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The finest film of the year.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Simply one of the finest films of this year, Larry Fessenden's Wendigo hits DVD with supplements partially overseen by Fessenden himself.

«One of the finest films of the year!»

Albert Nobbs wasn't just one of the finest films of the year: it was a bona fide pop culture phenomenon

It's fitting that in its 50th anniversary, the James Bond movie franchise produced one of the best instalments in the series, and one of the finest films of the year, as Academy Award - winning director Sam Mendes teamed up with Daniel Craig's 007 for the super spy's 23rd official adventure, Skyfall.

Not exact matches

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

But now he stood charged with trying to transfer designs for a proprietary technology to China — a device called a pocket heater, produced by Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) of Austin, that makes thin films of the superconductor magnesium diboride — and faced 80 years in prison and a $ 1 million fine.

I remember well when I used to spray paint cars for a living many years ago, how easily a stell car door panel would develop a fine film of rust even within hours!

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Mami Sunada's documentary, while quite the insider's and fan's film, is also a deeply elegiac portrait of the labour and laboriousness, flecked with uncertainty and doubt, behind some of the finest art - and imagination - fuelled films of the past 30 years.

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

Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, 35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest — and thereby one of the best films of the year.

The film's big weakness is, ironically, its premise — as a straight romantic comedy in the Woody Allen / Nora Ephron vein this could have been one of the finest films of the decade, not just the year.

Phoenix is one of the finest films I have seen this year.

More than anything, this film is one of the finest accomplishments for actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who (I must say) deserves to finally take home the Oscar for this after so many years of fine performances.

«Coco» may not only be the animated film this year, but it's making an aggressive run to be one of the very finest films of any medium this year.

Reality is the work of Italy's most compelling film director by far: Matteo Garrone, whose unrelenting cinematic depiction of the Comorra, Gomorrah, was among the finest films made anywhere during recent years.

Its earthy tones might have something to do with the many years - 17 to be precise - since Rickman and Dublin - born writer Alison Deegan first conspired to film the latter's tale, lots of time to fine - tune ideas on how such a genre piece might stand apart.

The film follows Tomas over twelve years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening... Every Thing Will Be Fine carefully and precisely tells a story of guilt and the search for forgiveness, and the fact that it is not time that is a great healer but the courage to face up to things and to forgive.

For me, one of the finest films of the last decade and certainly the best one I've seen this past year.

He revealed that it takes place 85 years in the past and is inspired by the films of Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, which sounds just fine to us.

But there's no denying here that Cianfrance has scuttled his own ship, and a film that might have been one of the year's finest is now one that will likely be forgotten by many.

Feted as one of the finest film reviewers of his generation as well as for his impeccably - coiffured quiff, Mark Kermode presents the film review on Radio 5 live with Simon Mayo in a broadcast partnership that has lasted nearly 20 years.

If you saw any boxing film in the last 30 years, you'll see some of the well - worn plot turns coming a mile away, however it's worth stepping into the ring for all the fine performances.

To mark the occasion, and to acknowledge that more than half of 2013 is behind us, I've compiled a list of the finest film performances delivered by actors this year, at least until this point.

So begins Flags of our Fathers, easily one of the year's finest films.

But you never feel like you're watching a play on film: The way Morgan has opened up the proceedings in his screenplay feels organic under the direction of Ron Howard, who's crafted his finest film yet, and one of the year's best.

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

His perfect pitch makes this one of the finest looking films of the year.

When I originally heard about this film, I didn't know what to expect, but director Nimrod Antal has made the finest film of his career, and quite possibly the finest concert film in many years, at least since Iron Maiden's Flight 666.

Loved it — a damned fine film, certainly one of the best films I've seen all year.

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

* The problem wasn't their fine performances, but the fact those were a few of the handful of major roles for actors of color in prestige - ish films this year (and you can argue «Straight Outta» never really found that prestige clout).

Which is a shame, because in a year where she delivered four strong performances (also including «Your Sister's Sister,» «Salmon Fishing In the Yemen,» «The Five - Year Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing aboutyear where she delivered four strong performances (also including «Your Sister's Sister,» «Salmon Fishing In the Yemen,» «The Five - Year Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing aboutYear Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing about it.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

It took the 29 - year - old filmmaker some time to get this project to the screen, having to first develop it as a short film in order to secure funding for the desired feature - length project, but we're all lucky he pursued it to fruition as Whiplash is a marvelously involving exploration of the perils of obsession and the virtues of perseverance, played out through one of the finest - acted two - handers in years.

With stunning cinematography and camera movement and one of the best leading male performances of the year (FLF or not), this is one of Brazil's finest films this decade.

The Crying Game deserves to be heralded as one of the finest Irish films of the last 25 years.

I hasten to add that it's the finest of the Batman films to date, one of the two or three greatest superhero movies to date, and almost certainly one of the year's best films.

The film — one of the finest and most underseen of last year — releases for home entertainment this week.

As usual, there was no grand unifying element linking all of the year's finest films, but there were some shared themes and motifs: grief, and coping with it; strained family bonds; the responsibility (and burden) of religious faith; and, of course, cars.

His success with «Alias» ultimately launched his career, and now, ten years later, here he is approaching A-list status, starring in a fine - looking action film, sharing the screen with none other than, in the words of Ricky Gervais, «the greatest screen - actor to have ever lived» — Robert De Niro.

Working backwards, finding Errol Morris's first two films was extremely difficult in the years before DVD and the blossoming of the Internet as the world's finest rummage sale, but the picture made enough of an impression on me that I spent the next six months tracking them down.

The filmmaker is also coming off one of his better - received films in recent years in Big Eyes, so his X-Men-esque tale of super-powered outsiders might yet prove to be another fine addition to his larger body of work - not to mention, another memorably weird, yet heartfelt Burton movie about the experience of being an «unusual» outcast in our world.

One of the finest documentaries of the year, this involving film is lucid, sharply well shot and edited, and ultimately so important that it's rather terrifying to watch.

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.

Led by Michael Shannon, who has appeared in all of Nichols» films, the large cast is fantastic; although Joel Edgerton has received acclaim for his role in Nichols» Loving (also released this year), his laconic supporting performance here is arguably his finest work.

David Lowery («Ain't Them Bodies Saints») Lowery is no newbie: the indie film lifer has been working under the radar for years now, and carries an editing credit on two of the year's finest independent films, «Upstream Color» and «Sun Don't Shine,» as well as the moody, as - yet - unreleased «Nor» easter.»

The highlights may not have been quite so obvious this year, but that was perfectly fine with us, as so many of the films we saw felt like they were breakout hits in the making.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.