Sentences with phrase «called art movies»

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).

Not exact matches

This month I'm calling it «Cool Sh*t I've Read — and Seen — Lately» so I can add a movie and art exhibit.

It's Poseidon Adventure, Alien Resurrection, any heist movies, Jaws, and a little art house flick called Titanic all in one.

John Wick: Chapter 2 La La Land A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story A Most Violent Year Adult Beginners Adventures of Power Afternoon Delight Alex of Venice All The Light In The Sky Amy Animal Kingdom Attenberg Avengers: Age of Ultron Bad Turn Worse Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Bellflower Big Game Birdman Black Blue Ruin Blue Valentine Bones Brigade: An Autobiography Boyhood Brick Mansions Butter C.O.G. Ceremony Charlie Countryman Child of God Cop Car CXL Dark Places Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Deadfall Don Jon Don't Think Twice Drive Dumb and Dumber To Embers Escape from Tomorrow Foxcatcher Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Fubar: Balls to the Wall Fury Godzilla Going the Distance Gone Girl Grey Gardens Gridlocked Guardians of the Galaxy Holy Motors Holy Rollers Hungry Hearts Hunt for the Wilderpeople I Am Chris Farley Imperial Dreams In the Blood Inherent Vice Inside Out Iris Jack Goes Boating Jackass 3 Jersey Boys Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work Joe Jurassic World Just Jim Kaboom Kill the Irishman Klovn: The Movie (Klown) Let Me In Liberal Arts Life Itself Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow Lola Versus Louder Than a Bomb Lucy LUV Mad Max: Fury Road Maggie Man of Steel Maps to the Stars Melancholia Men, Women, & Children Miami Connection Middle of Nowhere My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Nature Calls Nightcrawler Nighthawks Oddsac One & Two Only God Forgives Peep World Pincus Pricecheck Prince Avalanche Rabbit Hole Raze Robot & Frank Rosewater Rubber Rudderless San Andreas Save the Date Scream 4 Sleepwalk With Me Smashed Snowpiercer Somewhere Southpaw Spring Breakers Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Submarine Sun Don't Shine Take Shelter Take This Waltz Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Terminator Genisys The Amazing Spider - Man The Bastard Sings The Sweetest Song The Cold Lands The Comedy The Equalizer The Expendables 3 The Fault in Our Stars The Gambler The Girl The Girlfriend Experience The Grand Budapest Hotel The Hateful Eight The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 The Kids Are All Right The Kings of Summer The One I Love The Raid The Rambler The Revenant The Rover The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?)

The mood's mostly pretty dour, which leaves the audience particularly grateful for those who provide comic relief: Dave Bautista's growly Drax, who in one scene is practicing the underappreciated art of standing really, really still; Tom Holland's chipper Peter / Spidey, taking it all in with wide eyes; Robert Downey Jr.'s ever - grumpy Tony Stark / Iron Man, who's pretty sick of Peter's pop - culture references (particularly «a really old movie called «Alien»»).

FRUITVALE STATION (2013)-- I'm not hating on the world guys... RIDDICK (2013)-- I'm not hating on the world that allows this movie to keep going... THE EAST (2013)-- I'm hating on the world, and cinema for this movie... MUSEUM HOURS (2013)-- Let me think about art some more... FROZEN (2013)-- Let me wish for more great musical songs per film... THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013)-- Let me wish for shorter films... CALL ME KUCHU (2013)-- Let me wish for equality... THE TWELVE CHAIRS (1970)-- Young Frank Langela makes me feel weird... TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)-- Charlton Heston is badass guys...

MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria of this venerated event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»

John L. Sullivan, played by Joel McCrea, is a successful Hollywood comedy director — but he wants to create serious art, in the form of a movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.&raqart, in the form of a movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.&raqArt Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.»

Pollack fails to mention the punch line, though: in the same piece, a notorious essay called «Trash, Art, and the Movies,» Kael exalts Pollack's own The Scalphunters!

A much more pervasive dullness in the upscale art movie Damage unifies the sex scenes, the dialogue scenes, and the contrived plot; they're all in the same universe of discourse — or shall we call it the same hell of good taste?

In 2012, Emily played a young maiden and John her minstrel husband in a skit called Movie: The Movie, and last year, they starred as themselves in a sketch centred on The Kimmel School of Perfect Acting, in which comedian Jimmy instructed the two to act as if they were not married, a role playing exercise a «sad» Emily justified as a «sacrifice» for art.

The 21 - year - old breakout star of three upcoming movies with Oscar buzz («Call Me by Your Name,» «Lady Bird» and «Hostiles») grew up in Hell's Kitchen, graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, studied at both Columbia and NYU and now resides in the East Village.

I no longer know how to reply when someone calls a movie racist or misogynistic or homophobic or transphobic (all labels I myself have used about various works of art).

Her embrace of what she called De Palma's trashiness was central to her celebration of youthfulness in both movie art and movie audiences — especially the kind that regarded leftist humanism as square and choked with noble intentions.

While most directors may not borrow as much from other movies as Quentin Tarantino, a video series called Film Meets Art compares movies like There Will Be Blood, Melancholia, Lost in Translation, Empire of the Sun, Inherent Vice and and even Django Unchained to the pieces of art that inspired some of their gorgeous shoArt compares movies like There Will Be Blood, Melancholia, Lost in Translation, Empire of the Sun, Inherent Vice and and even Django Unchained to the pieces of art that inspired some of their gorgeous shoart that inspired some of their gorgeous shots.

