Sentences with phrase «fiction film classic»
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.
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At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
On July 14, Kent Westmoreland, head mixologist at Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar, will partner with celebrity guest bartender and host of The Proper Pour Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons to serve special cocktails inspired by classic noir films and fiction.
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It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science - fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.
From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.
Your evening kicks off with The Day the Earth Stood Still, an enduring classic and easily one of the most influential science fiction films of all time.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»
At a lunch Wednesday in Manhattan, this year's Heterodox Award, given to films that provocatively expand the blurry line between fiction and nonfiction, was presented to Sean Baker's The Florida Project and the Legacy Award was given to Leon Gast for his classic film, When We Were Kings.
In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.
Forging a strong link in the evolution of modern science fiction films, this classic was nominated for an Oscar, and won an honorary award for outstanding makeup.
But plenty of classic films have lost Best Pictureike Citizen Kane, The Graduate and Pulp Fiction, each of which has a lot in common with TSN.
After all, here is a truly visionary film - maker who has been behind some of science fiction cinema's most bona fide classics.
From the classic to the obscure, the Arrow Video collection encompasses all styles and genres: horror films and Westerns, science fiction and sex comedies, yakuza epics and neo-noirs, the subversive, the transgressive and the unclassifiable.
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This event will see a selection of new release previews, specially selected classics and films that reflect the different programming strands that the IFI runs all year round such as IFI Stranger than Fiction, IFI Family and the IFI Irish Film Archive.
According to Deadline, «Blade Runner» screenwriter Hampton Fancher is currently in talks to join director Ridley Scott for a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic film.
The latest installment in the series based on the classic science fiction film «Planet of the Apes,» War for the Planet of the Apes, is available on DVD and Blu - ray.
In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».
Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.
On This Week's Show: Like the return of the classic science fiction film Tron to theaters, Neil makes a triumphant return to the Magical Studio in the Sky.
Although generally listed in the science - fiction section, Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the classic Jack Finney story easily qualifies as one of the most effective horror films of the late 20th century.
That's no knock against Scott's 1979 classic, which remains an excellent science fiction film and an excellent horror film — it's just that I prefer James Cameron's follow - up, an excellent science fiction, horror, action and war film.
Reportedly something of a cold fish, he has nevertheless made three of the warmest and most thrilling fiction films about animals of all time: the undisputed classic The Black Stallion, the messed - up but still remarkable Never Cry Wolf, and the exhilarating tear - jerker Fly Away Home.
As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science - fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
How dare they remake a classic science fiction film?
; other classic mid-century science - fiction flicks like When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), and The Time Machine (1960) were marketed similarly, as Lumière-esque marvels of film technology.
Blade Runner (1997, PC) is a point and click adventure game based on the classic 1982 science fiction film of the same name.
It draws its thematic influence from the science - fiction films and anime of the 80's and its gameplay from classic Amiga and Commodore 64 action - adventures.
We present rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics, new and historic works by the world's great film directors, restored silent films with live musical accompaniment, thematic retrospectives, and innovative works made by today's film, video, and new media artists working in the areas of animation, documentary, experimental, and fiction film.
The exhibition will continue to highlight the dialogue between film, fine art, fact and fiction through early Western films to John Ford's classics, and examines the complex dialogues in post-World War II films.
«Huma Bhabha's We Come in Peace borrows its title from the classic American science - fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a tale of first contact between humans and aliens.
Clark's still photography, which is filled with narrative tension has led him on to producing film and directing cult classics such as Kids (1995), Bully (2001) and Wassup Rockers (2006), films which blur the boundaries of documentary and fiction, often using untrained actors playing scenes which could be from their own lives.