Sentences with phrase «films from years past»

Some of my all - time favorite Sundance films from years past are Beasts of the Southern Wild, Drake Doremus» Like Crazy, Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, Adam Elliot's Mary & Max, Max Mayer's Adam, Duncan Jones» Moon, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish, Rodrigo Cortés» Buried, and many others.

Some of my all - time favorite Sundance films from years past are Drake Doremus» Like Crazy (from last year), Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, Adam Elliot's Mary & Max, Max Mayer's Adam, Duncan Jones» Moon, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish, Rodrigo Cortés» Buried, and many others.

In the buildup, they show nominated and winning films from years past.

Not exact matches

It's also unfair to judge Guice too much by 2017 film, as he was still recovering from injury most of this past year.

A long - standing 3M distributor, Spandex has been selling 3M window films for more than 25 years and in the past year has introduced new products as stock items, including Fasara Glass Finishes, Dichroic Glass Finishes and DI - NOC Architectural Finishes from 3M.

Users can try on the main characters» looks from the just - released film Pitch Perfect 3; they live stream makeup tutorials straight from red carpets, collaborating this past year with L'Oréal Paris at Cannes.

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.»

Well she's proud of her past, calling herself a redneck without reservation, but in the film you can see she picked up a certain resilience from it, through the torture her mother and husband gave her in he formative years.

Being absent from cinema for the past few years, it was uncertain when his return would be, but I think he will have a perfect fit in independent films such as Borg / McEnroe.

Thanks to the obsession with blockbusters that has preoccupied major studios for the past 40 years or so, there have been many weekends where two heavily promoted tentpole films — sometimes even from the same studio — have occupied the top two slots at the domestic box office.

And though the film itself is beautifully shot, it doesn't say anything different from the onslaught of like - minded pictures that have emerged out of the past five years.

His next film is Punch - Drunk Love from Paul Thomas Anderson, which promises to be of a different form and, thankfully, more fully realized than the fractured companion pieces to Goodnight Moon he's been diligently working on for the past seven years.

Five critics from the Los Angeles Times took turns picking their three favorite characters from the past year in film.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

What is also interesting to note about the line - up this year is that there are q quite a few films from past festivals playing.

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»).

The Danish Girl — if it is going to rally anything in the race it could hit here, with Eddie Redmayne — both films from Focus features that made Best Pic hit here first in the past two years.

From the film's uniquely garish visual compositions (courtesy of cinematographer Christopher Doyle), to its mature and intimate treatment of the main characters» homosexuality, Happy Together is an important film in Hong Kong Second Wave film and international cinema in the past twenty years.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS I for India (Unrated) Sandhya Suri explores the issue of assimilation in this bittersweet memoir about her family's migration from India to England in 1965, well documented due to her father's having filmed them for the past 40 years with the help of a couple of Super 8 cameras and a tape recorder.

A surprise late - film cameo from a member of the usual gang (hint: not Ben Stiller, but the other one) livens things up a little, but it also raises a troubling question: Vaughn, Wilson, and their pals have emerged in the past few years as the most reliable big - budget comic collective since the first batch of Saturday Night Live vets started making movies in the late»70s and early»80s.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Other films playing are It Follows, which caused a stir earlier this year at Cannes; Jermaine Clement & Taika Waititi's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows; Kevin Smith's Tusk; [REC]: Apocalypse, the fourth entry in the hit Spanish franchise, and Big Game, the new film from the director of past TIFF film Rare Exports starring Samuel L. Jackson as the president.

This year, Cannes is a celebration of new films that will be presented, and also films and filmmakers from years past.

Robespierre is among the greatest discoveries to emerge from the Sundance indie slate in the past few years and offers continued relevance to the festival, which seems increasingly distanced from its original mandate to support not only independent film but movies that take risks.

«I'm looking forward to working with Brett and Don on creating a show that is enjoyable for both the fans at home and for the audience at the Kodak Theatre as we all come together to celebrate and recognize the great film contributions and collaborations from the past year.»

This past year, one of the most buzzed about films at Sundance was Randy Moore's film Escape from Tomorrow.

Peggy Sue Got Married does not appear to be the work of a cinema master, but then I'm not sure that any of Francis Ford Coppola's films from the past thirty years really do.

