Sentences with phrase «cinema history where»

For although we have arrived at a moment in cinema history where — at last — there are more remarkable cinematic accounts of homosexual love than ever before (Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Francis Lee's God's Own Country, John Trengove's The Wound), this film occupies a subtle category of its own.

Not exact matches

Here is a meticulous American milieu where obstinate men with crazy facial hair hurl insults at one another in a baroque compendium of Twainian whimsy, Shakespearean oratory, Biblical commandment and the florid spin doctoring of the day, including the single greatest use of the word «nincompoop» in cinema history.

Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) The diner scene alone, where heavyweights Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro face off (for the first time in cinema history) would be enough to put Heat on the list, but the whole heist and cat - and - mouse story holds up all the way through.

But Cannes is the place where the world comes together to experience cinema history.

Beautifully directed and brilliantly acted, A Nightingale Falling is a moving, authentic piece of cinema about a turbulent period in Irish history where loyalty and trust were for many the only means of protection.

Since then, he has concentrated on doing only movies that would pay handsomely and take him away from home as little as possible, which is how he came to feature in two of the biggest blockbuster franchises in cinema history: Harry Potter (where he was Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, from the third instalment onwards) and the Dark Knight trilogy (in which he played Police Commissioner James Gordon).

Also, this might be the worst time in the history of cinema to release a film where the name of a notorious drug trafficker is nicknamed Black Panther.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

Lina's Selander films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge, the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.

Laurence Wagner (b. 1984) grew up in Switzerland where she studied History of Art, French Literature, History and aesthetics of cinema at the University of Lausanne before doing a Master in Critical Curatorial and... More