Since Chan - wook Park emerged into
the cinema scene with his critically acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy, he has been a director to pay close attention to.
The actor - writer - director stormed onto the British
cinema scene with Kidulthood in 2006.
Not exact matches
Perfect paired
with shimmering silvered vases and sparkling mirrored end tables, this beaded design evokes the
scene - stealing style of
cinema's golden age.
We're highlighting the best movies sex
scenes of all time
with some of
cinema's most authentically sensual private moments caught on camera.
Killer Joe sets the
scene for a killer noir,
with some killer lines and killer characters, but Friedkin's energy and determination to wrest the story away from the stage and set it free in the
cinema deserts him in the final act.
THE AMERICAN boasts the most anti-erotic sex
scene to date in American
cinema, capped off
with Jack or Edward explaining to his prostitute the he is there to get pleasure, not give it.
Critic Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the -
scenes look at one of modern
cinema's most spellbinding talents,
with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.
Critics Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the -
scenes look at one of modern
cinema's most spellbinding talents,
with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.
(That wedding night, by the way, is one of
cinema's odder sex
scenes,
with the two of them hissing at each other like cats.)
Certain
scenes are uncomfortable to watch and others produce nervous laughter and groans — when Raúl finds out his local
cinema that has been showing Saturday Night Fever for so long has replaced it
with Grease, it doesn't take him long to bludgeon the
cinema attendant who sold him his ticket.
He and del Toro even whip up a powerful dream sequence in the vein of classical
cinema that incorporates timeless licensed music complete
with singing; it's the most arresting
scene of the movie until the ambiguously enchanting climax.
The dominance of European
cinema was in part moderated by Crime
Scene, an especially creative and popular program, incorporating recent award - winners such as Polisse (Maïwenn, 2011) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
with the Brazilian hit Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (José Padilha, 2010) and the Congolese gangster film Viva Riva!
Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in
cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up
with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many
scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.
«Ran» is a heroic saga of human destiny, a war movie
with some of the greatest battle
scenes in the history of the
cinema, a costume drama of the utmost magnificence — and a crackling good samurai movie chock full of swordplay and palace intrigue.
The colors (a mixture of the candy colors of golden age fantasy
cinema and the muted hues of nostalgia) are lush and the hazy
scenes of the stuck - in - fifties small town feel like some misty - eyed time warp
with a few weird twists.
Bertolucci cuts these
scenes with clips from a wonderful selection of classic
cinema: Garbo memorizing her room in Queen Christina, Nadine Nortier's suicide in Bresson's Mouchette, Fred Astaire waking Ginger Rogers in Top Hat, Odile, Arthur, and Franz's sprint through the Louvre in Bande á part, and so on — asking his young actors to mimic these
scenes in motions that are part trance, part tango.
Like so many films consumed
with the minutiae of daily journalism, «Spotlight» is a magnificently nerdy process movie — a tour de force of filing - cabinet
cinema, made
with absolute assurance that we'll be held by
scene after
scene of people talking, taking notes, following tips, hounding sources, poring over records, filling out spreadsheets, and having one door after another slammed in their faces.
Ratner grew no less shy this weekend, according to Twitter and several Vulture sources: After a screening of his film Tower Heist at L.A.'s Arclight
Cinemas, the director came out for a Q&A, and when asked by the moderator whether he prepares and rehearses
with his actors before shooting a
scene, Ratner waved his hand dismissively and said, «Rehearsing is for fags.»
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.
Knight of Cups: For those willing to get on director Terrence Malick's wavelength, this is an ecstatic use of
cinema — the story of a screenwriter (Christian Bale) in Hollywood as told through dream images and voice - over,
with only fragments of
scenes.
Making a mark
with a thriller, Intacto (you could argue that both Intacto and 28 Weeks Later deal
with the ugliness of predestination), that boasts one of the most perfect
scenes in
cinema from 2001, Fresnadillo adopts the handheld ethic of Boyle's picture and injects it
with the energy of the vertiginous opening moments of Narc.
She burst onto the
scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for
cinema, 2007.
The Safdie Brothers match Pattinson and Duress» individual and collective performances
with visual pyrotechnics of their own, swapping out an early reliance on claustrophobic close - ups, beginning
with the notably disorientating
scene between Nick and the social worker that opens Good Time, for a
cinema vérité - inspired, often exhilarating mix of location shooting, hyper - active editing, and dense, propulsive plotting.
I am just back from the
cinema and I am still imitating the lines from blak thunder.The touch of ethan cohen make the sense of the film spread in so many ways.He must to had drunked at least one night
with Stiller and decide to make the film that represent the sbluf hollywood production system and his stars.The first
scene that comes on mine mind in this moment is the «Appocalypsis Now»
scene with Stller and Downey at the end and the quasi-phycological dialog.Wonderfull for a men who was searching for a good comedy, my lastone good comedy was Burn After Reading, before that The Boss of it All fromm LArs von Trier.
We won't try to answer this one today in a single blog post, but we'll explore more about nudity in
cinema soon
with the Most Iconic Nude
Scenes in American
Cinema.
