Sentences with phrase «film in about a decade»

Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci hadn't made a film in about a decade before his latest movie Me and You screened out of competition at 2012 Cannes Film Festival; however, the

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Stanley Kubrick's classic movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film for decades.

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

Little is known about H. atlanticus, and the researchers who filmed it using remotely operated vehicles have only seen it three times in as many decades.

The film inspired a decade's worth of atrocious European movies about imagined sex and perversion in Nazi prison camps.

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

Secretly, though, he's a heartbroken gay man in free fall, something David still can't talk about with his dad after coming out a decade ago — of all of the film's strands, the bond between fathers and sons is the most complex, deserving of more attention.

An entertaining film about sobering true events, this is the story of notorious screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who defied McCarthy's communist witch - hunt hearings in the late - 1940s and was blacklisted by Hollywood for more than a decade...

This movie was interesting in that it came out about the same time as the similar - themed The Truman Show, and that both films were an eerie foreshadowing of what was to come in television for the next decade.

It's been nearly a decade since release of the last film in the Predator franchise — Predators, starring Adrien Brody and Alice Braga — but that's about to change with The Predator, a revival from The Other Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

But truthfully, it isn't saying anything about the relationship between the media and society — and the toxic and symbiotic voyeurism that fuels it — that hadn't been said already, decades earlier, in eerily prescient films from «Ace in the Hole» (1951) to «Network» (1976) to «Broadcast News» (1987).

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

«That such a tender film about the human condition is nominated for an Academy Award — my first film in nearly two decades, and in a year where so many exceptional women are being honored for their work behind - the - camera — humbles me.

Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.

The decade after provided us with several entries in this vein of high concept romance — Stranger Than Fiction, Lars and the Real Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks, 2013's About Time — all films I enjoy and admire.

Also, although the film, through flashbacks and narration does a fair job of compressing over 100 years of time into about 2 hours of film time, it would have been interesting to tell Adaline's story more in a limited - TV series in which each decade of her life experiences could have been shown in more detail.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

No one at the end of 1917 was debating whether the directing debut of John Ford or the first appearance of Vittorio de Sica augured longer careers to come (in fact, both would be making films for the next five - plus decades) or weighing the industry impact of Mary Pickford's box - office smash Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or (to the point of my own research) speculating about the future of slapstick star Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle's new sidekick, a vaudeville refugee named Buster Keaton.

With the dominance of superhero films in the past decade, it was also quite different in the mid-90's, as Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, who was in a wave of box - office hits that skyrocketed him to superstardom, took a bold initiative to make a film about the Black Panther, which was supposed to release many years ago.

, or My Brother's Name, or, frankly, Fatih Akin's simplistic and overrated film about Nazi violence against Turks in contemporary Germany, Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Oskar Roehler's tired satire about the wealthy, Herrliche Zeiten (Subs), or Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Overkill, a Berlin film about a reckless female teenager that could have easily been made in the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'êtrin contemporary Germany, Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Oskar Roehler's tired satire about the wealthy, Herrliche Zeiten (Subs), or Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Overkill, a Berlin film about a reckless female teenager that could have easily been made in the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'êtrIn the Fade), Oskar Roehler's tired satire about the wealthy, Herrliche Zeiten (Subs), or Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Overkill, a Berlin film about a reckless female teenager that could have easily been made in the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'êtrin the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'être.

It does for me, as there are images, pieces of music, and particular scenes that have stayed with me over the years, and although I hadn't seen the film in about two decades, it amazes me how much of it I still remember.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

Through his personal account of programming and researching Japanese cinema for more than two - and - a-half decades, Nornes raises important questions about the reception of Japanese films in Western film festivals, and the role of Japan as a site where filmmakers from other Asian countries can learn more about Western filmmaking.

We move forward with day three in the Decades Blogathon, where me and Mark have been running posts from various bloggers interested in talking about films from decadeDecades Blogathon, where me and Mark have been running posts from various bloggers interested in talking about films from decadesdecades past.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

But in other ways, Cool Hand Luke is vaguer about what it stands for — it's the beginning of a decade - long run of films in which being an individualist is valorized in the absence of any particular information about exactly what kind of an individualist a character is, or why.

