Sentences with phrase «film in a number of years»

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The list is sorted by the film's release date rather than the number of rentals in a year.

China only allows a certain number of foreign films to showcase in the country each year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select few which gets shown.

I was approached a number of years ago to see if I was interested in doing a film on Freud and C. S. Lewis, having as its main theme the question of faith.

Recently, there has been a lot of speculation that Daniel Craig's days as the spy with a license to kill are numbered, ending an almost 10 year run as the headliner in four Bond films.

A number of this year's films sought to draw specific attention to climate change, a move organizers» hoped would help the festival «serve as a signpost» on the route to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, which will be held later this year in Paris, France.

The WWF said on Thursday that the money from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, set up by the 39 - year - old star of «The Great Gatsby» and the upcoming film «The Wolf of Wall Street,» will be used for an initiative to double the number of tigers in Nepal by 2022 - the next Chinese year of the tiger.

In their analysis, the researchers found the number of times a movie 25 years or older is referenced by other movies best predicts inclusion in this registry of American films deemed «culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.&raquIn their analysis, the researchers found the number of times a movie 25 years or older is referenced by other movies best predicts inclusion in this registry of American films deemed «culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.&raquin this registry of American films deemed «culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.»

Agee would continue appearing on screen in films like Super, and found success for a number of years as a writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

While this film was shelved for a number of years, The Cabin in the Woods were released in 2012, just before The Avengers was released.

Over the past few years, we've seen many strong non-fiction films that are either one or the other: The you - are - there doc Restrepo and its sequel, Korengal, are like visual journalism, embedded in a disputed valley in Afghanistan; and a number of other non-fiction films, from These Birds Walk to 12 O» Clock Boys, have an ecstatic beauty that evoke the term «Malick-esque.»

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

It was a later sound film, 1930's Little Caesar, that brought him to the attention of American audiences; portraying gangster boss Rico Bandello, he established a prototype for a number of gangster roles he played in the ensuing years.

Despite the film being set in the late 90s / early 00s, the music is all from the early 90s and, clumsily, a number of posters in the background of scenes are of films released years after.

The studio also released just one critical dud (I Am Number Four, also a bit of a box office failure) last year after releasing three such films in 2010.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.

Just in the past year, we've seen a number of films that walk in the shadow of this one.

There was a 9.5 % increase in the number of commercially released films in 2014, resulting in a grand total of 1,010 films released in New York City this year.

Even though they've reduced the number of films this year it's still SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM IN EACH SECTION.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

But while the prospect of topping such a dazzling crowd - pleasing blockbuster must have been daunting and no doubt encouraged the franchise to be left cinematically untouched for a number of years, eventually new adaptations arose in television animation and back in live - action film.

He has been working steadily since his career began in 2011, appearing in a number of films, including «' 71» and last year's «Trespass Against Us.»

In 2014, Cinema Eye returned to the Museum of the Moving Image on January 8, following several days of film screenings in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York as well as a number of events that honored the work of that year's nomineeIn 2014, Cinema Eye returned to the Museum of the Moving Image on January 8, following several days of film screenings in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York as well as a number of events that honored the work of that year's nomineein Toronto, Los Angeles and New York as well as a number of events that honored the work of that year's nominees.

It also marks the addition of Don Knotts, the comic actor who has made a number of Disney films over the years and voices a character in next year's Chicken Little.

PH: A few years ago, I was an actor in a film called «Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast,» and while on the set a number of people were talking endlessly and enthusiastically about the Tommy Wiseau film «The Room.»

She has starred in a number of French - language films in the years since, but this is the first to be released in the United States.

Read a recent roundtable with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) visual effects supervisor Bill George, who oversaw the creation of the special effects in this year's Touchstone Pictures sci - fi action film «I Am Number Four.»

Mark of three rows back and Tom of Digital Shortbread are hosting a blogathon where the theme are films from years ending in the number five.

In the second year of the analysis, the Sundance Institute questioned how support by an artistic organization is essential to bolstering the numbers of women in filIn the second year of the analysis, the Sundance Institute questioned how support by an artistic organization is essential to bolstering the numbers of women in filin film.

The new question is will it be Oscar nominated given the strangely low number of qualifying films in that category this year?

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

The film was co-written by Anderson and Day - Lewis over a number of years spent obsessing on the topic (Day - Lewis goes uncredited), and is, in part, a fascinating character study of a fastidious solitary man devoted to the creation of the graceful silhouettes in his mind's eye.

This year's Oscars Weekend placed Gnomeo and Juliet number one in a startling upset and significant increase in numbers since the film's opening weekend of third place, where it has been ensnared until now — grossing an estimated $ 14.2 million.

As I mentioned in the last post, the festival this year is presenting a surprising number of films that deal with issues of sex and pornography — more so than ever before, according to one of the festival programmers.

While moviegoers have seen a lot of Teresa Palmer over the past few years in films such as The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Bedtime Stories, for her upcoming sci - fi action thriller I Am Number Four, we're going to see a new...

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

«In more than 40 years of making movies, I have been on the producing end of a number of films for The Walt Disney Company, but never as a director,» said Spielberg, making his first kids movie for Disney.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

Any number of terrible incidents this year have demonstrated why that was horseshit, but the lightness of touch in which Simien approaches his thorny subject - matter, and the complexity and compassion with which he writes his characters (brilliantly played by an excellent ensemble) made the film as entertaining as it was thought - provoking.

It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the yeaOF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the yeaof which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the yeaof critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the yeaof the year.

And that's the way it was for a number of decades, and then about three years ago, I was having dinner with this Polish director who had done the film «Ida» about a Polish nun, and it was a film in the spiritual style, and we got to talking about how much I like the film and how much he liked my book.

This was the same number of passing films as the previous year, but there were 23 LBGTQ - inclusive films in the report from 2016.

Yet in the last few years an increasing number of films have questioned the dichotomy between documentary and fiction and integrated such questions into the films themselves.

Pop and Lydon aren't the only musicians set to appear in the film, as Malick has also recruited Arcade Fire, Alan Palomo, Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes and The Black Lips, who were all filmed at an Austin City Limits Music Festival from a number of years ago.

Catching on that traditional animated movies» days may be numbered and cashing in on the public's fascination with the CG process the whole scene looks positively crowded this year: 2004 sees the release of four entirely digital films - Shrek 2 and Shark Tale from DreamWorks, The Polar Express from Warner Bros., and of course The Incredibles.

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

In addition to AAFCA dubbing 2017 the «Year of the Woman in Cinema» — for women helming a number of critically and commercially successful pictures — this year, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in historIn addition to AAFCA dubbing 2017 the «Year of the Woman in Cinema» — for women helming a number of critically and commercially successful pictures — this year, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in histYear of the Woman in Cinema» — for women helming a number of critically and commercially successful pictures — this year, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in historin Cinema» — for women helming a number of critically and commercially successful pictures — this year, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in histyear, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in historin history.