Fenton also conducted the show in other cities around the world (including LA, at the Hollywood Bowl) and it became so popular itself that it inspired the show's producers to combine some of the most dramatic
scenes into a movie to be released in
cinemas, Deep Blue (this time
with narration from Sir Michael Gambon).
Perhaps Schumacher, knowing how Prince's vision so impressively transitioned between
scenes and scenery
with almost -
cinema - ready fluidity, felt more attention needed to be paid to streamlining the libretto into a screenplay, and he indeed corrects some structural and dramatic issues
with Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe's book.
There's
scene with a tampon in it, during which my
cinema - going companion exclaimed «OH GROSS!»
It's smart filmmaking — and also totally duplicitous and self - serving, the arthouse craftsmanship nearly hiding the film's middle - brow triteness (see also: I Am Love), every
scene ladled
with big dollops of
cinema's most respectable cop - out: ambiguity.
The thing
with Korean
cinema is that they are unhappy
with simply making a good fight
scene.
The finale is intense and gross, but that potato sack
scene is executed so well and catches you so off - guard... it goes down as one of the truly creepiest moments of horror
cinema for me; and I'm pretty confident saying many horror fans would agree
with me.
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In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting
with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «
with expressionistic conventions of
cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3
With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «
With this
scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60s.
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Sentimentality — combined
with scenes of excessively lingering brutality — are among the great
cinema vices of our times, especially among directors who purport to be grim realists.
Designer Tom Ford made his writing - directing debut (based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood)
with the film that somehow turns the above
scene of domestic bliss into one of the most romantic in
cinema.
And make no mistake: The Exorcist is most definitely a horror film: though it may be filled
with rigorously examined ideas and wonderfully observed character moments, its primary concern is
with shocking, scaring and, yes, horrifying its audience out of their wits — does mainstream
cinema contain a more upsetting image than the crucifix
scene?
This is easily the most sentimental movie Del Toro has ever written and directed; besides an unconventional love story, The Shape Of Water is one of those gushing valentines to the
cinema, complete
with scenes set in a classic movie palace and lots of lovingly lavish throwback period detail.
Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin,
with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the film - Deleted
scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong - Archival interview
with Wong and a «
cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000,
with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews
with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray edition)
The
scene with his prayer: «Let them be weak like children...» is certainly one of my favourite
scenes in all of
cinema.
«Queen and Country» begins
with a reprise of one of the most famous
scenes in British
cinema.
Alissa: There's Armie Hammer dancing in the town square, of course, but the
scene that sticks
with me — one of the great
scenes in contemporary
cinema, in my opinion — is when Elio, Oliver, and Elio's father go to see the sculptures brought up from the clear water.
Anderson has created for himself — and to some extent by himself (he directed it, wrote it and, though uncredited, shot it)-- a work through which he can freely exercise his gift for ecstatic
cinema, never mind how banal or understated a
scene might seem to be: Reynolds conducting his morning ablutions, for instance, shaving luxuriously, taming his hair
with a pair of brushes, dressing to the nines just to have breakfast.
Audiences will undoubtedly drone over the obvious comparisons to «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon»
with its similar gravity - bending rules and ballet - like fight
scenes, but what most Americans don't realize is that this particular genre (Wuxia, which typically incorporates fantastic abilities like flying) has been at the core of Chinese
cinema for decades.
Although the mix - tape
scene had most of the
cinema snorting
with laughter.
Once you get past the title and the ponderous opening
scene with its straining - for - importance score, the fourth film by Russian art
cinema's Great White Hope proves to be his most enjoyable and least oppressive to date.
With exactly a week to go until Ready Player One arrives in cinemas, IMAX has released a behind the scenes featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult novel which includes interviews with director Steven Spielberg, author Cline, stars Lena Waithe, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn, producers Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald -LSB-
With exactly a week to go until Ready Player One arrives in
cinemas, IMAX has released a behind the
scenes featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult novel which includes interviews
with director Steven Spielberg, author Cline, stars Lena Waithe, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn, producers Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald -LSB-
with director Steven Spielberg, author Cline, stars Lena Waithe, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn, producers Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald -LSB-...]
With a very compact 95 minute runtime, not a minute of screentime is wasted and it's full of memorable scenes and stunts which comes to a climax with a climactic, tense and perfectly choreographed break - out chase that remains one of cinema's truly great action sce
With a very compact 95 minute runtime, not a minute of screentime is wasted and it's full of memorable
scenes and stunts which comes to a climax
with a climactic, tense and perfectly choreographed break - out chase that remains one of cinema's truly great action sce
with a climactic, tense and perfectly choreographed break - out chase that remains one of
cinema's truly great action
scenes.
«Boyhood»: Richard Linklater's masterwork, and a piece of
cinema as superb as it is unique,
with one boy's step - by - step trek through the years brought to meaningful, beautiful life in a film made up almost entirely of the kinds of real, wrenching and funny
scenes other, lesser movies either cut or never include in the first place.
That is surely the case
with Oh Boy (A Coffee In Berlin, Jan - Ole Gerster, 2012), in which the meeting of a young boy and an old witness of fascism, at a former spot of terror, creates one of the most resounding film
scenes of recent
cinema.