Sentences with phrase «classic war films as»

Not exact matches

AT - ATs were featured in the classic «Star Wars» movie «The Empire Strikes Back» as well as the newer film «Rogue One.»

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

On Saturday 31 August, Stephen Bell will conduct a concert inspired by the stars, including Jupiter and Mars from Holst's ThePlanets, classics from Strauss, Mozart and John Williams, as well as a selection of out - of - this - world film music from blockbusters such as: Star Wars, Independence Day, E.T., Apollo 13, Close Encounters and more.

Synopsis: This classic film noir by John Huston stars Humphrey Bogart as World War II vet Frank McCloud.

Little Women — The 1994 film adaptation of this classic novel stars Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Danes as sisters living alone with their mother while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.

Based on Patrick Jean's spectacular short film Pixels sees aliens invade Earth in the form of classic»80s arcade characters after mistaking a video feed featuring footage of Pac - Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders as a declaration of war.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

In an early movie version of the beloved and oft - filmed classic novel, Hepburn gets the juiciest role in «Little Women» as Jo, the tomboy of the four March sisters in a genteelly impoverished family struggling with their father's absence during the Civil War.

Ev en if Journey's End will perhaps not be remembered as a classic of the genre, it is nevertheless a well made war film that with good performances that is worth checking out.

Full Metal Jacket has grown in stature to become a classic war film for many viewers, and is seen by some as another of Kubrick's masterworks.

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

Real - life World War II hero Audie Murphy played himself in the film classic To Hell and Back in 1955 (Murphy also played several other roles in films throughout his career); and in relation to lighter subject matter, shock jock Howard Stern, as well as his sidekick, Robin Quivers, played themselves in the big - screen adaptation of Stern's book Private Parts in 1997.

Johnson had his crew watch classic war films such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Twelve O'Clock High and Gunga Din for inspiration, so we fully expect a climactic Star Wars instalment leading up to the trilogy's denouement, which isn't slated for until 2019.

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, the film is based on Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic of the same name and centers on a young woman as she deals with the impending First World War.

As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood StilAs such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Stilas The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Nowadays, it's accepted as a classic war film and minor hit as a romance, even with the goriness.

A master of classic film style, Gray (The Immigrant, Two Lovers) dedicates almost as much of the movie to the time between Fawcett's expeditions as his adventures in Amazonia, placing them in the context of the era's wars, social mores, and colonial horrors.

Atwell, meanwhile, will also soon appear as Cinderella's mother in a new version of the classic fairytale directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is currently filming Testament of Youth, a BBC Films adaptation of Vera Brittain's devastating first world war memoir which also stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

His roles in more than 200 films include star turns as Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein's monster in Hammer horror classics, Count Dooku in Star Wars, and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit films.

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.

The classic Hollywood war film establishes one side's mastery over the other, a process often represented as gaining control of terrain.

Lego Force Awakens» levels which do turn to the wider Star Wars canon are brief but enjoyable exceptions from this lack of story, as they adapt novels and comic books set between the classic film trilogy and Force Awakens itself.

David Cage, head of game development at Quantic Dream, has stated that he wishes to make a war game with an «emotional» approach, moving away from the mainstream's idea of how the war genre is portrayed, citing classic films Apocalypse Now and Platoon as influences for such a project.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series with titles such as «Fairy Tales,» «Disasters,» «Sex Pictures,» «Civil War» and «Horror & Surrealist.»