Sentences with phrase «by film icon»

It was immediately clear that this powerful story, with its incredible lead performance by film icon Sam Elliott, was a strong candidate for our closing night.

The Weinstein Company (TWC), founded by film icons Bob and Harvey Weinstein, recently scored great success with their latest film, The King's Speech.

Not exact matches

The distributor of Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris could get dinged by the literary icon known as Pappy.

If there was ever any doubt as to Ice - T's stance on food, the hip - hop icon cleared it up in the Body Count video «Institutionalized»: While taking a lunch break, he's accosted by a film crew member wearing a «Meat Is Murder» T - shirt.

The Mouton Cadet Wine Bar will also welcome «A Shaded View of Fashion Film» (ASVOFF), the international film festival on fashion created by American fashion icon Diane Pernet.

Earlier, lip rings or lip labrets were worn by sports icons, film stars and other celebrities which later quite became a trend among the masses.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

2 includes appearances by genre - film icons Sonny Chiba, Michael Parks, Larry Bishop, and Sid Haig; Wu - Tang Clan producer and turntablist RZA and filmmaker and composer Robert Rodriguez both contributed to the musical score.

This is a film not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his political opponents as just a hayseed from the backwoods.

The film boasts performances by Brea Grant (Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2, «Dexter,» «Heroes») and 80's horror icon Barbara Crampton, who starred in From Beyond and Re-Animator before popping back up in modern horror films such as Adam Wingard's You're Next and We Are Still Here.

«Facing Windows» stars the late Massimo Girotti, an icon of the Italian cinema who starred in films by Visconti, Rossellini, De Sica and Bertolucci, as the old man whose presence compels characters — played by luminous Giovanna Mezzogiorno («The Last Kiss») and Raoul Bova («Under the Tuscan Sun»)-- into peering into the facing windows that symbolize unfulfilled longing.

Deftly combining expressive verité cinematography by the late French New Wave icon Raoul Coutard with the propulsive rhythms of a Hollywood action film, Z is a landmark account of fascist oppression that remains chillingly relevant today.

If youth is the surreptitious victor of Assayas's film, it's a bolshier threat to its elders in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young (Icon, 15), in which bohemian millennials and domestication - resistant Generation X-ers forge a connection gradually severed by both generation's vanities.

After an introduction by Meryl Streep that was heartrending in itself (she'll be nominated for it next year), the montage neglected to include Joan Rivers, who, while not a robust film presence, certainly became a red - carpet icon.

Filmmaker Samantha Fuller pays tribute to her late father, American film and literary icon Sam Fuller, with this film featuring excerpts from his memoirs read by fans, friends, and followers.

Bassett recently stopped by BuzzFeed to speak about the film and Jordan's ad - libbed «hey, auntie» line and, because she's a true icon, she blessed the world with a brief glimpse of what her take on Killmonger might have been like.

Genre conventions show up right on schedule (conflicting egos, creative differences, make - or - break gigs), while the decade's icons drop by for signposting guest appearances, but wistful or not, the film's magical musical tour isn't purely a nostalgia trip.

With the news of Charlie Murphy's passing still fresh in the minds of many, there is perhaps a signal that the comedy world will continue to be brightened by his family and their impeccable comedic chops after word emerged today that Paramount is in the in process of creating a sequel to Coming to America — a film that cemented Eddie Murphy's status as a comedy icon.

Frustrated by Coin's use of her as an icon for propaganda films, Katniss stows away on a medical transport to the Capitol, where she joins the front, and focuses on her final goal — the assassination of President Snow (Donald Sutherland, «The Mechanic»).

An old dream come true for its director, John Krokidas, who spent years raising the money (the film was eventually produced by Killer Films, Christine Vachon's production company), Kill Your Darlingsreturns to 1944, at the time of the meeting between Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe, shedding his Harry Potter virginity to embody an icon of sexual iconoclasm), Lucien Carr (an alluring Dane DeHan), William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

by Walter Chaw Emboldened, perhaps, by the surprisingly good The Other Guys and the surprisingly great Get Him to the Greek, I went into Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piece.

Reviewed by Damien Straker on July 3rd, 2014 Icon presents a film by Nicolas Vanier Produced by Frédéric Brillion, Gilles...

It is the first film produced by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions which Gibson founded because no other production company had wanted to take on a Shakespearean film.

Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau plays a charismatic thief pursued by French icon Jean Reno as a tenacious detective in this globetrotting caper film.

The Face / Off icon teams with retro - obsessed director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) for this fantasy revenge film set in an alternative 1983 informed by clam - shelled VHS sci - fi flicks.

(November 13, 2017)-- Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Internal Affairs) as a charismatic thief is pursued by French icon Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional, The Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible) as a tenacious detective in the globetrotting caper film THE ADVENTURERS, stealing onto on digital December 5 and on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack January 2 from Well Go USA Entertainment.

