Sentences with phrase «century film named»

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The fourteenth - century Dominican Inquisitor, Bernard Gui, author of Practica Inquisitionis is famously portrayed in the film version of The Name of Rose as a bloodthirsty fanatic.

Name: Jennifer Graham Location: New York City Current Title / Company: Director of Field Marketing, 20th Century Fox Filmed Entertainment Educational Background: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Humanities, Providence College

Blind Date (one of the most popular syndicated dating shows on TV) is a show in which a guy and a girl hook up and go around town to see if they are right [Blind Gossip] This film from earlier this century didn't get good reviews, but it does have a memorable name... and it did produce some good

In the film, Cusack plays a drunken, penniless Edgar Allan Poe, who flaneurs and stumbles around 19th century Baltimore loudly extolling the virtues of his own writing and wooing a young lady of society (the comically named Alice Eve) while enraging her blustering father (Brendan Gleeson).

The story of a 10th century Scottish princess named Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) is the first Pixar film to have a female lead.

The film notes that the election of the former archbishop of Buenos Aires to the church's highest office created a lot of firsts: the first Pope from the Americas, the first from the southern hemisphere, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name of Francis, after 13th - century Saint Francis of Assisi (whose life is sketched out, also a bit clunkily, during the film).

Making a film adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize - winning 1997 novel American Pastoral, often named one of the best books of the 20th century, would be daunting to any director.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

«Six Bridges to Cross» (1955), 7:15 p.m.: In the first feature - film treatment of the Brink's robbery, the «Crime of the Century» becomes a character study, with Tony Curtis as the mastermind (here named Jerry Florea).

Based on Glendon Swarthout's novel of the same name, the film focuses on the female struggle during America's western expansion circa the mid-19th century.

That film was recently named the best film of the 21st century so far by the critics of the New York Times.

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

A 32 - year - old filmmaker named Casey Neistat decided to take the entire budget he was given to promote an upcoming film from 20th Century Fox to...

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

WHY: After unsuccessfully adapting the popular «Hitman» video game series with the 2007 film of the same name, 20th Century Fox decided to give it one more go by rebooting the franchise with a brand new cast.

IndieWire named «Fury Road» one of the best action films of the 21st century.

After what seems like eons, Warren Beatty's previously untitled Howard Hughes film finally has a name and a release date — it will be called Rules Don't Apply and be released by 20th Century Fox on November 11th.

There other flubs in The Next Best Thing (such as a line where Robert mentions it's the 21st Century in a scene that, in the film's time frame, should be set around 1993; or the fact that Robert's sole love interest, a cardiologist, has no name and is rather comically listed in the closing credits as «Cardiologist»), but to go over them would be as pointless an exercise as the entire film is.

With the trailer set to arrive tomorrow, Martin Scorsese's next film Silence has received a first poster along with three new images from the upcoming film, which is based on Shusaku Endo's 1966 novel of the same name about two young Portuguese Jesuit Priests in 17th Century Japan facing violence and persecution as they attempt to find their -LSB-...]

The film, released via 20th Century Fox, is a late summer tentpole release based on the Marvel comic - book series of the same name, directed by Josh Trank.

The film tells the story of a young reporter named Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) who was trying to make a career for himself and struggle out from under his father's shadow as one of the greatest sports journalists of the last century.

Just 2.8 days after 28 Days Later was named «best British horror film of the 21st century» in a wide - ranging survey of horror filmmakers, critics and fans, the new trailer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arrived.

The diverse forms of expression embedded in films from faraway lands likewise can broaden creativity and possibilities for communication — just to name a few of the many 21st century learning skills you might tap into.

In the four centuries since Shakespeare's death (April 23, 1616), his works have been adapted to pretty much every media you can imagine: books, plays, films, radio shows, TV series, board games, and Web series, to name but a few.

The Venice Simplon - Orient - Express — the very name conjures up images of 19th - century splendour, of silent film stars and Agatha Christie.

The officially licensed game, developed by veteran developer Sticky Studios and published by PikPok, is based on the 20th Century Fox action - adventure film and James Dashner's New York Times bestselling novel of the same name.

Pollock, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, or Frida are not just the names of artists, but also the titles of films that depict lives and struggles of some of the best known artists of the previous century.

It was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, and Filmmaker magazine named it one of the 50 most important films of the 20th century, but the crush of fame affected the relationship between its two creators: Jafa separated from Dash during the film's publicity period.

Dash Shaw (BFA 2005 Illustration) Author, animator and cartoonist; published works include Cosplayers 1 & 2, Doctors, New School, 3 New Stories, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Bottomless Belly Button all published by Fantagraphics; New Jobs published by Uncivilized Books; BodyWorld published by Pantheon; Bottomless Belly Button was named Publishers Weekly's best graphic novel and one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books; New School was voted One the Best Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2014).