The glory
days of feature film animation were amidst World Wars, when propaganda on both sides was simple: Allies versus fascists, right takes on wrong, world defenders against world destroyers.
Not exact matches
While Black Panther rode a huge wave
of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month
of February (and the fifth - largest
of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number
of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing
film, which
features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few
days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts
of attacks at screenings
of the movie.
The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and
feature film, telling the story
of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every
day and
featuring dozens
of extras who live within miles
of the set.
In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another
Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise
film, which
featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes
of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.
The
day after Lisa Belkin's initial NY Times post she followed up with About that orgasmic birth... and went into a little more detail about the responses she received, the
film and one
of the women
featured in the
film.
The museum is also hosting a full
day of programs to complement the
film, including a panel discussion
featuring our very own Susan Beal.
It is a screengrab from a BBC
film - available online here - which
features some delicious archive footage
of Balls from his younger
days and at his wedding to Yvette Cooper, as well as an interview just conducted by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.
The Schomburg Center's 4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival The Schomburg Center's 4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival celebrates the rich tradition
of black comics in a full
day event
featuring panel discussions,
film screenings, hands - on workshops and exhibit tables -LSB-...]
Featuring some
of the top scientists, journalists and press officers who have worked with us in the last decade, the
film covers how and why the SMC was set up and the methods by which the Centre works from
day - to -
day.
The
film features 30
days in the life
of Morgan Spurlock who risked life and love by eating breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonalds.
Knowing the documentary would premiere on Cupid's big
day, our friends at Single Edition invited us to an advanced screening in New York City, which
featured a Q&A with Robert Kenner
of the Oscar - nominated Food, Inc., who both directed and produced the
film.
As years passed, several
films saw the light
of the
day,
featuring popular real life dating sites as the vehicle for the main couple's blossoming romance.
Grier's
feature film credits include HOLY SMOKE, IN TOO DEEP, SNOW
DAY, and the animation
feature SCOOBY DOO III: THE CURSE
OF CLEOPATRA, in which she was the voice of Cleopatra, and BACK IN THE DAY starring Ving Rhames, Joe Morton, and Ja Rul
OF CLEOPATRA, in which she was the voice
of Cleopatra, and BACK IN THE DAY starring Ving Rhames, Joe Morton, and Ja Rul
of Cleopatra, and BACK IN THE
DAY starring Ving Rhames, Joe Morton, and Ja Rule.
He made his first
feature film, Four
Day's Wonder, in 1937 for Universal, but most
of his work for the next two years was for Republic Pictures, after which he moved to Columbia Pictures, where his most notable pictures were several entries in the Lone Wolf mystery series, and The Adventures
of Martin Eden, based on Jack London's book.
The year 1997
featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern
film noir called The Last
Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director
of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..
It'd be unlike Denis — whose far - flung
features over the last 30 years have ranged from the luridly modern vampirism
of 2001's Trouble Every
Day to
films tackling war, colonialism, French modernity, and so on — to make a straightforward romantic comedy.
The
film was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber (500)
DAYS OF SUMMER and also
features wonderful supporting turns from Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
One
features testimonials from latter -
day filmmakers and others examine the accuracy
of the
film's prophecies.
Stamberg recently wrapped the
feature films DAY OUT
OF DAYS directed by Zoe Cassavetes and Havenhurst with Fionnula Flanagan.
In The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman makes his sixth
feature film appearance as Logan / Wolverine (counting the cameo in X-Men: First Class), but it won't be his last; X-Men:
Days of Future Past is due out next summer.
Penny Dreadful, Season 3: Get a look back at the third season
of Penny Dreadful with this mashup,
featuring a quick behind the scenes shot from each
day of filming, from August 31, 2015 to February 11, 2016.
The
film's release date - the Wednesday before Labor
Day weekend, where movies go to die - is evidence that Focus
Features is unconvinced there's much
of a mainstream audience for The American.
In 2001, Hartnett hit a stride by starring in three
features: he portrayed the antagonist in the
film O, a modern
day version
of Othello.
Last year Alex Slevin
of FoG Films tried to crowdfund his fan
film, From the Lost
Days — Silent Hill 15th Anniversary
Film, a live action
feature film that adapted both the Silent Hill & Silent Hill 3 video games through Kickstarter.
To spotlight a few
of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five -
day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel
featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director
of the fest's opening
film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)
Illustrating that reception bears little consequence for a
film's long - planned home video release these
days, How Do You Know arrives on DVD with a healthy supply
of bonus
features.
