Sentences with phrase «classic film whose»

It's a true instant American classic film whose technical aspects far exceed that of most other films out there.

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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.

It's a tight script whose classic cop - film pleasures hide unexpected nuance and empathy.

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

The Shadow was directed by former music video creator Russell Mulcahy, whose feature film debut Highlander (1986) was a cult classic.

He frequently showed up in the films of directors Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford; in Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, he played small - town lout Scrub White, whose murder sets in motion the film's classic courtroom finale.

Mike Newell, whose last two films couldn't be more different (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 50 and Love in the Time of Cholera 47) directs this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens» classic novel.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

An updated re-imagining of Jack London's classic novel based on the adventures of White Fang, whose viewpoint matches the book in that it can be captured in the animated film treatment.

«Women of all ages are enthusiastic about this film,» said Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, whose company picked up the title out of Sundance in January.

A sequel to the original seminal sci - fi classic Blade Runner follows a new agent whose investigation collides with the previous film.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

The original film was a classic tale of revenge that followed an elite special agent (Lee Byung - hun, «G.I. Joe») whose pregnant fiancé is murdered by an evil madman (Choi Min - sik, «Oldboy»), prompting him to lure the killer into an increasingly violent and twisted game of cat - and - mouse.

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.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

In the hands of director Raymond De Felitta, whose «City Island» is a delightfully funny tale of a dad whose poker nights are really spent going to an acting class, the tale reaches proportions that can be compared to the classic film «Bonnie and Clyde» with some aspects that could remind some of «American Hustle.»

Directed by Jeff Wadlow, whose previous movies include Never Back Down, Kick - Ass 2 and the lacklustre horror Cry Wolf, the film reinvents the classic children's game of Truth or Dare into an It Follows - style menace.

The movie has been handsomely mounted by Jay Russell, whose previous film was «My Dog Skip» (2000), a classic about childhood that was entirely lacking the feather - brained sentimentality of «Tuck Everlasting.»

It was directed by James McTeigue, whose first film, «V for Vendetta» (2005), will probably go down as a classic.

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.»

Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. has officially hired Daniel Kunka to pen the movie version of the mega-popular classic arcade game, whose only produced feature film to date is 12 Rounds starring WWE superstar John Cena and Aidan Gillen.

«The Big Lebowski: Limited Edition» (Universal) is the definitive edition of the most beloved film from a team of filmmakers whose career is built on cult classics big and small.

Tom Courtenay stars in John Schlesinger's 1963 classic film from the British New Wave, which follows a clerk whose overactive fantasies compensate for a dull provincial life.

There are also nods to well - known New Zealand works of the 1970s from the likes of Kiwi filmmakers Peter Weir (especially his zoom shots), Geoff Murphy (whose Goodbye Pork Pie inspired the car chase sequences) and Roger Donaldson (elements of his Sleeping Dogs are woven in here), as well as to classic Hollywood action films, from The Terminator to First Blood to The Fugitive to a catchphrase made popular by Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2.

One of the film's screenwriters was no less than William Faulkner; the others were Jules Furthman, responsible for other vintage classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, Nightmare Alley and Rio Bravo, and Leigh Brackett, whose final screen credit would come decades later in the form of The Empire Strikes Back.

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

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, dies Sunday, July 16, 2017.

Filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller — whose films include the Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Maggie's Plan — gets personal with this documentary about her father, the playwright behind the Crucible, Death of A Salesman, and other classics.

Suzuki, whose low - budget Japanese gangster films later became regarded as cult classics and inspired American directors such as Quentin Tarantino...

Disney has released all of their animated classics in original aspect ratio on DVD, and there is no reason to believe that the films of the»60s,»70s, and early»80s (whose 1.33:1 DVD aspect ratios are often called into question) are an exception to this practice.

He was responding to a question from an Italian journalist who observed that two of the three Italian films in Competition were in English, Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Great Beauty recently took best foreign language Oscar) is there with Youth, starring Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, and Matteo Garrone (director of previous Cannes prize - winner Gomorrah) brings an adaptation of fantastic Neapolitan classics in Tale of Tales.

In 2007, it was because they honored Charles Tabesh, Turner Classic Movies Senior Vice President of Programming and New Media, and Robert Osborne, the cable channel's on - air host whose wealth of knowledge about films, film history, and film folk, may be inexhaustible.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

J.D. Dillard, whose directorial feature debut Sleight was one of the big buzz films of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, is in talks to direct and co-write a remake of David Cronenberg «s classic horror film The Fly, which was itself a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.

When racial minorities do feature in such films, it's either as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the film).

There is an element of the classic film noir Breathless at work here but with more characters of varying shades of gray whose fates hinge on numerous moving parts.

Stroll the streets of the cosmopolitan Notting Hill where Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts filmed the classic Richard Curtis film, Notting Hill — which tells the tale of a simple bookshop owner whose worlds changes when he meets the famous and beautiful film star, Anna Scott.

The classic example of a cultural intermediary is a marketer, whose job it is to make products look appealing to potential customers, but the concept can be applied to a wide range of pursuits beyond marketing and PR: film festival programmers, cocktail bartenders, personal trainers, country music producers, and, we think, indie game showcase organizers.

Three actresses, who were the best - known sex symbols at the time of the work's production, pose on the poster as pin - up girls: Pamela Anderson, Halle Berry and Catherine Zeta - Jones as the leading actresses for a film whose title aludes to D.W. Griffith's classic The Birth of a Nation (1951).

You can't turn on the tube without seeing the influence of Bruce Conner, the elusive San Francisco artist whose classic collage films of the late 1950s and»60s pioneered the popping fast - cut editing style used on countless commercials and MTV clips.

Isaac Julien and Mark Nash's Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) is a film portrait of the revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Black Skin White Mask (1952) remain the bibles of decolonisation.

This generous Victorian home in Oxford was once the family home of T.E Lawrence, the noted British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer, whose life was immortalised in the classic 1962 film «Lawrence of Arabia» starring Peter O'Toole.