Sentences with phrase «for cinematic history»
«Logan Lucky» may not add up to a whole lot for cinematic history, but Soderbergh makes these weird, fun small - timers great to spend a few hours with.
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At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.
A sharp thriller with great atmosphere, set in Northern Ireland and tied up in the ever - knotty history of «The Troubles» (which one character refers to as «the madness of Belfast»), Bad Day for the Cut delivers its cinematic goods thanks to a smart combination of wit and violence, briskly delivered over just under 100 minutes.
This may be the first time in his cinematic history that the Hulk is an interesting character that is fun to watch when he isn't just used for rage and action.
But they may end up as the first couple in adult cinematic history that discovers long - hidden feelings for each other while doing so.
Because the 31 Horror Movies in October was such a success, for the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving, Fat Guy Kevin Carr will be watching some of the biggest turkeys in cinematic history.
For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a modern classic; an absolutely wonderful cinematic release.
As a director, Vogt - Roberts has already demonstrated that he can help actors walk an incredibly rewarding line between drama and comedy, which should be useful considering the movie's potentially goofy set up (I'm aware Skull Island is a staple of cinematic history, but it sounds like a rejected proposal for a Disney Parks ride).
Thor: Ragnarok marks a huge tonal shift for the Thor franchise into full - on comedy territory, but we've just learned that the movie also features a potentially significant benchmark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole: the first LGBTQI character in Marvel Studios history.
For starters, two of the most marketable faces of their time playing opposite one another, in a film directed by one of the greats of cinematic history.
For the first time in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the director behind an original film and its sequel will be coming back to make another sequel (sorry, Jon Favreau).
For most of cinematic history, rich white male filmmakers who wanted to explore their discontents onscreen simply did so, without considering whether such a tale might constitute little more than highly privileged whining.
Haig has to be the scariest, scummiest, most leering clown in cinematic history as Captain Spaulding, giving Bozo, make that John Wayne Gacy, a run for his money.
The horror flick «The Windmill» will probably go down in cinematic history as primarily being remembered for just the windmills, nothing else.
Ang Lee's «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» has made headlines mostly for its use of new film technology: an ultra-high frame rate considered unprecedented in cinematic history.
F. Gary Gray's first directorial outing in six years debuted last weekend to the most successful opening for a musical biopic in cinematic history.
They split up for a few days: she tours museums and ruins (in the film's most documentary, and also most moving, scenes, perhaps prefiguring the cinematic direction Rossellini would take with his history films fifteen years later) while he tries to hook up with younger women.
Horror films occupy a long and enthralling place in cinematic history, and Diego Carrera has put together an excellent video showcasing the films that have scared us for over 120 years.
Also, she never even commented on the long, sweeping and emotional one - shot beach scene which is going to stand out in Cinematic History for it's intense and all - together difficulty in shooting and brilliance in realization.
There aren't a lot of people who do this job who have the kind of genuine adoration for what the cinema is, or what cinematic history is, or what made us fall in love with movies in the first place.
As an increasingly labyrinthine unraveling of emotions and histories, Toni Erdmann is full of some of the greatest cinematic surprises of the year and I dare wouldn't spoil the experience for you.
Beyond selecting songs for the album, Lamar and Tiffith will oversee new recordings for the film, «the first time in Marvel Cinematic Universe history that Marvel Studios will integrate multiple original recordings created specifically for the film,» according to the announcement issued Wednesday by Walt Disney Studios.
No surprise for anyone who knows female - driven cinematic history that Thelma (No. 3) and Louise (No. 11), Mildred Pierce (No. 10), Norma Rae (No. 9), Clarice Starling (No. 7), Scarlett O'Hara (No. 5) and Ripley (No. 2) are perched so high on this list.
The Oscar - winning writer, who worked on the script for Skyfall after Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, revealed that he is combing through Bond's cinematic and literary history for the new Daniel Craig - led movie.
Gus Van Sant has been an exceptional director for decades, delivering some of the most exciting and invigorating films in cinematic history.
Thanks to Franco and his potentially Oscar - worthy The Disaster Artist, the enigmatic Wiseau's place in cinematic history has been firmly cemented... for better or worse.
Purcell makes for one of the least convincing Draculas in cinematic history, playing him as a monstrous, animalistic being and nothing like the suave taskmaster we've seen in previous incarnations.
The movie is now the biggest opening for the month of February in box office history and has the second highest Thursday preview screening of Marvel Cinematic history.