Bad Samaritan is directed by veteran producer / writer (
of the scripts for Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence
Day, Godzilla, «The Outpost») and now filmmaker Dean Devlin, making his second
feature film after directing Geostorm previously.
The Blu - ray has a huge collection
of special
features — from interviews to deleted scenes to a short
film — though none outstay their welcome, which is a good thing these
days when it's reasonably accurate to assume that your average DVD collection
features hundreds
of films.
It doesn't change the fact that «Act
of Valor» is essentially a
feature - length recruitment video for the «Call
of Duty» crowd, but I'll take this over Michael Bay's military fetish
films any
day of the week.
I had gathered by this
film's poster that maybe Mother's
Day would not feel so bloated and useless as we're only seeing four actors
featured as the face
of the movie.
Director Marc Webb's only other
feature film was the wonderful «(500)
Days of Summer,» which had approximately 1 / 30th the budget
of this movie.
Each
day, EW.com publishes a myriad
of featured stories, blog posts, TV - recaps, original videos,
film reviews and photo galleries.
While Majid Majidi's «The Song
of Sparrows»
featured several poetic, and surprisingly funny sequences and Dorris Dorrie's emotional «Cherry Blossoms» made me want to run out
of the theatre and call me parents to tell them that I love them (incidentally,
Film Movement's, and more importantly, Sheboygan, WI native Meghan Wurtz is raving about the
film over my shoulder right now), Fatih Akin's latest ruled my
day.
In a banner
day for the festival,
featuring premieres
of new work from several well known international filmmakers, the best
film I saw was one that premiered elsewhere, Cannes in» 07.
But as an original
film, not based on any existing property, and
featuring a cast
of mostly under - the - radar actors including Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuichi, Idris Elba and Charlie
Day, it's mostly an unknown quantity to the general public.
Ben Affleck's third
feature film as director is based on what has become known as the Canadian Caper, an incident which occurred during the 444
day long hostage situation after the seizure
of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1979.
And that was the shape
of Clute's career for the next 25 years, individual
days of work on series ranging from Westerns to melodramas, broken by the occasional
feature -
film role.
To Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, and Peter Williamson,
film conservation manager,
of the Museum
of Modern Art, for identifying and assembling the earliest surviving footage
of what would have been the first
feature film to star a black cast, the 1913 «Lime Kiln Field
Day» starring Bert Williams.
«Grindhouse» (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory
days as a movie palace known for «grinding out» non-stop double - bill programs
of B - movies) is presented as one full - length
feature comprised
of two individual
films helmed separately by each director.
This special one
day event will
feature a series
of films with famously mustachioed actors including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Groucho Marx, William Powell, Peter Sellers and Sean Connery, which segues into a tribute to British born actor Richard Harris who often sported a mustache as well as a full beard.
The Art
Of Getting By, formerly known as Homework, was both written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Gavin Wiesen, who's making his
feature debut after a short
film in 2008 called Kill the
Day.
Their discussion is sometimes shown in different parts
of the screen, but the
feature also incorporates artwork, photos, clips from other Disney
films, and archival filmmaker video and audio (from the likes
of Ward Kimball, Joe Grant, and Woolie Reitherman) to complement the present -
day (well, 2009ish) reflections.
Best motion picture
of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts
of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life
of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel
Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts
of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts
of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life
of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language
film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated
feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!
It's hard to find a
film festival these
days that doesn't
feature some sort
of VR / AR programming and the tech - heavy SXSW is
of course no exception.
The score
features 21 tracks
of music composed for the
film, out in theaters in just 10
days!
The festival
features nine
days of film screenings, along with 200 presentations including keynotes, conversations, panels, workshops, mentor sessions, and more.
I was frustrated by Loktev's first narrative
feature,
Day Night
Day Night, because her decision to elide the specific political motivations
of her central character, a would - be suicide bomber, turns the
film into a prolonged exercise in Hitchcockian suspense.
Other significant personal preems, in order
of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30),
featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty
film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five -
day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.
«Coco,» the Disney - Pixar
film celebrating family and the
Day of the Dead tradition in Mexico, earned the award for animated
feature.
Among the most exciting supplements on our new release
of Jean Renoir's classic short A
Day in the Country is an eighty - nine - minute compilation
of outtakes from the
film, titled Un tournage à la campagne, which
features revelatory behind - the - sce...