Following his attention - getting appearances in 1981's Body Heat (in which he played a smoking - hot arsonist) and 1982's Diner (an ensemble film where he handily out - handsomed his co-stars), Mickey Rourke had about a decade as a conventional — and conventional - looking — leading man before his acting career took a backseat to his detour into professional boxing.

Tomorrow: Yorgos Lanthimos, whose Dogtooth placed at # 25 on The Dissolve's list of the decade's best films so far, returns to Cannes — in Competition this time — with The Lobster, about which I know absolutely nothing.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

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.

In 2014 while promoting «Son of God», Downey's reason for delivering another big budget film about the crucifixion was that it had been ten years since «The Passion of the Christ», and therefore a decade since Jesus was on the big screen.

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

This is a film that I think people will talking about in a few years when they recap the best performances and dramas of the decade.

The film, adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name, Dark Places follows Libby as she learns about the «supposed massacre of her family by brother Ben, which she testified in court decades beforehand, might not be what was assumed.

That might seem like a lot, but is actually about average for films released in this decade, when word - of - mouth is instant and worldwide.

So much time and energy has been spent talking about Blade Runner in the ensuing three decades that one might start to doubt just how much audiences rejected the film upon it's 1982 release.

In the decades it took for Black Panther to make it to the screen, Marvel reportedly approached a number of prominent directors about helming the film — including John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood), F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, Fate of the Furious) and Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle in Time)-- before finally landing on Ryan CoogleIn the decades it took for Black Panther to make it to the screen, Marvel reportedly approached a number of prominent directors about helming the film — including John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood), F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, Fate of the Furious) and Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle in Time)-- before finally landing on Ryan Cooglein the Hood), F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, Fate of the Furious) and Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle in Time)-- before finally landing on Ryan Cooglein Time)-- before finally landing on Ryan Coogler.

Since then, Don has written about film and pop culture for Film Threat, Film School Rejects, Adobe Airstream, Devil in the Woods, Pop Culture Press, the Los Angeles Journal, and was Managing Editor for Smells Like Screen Spirit for just shy of a decade.

The November Man feels like a film that might have been more of interest to the general public had it come out about a decade earlier, in the middle of the Bourne series, and after Brosnan had finished with his popular run as James Bond.

Despite the contemporary setting for the film — it's described in the official festival program as «A Big Chill for our current social media moment» — its depiction of gender roles are a few further decades behind still, with female characters assuming domestic roles as an excuse to steal away and talk about men and destiny.

For decades, movie audiences have loved his work in films spanning just about every genre: Poltergeist, Stir Crazy, All The Right Moves, The Family Stone and The Proposal.

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's new documentary «De Palma» features the legendary director talking about his five - decade long career in the film industry, directing such classics like «Dressed to Kill,» «Blow Out,» «The Untouchables,» and «Carlito's Way.»

Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.

Professional jackass Johnny Knoxville and Patton Oswalt, widely regarded as one of the best and most transgressive stand - up comedians of the last decade, have signed on to co-star in The Catechism Cataclysm director Todd Rohal's latest film, an outlandish yet poignant comedy about a pair of battling brothers who attempt to honor the memory of their ailing father by taking a troop of boys on a camping trip that goes wildly wrong.

But only about 3 % of speaking characters in films during the last decade were Latinx.

Just as in the original, this film is as much about the texture of the world on screen as it is the story of the Replicants (artificially manufactured humans created as slave labor) decades after Deckard first strolled the mean streets of L.A.

Although only three years has passed since the first film in real time, this sequel takes place about a decade years after the events of The Mummy.

It's been on the rise in the United States for about decade, with films like Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) employing a natural and semi-observational style that focuses on characters and situations rather than heavy - handed plots to tell their stories about America's downtrodden poor.

A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.