Nobody would deny Marvel's good fortune over the last ten years, nor that it has simplest persevered to transform extra staggering in recent years: final yr, films within the MCU made $ 2.6 billion international, whilst simply two months in the past Black Panther smashed records in each course, and the critiques from fanatics and critics alike in most cases fit.

Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's semi-documentary was given its title because on a certain level, it isn't a film in the way of Panahi's past work — it has no script or actors, it was shot in the Tehran apartment in which he's been serving out his house arrest, and it's centered around his talking through the feature he would have made had he not been banned from filmmaking for 20 years.

Bong suspends any disbelief with a mixture of B - movie earnestness and black comedy, as well as constant nods to today's political climate (notice how Swinton enunciates «occupy») and classic films of years past (from Soylent Green to The Shining).

From 2D animation, stop - motion, and live action, a wide variety of short features were exhibited representing the finest student films made in Canada this past year.

Cap was starting from a place where he and the rest of the Avengers who sided with him in Civil War, they've been living underground for the past couple of years, so the start of the film, they aren't the first to the table because they've had to live like fugitives.

As 2014 draws to a close, we're already salivating over what's in store for us in 2015, but before we get to the New Year it's time to revist our favourite films from the past twelve months.

This is something that Wheatley suggests cinema uses to fight against everything from smartphones to Netflix, but this past year has seen a growing number of films dive deeper into the meaning of the sublime.

This week's bounty of new Blu - ray releases include one of the most entertaining films of the year, a Disney classic, an underseen gem from this past summer, the previous season of shenanigans from AHS, and more.

Now in its third year, the Seattle Film Awards annual survey polls more than two dozen Seattle - area film critics, working in print, broadcast media, and the internet to determine their choices for the best in film from the past year.

«The Exorcist» has enjoyed even greater longevity in the Industry, from the still - chilling 1973 original film adapted from William Peter Blatty's book and directed by William Friedkin to the many sequels and prequels of varying quality that have ensured over the past 43 years.

Again, it's easy to confuse the film with any number of bullshit romcoms from the past few years.

All I'm trying to say is that Afflicted is a movie that I enjoyed but is very similar in tone and structure to another, more well - known film from the past few years, but I don't want to do Afflicted a disservice by only comparing it to a movie I didn't like all that much.

Not everyone digs the aesthetics of this version of Beauty and the Beast, but as a relatively high - budgeted film from the most commercially successful movie studio of the past several years, it is little surprise that it looks as great as intended on Blu - ray.

Production took place at the very beginning of the year with major thumbs up support from Tribeca Film Festival where the film (not yet finished) landed the IWC Filmmaker Award and this past summer, Deb Shoval «s feature debut was submitted to Champs - Elyse ́es Film Festival's US in Progress.

Continuing the year of the vet, earlier we saw strong performances that could attract voters» attention from a past winner, 70 - year - old Helen Mirren, in Woman In Gold (a film The Weinstein Company has already started campaigning for its star); and 72 - year - old Blythe Danner getting a full - bodied leading role in the hit adult indie I'll See You In My Dreams which has grossed over $ 7 million so far for new distributor Bleecker Street, which will probably be encouraged to launch an Oscar campaign on her behalf.

In the week prior to seeing Island, I watched five films from the past two years and two from the»70s and»80s.

Transitioning from smaller films to major studio projects over the past several years, Belanger says this major rise in recognition is very simple to understand.

From my POV, 12 Years a Slave is a deeply Conservative film which buries America's racial issues in the Deep South in the Deep Past.

Phillips, who has made some interesting films in the past such as Old School, Starsky & Hutch and Due Date, has enjoyed enormous box - office success in the past few years with The Hangover, and also its sequel, The Hangover Part II, which suffered artistically from the fact that it was basically a reprise of the original film, only with the gags having worn off dramatically.

Support received from the following government donors throughout the past year has helped sustain Sundance Institute's ability to serve independent film and theatre artists in numerous ways.

«Selma» wasn't the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year.

Throughout the past year, generous support received from the following companies helped sustain Sundance Institute's ability to serve independent film and theatre artists in numerous ways.

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