.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets features the most beautiful imagery of any film this year.
That said, it is Nicholson, his fascinating character, and Payne's empathy toward him that ultimately rules over the entire film; a simple, silent, static shot of his face is one of the most beautiful, powerful, indelible images of the 2002 movie year.
Critics have hailed Tree of Life as beautiful and moving, making it one of just a few films before the usual year - end Oscar season to elicit any talk of a Best Picture nomination.
Magnolia Pictures caught the current doc at the San Francisco International Film Festival last year, calling it a «beautiful, meditative film that works equally well for people that re fans of Andy Goldsworthy and those discovering his work.»
The winner of the Audience Award this year was a beautiful film, directed by an LGBTQ woman of color.
If you were struck by the beautiful look of the film and wondered how the characters moved so realistically, there is a reason for that — Pixar rewrote its animation system for the first time in 25 years to portray Merida and her epic quest.