Sentences with phrase «essential films»

I don't know that it's an absolutely essential film to check out this month.

Kathryn Bigelow has returned to the big screen with «Detroit,» her first movie since 2012's «Zero Dark Thirty» — and critics are stunned by her «devastatingly effective achievement,» calling it one of the «most essential films of the year.»

But the point of «Detroit» — easily among the most essential films of the year — is the aftermath: The blood was washed away, but the guilt stuck around.»

Like most right - minded film fans we're big fans of Sam Fuller (check out our list of essential films from the director).

The schedule is rounded out by such celebrated and essential films as Robert Bresson's «Pickpocket,» Jean - Luc Godard's «Alphaville,» and Leos Carax's «Lovers on the Bridge.»

The astute direction, well - researched script, gritty cinematography, and convincing performances come together to make Detroit a truly essential film.

Our first episode is about Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: a daunting but nevertheless essential film experience.

Likely you will hear a lot of hew and cry about solar innovations — nano - solar, thin - film solar, Chinese panels at $ 1.00 a watt — but what needs to be understood is that, as a long - term investment that will provide an essential

For me, this is one of Almodovar's most essential films.

Undoubtedly an essential film in Tarantino's career, it is probably one the most graciously crafted scripts in movie history, and a testament of what his creative madness can create.

The piercing supplements manage to contextualize an essential film without smothering it with over-explanation.

With his poetic vision and grasp of the milieu, Sissako has made the essential film about terrorism without a hint of hysterics or didacticism.

I proceeded to compile a list of essential films, attempting, as best I could, to separate personal favorites from those movies that artistically defined film history.

When the National Society of Film Critics published its recent book of 100 «essential films,» how many of the contributors were women?

, Criterion's definitive 32 - disc Blu - ray edition contains every essential film about the globe's grandest competition, from Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia to Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad.

An essential film noir, it tells the real - time story of an overthehill boxer whose wife can't watch him fight anymore and whose managers have brokered a deal with a gangster for him to throw the fight but haven't bothered to tell him.

The cult of John Lennon has made this an essential film for completists, but it's little more than an oddity for everyone else.

The freaks, geeks, obsessives and outsiders who made the essential films of the twentieth century didn't play by the rules — they busted them in the defiant spirit of rock & roll

Along with new, restored 4K digital transfers of Kieslowski's original ten films plus longer versions of «A Short Film About Killing» and «A Short Film About Love,» this includes a whole seminar of information about the creation of these essential films, with new and archival interviews featuring the filmmakers and cast, and a dissection by film studies professor Annette Insdorf.

The essential film school introductory textbook, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art: An Introduction, is coming out in its tenth edition in the summer, a...

Rolling Stone, introducing an annotated list of ten of his «essential films,» notes that he was «a child of the Depression, a WWII vet, a beatnik, a bit player in TV and movies, a troubadour, a hipster icon.

Jour de fête — The Northwest Film Forum's been running a five - week, five film 100th anniversary series of Jacques Tatí films that's required me to rearrange my work so I can see these essential films.

An essential film noir gets an equally strong release from Warner Archive, hopefully pointing the way for future releases of a similar quality.

A singular look into the psychology of marriage, this is an essential film in Cruise / Kidman canon and in Stanley Kubrick's canon.