Infographic Guide to the Movies by Karen Krizanovich is sure to delight
film buffs with its clever, bright graphics illustrating a bookload of facts, tidbits and trivia about the movies.
I should really have drawn attention to this earlier, but as Jeff Wells pointed out on Hollywood Elsewhere, Lars von Trier's Cannes hit «Melancholia» began a one - week, once - a-day screening run at Los Angeles» out - of - the - way Laemmle Fallbrook 7 theatre on Friday — a handy opportunity for local
film buffs with free afternoons to sneak a look -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
He is a movie and baseball
buff, and he recalls the
film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise
with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.
Union members will demonstrate alongside agricultural workers and
film buffs who disagree
with government plans to disband publicly - funded bodies like the UK
Film Council, Forestry Commission and the Agricultural Wages Board.
You can finally meet the like - minded Pirates or Steelers fan, or you can connect
with the same
film buff and spend evenings at the Row House Cinema.
An imposing and highly memorable presence on the Broadway stage, actor Frank Langella has won only a fraction of the acclaim he's received in the theater for his
film career; still, his brooding good looks and his ability to play both villains and comic foils
with a touch of menace has made him a welcome (and increasingly familiar) fare to
film buffs.
Mom is currently enamored
with pretentious - filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes» latest picture that Lane meets another 13 - year - old, insatiable French
film buff Thelonious Bernard.
It's there that the
film's ultraviolent battles take place, and while history
buffs and medieval action fans will kvetch about anachronistic details of weaponry, fighting techniques and liberties taken
with established facts, the selling point of «Ironclad» is its violence.
Maxed out
with metaphor, the satirical nature of such
films give a knowing wink and nod to ardent
buffs of genre cinema.
I suppose he doesn't really have to worry about repeating himself to a certain extent, as many audiences in the US and other countries may not be intimately familiar
with his previous works, though they certainly have been lauded by critics and
film buffs alike.
Many movie
buffs know how John Ford made a deal
with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary»
films, Rio Grande.
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The resulting book, published in 1966 complete
with extensive stills from those
films, became a classic, still in print, and still prized by filmmakers and
film buffs who now have instant access to those
films.
Clark used to insist that he was not an avid moviegoer, but any good artist has his antennae up, and I'm fascinated by how, if you're a
film buff, the apparently - unconscious associations
with cinematic trends help to ratchet up the tension in Black Christmas.
If I ask a movie
buff what he or she expects from The Criterion Collection, I'll probably hear talk about an excellently crafted, artfully made
film released
with a high standard of audio / visual quality and a handful of in - depth special features.
No other actor in my lifetime as a
film buff has gotten me more excited about any project
with his mere association.
In this
film, Desi's nothing more than the attractive daughter of the dean, without anything worthy of note otherwise, and certainly not the sort of girl one would put life and limb on the line to try to capture the eye of, especially
with a
buff and pissed off boyfriend about.
Many Williams
buffs think some of his best comic
film work can be found in his first collaboration
with Gilliam, «The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen» (1988).
Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie
buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent
film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night
with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.
Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) is partnered
with Nicolas, an undisciplined cop and a
film buff.
This has nothing to do
with Crudo's discipline — fellow cinematographer John Bailey came prepared as a historian and
film buff and delivered a super commentary track for Sunrise — but Fox erred in not trimming Crudo's sterile comments down to its essentials, and inter-cutting info from other, if not more broad - minded
film historians.
Because almost every relationship has to deal
with one kind of passion or another, it's easy to see why the
film will appeal to more than just baseball
buffs.
The
film's ensemble also includes Aisha Tyler as Feng's blowdart wielding henchwoman, along
with Reno: 911's Kerri Kenney, veteran character actor David Koechner and Terry Crews, a
buff crowd - pleaser who seems to be asked to flex his pecs in his every cameo nowadays.
The
film would team comic - book
buff Cage
with «Superman Returns» helmer Bryan Singer, who is onboard to produce alongside Jason Taylor.
screen • THR details the first attempt to put Black Panther on screen in the 1990s
with Wesley Snipes stories about trying to collaborate
with John Singleton (ye olde creative differences) • Coming Soon Jim Caviezel and Mel Gibson reuniting for a sequel to Passion of the Christ about, you guessed it, the Resurrection • IndieWire you knew that RuPaul was a major
film buff, didn't you?
With its awesome animation and vivid colors, Rango is flashy enough to amuse kids [who won't understand much of it]-- but its sophisticated storytelling and references make it a joy for serious
film buffs.
When I first watched this, I expected it to be a
film I'd put up
with so I could mark it off my «
film buffs must watch» list, but I was riveted for every second.
As well, the script expands to include a host of secondary characters and a storyline
with some historical significance, which will thrill
film buffs but may bore children and some teens.
Any movie
buff would be hard - pressed to come up
with any sequels that were as good as if not actually better than the
films which inspired them.
Human 1980s anecdote machine Frank Henenlotter returns
with Chasing Banksy, a comedic art heist caper
film, while
BUFF honors special guest and indie horror stalwart Larry Fessenden
with a special presentation of his cult classic Wendigo, which will be screened in a glorious 35 mm print.
As I said many times towards the latter part of the year in conversation
with fellow
buffs, I was ultimately won over by
films I could actually remember rather than
films of vocal, yet failed, ambition.
The action packed
film attracted plenty of movie
buffs with 2FM's Lottie Ryan, actor Jay Duffy, Aoibhin Garrihy and «Love / Hate» actor Laurence Kinlan all in attendance.
It's a good looking
film, and entertaining,
with quality special effects, well - shot action, and some nifty twists along the way, but at the end of it,
film buffs aren't likely to think, «Wow!
It's a noble effort — and one worth a look for the super serious
film buffs, as outsize auteurist projects of this scale are, indeed, rare events — but something is amiss when I come away
with more to chew on about what guided the filmmaker's technique than what drove the title subject.
Every summer,
film studios pump out blockbuster hits of superheroes saving mankind from a diabolical genius
with a chip on his hugely
buff shoulder.
Film
buffs definitely shouldn't miss a trip to one of the cinemas in the Latin Quarter, an area of Paris brimming
with art house, classic and independent
films.
When Jean - Luc Godard showed producers a rough cut of his
film Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963), featuring megastar Brigitte Bardot, they were aghast to find the
film devoid of nudity and demanded scenes
with «BB» in the
buff.
That gorgeous 9.7 - inch 1536 x 2048 screen is the perfect viewing platform for
film buffs,
with the convincing contrast and gloriously vivid colors bringing movies to life.
Once dry, a
film will appear on the tiles... you can just
buff this off
with a lint - free cloth.