It was also the year Robert Altman's near - masterpiece «Nashville» came out,
a film I saw for the first time just a couple months ago.
All films seen for the first time and on 35 mm.
My list only includes
films I saw for the first time in 2015, but otherwise I would cite a number of digital restorations including Mizoguchi's Shin Heike Monogatari (New Tale of the Heike, 1955) and the film that has consistently been on my all - time - best list, King Hu's Xia Nü (A Touch of Zen, 1971).
For the rest, not differentiating between
films seen for the first or the second time, all true film - events:
Not differentiating between
films seen for the first or the second time: ``...» Reels 1 - 5 (1988), A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea (1991), Crack Glass Eulogy (1992), Creation (1979), Faust 1 - 4 (1987 - 88), Passage Through a Ritual (1990), Sexual Meditations (1971 - 73), Star Garden (1974), The Governor (1977), The Horseman, The Woman, and the Moth (1968), Trip to Door - Jane and the Kids go to Town (1971), Stan Brakhage 17 Reasons Why (1987), Triste (1978 - 1996), Nathaniel Dorsky 1857 (Fool's Gold)(1981), Illuminated Texts (1982), Permutations and Combinations (1976), She Is Away (1976), The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979), R. Bruce Elder A Distant Echo (George Clark, 2016) A Film by Charles Baudelaire (1970), Au - delà de cette limite (1971), Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne (1974), La Bataille de Waterloo (1975), La Clef de l'horloge (1957), La Lune (1970), La Pipe Satire (1969), Monsieur Teste (1974), Projet pour un Poisson (1971), Un jardin d'hiver (1974), Un seconde d'éternité (1970), Marcel Broodthaers A Ilha dos Amores (1982), Mudar de Vida (1966), Paulo Rocha A Menina Maria (1972), As Três Graças (1972), Casa sobre Casa (1972), «Coisas» (1972 - 73), D. Jaime ou a Noite Portuguesa (1974) Manuela (1972), Murnau (1972), O Construtor de Anjos (1978), Padres (1975), Sem Título I (1972), Sem Título II (1973), Luís Noronha da Costa Ai - Yé (1950), Jazz of Lights (1954), Ian Hugo Ana (1982), Jaime (António Reis, 1974), Rosa de Areia (1989), Trás - os - Montes (1976), António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro Anselmo and the Women (1986), Cosas de mi vida (1976), Señora con flores (1995/2011), Chick Strand Domestic Blue (2005), Door # 2 - 37 (1997), Fancy (2006), Meat Dry 02 (1999), Nice Biscuit # 1 (2005), Red Rooster (1987), Sodom (1989), Luther Price As Above, so Below (1973), Larry Clark Ausländer: Teil 1 (1976), Die Donau rauf (1969), Dürfen sie wiederkommen?
The same goes for the best older
films I saw for the first time this year: Boris Barnet's Alyonka (1961) and Jon Jost's The Bed You Sleep In (1993) and Coming to Terms (2013).
The best
film I saw for the first time in 1976 was The River — not, I suspect, a Seattle première, and so I here partly honor that one by indirection.
My favourite 20: 1 of the films is the only film I saw twice at the cinema this year; 6 are directed by women; 2 are directed by the same director; 2 are animated; 1 is a documentary; Adam Driver, Jeff Bridges, Michael Shannon, Samuel L Jackson, and Joel Edgerton all appear in 2 of the films each; and 7 of
the films I saw for the first time at the 2016 Sydney film festival.
Not exact matches
The past decade has
seen a rising demand
for «music supervision» of the type Grayson Matthews provides — companies and individuals dedicated to creating or finding the right song
for the right moment in a piece of
film.
Though there may be ideas
for a sixth
film, the series may quickly become the new «Land Before Time,» and
see its future head to video on demand.
This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing,
for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which
sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a
film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.
Coulrophobia (/ kulɹəˈfəʊbiə /; cool - ruh - foh - bee - ah) The term
for a fear of clowns, which
saw a surge in popularity upon the release of the
film adaptation of Stephen King's «It,» in September.
Whether Styles has the chops to make it as a
film actor is yet to be
seen, but given the confidence Nolan has in the singer - turned - actor, Dunkirk is as good a first chance to prove himself worthy as Styles could have hoped
for.
As has become standard
for bankable intellectual property (
see the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises), the book is being split into two
films, the first of which, An Unexpected Journey, will arrive in time
for Christmas.
There's a good reason
for these amazing milestones: the
film is excellent, among the most entertaining and exciting movies I've
seen this decade.
We hope people will
see the
film and judge
for themselves.»
Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four
for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had
seen the highly rated
film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.
You know, especially when you started writing the music
for your
film and you get this layer of tenderness that I think would astonish people who
saw your first
films.
Other studios have had mixed results with the Marvel characters they own (
see: Fox's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot), but Deadpool «s success could pave the way
for that character to find his way into future
films from the successful X-Men series, to which 20th Century Fox also holds the rights.
