Sentences with phrase «foreign film these days»

Yes, Half Empty, Seraphine really is «a little known movie»: Nearly $ 1 million at the U.S. box office (very good for a foreign film these days); an 84 score on Metacritic (including a 4 - star Roger Ebert rave); an 89 % fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes; 7 French Oscars (including for Moreau as Best Actress).

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Any Day Now (Unrated) Courtroom drama, set in the Seventies, about the custody battle waged between the state and a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) abandoned by his mother.

Not exact matches

«It was actually back in our early original content days and the red envelope entertainment, it's all we did was produce original stand - up comedy and acquired documentaries and foreign language films.

I've gained an extra 10 lbs overnight, have raging PMS, or am super depressed and have spent the entire day eating chips in my PJs binge watching bleak melancholic foreign films on Netflix.

As with the documentary category, the Academy previously released a foreign film shortlist in December, and at that time the omissions of films such as the widely praised Two Days, One Night, Winter Sleep (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year), and Mommy were considered major snubs.

Inspired by the director's interaction with street actors who portray religious figures by night and pursue more commercial endeavors by day, the film once again received a Best Foreign Film nomination at the Oscars and swept the Genies — this time in 12 categories.

If not that, perhaps you're also antsy for a film that even halfway matters outside the Oscar bubble to win Best Foreign Language Film one of these days.

Since his film was only screened for the Hollywood Foreign Press he wasn't able to earn SAG or Critics» Choice nominations but now that the film has been seen and Plummer is all over it (with just nine days of shooting and as many days of post-production) this may be the easiest and best way for the Academy to recognize the efforts and ability of director Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, that is).

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

Best foreign language film «A Fantastic Woman» «First They Killed My Father» «In the Fade» «Loveless» «The Square» IMMEDIATE REACTION: Who would have thought that Angelina Jolie would one day end up in the best foreign language film category?

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Having seen «The Lives of Others,» «Pan's Labyrinth,» «Water,» «Days of Glory» and «After the Wedding,» I can attest that this is one awesome list.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Unrated) Apocalyptic sci - fi adventure about a Manhattan couple (Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh) coming to terms with the fact that world is ending in 24 hours.

Bolstered by the $ 132.4 million that the film made domestically in its opening three - day frame, Deadpool made an additional $ 132.3 million in its debut in foreign territories, ending its weekend with a global cume of $ 264.7 million.

Fortunately for us, counter-programming is a beautiful thing, and while the multiplexes may be a war zone from now until Labor Day, the smaller movie theaters out there are going to be bustling with indie movies and some of the best foreign films as of late.

French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's Lover For a Day heads to theaters after playing at the New York and Chicago film festivals this fall, while Cohen Media Group is opening Lebanon's The Insult, which is shortlisted in the foreign language category.

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It seemed as if we'd never get to see any other kind of foreign film hereabouts — an effect reinforced by Ettore Scola's A Special Day, in which a director who had heretofore drawn a lot of his strength and interest from the unpredictable intersections of gritty - grubby realismo and flamboyant stylization (The Pizza Triangle, We All Loved Each Other So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gloss.

Other winners included WALL - E (best animation) and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (best foreign film).

It appears the ROGUE CUT edition of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is making the rounds among film reviewers and foreign sources, as details and images from the upcoming Blu - ray, DVD and Digital HD release are starting to make their way online.

The year's most buzzed - about foreign film — France's Blue Is the Warmest Color — was ineligible because distributors refused to move up its local release date nine days to meet a deadline.

