Sentences with phrase «film as a masterpiece»

While I can't endorse the film as a masterpiece, or even excellent there are enough great moments to respect it as a worthy effort, even if I can't join in with those who champion this as one of the greatest masterworks in the history of cinema.

Unfortunately, the on - air antics of Cronauer's radio personalities just aren't enough to classify the film as a masterpiece.

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Alas, while I'm in love with the look of the film, I don't find The Shining to be the masterpiece of horror cinema that it's remembered as.

One of Charlie Chaplin's masterpieces, this hilarious and heart - rending film was made and released as a silent with music track in the post-talkie era.

Chaplin had been making terrific and memorable films up to this point, but it's The Great Dictator which seems to have the most fingers pointing at it today as Chaplin's grand film masterpiece rather than yesterday when it was mostly steeped in controversy.

This moody, elegiac film has universally been acclaimed as a cinematographic masterpiece, from the talents of Cuban - born European Nestor Almendros (and «additional photography» by Haskell Wexler), with naturally - lit, sweeping, 70 mm images of crystal clarity and scope, and artfully composed scenes reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth paintings.

At nearly two - and - a-half hours, Spielberg is as epic in scope and lively in detail as the classic films he devoured and studied while dreaming of helming his own masterpieces.

Even though the film therefore must be regarded as a marred masterpiece, the remaining two - thirds of Welles» original concept is still a thrilling cinematic experience, especially whenever Agnes Moorehead is on the screen.

Critic Consensus: A must - see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard - hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

Of the countless films they made during their (amorphous) multi-decade run, undergoing nearly as many lineup changes as the Fall and Yes put together, no single Three Stooges short or feature is an actual, legitimate masterpiece of the cinema — that is to say, none has been recognized as such.

Bernardo Bertolucci directed «The Spider's Stratagem» the same year as his masterpiece «The Conformist,» but this film is nowhere near as good.

To luxuriate in the film's 3 - hour, 10 - minute length is to experience this masterpiece as it hasn't been experienced since the day it opened.

Today, after seeing the film again for the first time in years, I feel that Saving Private Ryan is, if not an absolute masterpiece, an extremely powerful and moving work that stands as one of the greatest war films of this or any era.

This is 2012's premiere action film — it's easily on the same level as classic sci - fi masterpieces like «The Terminator» and «RoboCop.»

He also found time to appear in grandpa roles in films like Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War as well as lend his voice to the animated masterpieces Spirited Away and Wolf Children.

In this way, Wendigo joins last year's crop of reality - and identity - testing films — such modern existentialist masterpieces as Memento and Mulholland Drive.

Although it paid homage to the original cast and even brought along many great actors as cameos such as Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones) and Bill Murray (Garfield), there is no doubt that the final 25 minutes of the film was a visual masterpiece.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Naturally, remaking such a revered film is bound to lead to criticism, and the director has acknowledged that in an interview with The Guardian, describing his take as a homage to the horror masterpiece, rather than a commercially - driven decision.

After having made four of the most successful films in Dutch history, Verhoeven was lured to Tinseltown mid-career, and he has never made another film as personal or penetrating as his 1983 masterpiece, The Fourth Man.

In 1980, Robert De Niro delivered an Oscar - winning performance as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, the Martin Scorsese masterpiece that set a high water mark for both biographical narratives and boxing films.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

How do you follow a film that many have acclaimed as a masterpiece?

Produced midway through a fast decade of bad drugs and badder romances, during which Fassbinder was also tossing off a string of masterpieces, Fox may have been reiterating the idea that power imbalances are inherent to romantic relationships that the filmmaker had been working out in such earlier films as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and Martha (1974).

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

Nolan's awe - inspiring masterpiece «Interstellar» will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 3 - disc Combo Pack that includes the film on 4K UHD and in high definition on Blu - ray, as well as a bonus Blu - ray Disc ™ with three hours of in - depth, behind - the - scenes content detailing the epic shoot, the scientific realities explored in the film, a look at creating the stunning visuals, and much more.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Point Blank is saddled with the same title as John Boorman's 1967 masterpiece, but the only thing the two films really have in common is coolness.

