Sentences with phrase «first modern film»
«I think that in a few years, in ten, in twenty, or thirty years, we shall know whether Hiroshima mon amour was the most important film since the war, the first modern film of sound cinema.»
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As he began his film career, the director grew obsessed with telling the Noah story from that perspective — and employing the power of modern special effects to portray Earth's first apocalypse.
The film talks about how the issue of modern slavery was first uncovered by the Sunday Times reporter George Arbuthnott, whose investigative journalism showed the true scale of the problem in Britain today.
First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.
I went for a modern 90's vibe today — it was one of my favorite decades for film and fashion the first time round (think Sex And The City, Clueless, Melrose Place and other cult classics!)
Last year saw A Dangerous Method 76, his first historical drama, come to theaters; the year ahead will bring Cronenberg back to modern times as he attempts the difficult task of translating Don DeLillo's 2003 novel Cosmopolis to film.
If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.
Martin Scorsese's intrusive insistence on his abstract, metaphysical theme — the possibility of modern sainthood — marks this 1973 film, his first to attract critical notice, as still somewhat immature, yet the acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.
His final film for Shaw, Come Drink With Me (66) revolutionized the industry, and gave Hong Kong not only one of its first period swordplay films shot in a new, modern style (inspired by Japanese swordplay films of the time), but also its first female action lead.
Woody Allen returns to modern day NYC for the first time since Manhattan with Hannah And Her Sisters is one of Woody Allen's most loved films.
First Reformed marks a considerable turning point, a film à thèse about the struggle for grace and faith in our modern world of hyperreality and despair, especially when the various stopgaps offered by society — organized religion, political institutions, ecological activism — seem variously counterfeit.
To Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, and Peter Williamson, film conservation manager, of the Museum of Modern Art, for identifying and assembling the earliest surviving footage of what would have been the first feature film to star a black cast, the 1913 «Lime Kiln Field Day» starring Bert Williams.
The two both star in Marvel's hotly anticipated upcoming superhero film — the first of the modern era of comic book movies to star an almost all - black cast — and posed together for pictures at the annual ceremony.
Try Tempest (1982), his loose, modern - day adaptation of Shakespeare's final play, with John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, and, in her first ever film, Molly Ringwald.
The first modern disaster film is Paul Greengrass» «United 93.»
The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything beforfirst time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything beforFirst Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.
I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.
The boisterousness of the film's finale, with its sieges and rescues, its lightning bolts and flash floods, relieves what would otherwise be an almost unbearably sad evocation of what is least preservable about youthful experience: not so much the loss of that «innocence» that is such a hackneyed motif of modern American culture (and for which summer camps have always been a favored location) but the awakening of the first radiance of mature intelligence in a world liable to be indifferent or hostile to it, an intelligence that can conceive everything and realize only the tiniest fragment of it.
Midway through Noah Baumbach's latest (his first film since Kicking and Screaming to not seem actively ingratiating, and so, a departure), the titular Frances (co-writer Greta Gerwig) sprints through a monochrome Manhattan, or Manhattan, en route to a new apartment, gamboling and pirouetting freely to strains of Bowie's «Modern Love.»
The setup is over quicker than you can say «I know kung fu,» and from there on you it's on par with the first «Raid» film: non-stop, brutal and flat - out cool action, shot more like golden era John McTiernan than modern day slice - and - dicers like Michael Bay or Paul Greengrass.
The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.
The first film was charming and funny, a sweet love letter to classic arcades and modern video games alike.
Directed by Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011), the ambitious effects are dated compared to modern films, but the film's heart remains intact largely through William's performance.
Rosenbaum took the time to praise DVDs for giving modern audiences a first chance as it were to experience a wide variety of films, but Dave Kehr counter-argued in the comments on Kevin's blog, as well as at his own site.
Horror Business is a series that will profile modern horror directors through first - hand accounts of how they got their films...
Based on the popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, the film picks up after the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers and finds Steve Rogers living quietly in Washington, D.C., trying to adjust to the modern world.
Australian director Patrick Hughes is a man who is already well - known to action fans because of his first two films, the modern day Australian Western «Red Hill» and the sequel «The Expendables 3.»
