Sentences with phrase «film audiences»

His rare combination of intelligence and down - to - earth understanding of humanity will make for a remarkable presentation of films our audience will not want to miss.
These are lost films, films that are the victims of the herd mentality of the American film audience.
Throughout the entire film the audience is left in suspense of whether these two will actually give in to their impulses.
But he's actually providing film audiences with laughs, as his comedy sequel, «Bad Santa 2,» is being released today on home entertainment, including 4K UHD, Blu - ray and DVD, by Broad Green Pictures.
Now you can relive the sleeper hit that birthed an unspeakable evil on film audiences everywhere: torture porn.
James records that the movie «won the feature film audience award and was sold to Castle Rock Entertainment for $ 10 million.»
Rickman's big break in front of American film audiences did come in 1988, however, when he played the villainous German thief Hans Gruber opposite Bruce Willis «John McClane in the action classic «Die Hard.»
She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.
Modern film audiences seem to always try to find the cracks in the facade, instead of simply enjoying the ride.
Now with a scene - stealing breakthrough on the big screen as the Bearded Lady in 20th Century Fox's «The Greatest Showman,» the original movie musical premiering Dec. 20 and starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, Settle is about to win over film audiences as well.
It's a mantra film audiences seem doomed to repeat on a more frequent basis as Hollywood delves deeper into making films that are all surface and no substance.
In 1995, he snared the part that was to give him more prominence among film audiences — that of the irresponsible David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic romance Sabrina.
The film is based on a 1938 Newberry Award - winning children's book and perhaps now has a built - in film audience due to the success of the documentary March of the Penguins.
The inimitable American actress Kathleen Freeman has been convulsing film audiences with portrayals of dowdy, sharp - tongued matrons since she was in her 20s.
When Paris Is Burning was released 27 years ago, it shed light on a world largely unknown even to art - house film audiences.
The distributor is targeting horror fans — primarily young adults, 17 — 25 — as well as art house and foreign film audiences 18 — 45 as it heads out with the feature this weekend.
Ride with the Devil is another Lee film audiences have to catch up with on video, because it was not understood in its time.
The mission of the society is to further the growth of an informed film audience, to promote awareness of the Internet as a source of news and commentary, to provide a forum for the OFCS members to communicate and discuss ideas about journalism and cinema, and to encourage a high standard of journalism across the online media.
Dedicated to showcasing the finest American and international cinema the world has to offer, its mission is to bridge the gap between independent film audiences and filmmakers, as well as to connect emerging filmmakers with established industry professionals.
To be honest, there actually is some merit to Kubrick's assertion that the book is unfilmable, as the story itself doesn't really lend well to the kinds of things film audiences would find easy to digest.
Although Room resembles the real life case of Austrian abuser Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a basement and fathered seven children with her over a period of twenty - four years, it's not the claustrophobic horror film audiences might expect.
Combined with undocumented fighting skills (perhaps with the hopes of keeping 21st Century film audiences amused), our hero can even slow down time and methodically consider every body part he should hammer in order to slay his opponent.
As part of the very large and mildly perturbed American film audience outside New York and L.A., I now regard my tolerance of platform releasing as a noble sacrifice I make to selflessly preserve the theatrical experience for everyone, everywhere.
Even the most adventurous film audiences in the world have been known to recoil when confronted with something genuinely new.
Mark Rylance, «Bridge of Spies» Although film audiences may not know his face, Rylance has been wowing theatergoers for decades.
Beneath the shock horror elements, torture porn mentality and horror movie clichés, Funny Games, a film about a couple and their young son held hostage by two sadistic and deceptively passive young men, is a dramatic rendition on the bloodthirsty, violence obsessed film audience.
This is the kind of film audiences walk out on en masse.
Martin Scorsese's new movie doesn't lack for faith, but it still won't be embraced by Christian film audiences.
Playwright and younger sibling Martin McDonagh made a splash in Ireland's theater scene with his hilarious, tart, pitch - black plays and then impressed film audiences with two wicked black comedies («In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths»).
I felt that a huge boulder had been moved, in terms of bridging this gap between the visual arts audience and the experimental film audience, because there didn't seem to be that much crossover in these worlds.
Our vision is to continually grow the community of short film audience to enable a wide and accessible market reach for short films and become the leading micro - cinema / shortfilm platform for India.
She may have missed out on the nomination, but her choir - driven score left an impression on film audiences.
Hong Sang - soo is one of South Korea's most prolific filmmakers, but his body of work is comprised of titles not as widely known to international film audiences.
Overall, Dean is an entertaining film audiences will love.
For a modern film audience, Cool Hand Luke is the perfect way to (re) discover both a brilliant actor and a beautiful man.
Mr. Stan, perhaps best known to film audiences as Bucky Barnes (a.k.a. the Winter Soldier) in Marvel's «Captain America» films and the coming «Avengers: Infinity War,» plays Jeff Gillooly, Ms. Harding's husband at the time and one of the bumbling accomplices in the tabloid - ready crime.
The title Mondo Cane (A dog's world) refers to a 1962 Italian documentary that consists of travelogue vignettes of cultural practices that would have been unknown or shocking to the European and American film audiences of its day.
It is unlikely — and was then illegal — that the slave knows how to read at all, or that the white would use a vocabulary highfalutin enough to confuse and anger adversaries (and draw cackles from the film audience).
For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).
That disorientating madness became the driving force of Ramsay and her sound designer Paul Davies» collaboration as right from the start of the film the audience is grounded in the unsettling frequency of Joe's internal state.
With the success of Ridicule, for which he earned a Best Actor César nomination (the film won four Césars, including Best Film), Berling became better - known to film audiences and subsequently began working steadily before the camera, often appearing in romantic and / or psychological dramas.
Another gamble taken by both Loncraine and screenwriter McKellan, is to break the fourth wall: comparatively easy to do on stage, there's a certain level of trust that one must have with a film audience that's rather hard to gain without breaking the suspension of disbelief.
Since her new friends (which include Charles Dutton and a blimey doctor) just aren't that interesting, the film audience is left with that dead feeling inside.
Kwedar's preternatural ability to blend high drama with explosive pressure cooking won him and his film the Audience Award for Narrative Competition at this year's SXSW Film Festival and, arguably more importantly, near universal praise.
«While Poots and Turner deliver exceptional performances,... the result, however, is still a film the audience is detached from» — Gilbert Seah, Festival Reviews
Going far beyond the illusion of a simple tale of big magic, Leterrier includes almost everything a film audience wants — high speed foot and car chases, wild brawls, romance, twists and turns and witty humor.
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