Sentences with phrase «by arthouse»

Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, writer - director Lee Eubanks creates a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease in his feature film debut.

«Starry Eyes» is as gory as it is corrosively cynical, a supernatural mood piece that's equally influenced by the arthouse horror movies of David Lynch and Roman Polanski, and the grindhouse - ready Satanic Panic films of the»70s, like «To the Devil a Daughter,» and «The Devil Rides out.»

Not exact matches

After voyaging to Germany with Brian Eno, Bowie penned Low, an album mimicked and borrowed from by nearly every arthouse, post-punk or alternative band to come after.

Where Ghesquière envisioned a future for Balenciaga that was all obscure and arthouse by way of boxy silhouettes and Kristen Stewart, PPR wanted something way more saleable.

Very typical of the post Gen X bullshit touted by self - proclaimed «arthouse» auteurs in the 90s, the biggest tragedy of this pointless load of self - satisfied yet irrelevant and vacuous drivel is the fact that there are now two wasted hours of my life I will never get back.

His mix of arthouse iPhone Hollywood and downplayed character accentuation (by way of misrepresented screen shrinkage) makes for a thriller that fails to spike excitement via a villain who's always right where he has to be.

By the time director Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También took stateside arthouse theaters by storm in the early months of 2002, actor Diego Luna had been a fixture of Mexican film and television for nearly a decadBy the time director Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También took stateside arthouse theaters by storm in the early months of 2002, actor Diego Luna had been a fixture of Mexican film and television for nearly a decadby storm in the early months of 2002, actor Diego Luna had been a fixture of Mexican film and television for nearly a decade.

Written and directed by the noted Chilean arthouse filmmaker Pablo Larraín («The Club»), it's not in the style of a usual Hollywood biopic (it looks more interesting than that).

A competition lineup strong on European arthouse is leavened by the anticipated presence on the Croisette of teenybop pinups Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson.

The production design is really good - it's interesting to see that the porn theaters used to be side - by - side with the arthouse theaters in Times Square.

The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career, auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.

With the ouster from Focus Features of longtime indie studio chief James Schamus, Hollywood loses yet another arthouse - oriented studio, to be replaced — most likely — by a specialized division that will focus on genre movies more to the liking of Peter Schlessel, who is taking over.

But Slow West utilises a massive arsenal of cinematic techniques shunned by most commercial filmmakers, and shows that an arthouse film can hold both tension and big ideas at once.

A challenging arthouse work like that needs massive, unanimous critical support to get noticed by the Oscars (as with The Sweet Hereafter), and from its mixed reception at Cannes, Adoration doesn't seem to have that.

Stephen Cone has developed quite a following among fans of indie and arthouse cinema, and he delivers the best work of his career with this gentle, realistic coming - of - age story that defies the conventions of its genre merely by being so truthful with its characters.

It often looks like a film by Lynne Ramsay or even Lucrecia Martel, composed in a dreamily unhurried arthouse - realist style that is concerned to capture texture, mood and moment.

Having taken the arthouse world by storm with his first two pictures - Reprise and Oslo, 31 August - Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier makes the move into English language fare with his third effort while very much maintaining his signature...

Sayles likes to say that he was catapulted from total obscurity to relative obscurity, a quip borne out by a trajectory that has taken him from the genre grindhouse to niche arthouse respectability.

Invited to Suwon for a screening of one of his films, arthouse director Ham Cheon - soo (Jeong Jae - yeong) finds himself spending the day hanging out with aspiring painter Hee - jeong (Kim Min - hee), leading to a checklist of Hong - isms: comically awkward conversations over food, followed by even more awkward scenes of people apologizing; strangely contentious interactions with new acquaintances; jumbled chronology; characters standing around in the cold for much longer than they should.

Paul Walker remains behind the steering wheel, but this action thriller has a whiff of the arthouse about it, simply by being set in South Africa.

Although well - acted by a name cast, the offbeat subject matter and idiosyncratic tone make it arthouse material... Full Review

In January, we reported that a Russian arthouse theater had defied the country's Ministry Of Culture by screening Armando Iannucci's Cold War satire The Death Of Stalin despite it having its distribution certification revoked for — essentially — making fun of Russia's history.

«We are looking forward to sharing Lover For a Day with arthouse crowds, fans of Garrel and French cinema, as well as younger audiences / students who can relate to the two protagonists — especially Esther Garrel's growing fan base given the break - out year she has had, with an impressive performance in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name in addition to her leading role in Lover For a Day,» commented Kasman.

This is the third film by the 32 year - old Chinese arthouse favorite Jia Zhang - ke and the first to find commercial distribution in the United States.

Wash Westmoreland's «Colette» (Metascore: 74) is a conventional arthouse play, predictably picked up by Bleecker Street (partnering with 30West).

It has a long tradition of championing esoteric arthouse films by directors such as Lars von Trier and Pedro Almovodar, but also happily allows Hollywood to use the festival as a promotional vehicle for some of its most vacuous summer blockbusters.

Even though Red Sparrow has a lower Rotten Tomatoes score at 51 % than Atomic Blonde «s 77 % fresh, there's a similar reaction from critics: Both possess a manic arthouse rhythm in its pace (spurts of violence are followed by slower, convoluted moments, never rising above pulp).