4 Months, 3 Weeks 2 Days was NYFCO's choice for best foreign film, while best documentary honors went to Man on Wire.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR Force Majeure — Magnolia Pictures Ida — Music Box Films Mommy — Roadside Attractions Stranger by the Lake — Strand Releasing Two Days, One Night — Sundance Selects / IFC

At the film's recent press day, MacLaine talked about coming to terms with her own legacy, why she's not afraid to take risks, the advice Joan Crawford gave her that will remain a secret, her surprise at meeting Alan Ladd at Romanoff's, how aging people are underserved in our culture and what she'd like to do about it, her impressions of her talented co-star Ann» Jewel Lee, her favorite scene, presenting the Best Foreign Language Film Award at this year's Oscars, why she wants to do an improvisation with Marlon Brando, and the unusual role she'd like to play next.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 2 Days in Paris (Unrated) Romantic comedy about a French photographer (Julie Delpy) and an American designer (Adam Goldberg) living in NYC who decide to vacation in Paris to rekindle the passion in their relationship only to have the plan derailed by the presence of her intermeddling parents and the resurfacing of her still flirtatious ex-boyfriends.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR Ida Leviathan Norte, The End of History Two Days, One Night Winter Sleep

One might add, tentatively, that the taste in French New Wave films for foreign accents and unusual French dialects might be matched by the linguistic salads in Days of Being Wild and Chungking Express; the former includes dialogue in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Shanghainese.

The two Mother's Day documentaries are sandwiched by a pair of foreign films Carlos Marques - Marcet's SXSW hit «10,000 KM» and Michel Gondry's «Mood Indigo.»

Margherita Buy, My Mother — Given how difficult it is to market foreign films in the US these days, it's unlikely Buy will get any Oscar love, but she has already won David di Donatello and Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Actress awards for her performance in Nanni Moretti's autobiographical drama.

Glad I didn't, because they're running some of my favorite foreign films from recent years, including Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, which I've been touting everywhere I can since it came out.

With all its reworking, though, the film's release has been pushed to Christmas day, and with the film only being completed in recent weeks, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn't get to spend much time with it.

THE 85TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS And the winners are: BEST PICTURE Argo BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Life of Pi BEST ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook BEST ACTOR Daniel Day - Lewis, Lincoln BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Chris Terrio, Argo BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Brave BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Paperman BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina BEST DOCUMENTARY Searching for Sugar Man BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Inocente BEST FILM EDITING William Goldenberg, Argo BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour BESTRead More →

Foreign Language Film: Two Days, One Night Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood Best Picture: Boyhood Best Ensemble: Boyhood Best Actor: Michael Keaton, Birdman Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night and The Immigrant Supporting Actor: JK Simmons, Whiplash Supporting Actress: Emma Stone, Birdman Screenplay: TIE Birdman, Boyhood Cinematography: Birdman Documentary: CitizenFour Animated Film: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya Best New Filmmaker Award: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler Music in a film: Inherent Vice Editing: Boyhood

At the end of the day, Philippe Claudel's film could be the beneficiary of serving France in the foreign language film race, in addition to a potential bid for Best Original Screenplay.

«Two Days One Night» scored for actress Marion Cotillard and foreign - language film.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Broken Sole (Unrated) Ensemble drama, set in Manhattan on 9/11, examines the fortunes of six souls that fateful day: a cabbie (Bob Dishy) with a passenger (Laila Robins), a shoemaker (Danny Aiello) whose customer (Judith Light) wants him to keep his shop open, and a woman (Margaret Colin) dating a dyslexic (John Shea).

Other celebrated auteurs looking for their first Foreign Language nomination are Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who went home from Cannes empty - handed but whose film Two Days, One Night will likely have their highest stateside profile yet due to the presence of Marion Cotillard in the lead role as a woman who has a single weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so she will not be laid off.

Saturday was another solid movie day with two splendid foreign animation films, a crowd - pleasing comedy, Ben Wheatley's latest feature, and an intense performance from Itchy - O, the dark lords of percussion.

Dome Karukoski) «This dirty but dignified, oddly commercial biopic of the artist who inspired the modern - day s / m gay leather scene is now the Finnish government's official entry in the 2017 foreign - film Oscar race.

Foreign Language film was probably their best shot, but Hong Sangsoo's The Day He Arrives is one of his best.

Theaters in the Living Room Theaters complex are used for film study classes in our College's School of Communication during the day, and are open at night and on weekends showing independent and foreign films, and serving lunch and dinner.