The movie could be summarized as «Rosemary's Baby if Rosemary were the head of the cult,» but while Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece is a rich, nuanced film that works (and disturbs) on multiple levels, Hungry Hearts never goes any further than preying on some pretty basic fears.

No, it's not half as good as John Carpenter's 1982 version, nor of Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece, «Alien,» another film that obviously influenced this film's production.

Armed with Seann William Scott's gloriously over-the-top turn as the title character, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach almost manages to overcome its tedious storyline and hopelessly erratic pace to become a minor comedic masterpiece - yet there eventually does reach a point at which Scott's performance, ingratiating as it is, simply proves unable to compensate for the film's myriad of deficiencies.

However, considering the fact that those two films are near masterpieces, giving Manchester By The Sea that qualification means that it ranks among the best of the century so far, and quite easily stands as the best film I've seen this year with only a month left to go for the unlucky contenders looking to unseat it.

As For a Few Dollars More is sandwiched between the film that set the trend for Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars, and the one that would prove to be a masterpiece of the genre, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, its quality is often forgotten.

A great, weird film that I think will be seen as a masterpiece in years to come.

The film seems to live up to its «cultural phenomenon» praise as a visual masterpiece, with an emotional story arc, women empowerment, social and political issues, and Oscar - worthy performances especially from Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmanger.

In fact, his new film is pretty hard to find as well, with an under - the - radar nationwide release (it opened on Seattle Screens with little fanfare last week at the Varsity, we're it continues on a reduced schedule this week), a far cry from his generation - defining 70s masterpieces like The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?

«As someone who considers Malick's first four films stone masterpieces, the increasing narrowness of his vision is a disheartening development.»

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).

HITCHCOCK Director: Sacha Gervasi Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Danny Huston, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy We take Hitchcock's masterpiece Psycho as an important part of film history.

Consider Howard Hawks's definition of a great film as «three great scenes, no bad ones,» and Pulp Fiction has the potency of three masterpieces.

One way leads to a surprise masterpiece that soars on the chemistry (surprise again) between Ferrell and Gyllenhaal — the other leads to a film that's a lot better than I expected it to be, weighed down by a resolution that it itself comments on as equivocal, cowardly, and disappointing.

Performing at prestigious film festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as well as little - known gems of the silent era.

However the film stacks up to Malick's earlier masterpieces, it sounds like a much - needed shakeup to his widely mimicked style, even as the subject matter — Jägerstätter has since been declared a martyr by the Catholic church — aligns pretty perfectly with his increasingly spiritual concerns.

The mixed critical and commercial reaction to Sullivan's Travels (now universally recognized as a masterpiece), and the fact that Sturges was always a tough act to follow, meant that the film would have few imitators in its own era.

The movie may not be a masterpiece, and it's not anything that's going to win big awards, but as a sweet and touching film, it's about as perfect as it could be.

Death by Hanging is a singular and visionary masterpiece that stands as one of the greatest Japanese films of the»60s.

On the one hand, her timing was excellent, arriving on the scene just when American audiences were taking movies most seriously, thronging to the films of Bergman, Buñuel, Fellini, and Kurosawa, and hailing them as masterpieces.

That cycle was started when Italian actress Monica Vitti, known for her brooding films with Michelangelo Antonioni («L'Aventurra,» «L'Eclisse»), exquisitely took up the mantle of popular British comic strip heroine «Modesty Blaise» (1966), a pop art masterpiece (or train wreck, take your pick), which makes up a double feature with Jane Fonda's turn as «Barbarella» (1968), based on a French comic strip, on Thursday, May 17, at the Castro Theatre.

The film is still considered by many as Bertolucci's ultimate masterpiece.