«Atomic Blonde» is being distributed by Focus Features, a studio best known for their indie, arthouse films and awards season contenders that don't usually make big bucks at the box office.

Black Swan is the fifth feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky, whose reputation has grown as he has developed from a maker of acclaimed arthouse fare (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) into someone who can interest and connect with the masses without compromise (The Wrestler).

The inventor almost by himself of two distinct genres of film in Italy (and just the concept of the arthouse slasher in the world), a co-writer of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, and a revolutionizer of horror - movie music became this guy who stopped aping Hitchcock and started aping... Jeunet?

Anyone with a passing familiarity with modern Austrian cinema outside of Michael Haneke «s work will not be surprised that arthouse horror «Goodnight Mommy» is produced by Ulrich Seidl, whose own «Paradise» trilogy, as well as 2015's terrific, underseen semi-doc «In The Basement,» share a certain chilly formalist distance with Fiala and Franz» movie.

For arthouse absurdity, I was more tickled by The Brand New Testament (Metrodome, 15), Belgian director Jaco van Dormael's antic scriptural satire, in which God turns out to be most emphatically alive — as a schlubby, unhappily married loser in Brussels, sadistically determining our individual fates via a clunky computer monitor.

Giving flesh and blood to the idea that life goes on even when it no longer seems worth living, «Manchester» may be too sprawling a vision for all arthouse tastes, but Lonergan's many champions are scarcely the only viewers who will be stirred by this superbly grounded and acted third effort.»

Variety «s Andrew Barker gave the film a strong review: «Slower and more deliberate than some of his recent work, though anchored by a remarkably honest and unrestrained sex scene, «Disobedience» may not catapult Lelio beyond the arthouse world, but it's yet another triumph in what's shaping up to be a major career.»

And considering how well the strategy of Cannes premiere, followed quickly by a platform release worked in 2011, we presume the arthouse shingle won't mess with the formula and stick to the playbook.

Adapted by 89 - year - old screenwriter James Ivory, it exhibits that specific brand of watchable, genteel restraint that made Merchant Ivory the arthouse Marvel Studios of the 1980s and «90s.

And for anyone who has been a fan of the remarkable arthouse films that Amazon has supported in the past few years (Manchester By the Sea, The Salesman, Chi - Raq, The Lost City of Z, Love & Friendship, Last Flag Flying, and The Neon Demon), this is a huge bummer.

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Although the China Film Archive launched the distribution of foreign and local arthouse titles through National Arthouse Cinemas Alliance in Oct. 2016, «On Body and Soul» will mark the first foreign film licensed by China Film Archive and the first European feature film to be screened through the National Arthouse Cinemas Aarthouse titles through National Arthouse Cinemas Alliance in Oct. 2016, «On Body and Soul» will mark the first foreign film licensed by China Film Archive and the first European feature film to be screened through the National Arthouse Cinemas AArthouse Cinemas Alliance in Oct. 2016, «On Body and Soul» will mark the first foreign film licensed by China Film Archive and the first European feature film to be screened through the National Arthouse Cinemas AArthouse Cinemas Alliance.

An ever - so - slight step closer to the mainstream by another sibling filmmaking team, indie veterans David and Nathan Zellner, made without compromising one iota of their fiercely original vision, this alternately spirited and sad adult fairy tale will surely baffle as many viewers as it enchants, but should ride appreciative reviews and a knockout central performance by Rinko Kikuchi to much fest and arthouse exposure.

Drone - pilot indie drama Good Kill, directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Ethan Hawke, suffered from an uncertain positioning between arthouse and mainstream.

But there's also plenty of laughter to be found, especially in the seemingly endless library of sweded Criterion and arthouse films that are made by Greg and Earl, played masterfully by Mann and the scene - stealing R.J. Cyler.

This is only one of many great vignettes (and I've left out the real punchline in the locker room after Patric's monologue) in Your Friends & Neighbors, a film that was overshadowed in the Rated - R adult arthouse zone by Todd Solondz more visually graphic Happiness which was release in the same month.

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) was overrated by many in the arthouse crowd.

So, with the teen - driven narratives of «An Education» and «Precious» heading for theaters soon, and with the youth romance of «Bright Star» currently pleasing older arthouse audiences, it seemed an apt moment to celebrate the new guard by ranking the finest talent that the born - after - 1980 generation has to offer.

Where you've seen him before: Barbieri made a big impression on arthouse audiences as the young aspiring actor Tony, whose close friendship with his new landlord's son Jake is complicated by the conflict between their parents in Ira Sachs» «Little Men,» and will next be seen in the highly anticipated «The Dark Tower.»

His lush South Korean thriller, adapted from the British novel «Fingersmith» by Sarah Waters (also made into a British TV miniseries), has the look of a lavish period drama, the elegance of an arthouse picture, the complex plotting of an ingenious caper that only the movies could sustain, and the sex and nudity of an exploitation picture.

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This is a true arthouse action game, a journey into the depths of hell in search of a doomed loved one that doubles up as a brave examination of mental health issues, and that ambitious premise is matched by the game's high production values.

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