Given the rarity of the Best Actress / Best Picture double, you could actually turn this eleven -
film list into a kind of Oscar - season binge, taking down all eleven films, all of which are available to either stream or rent.
Not exact matches
By: Kimberley Smuts 22nd July 2016 Australian -
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Crimes Of The FatherThomas KeneallySceptre In his most famous novel, Schindler's Ark (adapted
into the multi-award-winning
film Schindler's
List), Thomas Keneally tells the story of one man doing what... More
James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned
into a
film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a
list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.
His page
lists his job, his generic interests (going out with friends, sports,
films) and provides no insight
into his true personality — assuming he has one.
«Going
into each new
film, we will have a
list of tools and techniques we want to improve,» said effects supervisor Matt Baer.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill
List, High Rise) propels the audience head - on
into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on
film as he crafts a spectacular parody — and biting critique — of the insanity of gun violence.
However, don't let that description fool you
into thinking that this is just one insignificant
film, it sets a new benchmark for the action movie genre that will hard to beat — and it looks and sounds great — definitely a worthy entry to this
list.
If you were going down the
list of things needed for a comedy to take flight you'd find them all here; the three main players pass the ball, the chemistry works, and the
film never devolves
into that most debilitating trope of the romantic comedy - a serious third act.
Now Sam didn't start with the two
films I
listed, he evolved
into the «shocking and cool and new».
On Geena Davis (a rare tangent
into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry
list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on
film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.
Love Actually tops the
list but click the pics to see what other fave
films made it
into our top five.
Bergman's
film quickly made its passage
into classic status; the 1972 poll of the world's
film critics by Sight and Sound, the British
film magazine,
listed it among the ten greatest
films ever made, and it is now considered by many Bergman scholars to be his best.
Over 270 Black
List scripts have been produced
into films grossing over $ 23 billion in worldwide box office.
A non-comprehensive
list of the powers Lucy acquires over the course of the
film: perfect marksmanship, extreme agility, and instantaneous reflexes; the ability to control TVs and cell phones from thousands of miles away; immunity to pain and fear; telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance; expertise in driving a car really fast
into oncoming traffic; teleportation across time and space; and the capacity to alter her existing body parts or grow new ones.
Directing his 1st movie... no it's not reservoir dogs... it's My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) It's even that awful that he doesn't include it
into his
list at the beginning of Kill Bill Vol.1 «The 5th
film by...» no sir... it was his 6th.
As for «Happy - Go - Lucky,» I think it may creep
into Best Actress and screenplay (I've seen it and think it's a fine
film), but I kept the
list at U.S. releases thus far.
It is a bold move, as The Black
List goes from championing well written scripts to becoming an active cog in getting them turned
into feature
films.
It felt like I was waiting a decade for this
film, and that last gentle push that nudged its Australian release date
into January meant that its foretold (but hardly inevitable) place in my end - of - year
list would be delayed by another full calendar year.
Each year we get a master
list of all the eligible
films and then need to divide the titles
into Adapted and Original for the screenplay...
Look deep
into the movie
listings this January, past the big name awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem
films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).
David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this
list kind of lucked
into direction having written a
film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre
film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).
Last year, the concept was based on a shot of Hannah Schygulla, Goddess of Cinema, waking up, looking
into the camera (in Fatih Akin's «The Edge of Heaven») and dreaming fragments of the
films on my
list.
Meanwhile, «Great Expectations,» which came in third on the most - lied - about
list, has been adapted
into a
film starring Helena Bonham - Carter, Ralph Fiennes, and Jeremy Irvine which will be released this October in the US.
Two Woody Allen
films have made their way
into two new Top 100
film lists.
There are quite a few other very good movies (The Tai Chi Master, The Age Of Innocence, Menace II Society, Schindler's
List), but this year's only got good
films into the 40s, whereas the next two years make it
into the 50s.
WHY: You'd be hard - pressed to find many people who
list «Punch - Drunk Love» as their favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie, and that's largely because there's not as much to bite
into as his headier and more provocative
films.
Based on what I had read in the
listing, I imagined a
film filled with spaces for the thematic, the atmospheric, the intellectual, and the visceral, all rolled
into one.
