Sentences with phrase «classic film works»

Nearly every genre of classic film works better during the golden era but marriage plots are particularly unique.

This event marks 26 years since Crawford started hosting film legends and the classic films they worked on.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

I use the Wizard of Oz — that great book, that classic American film — as one of the sort of parables that helps us sort of know how to work with the enneagram.

In this four - day intensive, students work with a BMS faculty member coach to rehearse select repertoire from a classic film and then perform live onstage at the Coolidge Corner Theatre before a screening of the movie.

Electric cinema is the UK's oldest working cinema and shows a mixture of the latest mainstream, independent and classic films.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

The Bottom Line Though the challenge of adapting the classic work of Dr. Seuss to film has tripped up moviemakers before, the efforts of Blue Sky Studio have managed to maintain a level of faithfulness to the material, in look, tone and story.

Working with an insanely talented crew that also includes cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto («Babel,» «Brokeback Mountain»), Affleck has made a film that features multiple locations, dozens of speaking roles, and the kind of tonal shifting that veterans routinely screw up and he's not only dodged the many potential pitfalls but made a modern classic by doing so.

Those absences might have been forgivable if the other thing that made Park's work so extraordinary, the sending up of classic film, wasn't completely missing from Early Man.

A film that takes from the classic bond movies but lacks a fundamental element for it to work: a time period.

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

To watch Downey making the classic films within the main film you would actually think Chaplin was still alive today starring in his own bio, amazing work to get it right.

Here's a classic case of expectations vs. the actual experience, which in my case worked heavily against the film.

Above all, the film is a classic of «poetic realism,» that distinct brand of pessimistic»30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working - class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.

There's no doubt the heart and the politics of this story of sisterly affection are in the right place, and the songs are instantly iconic, the animation crisp and the voice work terrific, so as a children's film it's right up there with a lot of Classic Disney.

From there, he went back and forth between German and American films, eventually working on such classics as «Working Girl» and «Goodfellas.working on such classics as «Working Girl» and «Goodfellas.Working Girl» and «Goodfellas.»

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

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.

And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under - heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema's pioneers to home video for the first time.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

He responded with an enthusiasm that was beyond just fandom: he compared her films to classics like «Picnic at Hanging Rock» and «Scenes from a Marriage,» indoctrinated her second film into the Great Movies collection, and often rewarded her work with four stars.

I never really liked the idea of Levy directing one of the most classic monster movies of all time; especially when you consider his body of work includes films like Real Steel, Date Night, and Night at the Museum.

In what will surely be pushing the limits of fair use (or create a rights - clearing nightmare for IFC Midnight who picked up the film), «Room 237» cuts together not only footage from «The Shining,» but from every Kubrick film along with countless other works (ranging from Mario Bava to Alfred Hitchock to classic Disney cartoons), strings it all together, and pairs it with audio from interviews with various obsessives who have formulated their own opinions on what the movie really means.

While most of Hagney's film work is forgettable, he had the honor of contributing to a bonafide classic in 1946.

The music throughout the film has the air of a classic noir film, which is one of the elements that works to subtly bring the two genres together without feeling forced.

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and»50s in its visual mastery.

They are best known, at least among film music fans, for their reconstructions and rerecordings of many classic scores on the Marco Polo label, featuring works by Korngold, Waxman, Tiomkin and others.

Well into the second phase of his career, his films are now rightly greeted as the future classics that they will doubtless become: There Will Be Blood, The Master and Inherent Vice are the sort of works that a filmmaker would be lucky to make once in their career, and Anderson produces them with the apparent effort of a mechanised construction line.

Gervasi's previous work includes the cult classic ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL, and the feature film THE BIG TEASE, which ripped the lid off hairdressing competitions.

The film has been heralded as somewhat of a crazy new Australian cult classic in the works.

Although not nearly the classic in the Western genre as Leone's other films, as an entity unto itself, especially when considering the works of a master director, its complexities make it more than worthwhile.

Wellman's last opportunity to win the statue came with his nod for 1955's John Wayne disaster film «The High and the Mighty,» but he lost the category to Elia Kazan's work on the classic «On the Waterfront.»

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

Dave's previous work in the film industry includes positions at IFP / Chicago, Sony Pictures Classics, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Museum of the Moving Image.

It is a film that — maybe more than any frontrunner of recent years — is in danger of drowning in its own critical attention and press acclaim, creating successive eddies of contrarian backlash from columnists and late - breaking social media dismissal from cinephiles, who compare it unfavourably with the classic work from Hollywood and France that is their own area of expertise.

The performers continue their exemplary work from the 2009 film, embodying their own versions of these characters rather than simply imitating the «classic» cast of the 1960s show.

But even though the film is two hours (the closing credits, thanks to a ton of bonus scenes, run close to 15 minutes) and it isn't a classic, «Ghostbusters» is consistently fun and genuinely works for a new generation of fans, while pleasing the old ones who will give it a chance.

Released in 1969, classic British film Kes follows a young, English working - class boy who spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Knowing film buffs may relate the film's plot to the infamous classic All About Eve, but more modern filmgoers will see this more as a mix of Clueless and Single White Female The film has a very high camp value, all intentional, and the humor works well on the occasional scenes where there's some inspiration.

They chat about classic films and performances they admire (from To Kill a Mockingbird to Casino), their past experiences in film and television, and working with each other.

The ever - growing cult behind Russell and his work will undoubtedly enjoy this riveting look back on the maverick director right in the midst of filming his chaotic classic, which, negative press notwithstanding, ended up kicking off a series of successes in the 1970s.

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

Four years prior, director / writer Jonathan Parker and co-screenwriter Catherine DiNapoli adapted a classic work, Herman Melville's «Bartleby the Scrivener», and made it into a feature film set in the present day.

Considering her work on great TV like Enlightened and Big Little Lies, and classic films like Jurassic Park and Blue Velvet, Laura Dern is something of a favorite around here.

The end of April included the TCM Classic Film Festival, but attending the festival as an employee is very different from when I attended as press (read: I actually have to work and don't get to see very many films), but I did attend TCMFF again this year (my 8th festival; 3rd being on staff) and it is always the best week of my year.

In reviewing queer cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader for instance, Roger Ebert wrote that although it «seeks the general tone of a John Waters film,» his work would have been «ruder and more polished.»

The «Jurassic World» star discusses the oddness of the 1977 musical classic, the importance of tragedy in Disney films, and working with Robert Redford.