Which is about all that we ever get from him as much of his screen time is given over to young Harry Osborne so that he can convincingly morph into the dreaded Green Goblin (thanks to a fatal genetic illness we learn about literally the first second he is introduced to us) and proving the modern adage that more than one super villain is too much for one of the films to juggle.
Eighteen films into Marvel's blockbuster franchise they're long overdue, arriving in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.
The film boasts an ambitious story, first taking place in 2020, centering on a modern day marine biologist Jay Fennel (Hartnett) who undertakes a near - fatal dive to save his wife Laura (Campbell) while exploring an 18th Century merchant ship wreckage.
A witty, clever film that respects the past and keeps an eye on the complexities of modern life, Winter Soldier brings the surprisingly entertaining First Avenger very successfully into the present.
Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a marriage of old film noir elements with more modern black comedy techniques, and the result is an occasionally funny and entertaining film that ultimately tries too hard and can not maintain the breakneck pace that the first act antes up.
MUBI continues to ring in the new year with a look back at the first films by some of the world's best modern and upcoming filmmakers, including exciting new directing duo The Safdie Brothers.
Rare is the modern film that understands the consequences of what it depicts and how it achieves this to the level of First Reformed.
If it wasn't for my first Excision experience I probably wouldn't have dug deeper into the genre and checked out films like Frankenhooker or The Re-Animator, or taken a risk on more modern favourites like American Mary or The House of the Devil.
THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING by Richard Cordiner A look behind the scenes at the making of one of the most troubled film shoots that would go on to become the first modern blockbuster — «Jaws.»
The Mummy is a poor first film in what could have been a great modern - day horror franchise.
Special Features In Walt's Words: «Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs» - Hear Walt himself talk about Snow White Iconography - Explore how this film influences pop culture, art and fashion Disney / Animation: Designing Disney's First Princess - Modern - day Disney artists discuss the design of Snow White and how it influenced the look of some of your favorite Disney characters The Fairest Facts Of Them All - Disney channel star Sofia Carson reveals seven intriguing facts about Snow White And Much More!
Hugh Jackman first played the character of Wolverine back in 2000 in the film that launched the modern day, comic book blockbuster - Bryan Singer's X-Men.
Although John Carpenter's 1978 film, Halloween, is widely called by many people the first of the true modern slasher films, many genre enthusiasts point to this little Canadian shocker, released four years earlier, as the one that set the blueprint.
Since our screening of FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION in 1997, which was the first time Miike's unique vision was shown in North America, no fewer than 29 of his films were showcased at the festival, including such modern classics as AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER, and VISITOR Q. Miike's work also opened Fantasia three times with YATTERMAN and North American premieres of the Cannes selections FOR LOVE»S SAKE and SHIELD OF STRAW.
Fresh, funny, and full of witty insights about modern love, this hilariously heartfelt film «is the rare rom - com that reminds us why we love them so much in the first place» (Time Out New York).
When: September 16th Why: The first two «Bridget Jones» films are charming, if formulaic, rom - coms that did a good job of speaking to the neuroses of modern life.
David Chase created one of the most revered modern television series in «The Sopranos» and yet his first attempt at writing and directing a feature film after that — 2012's Not Fade Away — came and went with hardly anyone noticing.
First - time feature director Anja Marquardt, however, never loses control, delivering a stylish, deeply unnerving, and profound film on an intangible modern issue.
Juan Antonio Bardem's Death of a Cyclist (1955), one of the first Spanish films to win the critics» prize at a major European festival, was crucial in launching the modern Spanish cinema.
This weekend brings us our first big baity film of awards season, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a supposed Scientology allegory that truly explores crises erupting from a modern man's lack of structure and authority.
Plus, for the time being, the film may be the closest thing to a Creature from the Black Lagoon film fans will get, since Universal's Dark Universe — which had plans to remake the classic Creature — appears to be on indefinite hold given the tepid response to its first offering - the modern - day remake of The Mummy.
Set in a modern day world wherein a giant kaiju monster is currently terrorizing Seoul, South Korea, at first glance this film may appear as if it's just riding the giant lizard wave that's recently been revitalized with entries like Gareth Edwards» Godzilla, Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, and Shin Godzilla, but don't be fooled.