Sentences with phrase «epic modern films»
Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu action sequences among the convoluted plot that is typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films.
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Whether it's the latest superhero reboot, science fiction thriller or historical epic drama, the effects - driven juggernaut that powers the modern film industry seems to continually overlook subaquatic cinema.
In the interview, she talks about the challenges and joys of making music for a very modern, epic film.
For such an action - packed modern film, it's surprising how little blood figures into this combat epic.
A leviathan that has temporarily ducked back under the surface after pulverizing multiplexes all summer long, Christopher Nolan's symphonic blockbuster is not only one of the biggest studio films of the year ($ 523.7 million worldwide for a historical epic about one of modern history's greatest non-events), it's also one of the best.
His next project, Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic «There Will Be Blood,» is a giant, both in his personal body of work and in modern film history.
The film, which starred Paul Rudd as t modern day Ant - Man Scott and Evangeline Lilly as Hank's daughter Hope, capped off Phase Two of Marvel Studios» sprawling cinematic epic and grossed over $ 500 million worldwide.
Tom Cruise's later years seem to be lending themselves more and more to science fiction, with the springtime film Oblivion and now Edge of Tomorrow — an epic mech journey laced with rebirth and uber - modern...
After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).
«The Crown,» available in all its splendor Friday, qualifies as the epic masterwork from creator / writer Peter Morgan, who has come at the modern Elizabethan era a couple of ways now, most notably with the 2006 film «The Queen,» an intimate rumination on the burdens of royalty in the scandal - driven infotainment era, when an aging Elizabeth (Helen Mirren, in an Oscar - winning performance) fought to comprehend the national grief and dismaying shift in protocol that followed the tragic 1997 death of her ex-daughter-in-law, Diana.
Other newly featured stuff to look out for: Marie Antoinette, which solidified Sofia Coppola among my favorite directors, hidden gem of a B - movie film noir The Narrow Margin, incredible modern melodrama Little Children, and D.W. Griffith silent epic Orphans of the Storm.
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Screening: «The Revenant» at the Museum of Modern Art After winning the Academy Award for best director, best original screenplay and best picture for Birdman in 2015, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is back with the epic western film The Revenant.