For although we have arrived at a moment in cinema history where — at last — there are more remarkable cinematic accounts of homosexual love than ever before (Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Francis Lee's God's Own Country, John Trengove's The Wound), this film occupies a subtle category of its own.
The whole tiresome affair is accompanied for the duration by quite possibly the most inane narration in cinematic history, with Freddy interrupting the tedium every few minutes or so with gems like «every note has a voice, every tune has a story», or some guff about setting rats» tails on fire.
Not inconsequential that the glimpses of self - shot porn are titillating and directorial: Television - procedural veteran Hoblit understands the seductive power of voyeurism — and in the middle of a cinematic period that questions history, it's telling that the trial hinges on a videotape procured from the room of a man mutilated by having his eyes torn out as he's reaching for his glasses.
The same auction, which takes place at London's BFI IMAX, will also see other pieces of cinematic history include Jack Nicholson's Joker outfit from Batman going up for sale.
There's a running Mike Ditka joke that won't register if you don't care for / know Ditka, one too many «kick me» - type signs slapped on dorks» backs, and Jennifer Tilly has to be the least subtle sex - obsessed teacher in cinematic history.
For the first time in cinematic history, Anne Hathaway may give the more understated performance this time around.
It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.
Calling Lincoln an heir to these films perhaps does it a disservice however, for, in the film's often misunderstood prologue and following dream sequence, Kushner and Spielberg openly acknowledge their movie's genial relation to the actuality of the 13th Amendment's passage, theater, and cinematic history itself — and by announcing upfront that they're employing the tools afforded by the arts to re-create past events, they let us know that their aims are somewhat closer to folklore than strict reportage.
Naughty Dog's video game series of the same name is considered one of the best action - adventure titles in modern gaming history, and the studio's cinematic approach to the story and gameplay make it the perfect choice for a movie adaptation.
I came across the new Senses of Cinema too recently to have sampled much beyond their «Special Dossier» on the cinematic history of Tasmania, but even that's provided several articles of interest, including Jeannette Delamoir's history of the now mostly - lost silent Jewelled Nights (whose star and chief creative force, Louise Lovely, claimed she here innovated the shortcut of using shots of ship's funnels and locomotive wheels to stand in for long voyages); director John Honey on the making of the state's first self - produced feature, 1980's Manganinnie; and two looks at the island's most famous son: Robert de Young on how Tasmania's wildlife and raging seas formed Errol Flynn, and Adrian Danks on the star's superb collaboration with Raoul Walsh.
All About Eve Year: 1950 Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe Why it's essential: This movie used to get brushed off as essential for gay audiences, and while it does pretty much function as the Gay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classic.
The latest installment in the «Planet of the Apes» franchise (arguably the best series in cinematic history), «War for the Planet of the Apes» is concerned less with spectacle than it is with delving into how one defines humanity and what are the right paths to take in order to claim rightful equality.
Monsters have been crawling throughout cinematic history for a very long time, especially that of the werewolf variety, so standing out from the pack has never been harder.
For those a little savvier in their cinematic history, I should say.
His trailers for 300 and Watchmen were two of the most hype - generating previews in recent cinematic history (the lackluster exception being his upcoming CG movie Legend of the Guardians).
For example, it opens with one of the most gruesome throat slices I have witnessed in cinematic history.
Cronenberg's carefully crafted characters could just as well be action heroes in the same summer movies that forfeit emotional depth for bigger explosions, but perhaps the attention to detail is exactly what separates «A History of Violence» as a piece of cinematic excellence.
Vince Vaughn, the son of a salesman, is credited with the story and shares a screenplay credit with Jared Stern, which probably accounts for one of the more favorable portrayals of salespeople in recent cinematic history.
Marvel has a long history of alienating truly talented filmmakers because of its overly homogenized idea for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The supercut pulls some great shots from «Raising Arizona,» «Fargo,» «No Country For Old Men,» «True Grit,» and just about every other film in their oeuvre, which over the decades has continued becoming one of the most complete, diverse, and well rounded bodies of work in cinematic history.
Even all these decades later, Jaws continues to be one of the most important horror movies in all of cinematic history - and if A Quiet Place can capture even a sprinkle of Spielberg's magic, then it will be a surefire success for Krasinski.
Lucas also serves on the board of The Film Foundation, the USC School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors and will build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 1Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors and will build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 1cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 150 years.