Sentences with phrase «film dogtooth»

His 2009 film Dogtooth, which earned him international acclaim, contained a dizzying array of absurdist humor and uncomfortable family dynamics watching three children confined to their wealthy home by over controlling parents.

His third feature film the 2009 film Dogtooth won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.

Greek film Dogtooth was a surprise pick in this year's Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars.

No one who saw Lanthimos» extraordinary 2010 film Dogtooth will want to miss this film, which looks special and co-stars Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly and Lea Seydoux.

Release Date: After winning Un Certain Regard for his 2009 film Dogtooth, Lanthimos premiered ALPS at Venice in 2011 (where it won Best Screenplay), before tapping into the Cannes main comp (taking the Jury Prize) in 2015.

Yorgos Lanthimos is the director who reinvigorated Greek cinema with his dark, absurdist films Dogtooth and Alps.

While director Yorgos Lanthimos» previous films Dogtooth and Alps both reveled in their inscrutable rules, forcing the audience to pick up the fragments of what's offered and chase behind the film, trying to cram them together, everybody in The Lobster instead can't stop telling us exactly how this insane world works («Didn't you read the guidebook?»

Not exact matches

Lanthimos» breakout film, 2009's Dogtooth, dropped the audience into a strange world and expected us to catch up.

Having said all of that, I am also perfectly fine with someone simply saying they just don't care and don't want to be bothered with a film like Dogtooth.

Trailer does a great job of capturing the strange nature of the film that is somewhat of a cross between Holy Motors and Dogtooth...

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the feature could be finished in time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous films The Lobster and Dogtooth debuted.

Lanthimos hails from Greece and has been making provocative films for years, first bringing his break out hit Dogtooth to the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Yorgos Lanthimos («Dogtooth», «The Lobster») is a surgical filmmaker of great opacity; his film a bright and coldly lit Gothic work in the mode of Stanley Kubrick.

And while the film throws some shadows reminiscent of recent Greek «Weird Wave» cinema (Papoulia also starred in Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Alps), such as its unhinged, barking mad, and eyeball - rolling style of acting, this is a bigger, bolder, and angrier work.

It might be indebted in many aspects to «Dogtooth,» with which it shares both thematic and stylistic links, but it's arguably more fully achieved than even that film — the helmer's win of the Silver Lion for Best Director might not have been popular in the room, but to our mind, it's well - deserved.

Warmerdam's direction recalls Yorgos Lanthimos «Dogtooth, another film about a comfortable family unraveling via occultish psychological manipulation.

His international breakthrough, Dogtooth, tackled social conditioning (parental or otherwise) through a nightmare experiment in child rearing; it remains a shock - buzzer cult film for the ages.

Numerous of the country's films in recent years — Tsangari's previous film Attenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos» Dogtooth and Alexandros Avranas» Miss Violence — have received critical acclaim and accolades at International award ceremonies.

Lanthimos gave us the wonderful DOGTOOTH, and with a cast of this caliber, we can only hope for another great film.

From the moment Dogtooth barreled onto the film festival circuit in 2009, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos has been on the radars of cinephiles hankering for absurdism and social critique.

To Ursula Meier's Home, Anders Edström and C. W. Winter's The Anchorage, Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth, and Bong Joon - ho's segment in the anthology film Tokyo!

The A.V. Club's own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos, «funny,» «unsettling,» and, «occasionally gruesome» when he watched it at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Yorgos Lanthimos's third film, following Dogtooth and Alps, initially forces you to choose between a life of companionship or on - the - run singleness.

Tomorrow: Yorgos Lanthimos, whose Dogtooth placed at # 25 on The Dissolve's list of the decade's best films so far, returns to Cannes — in Competition this time — with The Lobster, about which I know absolutely nothing.

I'm already eager for another look at The Lobster, the latest absurdist whatsit from Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos (whose third feature, Dogtooth, was the best film I saw at Cannes 2009).

Indeed, Dogtooth is a film that delights in disconcerting the viewer and refuses to supply any easy answers (in fact, any answers at all).

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

Like Dogtooth, this film is an fascinating look at who we are as a society.

She has produced fellow Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» films, including Alps and Dogtooth, among others through her production company HAOS films.

Yorgos Lanthimos» name has become synonymous with contemporary absurdism; the films that have made him one of the most lauded filmmakers in recent years - Dogtooth, Alps, and The Lobster - have mixed stories of families and relationships in the most strange of circumstances, combining black comedy, violence, and the crisis of identity.

Together, they have already co-written the critically acclaimed and award - winning films Alps, Dogtooth and The...

The first trailer for the film has arrived online, and you can check it out below... The dystopian romance, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth)-LSB-...]

Messing with a topic we usually consider sacred, the family - Dogtooth's characters create an alternative reality in the film, and in their insular world commit some of the ultimate taboos.

Violent, sexually explicit and disturbing, Dogtooth tells the story of a family that lives in isolation, and is definitely not a film to sit down and watch with family members.

This is the first English - language film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

Dogtooth is the known film here, with festival and Oscar success behind it since its unveiling at Cannes in May 2009.

«If anything, having seen «Dogtooth» and «Alps,» [«The Lobster»] was less of a risk than the majority of films I've done, because his work is so strong,» he said.

Most of the top 10 films of the year I barely read much of anything about them: Dogtooth, The Ghost Writer, Mother, Nowhere Boy, etc... and they probably benefited from that as well as there wasn't major publicity campaigns about their masterpiece mantle status.

«Alps «As extraordinary a film as Georgos Lanthimos «debut «Dogtooth» was, there was something about its Fritzl - ish premise that seemed like it was riding the zeitgeist (even if it marched firmly to the beat of its own drum), and I wondered how the director would fare with something that felt less ripped from the headlines.

If you've seen Yorgos Lanthimos» other films, like «Dogtooth» or «The Lobster,» ** you enter «The Killing of a Sacred Deer» braced for uncomfortable hilarity with touches of deadpan violence.

Somewhat of an infamous film on the festival circuit for the last year and change, Yorgos Lanthimos» satire Dogtooth is hyped as weird, transgressive, darkly funny and gorgeous to boot.

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the International film scene in 2009 with the disturbing, Oscar - nominated family drama Dogtooth.

DOGTOOTH, NOMINATED IN THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM CATEGORY FOR THE 83RD ACADEMY AWARDS ®, NOW AVAILABLE ON BLU - RAY New York, NY ---- Kino International is proud to announce the Blu - ray release of Yorgos Lanthimos» DOGTOOTH.

As unforgettable as it is unshakable, the fifth film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster), The Killing of a Sacred Deer, is an unsettling and transgressive domestic odyssey that astounds with its unrelenting menace and imaginative fluency.

Actually enjoyed Alps more than most of the reviews I've read but Dogtooth is easily the superior film.

A town of 40,000 that still gets films like Dogtooth, Mother and Exit Through the Gift Shop, but it takes a long time.

Tsangari is also known as producer of Yorgos Lanthimos's films (Kinetta, Dogtooth, Alps), which have tended to deal with similar themes.

You knew Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek expat in London who made «Dogtooth,» was going to be up to something interesting with his first English - language film.