Sentences with phrase «film legends also»
Two film legends also win AFCA awards: James Ivory, for his Best Adapted Screenplay for «Call Me By Your Name,» and Roger Deakins, for Best Cinematography for «Blade Runner 2049.»
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It will also boast the star power of Aamir Khan, an Indian film legend who signed on to play the villain, and could just be the jolt Imax needs to find its way into the Indian mainstream.
Carbajal is also a keen student of his craft, poring over films that Danny has acquired of such legends as Duran, Alexis Arguello and even Joe Louis.
Obviously carefully researched and historically detailed for the film, Maggie's saga also draws on legend, especially The Searchers, complete with the protagonist's racism as well as newfangled complications.
Green is not just pastiching a Reagan - era mode of by - numbers splatter, but also reflecting upon that style's resurrection through the Hatchet legend that he created himself - & so this new film comes with a decidedly postmodern, self - reflexive feel.
Best of all, those not so self - serious to demand fealty to the legend, but also familiar enough with the references to enjoy their playfulness, will get plenty out of Hazanavicius» film.
Also starring in supporting roles and fantastic to say the least; Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Liev Schreiber, Vanessa Paradis, and New York's own, film legend Woody Allen.
The story of what went on behind the scenes was as interesting as what ended up on the screen — if not more so — as the world learned when Greg Sestero, a star of the film and compatriot of Wiseau, pulled back the curtain in his 2013 book The Disaster Artist, in which he chronicled his life as a friend to Wiseau and the ridiculously lengthy and taxing production of The Room, while also trying to shed some light on the legend of Tommy Wiseau.
The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.
Hammer legend Peter Cushing also pops in and is charmingly eerie as usual, especially delivering the film's final blow.
The legend of Superbad, Jonah Hill, also stars in this classic comedy, but his character is pointless in the film.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun - Li is not only a compelling contender for the worst film of 2009, but it's also a contender for the worst film of all time!
Also coming up from the streaming service are new films by Adam Sandler, the Duplass brothers, and Pee - Wee Herman, plus Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Legend and Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation.
Hillenbrand's first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001), was an «inspiring» tale about the famous race - horse; it was also made into a Hollywood film in 2003.
Matheson also wrote «What Dreams May Come», «I am Legend», «Stir of Echoes», «Button Button» which was filmed as «The Box» in 2009, «Terror at 20,000 feet» (the one with William Shatner and the goblin in the airplane's window), and a lot more.
He seems to have a natural affinity for the Gothic, and his live - action «Legend of Sleepy Hollow» (also with Johnny Depp) remains one of the most visually beautiful films I've seen.
Not only does it star one of the most twisted serial killers in cinematic history, Mike Myers, it also happens to be directed by John Carpenter, one of the legends of horror films back in the 70s.
The film also stars J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt and John Legend and is described as «a modern take on the Hollywood musical following a jazz pianist (Gosling) who falls for an aspiring actress (Stone) in Los Angeles.
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It's anticipated not just for its subject matter — since Amanda Seyfried is playing porn legend Linda Lovelace — but also so cinemagoers can see the finished cut of the film.
Some viewers might also be reminded of The Legend of Zorro (its story also written by Elliott and Rossio), though Verbinski's film goes far more over the top in the action department, and far less in terms of humorous panache.
If so, then this might just be the film for you since, intentionally or not, Manson Family Vacation (which was also purchased by Netflix at SXSW) ultimately ends up romanticizing the man, the myth and the legend that is Charles Manson.
The man who single - handedly brought an entire film industry to prominence with the heroic bloodshed genre (which he also single - handedly engineered) has officially joined Jackie Chan among Hong Kong legends who have sold their souls to be second - wheels and hired hands in American films.
Indeed, it looks like he already has: In addition to small roles in this year's «Testament of Youth» and «Legend,» Egerton has already completed filming on the biopic of indomitable 1980s aspiring Olympic ski - jumper / punchline «Eddie the Eagle» (also starring Hugh Jackman and Christopher Walken) and has the title role in «Robin Hood: Origins» (alongside «The Knick ««s Eve Hewson as Maid Marion) as well as the inevitable «Kingsman» sequel coming up.
After two films that were rich experiences to say the least (emotionally draining is another way to put it), it was a treat to end the night with the first installment of the festival's four - part Artists in Residence program, curated by the four members of legendary metal outfit Metallica (who also happen to be local legends).
In this regard, legends that have come out of Philadelphia are referenced both by dialogue from the characters within the film, and within the soundtrack.The most notable needle drop occurs when Creed arrives in the city, a quick montage unfolding to «The Fire» by John Legend and The Roots - not just a great song about ambition and drive, but also by Philly's local boys done good.
Warner Home Video has also brought I Am Legend to Blu - ray Disc, which also contains both versions of the film.
In making The Legend of Tarzan, director David Yates (the last four Harry Potter films) had the challenge of acknowledging Tarzan's place in modern pop culture while also trying to create a pulpy summer blockbuster whose spectacle could stand on its own.
The Spierig Brothers» new film Winchester, also set in 1906, takes the legend literally.
The film also co-stars rap superstar Pitbull and martial arts legend Gordon Liu.
«American Horror Story» actor Finn Wittrock also stars in the film alongside J.K. Simmons and John Legend.
There's also talk of him reprising his role as Conan in a new movie called The Legend of Conan and as a robotic assassin in another Terminator film slated for 2015.
He was also seen in the Tom Hardy film Legend and starts filming the sequel to Kingsman soon.
She also recently starred in the 2013 film «Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.»
His best - known films of this realist sort include those in the series Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons, although Rohmer was also a fascinating formalist when it came to period pieces, whether in his intentionally artificial interpretation of an Arthurian legend, Perceval (1978), or in his technically progressive take on the French Revolution, The Lady and the Duke (2001), an early film to utilize computer - generated imagery for its backdrops.
Among these already released for the first time on home video include «Two Men in Manhattan,» Jean - Pierre Melville's 1959 filmed - in - New York noir that was never released theatrically in the states, Rene Clair's «The Beauty of the Devil» starring Michel Simon and Gerard Phillipe in a reimagining of the Faust legend, and «Perfect Understanding,» a 1933 romantic comedy starring Laurence Olivier and Gloria Swanson (who also served as producer) with a script by Michael Powell.
These are daring sequences not only for how out - of - character with the rest of the film they are but also for how they blur the lines of science and religion — history and legend.
Not only have students used the computers to write, illustrate, animate, and publish, but they have also created an archive of cultural artifacts, published an anthology of student work each semester, performed dramas interpreting Lakota legends, composed and sampled electronic music, and filmed and edited digital videos.
Other mysterious stories were also popular and Washington Irving's tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) will be know to many following its recent adaptation as a film starring Johnny Depp and the even more contemporary television series.
She also looks to 1970s Blaxploitation films and music legends such as Eartha Kitt, Bessie Smith, Sharon Jones, and Billie Holiday also inform Thomas's works.