Sentences with phrase «by cinephiles»

Set in the medium's native city of Lyon and captained by cinephiles Thierry Frémaux and Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière Festival, which hosted its 9th edition in 2017, unfolded like an ethereal, kaleidoscopic journey through cinema joining the living and the departed, the modern and the classical, the marginal and the mainstream via an eclectic lineup of new releases, revivals, and restorations, including American westerns selected by Tavernier, from John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) to King Vidor's Man Without a Star (1955); Henri Decoin's Monelle (1948); Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981); John Cassavetes's A Child Is Waiting (1963); and Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970).

This year's Palme winner, Winter Sleep, does not seem to have the inherent appeal to the Academy's main demographic as Michael Haneke's film, and director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, while revered by cinephiles as one of the top auteurs of today, does not have the kind of profile in Hollywood that Haneke did even before the release of Amour.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.

No one is asking for a monster movie that aspires to Tarkovsky-esque levels of formal control, but films that don't register as entirely lifeless would surely be greeted with open arms by cinephiles and mainstream audiences alike.

The month - long deal, offered by the cinephiles over at...

She is known by cinephiles in the U.S. particularly for her role in Jorge Amando's «Dona Flor and her Two Husbands» in 1976 at the age of twenty - six.

Best Comic - Con Alumni: Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino brought a riveting seven - minute package for his Western «The Hateful Eight,» and while the director is glorified by cinephiles he seemed more a man of the comic - loving people.

Once Upon A Time In Venice is clearly a film made by cinephiles, but the scattered subplots and underdeveloped characters combine for an overall misfire.

One of the highlights of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this documentary by cinephile and programmer Kent Jones takes the famous tome of the title and runs with its spirit rather than its story.

Not exact matches

IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

But before that arrives, lucky cinephiles will have the chance to revisit the original film as a pristine 35 mm print of an uncut version of the film was found by the Chicago Cinema Society.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

CCS co-director Jason Coffman recently published a book of his collected film reviews, THE UNREPENTANT CINEPHILE, and we're celebrating with two of the most insanely entertaining films recently released by AGFA and Bleeding Skull!

It is, in other words, vintage De Palma, and if he'd actually helmed it, legions of cinephiles would've flameproofed it by now.

In 1955, Nick Ray's most famous film was adored by American teenagers and by French intellectual cinephiles and cineastes.

We here at the SDFCS are touched and honored to receive this «Thank You» signed by all of the aspiring filmmakers and cinephiles.

Like many cinephiles, I was first drawn to Ozu by his serene compositions, the meditative «pillow shots» of train stations and empty rooms that served as scene transitions, and the exquisite way that his films explore the architecture of domestic and urban life.

Sure, his name doesn't ring a bell for a lot of cinephiles and doesn't carry the same weight as internationally renowned Iranian auteurs such as Kiarostami, Panahi or Asghar Farhadi, but consider this: He is the only filmmaker to have had his films shunned by both the Academy and the Iranian committee that submits them!

The discussion, led by Film Comment Digital Editor Violet Lucca, touches on modern audiences» emotional distance from older works, the enduring power of the film medium, and the particular experience of younger generations of cinephiles.

The International Cinephile Society (ICS) has chimed in with their awards for 2014 films and have chosen Stranger by the Lake, from director Alain Guiraudie as the best film of the year.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

Wes Anderson movies are possibly the closest thing to an event movie for the... I was going to say something like «indie nerd cinephile set,» but the truth is Anderson's films are beloved by all kinds of audiences — those who love tentpoles, cineastes, sci - fi aficionados, etc..

(Mexico) Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan — I've never really understood the cinephile adoration — it's a crime drama about the search for a missing body (Turkey) The Student, directed by Santiago Mitre, a political thriller about a student who falls for a radical organizer (Argentina)

The discourse — as articulated by serious cinephiles like Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, as well as their younger colleagues around the country — was essentially about freedom.

Nikos Koundouros for example, a director whose films could stand next to the best works by Carol Reed, Ken Loach and Werner Fassbinder, is almost completely unknown to the cinephiles of the world.

