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Thankfully, All the Money in the World is starting the 2018 cinematic year on a more positive and hopeful note.

Not exact matches

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

A few years later, Heavy Rain has aged well in some aspects, and worst in others, but it's still one of the best cinematic experiences you can live on a home console.

After spending nearly a year assembling Django Unchained, Raskin, who is now armed with a BAFTA nomination, opens up about his work on the Oscar - nominated film, the job of a film editor, and working with one of his cinematic heroes.

Currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Film Theatre and riding high on the strength of The Tree of Life, his fifth film in 37 years and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick is an American visionary and cinematic poet.

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

Though Boys scarcely represented Cooper's cinematic debut (he appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto a couple of years prior, among other films), it did prove a watershed, spurring the young actor on to additional film work.

After calling it a day with the high - gloss soap opera The Battle of the Villa Fioretta (1965), Delmar Daves made one last cinematic contribution as one of the on - camera participants in the 1972 documentary 75 Years of Cinema Museum.

As well as her venture into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Australian actress - who also has two - year - old daughter Edith with husband Andrew Upton - has been busy working on «Ocean's Eight» and had a «fantastic» experience shooting the heist drama with Sandra Bullock, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling and Anne Hathaway.

The 44 - year - old actress has previously starred opposite the 52 - year - old actor as his on - screen love interest Pepper Potts in all three «Iron Man» movies, and also had a cameo in the first «Avengers» but then was absent in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until appearing at the end of «Spider - Man: Homecoming».

The latest film from Steve McQueen, the director of Hunger and Shame, titled 12 Years a Slave just premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and it is a profound cinematic achievement on every level.

Early last year, I took a chance on an independent New Zealand feature called «Eagle vs. Shark,» a decidedly off - beat romantic comedy which introduced me to the cinematic brilliance of Jemaine Clement.

To think that we're on the brink of finishing a cinematic story about superheroes that's been unfolding for the past 10 years is pretty insane.

WHY: There aren't many directors that can boast a track record as impressive as the one that Joel and Ethan Coen have enjoyed throughout their 30 - year careers, and «Inside Llewyn Davis» is just another notch on that cinematic belt.

The sense on the Croisette is that fewer of this year's crop are likely to progress either to Oscar contention, or into the cinematic canon.

And even if boxing, in its very nature, is a barbaric, gladiatorial pastime, and cinematic depictions continue to struggle with new ways to broaden its possibilities (this year's Southpaw is a great example of familiarity's hindrance), Creed is a rarity in that it matches its own paranoia on notions of legacy and manages to be a mighty successor to an iconic cinematic heirloom.

Kilmer's cinematic breakthrough arrived in 1991, for his portrayal of rock icon Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors; some speculated that Stone hired Kilmer solely on the basis of the musical gifts showcased seven years prior in Top Secret!.

One wonders why Garland — who read the book once, wrote the script based on his «dream memory» of it, and completely ignored its sequels (both of which were published in the same year as Annihilation)-- felt the need to give Lena some of the most prosaic motivation you can give to a cinematic character, but its very irrelevance forgives it.

Washington is accompanied on screen by Viola Davis, who also won a Tony for that 2010 revival of the play, and got one of her first major roles in film from her director in Antwone Fisher, years before her cinematic breakout with her Oscar - nominated role in Doubt.

Even the French landing on English shores that should be the climax of the flick looks like nothing so much as a retread of any cinematic D - Day landing depicted in the last 50 years with arrows instead of bullets.

Three years ago, The Guardians of the Galaxy was considered the first big risk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, completely removed from the rest of the Avengers on other planets with characters even avid comic book readers weren't overly familiar with, all led by an actor who was primarily known as the chubby goofball on an NBC workplace sitcom.

If you'd told me 20 years ago that the director of Dazed and Confused would go on to make the most truthful and elegant cinematic expression of love since Annie Hall, I would have never stopped laughing.

On Tuesday, it was announced that Baz Luhrmann «s «The Great Gatsby» would open this year's Cannes Film Festival, still the most prestigious, and arguably most important event on the cinematic calendaOn Tuesday, it was announced that Baz Luhrmann «s «The Great Gatsby» would open this year's Cannes Film Festival, still the most prestigious, and arguably most important event on the cinematic calendaon the cinematic calendar.

Depending on how you look at it, the Marvel Cinematic Universe took upwards of 45 years to piece together (counting the company's comic book origins), but according to the filmmakers entrusted with the next stages of the story, its deconstruction has already begun.

As we fast approach the end of the first chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Avengers: Infinity War and next year's Avengers 4, it is expected that we'll be bidding farewell to some of our favourite heroes as contracts expire, actors move on, and the landscape of the MCU shifts towards some newer faces.

