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Today it continues to feature independent and classic cinema, as well as offer opportunities to learn about the art, science, and business of film.

Featuring independent, international cinema and old classic flicks and home to the Florida Film Festival, Enzian Theatre is an outdoor, member - supported cinema with a café known as Eden Bar.

One of the classics of war cinema, it's not nearly as good as its legend suggests.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] The Pact feels as if it's been constructed from an infinite number of inspirations stretching from classic ghost story horror cinema to the recent wave of found footage films but at the same time because of such great execution you could never actually call it generic.

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Paul Dooley is fondly remembered by fans of»80s cinema as the forgetful but well - intending father of a disgruntled Molly Ringwald in the John Hughes teen classic Sixteen Candles (1984).

Having crafted such classics as «The Godfather parts I & II», «The Conversation» and «Apocalypse Now», director Francis Ford Coppola was, rightly, considered one the heavyweights of cinema.

Long touted as a classic by cinema historians, and justifying almost every adjectival extravagance.

The film is very good, great history, very interesting and engaging, special effects and spectacular action scenes, as well as having one of the classic scenes of cinema.

As always, complementing the festival's Official Selection is the Cannes Classics sidebar, the annual showcase of new restorations of older films, as well as a handful of cinema - focused documentarieAs always, complementing the festival's Official Selection is the Cannes Classics sidebar, the annual showcase of new restorations of older films, as well as a handful of cinema - focused documentarieas well as a handful of cinema - focused documentarieas a handful of cinema - focused documentaries.

Kdy sníh konečně taje, near - exhausting excessiveness and unevenness to plotting, an uneven and already questionable style, and near - monotonous cold spells to atmospherics render the final product pretty decidedly underwhelming, but not the misfire that it could have been, because through a haunting visual style, outstanding musical style, intriguing premise, and generally stylistically sharp direction, Frantiek Vláčil's «Marketa Lazarová» stands as an adequately intriguing and occasionally engrossing, if overwrought classic in Czech and art cinema.

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Whether you're looking at contemporary cinema or the classics, the Tomatometer can serve as shorthand for a film's critical reception, if not its box office success.

Some of cinema's guiltiest pleasures have followed this formula to great success, and though director Joe Lynch's «Everly» desperately wants to join those ranks as the next cult classic shoot - «em - up, it falls disappointingly short.

As things wrap up, he offers some box office wisdom and also gives some classic home cinema recommendations.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

The cinemas are alive with The Sound of Music once more as the classic musical returns to the big screen.

As we all know Haynes is a devotee to classic Hollywood cinema, so I'm sure this will compliment and add to the original 1945 version, as well as probably being quite differenAs we all know Haynes is a devotee to classic Hollywood cinema, so I'm sure this will compliment and add to the original 1945 version, as well as probably being quite differenas well as probably being quite differenas probably being quite different.

If his filmography included only half the classics they do, he'd still be lauded as one of modern cinema's most influential visionaries.

Criterion established itself as the gold standard for classic cinema on home video first on laserdisc, then on DVD and now for Blu - ray.

A stunning debut that delivers both laughs and thrills in equal measure, Attack the Block features superb performances from its young cast — led by John Boyega as gang leader Moses — and although it went largely unnoticed in cinemas (banking just under # 2.5 m here in the UK), it will surely go on to become a cult classic.

An African American director casting one of the greatest African American movie stars as a «classic» western hero, just as President Obama prepares to ride off into the sunset (while mainstream cinema struggles to catch up with the racial diversity of the US) is a recipe for bold imagery.

Classic suspense cinema runs swiftly across the stage in two hours of comedy as the Milwaukee Rep brings Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps to the Quadracci Powerhouse.

With its abundant action, spectacular desert locales, and emphasis on honor, valor, and redemption, the story's a natural for the big screen, and the 1939 version, starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson, is widely regarded as a classic of the British cinema.

Nearly three decades after its summer 1984 release, Gremlins remains as iconic as it gets when film fans look back at classic»80s popcorn cinema.

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.

