Sentences with phrase «best film period»

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It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

But what establishes Coco as one of Pixar's best films (and thus one of the best animated films, period) is its deeper, underlying message.

The shorter the period that the film is exposed to moisture the better.

In the same period John Carradine appeared in several Mexican films as well: «Autopsia de un fantasma» («Autopsy of a Ghost»)(with Basil Rathbone), «Pacto diabolico» («Diabolical Pact»), «Las vampiras» («The Vampires»), «Enigma de muerte» («Secret of Death»), and «La señora Muerte» («Madame Death»).

Perhaps no other series of children's films (and few series of films period) has delivered as consistently good visuals and narrative as Potter.

Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada — who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora - san series — directs this good - natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600 - 1867).

Sad to say, the rumored intensity of the play» «night Mother» is not on display in this filmed version that does not translate particularly well to the screen as it feels like just another made for television movie of the period.

These type of adventures seem to work better when period set, «The Mummy» films and «The Phantom» are good examples of this type of boys own wilderness set adventures that work in another era.

Laura Poitras» thrilling look at the Edward Snowden affair (and government snooping in general) is one of the year's best - reviewed documentaries (and possibly this month's best new film, period).

Good things tend to come when Michael Winterbottom works with star Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, The Trip), so we're happy to see Coogan starring as infamous British pornographer, club - owner, real estate developer, multi-millionaire, and so - called «King of Soho» Paul Raymond in a dramedy that spans decades and includes scenes shot in black - and - white and color, constantly changing to match the film styles of each period.

This is the costliest, most logistically complex feature of the filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts, from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him.

The result was a new megastar period for him he is still in and the film holds up very well considering what has followed in the genre and big budget filmmaking in general.

The comics were always more fluid than all but the best films — and certainly more so than any of the comics of the period [and most of the best of today, as well].

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

Easily one of the best characters of any film this year, period.

It is a sparkling film, an American Borsalino, with sharp, clever dialogue, directed at a fine pace and with a good eye for period detail by George Roy Hill.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

As well as talking about her experiences and thoughts on the film she discusses the memoirs she has written on the period called The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow (released after the film was in pre-production, which was based on In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall).

The film looks good for the age, not amazing, but the photography was never meant to be crystal clear, so the soft focus stuff looks good, but doesn't crackle with the same authority as some films of the period.

Usually a delay of six months would be a very bad sign for a film of this scale, but Warners are choosing to release the film in a period we've come to know as «awards season,» and that can only be a good thing.

In the same period, only twice has the NBR winner gone on to win Best Picture: No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire — both films ended up sweeping nearly everything.

And while the film could hardly be accused of being the most intoxicating period drama ever made, mid twentieth century L.A. is evoked well enough through period detail and era - appropriate soundtrack choices.

It's one of the best films of the year, period... Full Review

Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

«And so what better way than to show the silent - movie period in black - and - white [35 mm] negative,» he said, «and for the»70s we looked to the urban reality grit of New York films like Mean Streets, The French Connection and Midnight Cowboy — a much rawer look.»

Much as Michael Mann's Public Enemies created a disconnect by looking like home video at certain points, the period simply requires film, or at least it does for right now with digital photography still figuring out how to look good with the entire color spectrum.

Ahmad is the heart of the film, and Mosaffa plays the part so well that he's missed whenever he spends extended periods off - screen.

The threat in The World's End evolves as the film progresses, as well, culminating in quite an awesome and satisfying resolution that puts a fine period at the end of the Cornetto Trilogy.

Match Point, made during Woody Allen's extended fallow period, wisely takes the precaution of having its protagonist retire from the game before the film opens, so we don't get to see if Jonathan Rhys Meyers (pictured right with Scarlett Johansson) is as good a sportsman as he is a swordsman in this roman - à - quatre.

Set in 1959, the period piece directly deals with the integration of suburbs in the era of the civil rights movement, although whether or not the film deals with it well is up for you to decide.

-- Buzzsaw McThunder's»70s Dance Party, named after Iron Goat's recent hazy IPA release (and assistant brewer Adam Boyd's former film persona), starts at 7 in the taproom complete with disco ball, DJ music and a prize for best period costume.

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

They do as best as they can with the material, but still, it is another slight fault of the film, perhaps due to the time period.

What worked so well in the first film was that the filmmakers were able to make a superhero film work as a period piece.

«Boyhood,» Richard Linklater's acclaimed coming - of - age drama shot over a 12 - year period, was named best film of 2014 on Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle.

In John Crowley's sensitive period film «Brooklyn,» veteran costume designer Odile Dicks - Mireaux reimagines the disparate sartorial colors of midcentury Brooklyn and Ireland, showcasing how well they mesh on - screen.

This CD was released in 2004 by Varese Sarabande, featuring a small amount of music not on the original (very rare) CD release on Memoir Records, and absolutely stunning sound - it's easily the best - sounding film score from the period I've heard.

Scoring strongly at the New York Film Critics (including best film) likely helped, but word of mouth seems to be strong for Todd Haynes» period romantic drama starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett.

That first movie, 1977's Star Wars, is to date still the only one (and one of the very few science fiction films, period) to have garnered a Best Picture Oscar... Read

At least it can deliver on that (and in spades), as the time period of the film essentially serves as its own character, and one that does not disappoint in the slightest — Michael Wilkinson's costume designs, Judy Becker's overall production design, and the entire coterie of hair stylists and make - up artists are all near - revelatory and exceedingly well - executed.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.

That screenwriter David Nicholls harbours a fear of alienating ardent period drama / Hardy enthusiasts by reformulating an over-familiar plot is evident, but what is more regrettable is, although there are flashes of Vinterberg's skilled craftsmanship throughout the film, it ultimately remains contained within the tight strictures of the genre and becomes no better or worse than the plethora of recent period dramas; solid and dependable but utterly riskless and tired, begging the question, is the period drama genre well passed its sell by date?

Together, they have tried to create a soul - searching tale of a woman finally coming to find that she likes herself, and though it isn't entirely successful in that mode, there are periods where the film works well.

The director Todd Haynes not only tells stories set in the past, notably in America between the Thirties and Fifties, but he also makes films that feel as though they've been beamed directly from that period, in the best sense.

Some of the best sci - fi films are non-specific about the time period, a calculated choice by Garland.

Time to take a look at one of my favorite films of Sundance, the indie thriller Margin Call, written & directed by J.C. Chandor, about a 24 hour period revolving around the financial crisis - as boring as that sounds, it's actually pretty damn good.

In this we get to hear from Beatty, as well as a lot of the actors involved in the making of the film who share their memories of getting the film made over a long period of time.

Lawless doesn't live up to its full potential, but it still has enough going for it to make it a really good period piece / action film.

Edward Lachman's photography and Carter Burwell's score also highlight both the early 1950's period as well as the feeling of entrapment and excitement that dominates the film.