The Incredibles hit theaters all the way back in 2004, and it was easily the most sophisticated and involved animated adventure that Pixar Animation had
brought to the big screen yet.
Not exact matches
At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not
screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay,
yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's
bigger series recently ending, it's time again
to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video
to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.
Yet unlike Tom Cruise's self - doubting alpha male, Woody Allen's lovable neurotic or Ben Stiller's, er, lovable neurotic, Morton's stock in trade has never seemed grating or even repetitive, since she manages
to bring to each successive rôle previously uncharted shades of fragility — and looking back at her
big screen debut in «Under the Skin» (1997), reveals that she has long been a natural at plumbing the depths of grief and loss.
The
biggest news of the year for horror fans was the announcement that John Carpenter would return
to the Halloween franchise as executive producer
to help oversee a new movie, but there has been little progress since, and now Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions explains the reason for that is because they have not
yet settled on what approach
to take in
bringing about the return of Michael Myers
to the
big screen.
Yet, at Deadline's recent packed AwardsLine
screening of Focus Features» exquisite film starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, I learned how it took over a decade
to bring what director Tom Hooper calls «a passion project»
to the
big screen.
In case you haven't heard, Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company are
bringing yet another»80s horror classic back
to the
big screen with their reboot of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Details about his potential role have
yet to emerge, but Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige did reveal over the summer that the film will
bring the destructive alien race known as the Skrulls
to the
big screen.