Sentences with phrase «films of recent»

Following her presentation at Centre Pompidou in Paris, in April 2015, Warboys will be showing a selection of six films of her recent work that record the «chance encounter» of nomadic forms and objects staged in nature as characters.

I agree - one of the better films of recent times.

It would be difficult to name a more dependable modern film director than Brad Bird, the animator turned writer / director responsible for some of the most beloved animated films of recent decades,

As one of the studio's highest - grossing live action films of recent years and one not based on a true story, it shouldn't be too surprising that a sequel was greenlighted.

One of the most chilling and original horror films of recent years, «The Babadook» didn't even make it to theaters in most cities.

One of the great Cannes competition films of recent years comes from a little - known German director.

The result is one of the most intoxicatingly unusual, visually entrancing and darkly funny films of recent years.Johnnie To may be best known for ultraviolent crime thrillers like Election, Vengeance and Drug War, but Office isn't as great a leap into the unknown as one might assume.

It's Got: An impressive Ryan Reynolds doing his best Jack Torrance impression minus the grotesque gurning (no mean feat); the great Philip Baker Hall having his inestimable talents somewhat wasted in the rôle of local priest and would - be exorcist Father Calloway; Lisa (Rachel Nichols) the babysitter from hell - although not literally, unlike several other of the films characters; and a brisk economy that more ponderous, minute - heavy horror films of recent times would do well to emulate.

Sergio G. Sánchez is best known as co-writer of The Orphanage, certainly one of the best horror films of recent years, with its gothic setting, and themes of past traumas haunting the present.

A depiction of sexual discovery and inner pain that was as rugged as the windswept Yorkshire landscape it's set against, Francis Lee's drama was one of the best British films of recent years.

Giving a human story to acts of genocide is a powerful tool that cinema has to communicate stories that must be told and in this way Balibo is comparable to films of recent years such as Schindler's List and Hotel Rwanda although it is closer in tone to the very underrated 1997 film Welcome to Sarajevo.

Looking at her major roles in films of recent years, it's becoming apparent where her strong - suit lies.

At the outset, «Cosmopolis» seems to fall in line with the mannered, critic - friendly films of the recent Cronenberg era.

While the end result may be admittedly more uneven in spots than [Tsui Hark's] best - known works, this lavish period piece contains enough thrills, spills and moments of cinematic grace that not only manage to push it through the rough spots but allow it to put most American action films of recent vintage to shame.

With a little less symbolic pretense, and a little more concentration on good characters and storyline, the foundation was set to make Hero one of the best films of recent years.

With its fascinating storyline and a terrific performance by its main star, Moon ultimately emerges as one of the better scifi films of recent years.

A few good films of recent years that crossed my path in 2014: Mes séances de lutte (Love Battles, Jacques Doillon, 2013); Pelo Malo (Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, 2013); Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013); Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner, 2013); Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors, Axelle Ropert, 2013); Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic, 2013); Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini, 2013); Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013); El loro y el cisne (The Parrot and the Swan, Alejo Moguillansky, 2013); Elle s» en va (On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013); Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2013); La isla (The Island, Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, 2013); Low Tide (Roberto Minervini, 2012); Finsterworld (Frauke Finsterwalder, 2013); «Singapore Panda» episode (Sun Koh) from Nan fang lai xin (Letters from the South, 2013); O Homem das Multidoes (The Man of the Crowd, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimarães, 2013).

With «Heat», Michael Mann delivered one the best «cops & robbers» films of recent times and with «Public Enemies» and fedoras, gangsters and tommy - guns, I expected more of the same.

One imagines that the task of indirectly following up one of the best horror films of recent years would be a daunting one.

Doused in a sonorous score inspired by Cajun idioms, and featuring superb turns from Mary McDonnell as May - Alice, Alfre Woodard as Chantelle and David Strathairn as the «swamp racial» Rennie, Passion Fish remains one of the finest American films of recent years.

It is in no way a bad film and it is, moreover, one of the better action films of recent cinematic efforts, far outstripping anything such as the Jason Statham release, Safe, for example; that film was just a rehash of multiple other action pictures but delivered with one tenth of the quality.

It may not have quite stuck the landing, but Alex Garland's Ex Machina was still one of the more entertaining sci - fi films of recent years, full of heady ideas and indelible performances.

Not only is Dredd one of the more viscerally accomplished action films of recent memory, it's easily one of the best comic book adaptations as well.

While the majority of Irish films of recent years have been photographed beautifully, it is my view that, with a few notable exceptions (One Hundred Mornings and Garage leap to mind), they have suffered from undeveloped scripts.

Todd knows what he's talking about, and The Wave is certainly one of the most intelligent disaster films of recent years.

Kelly Reilly rounds off the cast in this 5 star masterpiece from John Michael McDonagh, which is one of the most critically acclaimed Irish films of recent years.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starred Up.

The result is a work that — like a whole sub-species of French films of the recent decades — fetishizes its own hyper - naturalistic visual style and performances (all but one by non-actors) while offering no original or striking insights into the world it portrays.

One of the worst films of recent times Arquette does not entertain.

Highly original and filmed with perfect assurance, River of Grass is one of the finest independent films of recent years.

As with a number (although not all) of the post-apocalyptic films of recent years, The Hunger Games is strikingly absent of any kind of theology.

The Missing is certainly Ron Howard's darkest film of recent memory, but it still lacked any real sense of danger.

Far and away the best and most important film of recent times, this depicts life in the first world, when you are put into the welfare machine, and if it spits you out you will be on the street.

The story is inspired by «Infernal Affairs» (2002) by Alan Mak and Andrew Lau, the most successful Hong Kong film of recent years.

I went in with low expectations after the rather poor reviews but thought this was largely great - easily the funniest film of recent memory.

Collet - Serra's solid direction and Fuhrman's delightfully mordant turn make this the most unconventional demon seed film of recent years.

Not exact matches

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A second and third installment of Avatar are in the works, and at a recent comic convention Cameron said the films may be shot at a higher frame rate than the industry standard to make the film seem even more real.

The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.

«As we have been saying for some time, we feel the recent box office has been typical in nature and the result of weaker film product,» said Jacob.

The film boasts an accumulation of black artistic talent unlike anything we have witnessed in recent cinematic history.

While the studios command 80 % of Canada's roughly billion - dollar theatrical market, the remaining 20 % includes all Canadian films, plus some of the most successful recent independent releases, from The Hunger Games to The King's Speech.

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

In the U.S., the film is projected to just barely fall short of the box office of the other recent entries in the DC film universe, Suicide Squad and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.

There had been some concern among Game of Thrones fans that the recent Brexit could affect filming in Northern Ireland, but HBO said last month that the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union would not hurt the show.

(A recent Los Angeles Times report revealed that Universal had an overwhelming number of male directors, 92.5 percent to be exact, helming its films between 2009 and 2014.)

Netflix has expanded in recent years becoming not only a streaming service for television and film, but also a developer of new movies and TV shows.

But a recent study found across 1,300 top - grossing films from 2002 to 2014, only 4.1 percent of all directors were female.

A recent study of the top 250 grossing films found that women comprised roughly 6 percent of the directors; the number of female minority filmmakers can barely be measured.