Sentences with phrase «cinema classics like»

It is, however, a persuasive treatment of the issue, through the lens of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Yusuf comes across as more exasperated than excoriating: «Though Black Ops blatantly lifts scenes and lines from cinema classics like Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter, it fails to communicate the same anti-war message that Kubrick and Cimino did.»

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

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There are a wide variety of romantic things to do in the city; like taking advantage of its vibrant cultural arts scene, or enjoying some of the finest classic cinemas in the UK.

In this road movie that feels much like classic 1970s cinema, Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines, 2012) plays Gerry, a talented yet perpetually unlucky gambler who thinks the next big win is just around the corner.

Ensemble comedies are a mainstay of classic cinema — from crime capers to family drama - comedies, the sub-genre is a tricky one to get right — but nothing lights up the screen quite like a cast that just click.

I tend to associate the Criterion Collection with exemplary releases of classics from Hollywood (like the recent Blu - ray of John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln) and international cinema (like Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr).

And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under - heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema's pioneers to home video for the first time.

In his eloquent fulmination on «the De Palma Conundrum,» The New Yorker's Richard Brody says, «De Palma's peculiar fealty to the history of cinema — his overt dependence upon the films of Alfred Hitchcock and his plethora of references to other classic filmmakers... results in zombie - like movies.»

The first week of SIFF promises a plethora of interesting cinema, from well - known auteurs like Terence Davies and Whit Stillman, to more obscure finds from Thailand, Japan, China and the wilds of Portland, and established classics from Orson Welles and Douglas Sirk.

Directed with the equal energy by British director John Hough, whose lean, high - powered action scenes are energized by the dynamic, almost child - like performances of his thrill - addicted characters, it's a classic of seventies speed cinema, where car chase and stunt films were really about rubber hitting — and leaving — the road.

For a fan of classic cinema, there is nothing quite like seeing a black and white film presented beautifully in High Definition, and My Darling Clementine looks splendid on Blu - Ray from The Criterion Collection.

Lam's «On Fire» movies are classics of Hong Kong cinema and hugely influential around the world and while Lam, like may old guard directors, seems to be struggling a bit with how to best employ modern technology and techniques his signature style is still on full display here.

Horror is hot on television right now, with networks like A&E and NBC taking classic scary - cinema offerings like Psycho and Silence of the Lambs and converting them into successful series.

There's no better time of year for fans of classic cinema, no better place to watch classic films than movie palaces like the Chinese and Egyptian Theatres in the heart of Hollywood, and no better audiences to watch films with hundreds of people who love the classics as much as you do.

Far and away the best of Guillermo del Toro's English language features, The Shape of Water, like Dr. Frankenstein stitching together disparate appendages, conjoins the romanticism of the 1930s Classic Universal Monsters Movies, the conspiratorial grit of the 70s Hammer Films and a splash of Max, Mon Amour to craft a truly one - of - a-kind, genre - bending splat of modern monster cinema.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

To think about Italian cinema in the immediate postwar era is almost inevitably to conjure up heartrending images from the classic neo-realist films like Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta (1945) and...

After forays into auteur cinema like the magnificent TOKYO SONATA (Un certain regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2008), J - horror pioneer Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose classics CURE and SÉANCE were adored at Fantasia in their day, makes a triumphant return to the horror thriller genre with the Berlin Film Festival selected Hitchcockian horror thriller CREEPY, which will be screened in Canadian Premiere.

Nowadays, with technological innovation, new heavy - hitting players, like Netflix and Amazon, enter the lucrative cinema game and the classic model of production - distribution - exhibition is again tested and changed and we can ask the existential question: does a film have to also be available in theatres to be Cinema?

While a large portion of my time is still spent working year round on festival planning and management, I also manage our «TCM Presents» series with Fathom Events which brings classic movies to the big screen in cinemas nationwide, help manage TCM's presence at events like the Telluride Film Festival, coordinate the technical preparations for our annual TCM Classic Cruise and I am excited to be taking on a new role in managing our DVD partneclassic movies to the big screen in cinemas nationwide, help manage TCM's presence at events like the Telluride Film Festival, coordinate the technical preparations for our annual TCM Classic Cruise and I am excited to be taking on a new role in managing our DVD partneClassic Cruise and I am excited to be taking on a new role in managing our DVD partnerships.

Of course, it helps that the crackerjack comedy team (one of whom is an avowed Criterion fanatic) launched the anthology series, which features a different documentary spoof each week, with Sandy Passage, a film that looks suspiciously like a certain cinema verité classic in the Criterion Collection.

Although Kiarostami rejects the notion of paying homage to other movies and laments the patness of American cinema, he admits to wanting to give Like Someone in Love a classic Hollywood finish by writing «The End» on screen in English over the closing shot.

The cinemas look like they have been directly taken from a game in the 80's with its almost LEGO looking graphics and classic frame rate issues.

Inspired by classic gaming experiences like Dungeon Keeper and the tropes of horror cinema, MachiaVillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game.

Inspired by the tropes of horror cinema and classic gaming experiences like Dungeon Keeper, MachiaVillain lets you build the macabre mansion of your dreadful dreams from harmless house up to nightmarish palace of panic.

Having just watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens in cinema it was even easier to become fully immersed on the small battle going on before me in Star Wars: Armada, a tabletop strategy game where classic Star Wars ships duke it out for supremacy and players can construct their own personal fleets, complete with numerous upgrades and famous characters like Luke Skywalker leading the charge.

David Lean's Doctor Zhivago now feels like a classic from the end of cinema's golden age, much admired...

Who knows if they owe a little something to Kurt Schwitters, when I see his collages I am left wondering who dropped the tram tickets on the street for him to pick up like clues for a detective...» Alongside the «Glances» series The Mayor Gallery has selected 14 artworks including the classic Colin Self imagery of Cinemas, Hotdogs, Ploughman and his more recent lenticular Hearts collages.