On a first viewing I felt it wasn't as rousing as what I expected from Tarantino but then Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction instantly catapulted themselves
into my favourite
films list.
Pakula's name belongs on my earlier
list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement
into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog
films are chockfull of.
As we head
into the big weekend of this year's hotly anticipated Academy Awards telecast, I thought I'd toss this
list up once more, broken down by
film.
This one devolves
into a horror climax as surely as any other
film on this
list.
Bécue - Renard
films these sessions while also delving
into some of the soldiers» personal lives back home, shooting with a nonintrusive style that brings Frederick Wiseman (a director also appearing on this
list) to mind.
Outside of «The Cabin in the Woods» (which is tough to even peg
into this genre), it has been nearly 20 years since a horror
film made my top ten
list.
And while we're grateful for this
film catapulting J - Law
into the serious
film world (and earning a first Oscar nomination), what makes Winter's Bone deserving of this
list is that Granik created an enthralling mystery propelled by the immense talent of all its performers (though, definite shout out to John Hawkes and all his cigarette smoking).
From his role in Training Day, to his portrayal of a tormented bodyguard in Man on Fire, Denzel's
film career of badassery includes a long
list of highlights such as tricking a young cop
into smoking crack or sticking explosives up a bad man's bottom.
They do not only include the
films I consider the absolute best of the year, as I consider Senses of Cinema's invitation a way of putting my own
film year
into perspective, and allowing it to dialogue with the
lists by dozens of other
film professionals and lovers who have had a totally different viewing experience in the past twelve months.
With a long
list of adult - oriented
film credits, most of Vin Diesel's motion picture appearances don't fall
into the realm of family fare.
I seriously doubt that you managed to see all 31
films I
listed and you dissed to actually make a judgment (and anybody
listing a bunch of
films not from 2014 is going to have their judgment called
into question anyway, as you realized when you edited your post to move Tangerines to 2015 and include» (or earlier)» to cover your butt... and actually undermine your argument).
At time of writing there are still a number of
films I have yet to see which I suspect might have made it
into this top 30; perhaps they'll make it
into next year's
list.
A big three - time winner at the Sundance
Film Festival, here is a
film with talent, sophistication, humor, and sensitivity rolled
into a joyous, grief - cleansing, heart - lifting 90 minutes that earns both good word - of - mouth and positions itself for year - end acclaim on more than a handful of top - ten best
lists.
Needless to say, as someone who has seen all 10
films listed above, this slate has both sins of omission and sins of commission, in my opinion, but we'll be getting
into that more in the coming weeks.
But the sum result of this
film never added up
into the emotional surge that Spielberg's top two
films on this
list did, and the
film has never really connected with a large audience.
Dozens of
film lovers in the Toronto area (including many contributors here at RowThree) submitted their top ten
lists and the results were tallied
into a consensus top ten.
Currently 10th and 11th on the
list are Kate Winslet (Wonder Wheel, 80/1) and Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, 100/1), but I think they'll both overleap Jessica Chastain, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, and Emma Stone to come
into serious contention once their
films have been seen more widely.
Don't forget, the Golden Globes divide best
film into two categories (drama and comedy / musical), so critical favourites (which also made the AFI
list) such as the dark gem Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the star - studded political thriller The Post and Greta Gerwig's poignant mother - daugther comedy - drama Lady Bird are also strong contenders.
Every year there are a few
films that are exemplary and deserve special attention, but don't quite fit
into my top horror
list.
After a slick, flashily edited title sequence that incorporates footage of scenes shown later in
film (not unlike a TV show), the audience is immediately plunged
into the heretofore closely - guarded plot: After a mission goes disastrously awry, Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is «disavowed» from his duties by the powers that be and suspected of being a mole trying to sell a top - secret
list that matches covert agents» aliases with their true identities (called the «NOC — Non-Official Coverts — List&raqu
list that matches covert agents» aliases with their true identities (called the «NOC — Non-Official Coverts —
List&raqu
List»).
You can also add 2001: A Space Odyssey to the
list of influences, with the crew squabbles with the onboard AI, as well as the more surreal elements that come
into play late in the
film.
Here's a
list of some of our favorite frightening
films to get you
into the Halloween spirit.