The pleasures of art, music, food, natural beauty and sexual awakening are evoked and celebrated in «Call Me by Your Name,» an almost sinfully enjoyable movie that both observes and obeys the languid rhythms of a torrid Italian summer.

So while Annihilation bypasses cinemas in this country, do call out the movie industry for its lack of faith in filmmakers and film lovers; petition Netflix to team up with Curzon cinemas more to release its original movies theatrically in the UK; support smaller titles that do have cinema releases where possible; but don't spend your time lamenting the decline of cinema when the art of the visual medium is alive and kicking through Annihilation, in US theatres and on UK computers, phones, tablets and TVs.

Calling Lincoln an heir to these films perhaps does it a disservice however, for, in the film's often misunderstood prologue and following dream sequence, Kushner and Spielberg openly acknowledge their movie's genial relation to the actuality of the 13th Amendment's passage, theater, and cinematic history itself — and by announcing upfront that they're employing the tools afforded by the arts to re-create past events, they let us know that their aims are somewhat closer to folklore than strict reportage.

To those who only know James Franco from his much - maligned lifeless hosting of last week's Oscar ceremony or his Pineapple Express stoner recalled by it, in this movie you'll discover James Franco the serious actor, not dabbling in daytime TV and calling it performance art, but giving his all to embodying a reckless real person pushed to the limit and determined to escape.

While Black Panther makes no great leap forward from the tried and true (or tired and true, depending on your threshold for repetition) superhero movie story arc, what this category of films lack in plot originality, Black Panther makes up for in casting, art direction, costume design, and writing (the sharp yet casual one - liners calling out colonialism, white privilege, and the American superiority complex both zing and sting — as they should).

Blu - ray Highlight: As you might expect from a movie like «Safe,» the coolest piece of bonus material is a 10 - minute featurette called «The Art of the Gunfight» that takes a look at the action choreography in the film, focusing on three sequences in particular.

The more cynical might call it Jason Friedberg And Aaron Seltzer's Euro Art Movie: decrepit drawing rooms straight out of Aleksandr Sokurov's studies of corrupting power, rustic misty landscapes, gloomy bilingual actors who seem to have pulled their accents at random from a bag, a small role for a cast - against - type Robert Pattinson.

Far more influential, however, was the 1966 art - house classic, «Un Homme et Une Femme» («A Man and a Woman»), which some call the greatest Mustang movie ever, starring not one, but three Mustangs, plus a GT40.

Warhol has a first art show at the Ferus Gallery; Dennis and Brooke Hopper throw Andy a «real Hollywood party»; Warhol meets his idol Marcel Duchamp; and Warhol and crew shoot a movie called Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort Of, with the impish Mead as Tarzan and Dennis Hopper as his body double.

If you haven» t yet seen the first Sex in the City movie, you probably won» t catch the drift of this unusual approach to serving sushi. In the Japanese culture itÂ's called Nyotaimori. ItÂ's a form of art that presents delectable finger food strategically placed on a womanÂ's body. Typically the food is raw sashimi and sushiÂ... And the woman  — nakedÂ...

They call it a little town, an art village, the cultural heart of Bali, best city in Asia (voted by Conde Nast Traveler in 2009), Eat Pray Love movie shooting location.

One of this blogger's top five movies of all time is a little known indie art - piece called Back to the Future.

I got to briefly try out the Windwalking movement feature and some of the signature combat combos that call to mind the best classic martial arts movies, and I was very impressed with what I saw.

Called Made to be Destroyed, Marclay pieces together high octane clips of art in movies; Clive Owen battles through a frenetic shoot out in the Guggenheim, Christian Bale sets fire to the Mona Lisa and Jack Nicholson's Joker gleefully dances through a Gotham City gallery, defacing and destroying artworks as he goes.

Call it video art or the movies.

His famed, frenetic video art pieces (he prefers to call them «movies») are equal parts vapid and vicious, taking the affected language of YouTube vlogs and reality TV to bizarre new places as he feels out the edges of postmodern (or is it Post-Internet?)

Not many art dealers can call themselves fledgling movie directors, but Sundaram Tagore - who operates branches of his gallery in New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong - recently debuted his first feature - length film.

Austin believed that what he called contemporary «living things» — «pictures, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, even music and movies» — must take their places beside great works of the past because «we must surely seek to live in the present and try to create the new forms which are to be our legacy to the future.»

The project, intended to draw more visitors to the northern Berkshires and to help the economy of North Adams in particular, would include a new contemporary art museum, the renovation of a 1938 movie palace and the building of what Mr. Krens calls a museum for «extreme model railroading and contemporary architecture,» all in or near North Adams.

The movie is also notable for art director Christian Bérard's stylish costumes and sets, which call to mind scenes from the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and French illustrator Gustave Doré, as well as the enchanting soundtrack by composer George Auric.

The Foundation's art world zombie movie (Isle of the Dead) was a summer hit on Governors Island, as was its art - education slide lecture last July, called Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull, which refers to the classic Joseph Beuys 1965 performance How To Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare.

BK: I've always had a very broad definition of art, and it always struck me as funny that any piece of canvas with some pigment on it is called art, and some movies or forms of music are considered art and some aren't.

Call me dense, but I don't see how it's obvious for this man to endorse anything other than a martial arts movie marathon on late night cable television.

It's no wonder the financial commitment from players like those helped spawn the development of a slew of restaurants and a spate of art galleries as well as a the Midtown Movie Cinema that shows small independent films and a large bookstore called Midtown Scholar Bookstore.