And yet, as the years roll on, it's a film whose reputation has just snowballed, to the point where many a hardened Kubrickite would single it out as his crowning cinematic achievement.

For those accustomed to years of syndicated TNG reruns on daytime TV, this new 1080p transfer is going to be a bit of a shock: Never before has the series looked so sharp and crisp, with its iconic palette of primary colors (especially the reds of the federation uniforms) upgraded from cable - TV softness to a sumptuous, cinematic boldness.

What You Need To Know: While we've faced apocalypses aplenty this year already, one thing we haven't seen so far is a coming - of - age, human drama - based take on the cinematic staple.

Along the way we'll take note of probable nominees and winners, but the major emphasis here will be on what should happen, on those that are most deserving, the most impressive cinematic achievements in a strong year for movies.

In the years since his passing, however, there has been a gradual reappraisal of Demy's cinematic legacy, spurred on in no small part by the efforts of Varda, who has helped to keep the flame alive by supervising restorations and reissues of his films as well as directing both «Jacquot de Nantes,» a 1991 biopic focused on his early years, and the 1995 documentary «The World of Jacques Demy.»

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

This year's installment, «Love the Coopers,» promises to deliver on the cinematic cheer, but is more...

Anghus Houvouras with his cinematic confessions on Looper and Guillermo del Toro... It's a new year and time for a new column.

And what better way to do so than to kick off the 2013 installments of our On The Rise feature, where we look at the rising names in various cinematic fields that may be making a big impression in the coming year or so.

For fans of the Coens, though (and I consider myself one), it suggests, especially on the heels of No Country for Old Men, that they have rediscovered their cinematic vision after several lean years.

In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that «exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

But amid the drear, the director James Marsh (Man on Wire) has fashioned the most psychologically intricate and exciting film of the year so far and the first in a long time to restore the violent bequest of the Troubles to the cinematic primacy we associate with the likes of Cal or The Crying Game.

Following on from the picture exclusive we smuggled out in April last year, the first teaser trailer for the cinematic version of BBC spy series Spooks, The Greater Good, has now hit the Interwebs.

While we can't wait for the culmination of ten years of cinematic build - up, we're also mentally preparing ourselves to see some of the greatest Marvel heroes die on screen in brutal and unusual ways.

They've been seeded throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, and now, with the release of Avengers: Infinity War on April 27, all the logistical heavy lifting of seven years» worth of films — chasing the Stones, finding them, wielding them, handing them off to shady minor characters for safekeeping — comes to a head.

And in what might be the ultimate act of documentary reflection, every seven years since 1964, the subjects of Michael Apted and Paul Almond's 56 UP reconvene on screen for a cinematic update on their lives, revealing heartrending relatability and unfathomable events that turn up as life unceasingly marches on.

Flickering Myth's writing team present our top ten movies of 2016... As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth's writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months.

But the fact that Field is doing so in her first leading role in 20 years is on the same level of a cinematic event as Lily Tomlin's hardcore domination of «Grandma» or Blythe Danner's delicate command of «I'll See You in My Dreams.»

The super cool thing to know about Lupita Tovar is that she is the grandmother of Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, both filmmakers (Paul wrote and directed Grandma this year) so her cinematic legacy lives on.

Producer Stanley Kramer was on the cusp of establishing himself as America's cinematic conscience; his own directorial career would take wing a few years later with such prominent message films as The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremburg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

The Chair, which is being submitted in the reality competition category at this year's Emmys, follows two first - time directors as they embark on the cinematic journey of creating a feature using the same original screenplay.

Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was the biggest percentage gainer on the list, his earnings up 250 percent over last year due to an increase in his fees.

As this year's Winter Olympics kick off this Friday, we look at the best cinematic takes on the world's biggest sports event, from the from dramatic feats to comedic riffs.

The question of the title of the film therefore takes on a deeper resonance as one considers the tantalizing mélange produced by a marriage of noir, the western, and a jazz movement founded on unrest and violence, sold through a uniquely Japanese medium (animé, natch) that has been the vehicle for some of the most profound examinations of nihilism, violence, and romanticism (thinking especially of masterworks like Grave of the Fireflies and last year's Spirited Away) in the modern cinematic vocabulary.

1) «Anna Karenina» From Terrence Malick «s «To The Wonder» to the aforementioned «Tabu,» the spirit of Leo Tolstoy «s «Anna Karenina» ran through a lot of film this year, so it's appropriate that 2012 saw a cinematic version of the original story that, while bold and cinematically inventive, manages to come close to being a definitive take on the classic, as well as being my favorite film of the year.