Sentences with phrase «essential films of»

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.»

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The CFC Media Lab creates groundbreaking productions that include Body / Mind / Change starring David Cronenberg; Late Fragment, Canada's first interactive feature film; and the dynamic mobile visualization project of What's Your Essential Cinema, co-produced with TIFF.

So if a film - maker wanted to us to more closely consider this essential feature of rock, setting the film in 70s period would be logical.

The film's scenes of graphic violence, far from being extraneous or merely fetishistic on Gibson's part, are essential to his theological point of view.

The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.

Very easy recipe to put together, the only faff was wrangling the cling film into the muffin tin, essential though or the tartlets would be difficult to get out of the tin, the cling film allows you to ease the product out safely!

Admittedly I got my March essential rewards order back at the beginning of the month and filmed my unboxing and then totally forgot to edit and upload it.

Both the original novel and the film version of House of Sand and Fog (the latter captures the essential concerns of the book) shed light on certain features of American life, at least certain social types or personalities, although they hold themselves back from a penetrating or satisfying portrayal.

There are scenes, which contain relative nudity and are essential to the content of the film; but this scene, and two others, have no bearing on the movie at all!

Full of fun interviews and interesting looks at the art and animatics of the film, Megamind is full of supplemental material, some essential, some just for fun (a Megamind rap?)

Aside from the essential short prologue Hotel Chevalier, the star of the disc is Matt Zoller Seitz's 11 - minute video essay entitled «Chaos and Control,» in which the film critic discusses key ideas, motifs, and patterns in The Darjeeling Limited over edited footage of the film.

Its interesting ideas and the moments in which it does come together ultimately redeem it, as least as a passing diversion, but it is the least essential Harry Potter film since Chamber of Secrets.

While all too many films would like to convince you of the essential banality of our society and institutions, Se7en answers what may be the defining challenge of our times: to see the world for what it is, and love it anyway.

Equally important to the personality of the overall film is Jeff and Mychael Danna's stunning score, which takes its cues from the region, while capturing that essential sense of optimism that make Parvana such a remarkable heroine.

It's essential to the rest of the film, and once we get into the exposition of the sea, we lose some of that character to the CGI tiger and wave machine made ocean.

Control of tone is essential in any film that doesn't adhere to a familiar formula, and luckily for the audience, Daley and Goldstein are on top of things.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» in which Ethan Hawke brilliantly plays an alcoholic Protestant minister undergoing a profound spiritual and psychological crisis, is a stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema's most essential artists.

Co-writer and Director Ryan Coogler (FRUITVALE STATION, CREED) is three for three, and I have a gut feeling these numbers will always match — the man can tell a good story, an essential element for a film of this caliber.

Kiki is an update of sorts on Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning, a canonical portrait of New York ball culture in the 1980s that endures, though not without complications, as an essential investigation of queerness, race, class, and stardom — and a work that noticeably goes unmentioned in Jordenö's film.

Soderbergh films the movie with swing, relishing the overlapping and intertwining strands of the complex plot, the brightly lit personalities of the characters it involves, and the magnificently conceived, essential tiny details...

Becoming Chaz is undoubtedly one of the most thought - provoking films you will see on any screen this year, a frankly chronicled tale of Chaz's life as a transgender man that opens a more than occasionally mind - blowing conversation about the essentials of gender, and subsequently, sexuality.

Steven Spielberg's film is a paean to the essential role of a free press, one the director felt he had to make in 2017 (he first read Liz Hannah's original script earlier this year and rushed it into production).

But the filmmaker has such a consummate understanding of storytelling and technique that he knows when to drill down into a moment for greater emotional truths and when to condense what must have been excruciating volumes of information — both in terms of the Papers themselves, and the journalistic processes of vetting, creating and production of a daily newspaper — to communicate the essential details that keep the film on track.

A stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema's most essential artists.

A superb film in every respect, La Vie En Rose is one of the essential biopics and not since Clint Eastwood's Bird has a picture been this vivid in showing the conflicted and troubled side of famed artist.

Illustrated by astounding color and black - and - white images, the book presents the best of this mind - bending genre, detailing through insightful commentary and behind - the - scenes stories why each film remains essential viewing.

Call us provincial — David Lynch's psychoerotic noir is one of the essential L.A. movies — but the more significant reason for the film's enduring critical favor may be its deconstruction of the toxic allure of the Dream Factory.

It seems that lost in all the talk about computers, and space travel, and the harshness of space, etc., we have somehow lost the essential drama that is the centre of the film: Dave Bowman's existential condition as he stumbles into old age and is later transfigured once again into a child.

David Heyman, Executive Producer for the «Harry Potter» films, gives a wonderful introduction to this essential guide of the series.

Some of the titles, like parts one and two of Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 ode to German athletic excellence, are as essential to film history as they are to charting the history of the competition itself.

In it, four of the film's essential crew members — special makeup artists Stephan Dupuis and Chris Walas, director of photography Mark Irwin, and special effects supervisor Gary Zeller — talk about how they created the cult classic's signature effect.

Rarely has every frame been so essential and packed with specific behavior in contemporary cinema, and the film is a staggering assemblage of craft that services the truth for which Haynes reaches and richly achieves.

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It is with Hellboy that del Toro seems most at ease, never losing the tone or vision of the film from beginning to end, and faithfully capturing not only the essential ingredients of Mignola's creation, but also deriving much of the storyline and plot developments from the comics themselves.

But the play was a deeply religious work, metaphorical, the imagery of man merged with horse essential to its message, so while Richard Burton and Peter Firth gave excellent, Oscar nominated performances in the film, the picture never quite captured the power of the stage play.

That's one of the questions at the center of this film, which I'd go so far as to consider essential viewing.

«A welcome opportunity to revisit one of the few essential works of film theory.

It's still a solidly made and acted film but really only essential viewing for completist fans of the genre and actors involved.

There is a telling scene deep inside «Boyhood» that gets at the essential core of the emotional appeal of Richard Linklater's startling new film.

This idea of familiarity with extra-textual elements or training in a specific method of watching as essential in the evaluation process is a perennial issue in film criticism for me.

This key moment in Not Quite Hollywood goes beyond the iconography and influence of the «hood ornament» sequence as Tarantino's film fan thesis also suggests the essential appeal of exploitation cinema in general.

An essential and moving film centred on the Paris faction of ACT UP, the international action and advocacy group formed at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic, in the early 1990s.

But unlike his previous work, Leone eschews the pervasive amorality that gave his earlier films their groundbreaking vitality, choosing not to overhaul western clichés, but to incorporate them into essential components of his majestic mise - en - scène.

These three films are essential portraits of romantic struggling with the realities of social change.

Also included is the 45 - minute press conference held at Cannes after the film's premiere, which feels less essential than it might have in the past, if only because in the internet era these kinds of press events are routinely available online.

The film is not a perfect work and vacillates greatly in quality, particularly in Volume Two, but the successful sequences are so rich in thought - provoking representations of big subjects and so distinctively the work of its singular and taboo - flouting director that it all makes for essential viewing.

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Her bleak working conditions in this effects - heavy film demanded physical dexterity and the ability to withstand long periods of isolation, but through it all her gift for connecting with an audience, so essential for this kind of film, never fails her.

Though the strong work of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — the only two actors who appear on camera — is essential to what the film accomplishes, the great lure of «Gravity» is the way director Alfonso Cuarón, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber have collaborated to make us feel we're stranded in outer space ourselves, no questions asked.