Sentences with phrase «films number among»

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's living treasures, a beloved filmmaker whose animated films number among the most beautiful and most enchanting productions ever drawn by hand.

Not exact matches

«Ironically, these last prints may have a high value as they circulate among a relatively small number of theaters dedicated to keeping the legacy of traditional film alive.»

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

Disney plans on releasing a larger number of films in 2014, and the good news is that it appears that there isn't a John Carter - or Lone Ranger - level debacle among them.

Although Douglas was again praised for her work — here portraying a Carole King - like singer / songwriter — the film did poorly among critics and at the box office.The actress went on to do a number of made - for - TV films, including the satirical Weapons of Mass Distraction in 1997.

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.

This 1983 film ranks fourth among Norris» modest filmography by number of IMDb user votes.

She has also appeared in a number of television series and films including «Rock of Ages» and «Black Nativity,» among others.

Despite a number of melodramatic ingredients — comas, hidden pregnancies, torrential downpours, and secret missives, among others — the film remains subtly understated, thanks in large part to the impeccable cast.

Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's stage musical contains about four big numbers that are among the year's most memorable scenes (even though the film itself is pretty spotty).

The film's sprawling cast includes Louis Negin, Mathieu Amalric, Ariane Lebed, Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Nolot, Udo Kier (look out for his appearance in «The Final Derriere», a musical number about a man with a seemingly incurable fixation on bottoms), Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis and Maria de Medeiros, among others.

Black Panther is among the first films by the house of Marvel Studios which predominantly has a black cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's allies.

«The spreading of the wealth is indicative of the large number of films that have passionate support among our membership.

Among the number of reviews I've seen of this film highlighting it's take on «white trash», I'm not sure this would be the kind of music they would really listen to.

Both films offer a number of other sound tracks (including DD5.1 French and Spanish ones) and subtitles including English, French, and Spanish among others.

The stars» selections varied (not all of them strictly speaking sex scenes), and among them were a number of great moments in Criterion films — from the chaste love affair of David Lean's Brief Encounter to the violent eroticism of Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.

«Shaun Of The Dead» and «Hot Fuzz» already numbered among the best comedies of the past decade, skillfully and uproariously turning out some of the most rewatchable and quotable films in recent memory, but Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nira Park et al excelled themselves with the trilogy closer «The World's End.»

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 new documentary «I'm Standin» Over Here Now» (45:00) interviews a number of critics, professors, and authors who count themselves among the film's fans.

At the moment, there are nine films on Amazon's slate for 2017, though it should be noted that the studio was a major buyer at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where they acquired Manchester, Love & Friendship, and the documentary Oscar contender Gleason, among others), so that number could be beefed up by month's end.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Disappearing fingers, Looper Rian Johnson's third film, Looper (following Brick and The Brothers Bloom), raised a nigh - infinite number of questions about the mechanics of the time - travel plot, which has young men working for a criminal syndicate that, among other things, requires them to murder their 30 - years - older selves.

Pre-release, it sported a gaudy 9.1 on IMDb, which would place it third among all films with a qualifying number of votes.

There is a famous belief among «Trekkies» that the quality of a Star Trek film relies on its numbering in the franchise.

Whether Phantom Thread numbers among Anderson's best films has been remarkably difficult for me to decide, though that's not unusual for his work.

This is a paint - by - numbers production, filled with beats resembling ones from superior animated films, among them Disney's The Lion King, Brother Bear, and The Fox and the Hound (which producer Richard Rich directed).

But the introspection offered by this many - layered approach would fall flat without the strength of its central performances, and while a number of Anderson's staple actors make appearances — Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, among others — Ralph Fiennes steals the film as M. Gustave H. Achieving the subtle distinction between delivering a huge performance without being over-the-top, Fiennes balances his theatrical gravitas with his rarely - executed gift for comedy, making it impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 14, 2015)-- Bruce Willis (DIE HARD film franchise) will star in John Pogue's (THE QUIET ONES) action thriller WAKE, produced by Michael Benaroya (LAWLESS, MARGIN CALL) of Benaroya Pictures, Tobin Armbrust (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, BEGIN AGAIN), David Alpert (upcoming AMERICAN ULTRA, AMC's «The Walking Dead») and Chris Cowles (THE NUMBERS STATION, AUTOBAHN).

Should those numbers hold, it could land among the five largest opening weekends ever for a superhero film.

It's also a vital showcase for emerging talent in experimental film, or talent that's been written off: along with Sasso, actors James Urbaniak and Adam Goldberg number among the form's top practitioners.

Still, though her surname is never uttered, the movie is clearly based on the life of Mangano, who numbers among the film's producers.

Offered as a two - disc set in Blu - ray and DVD packaging or as a 3 - disc set with digital copy in a Blu - ray case alone, this release marks the movie's fourth DVD release, a record - tying number among the Disney animated classics canon that speaks more to the film's cross-promotional opportunities (from the 2002 theatrical sequel Return to Never Land to those roughly annual Tinker Bell films) than anything else.

In fact, a number of the most expensive and most successful releases of 2014 have also been among the year's best films, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

That attack, in which Zissou, clad in a bathrobe and Speedo, fights back against his Filipino intruders to the sounds of Iggy & The Stooges» «Search and Destroy», undoubtedly numbers among the film's highlights.

Among that number and with its classification impossible to dispute is Annie Hall, the 1977 film that the Academy awarded Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

«La La Land» isn't the most original story — it borrows from all the classics, like «Singin» in the Rain,» «An American in Paris» and «A Star is Born» — but while the film treads very familiar ground, Chazelle freshens it up with some delightful song - and - dance numbers that attempt to redefine the movie musical, including one where the two lovers literally dance among the stars that toes the line between fantasy and reality.

FUNN, the Sharjah - based foundation dedicated to promoting media arts for and among children and youth in the UAE, has announced that the jury of the 3rd edition of the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival (SICFF) is challenged by the large number and impressive quality of many of the submissions in the process of judging and shortlisting the films nominated for the SICFF awards.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Queen Elizabeth II, as well as «Titanic» film director James Cameron have been among that number of visitors in the past four years.

T. J. Wilcox is among a growing number of installation artists who are fascinated by film.

Inspired by WG Sebald, especially «On The Natural History of Destruction», it starts with Durer, incorporates the WW2 bombing of Germany and unseen work by Tacita Dean and Anselm Kiefer among others, and pivots on a cinematic presentation of Guido Van der Werve's hypnotic 54 minute film Number Twelve, Home, which starts on the hour and demands to be seen in full.

Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals, including the New York Film Festival and the Biennial of the Moving Image in Buenos Aires, as well as in solo and group shows at FRAC / Le Plateau (Paris) and the Museum of the Republic (Brazil), among others.

The huge exhibition moves from a diptych of Hans Namuth's film of Jackson Pollock at work, playing on a monitor next to Pollock's Number 1 (1949), through - among so many other things - Japanese Gutai painting performances from the»50s; photo - documentation of Valie Export's Genital Panic (1969), in which Export, in crotchless jeans and packing an Uzi, roamed the aisles of a porn cinema challenging viewers to deal with the real thing (there's that «real» thing again); relics of Hermann Nitsch's bloody ritual drama, Asolo Raum (1971), to the most recent works, set pieces by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.

The film made just $ 20,300 in its opening weekend, ranking it as number 314 all - time among documentary opening weekends in the United States.