Sentences with phrase «classic film turned»
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NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.
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The swimming pool has been a central part of Hollywood mythology since the dawn of silent pictures, a truth observed and then turned upside down in the opening scene of the film classic Sunset Boulevard.
Produced for the USA cable network, Holiday Affair is a remake of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by John D. Weaver's short story «Christmas Gift.»
Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.
Rope is a classic picture, one that definitely needs to be seen by genre fans, and it's a film that steadily builds up the tension, in order for the viewer to really get into the story and not turn away.
A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.
After a string of brilliant comedies, director Wes Anderson for his fifth film turns to a stop - motion animation take on a classic Roald Dahl book.
Carrie is a film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.
After a nail - biting week after its Toronto debut, Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film and the Best Actress race turned on its head.
However it turns out, the film has already been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.
Farrands explains that the original opening of the film was to be a nightmare sequence that would've paid homage to Carpenter's classic opening scene, and he lays bare the Man in Black's intentions to sacrifice baby Stephen Lloyd and in turn transfer Michael's evil into young Danny Strode and then starting the cycle again.
The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original intention.
His breakthrough year was 2001, however, with standout turns in a pair of indie films: a haunted adolescent in the cult classic Donnie Darko and a gawky teen in love with an older woman in Lovely & Amazing, a performance he more or less repeated the next year opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl.
The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original... Read
While it's been a while since one of his films has turned into a classic, his resumee boasts a fair few already,...
They're often formulaic and follow a well - worn path originally etched out by classic capers such as John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), Jules Dassin's RIFIFI (1955), Alexander Mackendrick's THE LADYKILLERS (1955), Jean - Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955) and Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING (1956) but the best heist films take unexpected turns and leave their own special mark on a genre that seems to find new ways to define itself every decade.
In this wickedly smart (and downright wicked) cult classic turned quintessential high - school film, smart - girl Veronica (Winona Ryder) throws in with the popular crowd (headed by a bratty group of girls all sharing the name Heather).
Disney almost ran its famed animation unit into the ground around the turn of the century with cheap sequels to classic films such as Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid and even Dumbo, leaving its reputation as a creative force in tatters.
This week's new Blu - ray releases include one of the funniest films of the year, a trio of horror movie collections for a few franchises — one classic, one unlikely, and one incredibly gory — a dramatic turn from Robert Pattinson, and more.
Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.
It is this message that has kept people coming back to The Breakfast Club, and turned the film into a classic movie.
Original cast members Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander present the first - ever screening of the cult classic's third film, in which the lost boys and girls of San Cazador prepare to party under the Blood Moon — while an alpha vampire conspires to turn these unsuspecting ravers into an army of undead.
Glass, part of a commercial fur expedition, escapes with others on a boat and sails into an adventure that takes him through a crucible of suffering — including a near - fatal grizzly attack — that evokes by turns classics of American literature and a «Perils of Pauline» - style silent - film serial.
Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.
, the film takes the classic Disney tale of SLEEPING BEAUTY and turns it on its head, showing us the perspective of wicked queen Maleficent.
It's always a gamble, turning a classic sitcom into a feature - length film.
John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.
In a rather confusing turn of events, this film will serve as a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter classic, which is itself a remake.
It's based on the jazzy, snazzy Broadway show by songsmiths Kander and Ebb (of «New York, New York») and director Bob Fosse, which in turn was based on the classic 1942 film noir «Roxie Hart» by writer - producer Nunnally Johnson and director William Wellman.
Featuring all sorts of titles ranging from the greatest hits of Sundance, highly - anticipated studio films, art - house darlings, foreign imports, special screenings of classic films, and much more, it's slowly turning into a juggernaut that can rival the likes of Tribeca and SXSW.
Though we love nothing more than to bemoan an upcoming remake of a classic film, sometimes the newer version turns out to be even better than the original.
This is a classic Hitchcock film, but credit should go more to the deft script by playwright Frederick Knott with a really smart succession of twists and turns to keep you in suspense.
By turns nostalgic for a bygone period in cinema — that of the classic John Wayne shoot - em - up — and hungry to forge new frontiers with a riveting story that, while not categorically unpredictable, explores boundaries few films bother exploring anymore.
Although not many people are a huge fan of this upcoming remake of Chan - wook Park's classic, it is nice to see that after a long list of actors that turned down these roles they have finally landed three solid actors who are willing to bring the classic film back to life.
From the US film factory I chose Labor Day, a quietly passionate drama that Kate Winslet's riveting acting will turn into a classic.
The visual inventiveness in this film is so impressive that it almost makes up for the ill - conceived script, which tries to turn Lewis Carroll's classic tales into a Lord of the Rings - sized post-apocalyptic adventure epic.It's...
Middleditch will play a film geek for whom landing in a classic horror flick is a dream come true, until it turns into a nightmare.
Before you pour the bucket of pig's blood on me, I want to first say I'm well aware Silence is adapted from Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, which was also turned into a film in 1971 that received worldwide acclaim upon release (another Scorsese remake of an Asian cinema classic!).
Davis, of course, has been a familiar on - screen face since her small but memorable early roles in eventual classics like «Tootsie» and «Fletch,» continuing through star turns in enduring iconic films including «Beetlejuice,» «The Fly,» «A League of Their Own,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» «Stuart Little» and career high points like her Oscar - nominated turn in «Thelma & Louise» and her Oscar - winning performance in «The Accidental Tourist.»
«Big» is such a classic piece of film and it also was a real turning point for Tom Hanks as an actor.
A Vogue profile celebrating William's performance in «My Week With Marilyn» last fall mentioned that «one of her idols, an actress turned director whose memoir Williams had been carrying around with her wherever she went, offered her a role in an upcoming film adaptation of a nineteenth - century stage classic.»
It truly baffles me that a classic film that was directed by Harold Ramis and written by John Hughes could be turned into this huge flaming pile of shit.
Starting with his breakthrough role in the timeless classic «The Graduate» to his highly praised turn in his upcoming film, «The Meyerowitz Stories,» Dustin's wide range of roles — often portraying antiheroes or the marginalized — and the creative choices he has embodied in these complex characters, has firmly placed him amongst the most compelling actors to have graced the screen,» said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»
It used to actually mean something to see the Oscar - nominated names of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel as the screenwriters of a comedy, writers of such modern - day classic comedies as A League of Their Own, Parenthood, City Slickers, Night Shift, and Splash, but most of those films were in their past, and they have turned in mostly mediocre material since 1992.
Since then, the classic novel has been turned into a 1983 film starring Christopher Walken and 2002 television series.
«Moonrise,» however, taps more than anything else the director's ever made into that innocence of youth (complete with nods to classic children's literature along the way), and in the process turned out to be certainly the director's best film since «The Royal Tenenbaums,» probably his best since «Rushmore» and maybe even his finest work ever.
«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.
His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)
Kevin Smith had once been on board for a soon - after cancelled remake of a classic 1980s comedy, Fletch, which, after seeing the type of effort he's turned in with this 1980s cop comedy homage (Smith does secure the once - retired services of Fletch's composer Harold Faltermeyer), may have been a blessing for that film's fans.