Givertaker, a «Dead Kids Club Story», is directed by Paul Gandersman, and written by Peter S. Hall, a movie writer who many cinephiles probably know already.

Though Luddy is Telluride's spiritual godfather, it is Huntsinger's cinephile sensibilities, soft spot for emotional filmmaking, and behind - the - scenes advocacy that shapes the festival and by extension, the culture of cinema.

Never mind that it gives you the joy of reliving the magic of a film made with such obvious love by and for cinephiles.

By any reckoning he owes a lot to privilege: the right upbringing in the right place with the right parents (a cinephile professor and a film critic), the right schools, right connections and right friends, even the right producer (Scott Rudin).

It's rarely a film that people point to first as a sign of Welles» mastery, but it's no less essential to understanding his place in cinema history, and Criterion continues to prove their commitment to his filmography by LOADING this release with the kind of special features that make it desirable to cinephiles.

That old Monty Python classic was on our mind as we perused the nominations revealed today by the International Cinephile Society for their 11th ICS Awards.

When the Sundance Film kicks off its 2018 edition on January 18th, everyone from critics to cinephiles to the celeb - spotting curious descend on the ski - resort town in the hopes of catching the next Reservoir Dogs, or The Blair Witch Project, or Little Miss Sunshine, or Boyhood, or Call Me By Your Name.

Funny how the most well - known person in Japan is a secret shared by a select group of cinephiles in the United States.

Years in the making and Hou's most expensive production by far, this Cannes Best Director winner (which absolutely should have taken home the Palme D'Or) is the Best Asian Film of 2015 and a gift to cinephiles the world over.

What a microcosm for the good cinephile's experience in 2017 — amidst a struggle to keep away the viruses carried by powerful liars and to dodge the slings & arrows brandished by savages, occasionally we go to the theatre and encounter something sublime, something numinous that reminds us why life is maybe worth sharing with our fellow humans.

In this Cannes post-mortem podcast I'm accompanied by Gold Rush Gang Member Jason Osiason and International Cinephile Society member David Acacia, both of whom attended the 68th Cannes Film Festival last week and we dish about the movies they saw, the jury and the uninspired prize winners.

Berberian Sound Studio is a masterfully made film that will please audio experts, cinephiles and horror fans, especially fans of films from the era made by directors such as Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava.

Films like Call Me By Your Name, The Post, and Phantom Thread are still making their way to non-coastal markets, expanding at what feels like a glacial pace for impatient cinephiles.

It's Tarantino's eighth movie and his worst by a widescreen, a boring, self - indulgent mess that squanders a big chunk of the goodwill he's built up with cinephiles by shooting on film and supporting independent theaters.

Larry loves the industry and yet, barring the adoration offered by hardcore fans and like - minded cinephiles such as Joe Dante, John Landis, Mick Garris and Martin Scorses, gets little love in return.

by Ian Pugh As a young teenager and budding cinephile, I owned all the Bond films on VHS.

Today, she's all but forgotten by everyone apart from lovers of dark and bizarre history or ardent cinephiles who know that Paddy Chayefsky «s Oscar - winning «Network» screenplay was directly inspired by her story.

(That movie wore its cinephile heart on its sleeve by depicting a wild L.A. hipster party at which Godard's Alphaville is projected on the side of a house.)

I don't think it's wrong at all to see Antonioni's career - defining trilogy out of its intended order I do feel, however, that this particular moment in film history needs to be seen by any self - respecting cinephile, so jump in wherever you can.

There's a real off - kilter humour to these early stages, helped by Oxenbould who proves to have tremendous comic timing and a likeable chemistry with precocious sister DeJonge, even as she occasionally irritates with her over-written cinephile dialogue.

Lastly, hats off to the continuing excellence of the offerings provided by the UK's Second Run label, still the anglophone Czechoslovako - cinephile's best friend.

Paramount and Warner Bros. made a lot of cinephiles happy today by posting the first trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci - fi Interstellar.

A lifelong cinephile, Mark is particularly inspired by Fellini and Robert Bresson.

4:35 p.m., Hall H — Sony Pictures The Screen Gems release will lead right into the panel for parent company Sony, who have some of the most anticipated - by - cinephiles footage of the weekend.