Sentences with phrase «best space film»

James Cameron has said it is the best space film he has ever seen and, seeing how successful...

Is this movie the best space film ever done according to James Cameron or is it basically Open Water in space?

Not exact matches

I have previously written in this space of Eric Rohmer's film L'amour après - midi, in my opinion, the best film of one of the best filmmakers after the incomparable Robert Bresson.

The crammed spaces, tedious phone calls, and fast dialogue are believable flourishes in the best of these films, including All the President's Men and the more recent Spotlight.

If you have the outdoor space this works really well if followed by a film canister rocket.

I love them like I love hair metal power ballads, Teenagers from Outer Space, 1950s educational films and home - edited skateboard videos (actually, never mind, some of those are really GOOD).

Faulds was best known for his portrayal of Jet Morgan in BBC radio drama Journey Into Space in the 1950s although he also acted in over 30 films in his time.

Testing both the microwave and laser systems will require gargantuan structures in space: thin - film condenser mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter stretching for kilometers and weighing 10,000 metric tons, as well as a 100 - unit laser array of 5,000 metric tons that would be 10 kilometers long.

Even if «Gravity» did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs.

We shot a bunch of stories last week and I am planning to get filming in the next, this space is so good for that.

«Myth» examines science and space travel in the 1960s as well as the state of science - fiction films.

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science - fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.

But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.

With the new film of the space opera saga finally on the big screen and the release of Battlefront's new sequel, both after a decade overdue, it is definitely the best time to be a Star Wars fan.

The only thing that looks good and realistic in this film are the space panoramas, nebulae, planets etc...

A charming, witty, passionate romantic drama about a love transcending space and time, Somewhere In Time is an old - fashioned film in the best sense of that term.

Like in the earlier films where the space for personal monologue and storytelling is expanded for even very minor characters, Elvira's brutally honest tape - recorded interview in the final moments combines with the image for one of Fassbinder's most moving and penetrating moments in one of his best films.

So I always react well to sci - fi films that are not necessarily about people floating around in silver space suits.

A better route would have been using the imagery to cover the ad space, as Universal did beautifully with their respective campaigns for Cinderella Man and Jarhead, but even still, Warner Bros. had their thoughts together for marketing this film throughout the summer and into the awards season.

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).

Lot's of borrowing here from previous and better films like Andromeda Strain, Her, 2001: A Space Odessy and Brainstorm.

We talked with him recently when he was honored as an emerging master at the Seattle International Film Festival, where «Facing Windows» won the Golden Space Needle award for best film.

Joe Dante is one of my favorite filmmakers, as he is one of the most diverse directors out there, making pure horror films like The Howling, kid - friendly iconic films such as Gremlins and Small Soldiers, as well as comedies such as this and Inner Space.

The most notable lesbian feature films in the programming were Jamie and Jessie are Not Together (d. Wendy Jo Carlton), or as I preferred to call it «Jessie can do better», Hannah and the Hasbian (d. Gordon Napier) and Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (d. Madeleine Olnek).

Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón, opening the film with a single, very long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Lifeforce is an interesting concept for a film that is based around space vampires, and with that being said, it is an idea that should have been great, but as it stands, only ends up being good.

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

Welcome to the fourth part of my series on female - directed movies, wherein I share with you... well, whatever I want to share with you, whether it's a film that doesn't quite fit into one of the previous categories or one that I just didn't have space for.

If this film does well it will not be the last of the space outlaw known as Riddick.

The latest venture from Andy and Lana Wachowski's looks a lot better from a trailer point of view as a high concept sci - fi event movie, instead of positioning the film as a sort of space adventure love story.

Like those other films, Gallery is divided into a series of segments highlighting different aspects of the institution: the tour guides explaining a work or an artist; the craftsmen and women building frames, gallery spaces, designing and testing lighting; restorers at work fixing paintings damaged by time; and administrators debating the best ways to persevere the museums brand and grow its audience.

Is it the fact that only one of his films ever earned even a single Oscar (Best Special Effects for «2001: A Space Odyssey»)?

Whedon returns as the film's writer and director in this once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to revive his epic space tale, and as the first installment in a possible franchise, «Serenity» is without a doubt one of the best pieces of fan service in the history of the sci - fi genre.

Marvel's space romp has posted summer's best Monday and Tuesday grosses and both films could top $ 45 million for weekend

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

Melfi has a great ensemble on his hands and his film works well due to the chemistry they all have and the teamwork that's set in place to get John Glenn into space.

This is Fleischer's first film for Fox and he meets the house CinemaScope style — handsome, roomy sets, strong color, open spaces and long, fluid takes (the better to drink in the widescreen images)-- with careful staging and frames filled with little dramas, but he also puts an edge to the stories that play out in the glossy spaces.

The Cannes Film Festival has proven a fertile space for the release of the best the country has on offer to Western markets, and following the success of Yeon - Sang - ho's extraordinary zombie film Train to Busan in 2016, Cannes» Midnight Screenings this year featured Jung Byung - gil's high - octane female - centred action movie The Villainess.

One reviewer wrote that he creates a separate space apart from the outside in which one is allowed to meditate, which is probably the best description I've ever read of his films.

«Because the film is a well - crafted and an auteur - driven story and Joachim has a big following in the independent and foreign film space, it was a no - brainer to ensure that audiences were well aware of it,» commented Davidson.

The Disaster Artist also makes good, possibly great art out of a film considered by many the worst film ever made (Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space excepted).

Cuarón masterminded the audacious deep - space thriller Gravity (for which he won the best director Oscar) and was handed the reins of a Harry Potter film, but has also made more intimate, Mexico - set dramas such as Y Tu Mamá También.

The host mockingly compared himself to «the first dog shot into outer space» as a comedian tasked with reckoning with the film industry's toxic reputation, but he acquitted himself well in a short, punchy monologue.

The film spends eighty percent of its running time telling you the mostly unnecessarily detailed history of the Green Lantern Corps, which I'll try to bullet point as best as I can here: Planet Oa is the home plant of the Corps, which are basically intergalactic space cops.

Four years later, he again stole the show as Bill Lumbergh in «Office Space,» and although it helped to buy him comic cred and parts in films like «Dodgeball,» «Talladega Nights» and «Pineapple Express,» he still remains a well - kept secret from the general public.

That film uses empty space really well.

We sat down on a particularly rainy day at our studio space, hosted by Onsite [at] OCAD U, to discuss all of Athina's films, The Capsule in particular, as well as her love for Michael Bay and genre films.