In the latest turn of events, the film was picked up by Universal with Michael Fassbender now officially cast in the role of the legendary tech icon Steve Jobs.

Reviewed by Damien Straker on the 17th of December 2017 Icon presents a film by Sean Baker Produced by Sean...

When it comes to LGBTQ representation, the films with the best chance for nabbing some academy recognition are «Battle of the Sexes,» in which tennis and lesbian icon Billie Jean King is played by reigning Oscar champ Emma Stone, and Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name,» in which Timothée Chalamet delivers a breakthrough performance as a 17 - year - old boy who falls in love for the first time.

The balance is a delicate one, as seen in the pre-release debate around this film revealing Sulu (John Cho but formerly played by LGBT icon George Takei) as gay.

Village Voice Bilge Elbiri on a film review that changed his live (J Hoberman's 1992 piece on Orson Welles» Othello)- lovely personal piece Nick Davis Chicago film festival jury picks and his own precise takes on the movies screened including high profile gems like Call Me By Your Name, and several foreign film Oscar submissions Esquire Bryan Cranston must be seeking to sabotage his Oscar hopes this year with this admission that he's rooting for Trump to succeed Huffington Post talks to Melissa Leo about Novitiate and becoming a gay icon with those «Consider...» ads

«Nocturnal Animals» (Focus) It's surprising that a film directed by a gay icon (the notoriously provocative designer Tom Ford) would get dinged by GLAAD — but the film's two gay characters (one played by Michael Sheen, one only referenced in the history of characters played by Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal) did not pass muster.

While it pointed fingers and gawked at the genre, Vaughn and company clearly had fun building a new spy series for the next generation by simultaneously honoring the films and icons of the past, while also pointing out their glaring flaws.

By making the characters fully aware of Owens» ability, and foreshadowing his inevitable triumph at the Olympic Games, the film can focus on celebrating the icon.

By that I mean that that while the film holds plenty of entertainment value, its meandering story (adapted by kid lit icon Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes) is a bit tryinBy that I mean that that while the film holds plenty of entertainment value, its meandering story (adapted by kid lit icon Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes) is a bit tryinby kid lit icon Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes) is a bit trying.

But the film is never defined by these politics; instead, Hornby feels his ways into the story and resists the urge to turn his heroine into a symbol, an icon, or anything less than a human being.

ITALIAN SILENT FILM DIVAS By Angela Della Vacche Part goddesses and part emancipated New Women, the female movie stars of Italy's silent era were fascinating, enigmatic icons.

Reviewed by Damien Straker on January 30th, 2014 Icon presents a film by Steve McQueen Written by John Ridley (screenplay),...

We now have the first ever shot from the film, directed by up - and - coming horror icon Mike Flanagan, who was behind Netflix's Hush, not to mention Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus, Before I Wake and Absentia.

Reviewed by Damien Straker on October 20th, 2013 Icon presents a film directed by Robert Rodriguez Written by Kyle Ward (screenplay), Robert Rodriguez (story), Marcel Rodriguez (story).

Reviewed by Damien Straker on October 20th, 2013 Icon presents a film directed by Robert Rodriguez Written by Kyle Ward...

Todd Haynes» 1999 film «Velvet Goldmine» (Miramax) reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of «Citizen Kane» and the fictionalized persona of rock legend and bi-sexual pop icon Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys - Myers).

Truth be told, the film isn't that bad, and if it had been directed by an unknown rather than a controversial media icon, it might have been more charitably dismissed as an ambitious failure.

On the heels of the more audience - friendly shoot»em - up 3:10 to Yuma comes the ponderous but often pretentious epic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — an intriguing visual poem starring Brad Pitt as the Old West icon and Casey Affleck, Pitt's co-star in the Ocean's films, as James» assassin.

The Blu - ray's loading icon shows several golden links disappearing and reappearing one by one against the Alamut city skyline, the same image that adorns the pop - up menu during film playback.

Iris The final film by Albert Maysles focuses on 93 - year - old New York fashion icon Iris Apfel, a self - described (and self - made) «geriatric starlet.»

And, from the big end of town, there are also new sneak peeks of Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, with Rami Maleck stepping into the music icon's shoes in an uncanny fashion; The Predator, the latest take on the alien killers directed by The Nice Guys» Shane Black, who actually featured on - screen in the original film; and Shock and Awe, a new Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones - starring newspaper flick about the US invasion of Iraq.

There has been quite a bit of confusion whether or not Robert Englund was actually going to be in the film, we all assumed he was going to be in there with all the other horror icons, but it's been confirmed by Robert Englund himself that he's not appearing in Death House at all.

Hollywood icon Errol Flynn played Corbett in this film, which focuses on Corbett's match with world heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan (played brilliantly by Ward Bond).

«I'm also thrilled that a London movie such as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and the magnetism of its central performance by London icon Gary Oldman has been rightfully recognised with so many nominations across different categories, a reminder of its all - round qualities as a British and international film.