The duo recreate their favorite cinema classics as puny and humorous little shorts: «Eyes Wide Butt,» «Senior Citizen Kane,» a riff on Jean - Luc Godard's «Breathless» called «Breath Less» (about guy who has to use an inhaler), and «Pooping Tom» (a play on Powell & Pressburger's «Peeping Tom»).

The classic Nintendo franchise, Metroid, envisioned through the lens of 60s - 70s science fiction cinema such as 2001, Alien, and Solaris: this was the concept for Rainfallâ $ ™ s most recent production.

Beginning of the End (Hen's Tooth)-- Bert I Gordon, the kitsch master of nature gone giant cinema, created this bargain basement spectacle of supersized locusts eating their way through Illinois to Chicago as his answer to the atomic ant classic Them!

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

This disjunction of sounds and images is of course a classic narrative devise of cinema (27) and functions as a kind of pedagogical entry into the visual regime of the film; it does interpolate the viewer and ask him or her to connect these tracks, not necessarily to make sense of them, but at least to organise a suspended logic of connectivity.

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

Years of experience freelancing for the Alternative Press and the international magazine market led to the development of ColeSmithey.com which features an extensive archive of video essays on current and classic cinema, as well as text reviews and editorial articles.

Now restructured into two acts with an intermission, Alexander: Revisited is an epic of filmmaking in the manner of such cinema classics as Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind.

The first (and probably the best) horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of Italian horror cinema.

The final act, containing the famous «filibuster scene», is rightly acknowledged as one of cinema's classic sequences, but it is only so due to the incredible screen presence of Stewart.

Even in fine Christmas season films from the US, Santa Claus has been tarnished with a cynical brush that paints him as a rather desperate loser or out - and - out nutcase — Gene Hackman's undercover cop Santa in William Friedkin's The French Connection (1970); Dan Aykroyd's smashed Santa in John Landis» Trading Places (1983); and the one - two combination of cinema's worst shopping mall Santas, Jeff Gillen in Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) and Billy Bob Thornton in Terry Zwigoff's bad - taste, big - heart classic Bad Santa (2003).

Whether State of Play can seriously consider itself in the same league as Alan J. Pakula's multi-Oscar-winning classic of 70s cinema is not really important — the main question has to be whether the film manages to entrap its audience into guessing at the shadowy motivations of the various players, and maintain the intrigue through to its end.

[As a result,] there are some aspects of classic cinema and some of modern cinema, so it was a mixture between classic and modern cinema, filtered through Greek tragedy.

«I am proud of the breadth, intelligence and style of the choices the London critics have made, honouring the richness of world cinema and the fresh, cool takes on classic movie genres seen in films such as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, DRIVE and THE ARTIST.

The film, which is touring in a new digital restoration for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of European art cinema, a minimalist manifesto, and the easiest entry point into the challenging anti-Masterpiece Theatre of Straub and Huillet, a husband - wife duo who co-directed more than 30 films (all of which can be loosely categorized as «adaptations») before Huillet's death in 2006.

Brooklyn is stunningly authentic, incredibly enjoyable and the fact it so effectively communicates its reverence for classic cinema qualifies it as one of the finest this year has to offer.

James Whale's 1931 film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling of the Frankenstein story.

The Coens seem unsure if they're making a statement about old Hollywood or just riffing on it, and audiences will likely become confused as to whether the brothers» treatment of classic cinema is delivered laughingly or lovingly.

They agreed, «Fulfilling the promise of classic cinema verite, where camera serves as both observer and provocation, this film connected two artists, filmmaker and subject, pushing nonfiction intimacy to bold new places.

This low - budget arthouse crime thriller draws on the classic American cinema of the 1970s — films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver — when a new mood of pessimism was taking over politics and culture, but comes to articulate its own strange sweetness and hope.

Mizoguchi is acknowledged as one of the three great masters of classic Japanese cinema but he has not received the same amount of attention as...

And as the classic Sixth Sense proves, somewhere inside Shyamalan is the skill - set required to make a decent piece of cinema.

Beginners deserves to be recognized as a classic of queer cinema.