Not exact matches
From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks
cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links
between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and
old.
Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an
old television series as a film residing
between homage and parody, or as in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a
cinema audience.
It's an
old - school form of filmmaking that befits the film's middle - aged protagonist while also making a clear distinction
between itself and the jittery, youth - oriented style of most indie
cinema.
This is an inspired collaboration
between Agnes Varga, the 89 - year -
old legend of French New Waves
cinema, and JR, 34, the visual artist who helps her chronicle French rural life.
I think that the «romance»
between Bottoms and the
older, unhappily married Leachman, who gives an astonishing performance, is unlike anything else in
cinema.
I appreciate jokes aimed at an
older audience, so taking your child to the
cinema doesn't become an arduous chore, but Bee Movie misses the fine balance
between adult humour and children's film.
In larger pieces Matt Van Vogt unearths the efforts to reduce theater noise during the early years of sound
cinema, while Laura L. Beading shows how the Coens use sound, voiceover, and music to mark the sharp difference
between the exhausted masculinity of No Country for
Old Men and the implacable, feminine vitality at the heart of their True Grit.
An ambitious, over-budget love letter to both the Big Apple and the classic Hollywood
cinema of Scorsese's childhood (its lavish sets were built on the
old MGM soundstages), New York, New York is a heady tribute to the outmoded school of filmmaking that gave way to the New Hollywood class who came to dominate American
cinema between the late»60s and early»80s.