«It starts at the point from which the deals are made and continues to how the
films are actually produced, to the way they're positioned
for a release date, to the way marketing empowers people to watch — and we've
seen all these elements falling into place.»
Seeing a severed hand as one of the opening shots of a
film meant
for families probably would have been a difficult conversation to have with children too young to recall 1980's «Empire Strikes Back.»
To paraphrase Bozzo, good
films will end up being
seen and their creators will benefit one way or another, which means some TIFF aficionados will have to think of new justifications
for subjecting themselves to its many inconveniences.
For example, earlier this year organizers of the South by Southwest music,
film and technology conference used Telemetry to monitor foot traffic and
see in real time where bodies were aggregating and which venues were most popular.
But of course, at the end, that
film could go on and make money
for the next 20 years [through streaming] and we'll never
see a statement.
Tickets
for the
film «The Interview» is
seen held up by theater manager Donald Melancon
for the media at Crest Theater in Los Angeles, California.
That's a very high number
for a
film that didn't necessarily scream «giant screen,» so kudos to Sony and the filmmakers
for seeing the potential and capitalizing.
However, given the potential
for a so - called «Oscar bump,» the
film about the Boston journalists who uncovered a Catholic Church sex abuse scandal could
see an increase in ticket sales following Sunday night's win.
Jean Chatzky, writing
for OPEN Forum, taps a few experts
for their
film picks and recommends five must -
see entrepreneurial movies.
(
For those who haven't
seen the
film, fear not, that barely explains it.)
I gather some prices have actually gone down, but you're charging a premium
for the experience of
seeing films in Imax or something similar.
The sites, which often act as launching pads
for smear campaigns against entertainment properties that users don't like
for one reason or another, are being credited
for sinking
films before they even
see the light of day.
You have not
seen this costume in a movie on
film before, and
for a comic book fan, it was mind bending.
I also got a chance to travel to Texas this past summer
for several weeks of training in San Antonio which I combined with some leave days visiting Denver, the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque New Mexico (
saw all the Breaking Bad
film locations), and Austin, Texas (along with a fun night at 6th Street
seeing a ton of live music and drinking way too much beer).
If you've ever been curious about what happens at Tony Robbins events, or just want to get a better understanding of the world - renowned life and business strategist, from how he prepares
for 60 + hours on stage in front of thousands of people to what truly drives him to do what he does, this
film is a must -
see.
The very first thing I do when deciding which movie I want to
see next is check its rating on RottenTomatoes and if the
film is North of 80 % then it's a «no brainer»
for me to go and
see.
The
film's merchandise lifted last year's U.S. retail toy sales and contributed to a strong quarter
for Disney, which also
saw steady growth from its television and cable networks including ABC and ESPN.
Two major ones in the indie
film sector are Seed & Spark and Junction (Junction has, since this was published, been acquired by Seedrs —
see link
for details).
«What we've
seen through technological changes, the shift from
film to video opened up a lot of opportunities
for women to move behind the camera,» she said.
So I just
saw (
for the second time) the very moving
film ONE TRUE THING.
There is a
film documentary that is pretty good which you can
see here in full
for free, but it distorts and waters down the concepts a bit.
I've been an atheist
for 25 years, and have no desire to
see this
film.
Why am I reading a
film review of Fast and Furious 6 when I decided at age 13, after
seeing 2 Fast, 2 Furious, that I was too old
for anything involving Paul Walker?
The
film, which the charity claims is the «banned movie they don't want you to
see» has become controversial since Vue Piccadilly cinema scrapped a reservation
for the screening of the
film.
The world has been waiting a long time
for Black Panther, a
film that doesn't settle
for fleeting entertaining trifles and instead delivers something unlike any superhero movie you've
seen before.
With the battle raging between the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Federal government on the HHS Mandate, some writers have likened their case to the trial of St. Thomas More as
seen in Robert Bolt's play A Man
for All Seasons or Fred Zinnemann's famous
film adaption.
Two years previously, he arranged and paid
for, with what I guess counts as bohemian chivalry, a woman he impregnated to get an abortion (then illegal) from a competent doctor, and in the
film we
see him do the same
for Jean.
Item: regardless of the mistake about the cat identity, the
film clearly invites us to judge Llewyn poorly
for abandoning the second cat, to associate that with his abandoning these two children to death or fatherlessness, and to
see the hitting of the cat as a sign of his sin, and of how the one child will be wounded
for life by it.
But every
film rated R or PG - 13, because it is unsuitable
for children, nevertheless will eventually be accessible to every living room or bedroom where cable network programming is
seen.
It's got to be a surreal thing
for a band or an artist to
see a
film made about them, especially in this situation where the band did not have final cut, they did not have final say.
You've probably
seen the trailer
for the
film adaptation of William Paul Young's wildly popular novel The Shack recently going around the internet.