Based on a poem,
it contains classic film noir imagery and a fight shown almost in real - time.
Not exact matches
It may not
contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction
films than the
classic films I mentioned in my review.
The first of two
classic films Howard Hawks did with Bogart and Bacall
contains great dialogue and great performances.
Clay
Classics: God's Trombones
contains three Biblically related animated short
films.
The Movie: The Criterion Collection presents
classic films both new and old, often restored or
containing a wealth of extra features.
In the
film's instant -
classic opening, Spielberg uses little dialogue as he follows Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) through what looks like a routine but also includes a tiny, crucial bit of spy - craft as he picks up a coin
containing a coded message on a park bench.
Kino
Classics» new Blu - ray
contains three versions of the
film: the 1925 edition (114 minutes) and two speeds of the 1929 reissue (92 minutes and 78 minutes).
Although this
film is a stone - cold
classic, it does
contain many of the trappings of 30s - 40s era movies that haven't aged well, such as a corny original score and some broad jokes based on cliches that fall pretty flat.
Not unlike Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the
film is built out of
classic noir conventions but keeps the circle of characters
contained with in the family, to form a knotty plot that results in a domestic hell.
Spirited Away comes to Region 1 in a terrific double - disc package, and while it isn't quite as loaded as Disney's releases of its own animated
classics, it
contains some unique extras that help enhance the
film immensely.
Granted, a great deal of direct speech was left out from the final cut, and the longer TV version of Trespassing, apparently,
contains more, but what the
film has to say about Bergman comes down, in the end, to the assertion that the
classic was too big to be grasped in all his grandeur (all too consistent with Bergman's name that translates as «mountain man»).
As well, the package offers an exclusive collectible 72 - page comic book
containing Detective Comics # 27 (the very first Batman story), Batman: The Man Who Falls (a
classic story that inspired Batman Begins), and an excerpt from Batman: The Long Halloween (a chilling story that also inspired the
film).
Ozu's journals — which I also know only from the French edition, an 800 - page monolith titled Carnets 1933 - 1963, published the year after Sontag's essay —
contain a record of the numerous
films he saw on a regular basis, many of them Hollywood
classics.
Coming after a pair of uneven broad comedies, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, the stark, stripped down, formally - controlled aesthetic of No Country, appeared to be a departure even from
films like Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn't There, which were similarly grim and violent, but still
contained their signature moments of absurd humor, references to older movies, and self - conscious pastiche of
classic Hollywood genres.