Sentences with phrase «few modern films»

Not long ago I was watching Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, which I've watched multiple times — not because I feel it is necessarily a great film, but because few modern films have so accurately pinpointed the look -LSB-...]

Confessing to having seen Glazer's film four times in theaters, the future «Star Wars: Episode VIII» director absolutely gushes over the film, calling it one of the few modern films that could qualify for the pantheon of all - time greats.

While there are certainly a few modern films out there films are referred to as Kubrickian, it is a significantly smaller number than those described as Hitchcockian or Spielbergian.

The pleasures of a modern films transferred to the format is almost redundant as few modern films on Blu - ray...

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Treating a fracture is among the cheapest interventions in modern medicine: Perhaps we would have saved the cost of a few cartons of plaster - of - Paris bandages, several dozen calico arm slings, and several cases of radiography film.

One of the few last successful horror franchises in modern history would have to be the Paranormal Activity flicks where it goes to show, that a film that makes noises in another room can scare the living hell out of millions of people.

The warm color palette is appropriately garish at necessary thematic times, while a few more intimate moments of dialogue towards the third act of the film do reflect a more modern cinematographic flair.

There are a few overt references to more modern sounding ethical opinions on the treatment of the «natives» sprinkled throughout the film, but to be honest, they kind of feel forced, even if they may have been period accurate.

Few of his silent films survive; though through the rediscovery of Delicious Little Devil (1919)-- one of his early titles with Mae Murray — modern audiences may note a high standard of quality filmmaking Leonard observed even then.

Few film franchises have been more constitutive of the modern movie spectacle (and the digital age of cinema) than Harry Potter.

Giving Woody Allen a run for his money as the most prolific filmmaker in the business, Noah Baumbach has released his second film of 2015, coming only a few months after While We're Young, his exploration of generational divides in the modern era.

Forbidden Planet is one of the few «historically important» movies which are not deathly dull for modern audiences today and rather enjoyable on its own terms and not as a film school lecture.

I can only imagine how exhilarating this must be for them by imagining one of the few short - lived modern TV shows I care about («Freaks and Geeks», «Undeclared») getting passionately resurrected as a film with all personnel onboard.

8:00 pm — Sundance — Mammoth A favorite among a few Row Three writers, though not unanimously, this film from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson gives a three - faceted look at the modern world, contrasting an American businessman, his family, their Filipino maid, and her family.

Few modern filmmakers are as knowledgeable and impassioned about film history as Guillermo del Toro, whose newly crowned Best Picture winner, «The Shape of Water,» is — let's face it — a TCM's lover's wet dream.

There have been pitifully few films about the Ottoman Turks» genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in World War One, surely thanks to the strategic usefulness of a modern Turkey which denies the genocide's existence.

Though not an especially well - known film, both it and the Wells book that inspired it have seeped into modern pop culture in a few ways.

So a few eyebrows were raised at the inclusion of Agnieszka Smoczyńska's «The Lure,» a modern fairy tale that played major film festivals and was barely released otherwise.

The use of photographs - within - film to freeze characters in a milieu while defining it in modern terms was already a worn idea when George Roy Hill claimed it for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and here it's handled with even less integrity, by way of a photographer whose 19th - century camera and anachronistic darkroom give him in a few short hours prints of a quality no photographer achieved before about 1920.

«I think that in a few years, in ten, in twenty, or thirty years, we shall know whether Hiroshima mon amour was the most important film since the war, the first modern film of sound cinema.»

Since our screening of FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION in 1997, which was the first time Miike's unique vision was shown in North America, no fewer than 29 of his films were showcased at the festival, including such modern classics as AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER, and VISITOR Q. Miike's work also opened Fantasia three times with YATTERMAN and North American premieres of the Cannes selections FOR LOVE»S SAKE and SHIELD OF STRAW.

Boyle, still doing press for his new film Trance, decried the lack of «adult films» in the modern movie marketplace and has a few places to lay the blame, with Pixar Animation Studios as well as with the Star Wars franchise.

Because its imagery — which also calls to mind Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the cinema's every modern representation of revolution (the few decent scenes in Roland Emmerich's stupid The Patriot, for instance), and even the militarism of choreographer Busby Berkeley — is far more virile than its screenplay, Drumline's seductive aesthetic is without strong narrative pillars, if a rather welcome imposition: the film's saving grace is the brilliant execution of its march numbers.

Set a few years after the events of that film, it sees Cap semi-settled in the modern world (though he's still catching up on the seven decades or so he missed), and working special ops for S.H.I.E.L.D alongside Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Brock Rumlow (Frank Grillo), reclaiming a hijacked vessel in the opening scenes.

There are a few hints that perhaps Bargva considers himself a modern - day Asian Faulkner, and there may be some truth to that, as this film feels like it was adapted from a sprawling novel of family struggle in India as opposed to a tight script.

It's everything that annoys me about modern trailers, namely that they seem to insist of compacting the entire movie into a few minutes, giving away the general structure and numerous surprises in the process, seemingly intent on destroying the anticipation of experiencing the film's surprises for yourself.

As reported by Robin Pogrebin in a recent New York Times article, the Museum of Modern Art is planning a move that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: reinstalling its permanent collection outside of the museum's traditional hierarchy, which placed painting and sculpture at the top of the pyramid, with drawing, prints, photographs, and illustrated books playing supporting roles, and film, performance, digital media, architecture, and design as outliers of varying importance.

Though avant - garde films were apparently not that popular with Russian audiences, who preferred ordinary melodramas, Vertov's delirious ode to the hustle and bustle of the modern city, with its cuts marked by shots of trams passing rapidly within a few feet of each other, remains a revelation.