Sentences with phrase «excellent feature film»

MUSTANG A more socially significant Virgin Suicides, and excellent feature film debut from Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

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This new package features a horizontal flow wrap package made of a film lamination that provides excellent seal strength, tear resistance, increased barrier for longer shelf life and, with a reverse printing process, outstanding shelf appeal.

They work well in low - light conditions and feature a red film coating for excellent light filtering.

After 14 months of exploring the detector and coding all of its features into a Fortran - based software tool, he was able to solve the actin structure with the excellent data from the new detector, rendering the film - based approach obsolete.

Yann Demange's excellent film echoes the work of Paul Greengrass and features another stellar performance from Jack O'Connell.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

The film features excellent support from the likes of Steve Martin who plays Norm Oglesby, owner of the Dallas football team, Tim Blake Nelson as Wayne Foster and one Vin Diesel as Shroom, a fallen hero from the war.

James Schamus» excellent Indignation, which is a film everyone must see, and now, Ewan McGregor's feature debut, American Pastoral.

«Revisiting The Virgin Suicides» is an excellent 26 - minute look back at the film and its impact that features new video interviews with Coppola, Lachman, and actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett.

The new Criterion Blu - ray of Ang Lee's «The Ice Storm», with its excellent transfer and illuminating features, should raise the film's stature as a modern classic.

Taxi Driver is one of Martin Scorsese's best films, featuring one of Robert De Niro's finest performances and Paul Schrader's excellent screenplay.

Both visually lush (Woodley's shot entirely on HiDef 24p DV), both about cinema in a way that my favourite films are, and both featuring excellent performances from Pitt, what distinguishes Rhinoceros Eyes from The Dreamers is a naïveté about the enduring power of film that enchants.

Excellent (4 stars) Unrated Running time: 99 Minutes Distributor: The Criterion Collection DVD Extras: New digital transfer; interview with director / star Lena Dunham; 4 short films by Dunham; «Creative Nonfiction,» Dunham's 1st feature film; interview with writer / director Paul Schrader; theatrical trailer; and a booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

The Blu - ray also features an excellent 69 - minute documentary, The Soul of War: Making Hacksaw Ridge, which covers the film's long journey to the silver screen.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

A few more words about the «Garbo — The Signature Collection»: In addition to the films, it includes an excellent feature - length documentary about Garbo, by Kenneth Brownlow, which is airing this month on TCM.

Barring his excellent miniseries take on «Mildred Pierce,» Todd Haynes hasn't released a feature film since 2007's experimental Bob Dylan biopic, «I'm Not There.»

Most importantly, the sound is excellent featuring an DTS - HD MA 5.1 track and it really scores with the music in the film.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

This classic film noir features stunning black - and - white cinematography by the great Milton R. Krasner (23 Paces to Baker Street) with an uniformly excellent cast that includes Ethel Barrymore (Portrait of Jennie), Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire), Ed Begley (12 Angry Men), Warren Stevens (Forbidden Planet), Paul Stewart (Kiss Me Deadly) and Jim Backus (Gilligan's Island).

Though the DVD could benefit from some extra features, the video and audio presentation of the film is excellent.

Making things even more astounding is that it is Cretton's second feature film, a terrific start to his career but also an excellent piece of work one could retire on.

Although it has faults, Jindabyne is certainly a strong film, featuring excellent performances and an effective exploration of community and personal relationships.

Not only is Lance Daly's newest feature a rollicking western with fantastic action and excellent performances, it also demonstrates how a film's subject matter can add much - needed pathos and nuance to a genre.

The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.

But to skip Creed on that basis is a mistake, for the rest of its two + hours are so great, so tautly filmed and featuring such honest, intelligent performances that it becomes a genuinely excellent movie that happens to be about boxing.

An isolated score track set to a graphic horror film is a marvelous way of augmenting a film's visual style, nuances, and the emotional subtext, and while the DVD lacks such a feature, Christopher Lennertz» excellent music is available on CD (from La - La Land Records, in a limited release of 3000).

It would take something special to wrest control of our Featured Film spot from the Northwest Film Forum, especially considering they have the most intersting new film of the week (Lucrecia Martel's Zama) and a pair of excellent repertory films (The Third Man and The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach).

The film's production minutia are explained by del Toro in one of the set's 2 feature - length commentary tracks, accompanied by co-producer Peter Frankfurt - an excellent companion, who maintains a steady pace.

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.

Recalling early David Gordon Green films (particularly in the excellent use of non-actors to authentically portray the working class American heartland), this is the assured 2nd feature from Chloé Zhao.

Unlike the U.S. trailer, this international trailer features the excellent Matthias Schoenaerts, who is reteaming with his Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam for the film.

SAFE HOUSE is directed by Swedish film maker Daniel Espinosa and features an excellent supporting cast consisting of Brendan Gleeson, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Robert Patrick, Liam Cunningham and Sam Shepard.

Alfonso Cuaron hasn't directed a mainstream feature length film since 2006's excellent CHILDREN OF MEN, so we're very happy to see the talented director...

What I do know is this: If Pixar's films seem to have been slipping back into the pack of excellent - but - not - transcendent animated features of late, it is in part because that pack has dramatically lifted its game.

This definitive release recycles Altman's excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's production and its cultural moment.

The video transfer is in crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen while audio is provided in an excellent and immersive Dolby 5.1 English dub (and here my qualification of a «general» lack of a western bias comes into play) that is, nonetheless, inferior to the Japanese - language 2.0 surround track, which features the original vocal talent who have, not including this film, logged over twenty - six hours of finished time voicing these characters.

Blu - ray Highlight: Although it's appeared on previous editions, «The Art of the Sting» is an excellent three - part retrospective that features interviews with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and other cast and crew as they reflect back on making the film, including the choice to use ragtime music for the score, cast chemistry and anecdotes from the set.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

Ramin Bahrani's «At Any Price» features the best Dennis Quaid performance in forever and its last act is rather excellent, but the film is too uneven and unfocused for us to include here.

As well as the usual excellent crop of top feature films debuting at the New York Film Festival, there is also an equally impressive presentation of some of the best documentaries being made today.

Blu - ray Highlight: The 30 - minute documentary «Between Good and Evil» is an excellent retrospective on making the movie, featuring interviews with various cast and crew, as well as a few Kubrick experts, about everything from the casting process, to filming in East London, to the director's notoriously long shooting schedules and much more.

Also, the bonus features are excellent, providing one of the better behind - the - scenes documentaries I have seen for a film.

The Blu - ray presentation is excellent, and also features a picture - in - picture function where you can watch the film alongside the complete storyboards.

The flip side of the coin is that these kinds of films usually feature excellent acting and dialogue, and that's because the characters and dialogue were written by actual writers and not Hollywood hacks.