Sentences with phrase «foreign films»

People can get kind of intimidated or scared off by art films or foreign films, but everyone can accept a horror film or an action film.

American remakes of popular foreign films are inevitable.

10:30 am — IFC — Amarcord One of Federico Fellini's four Best Foreign Film statuettes is for this film, and though I rail against many of Oscar's choices when it comes to foreign films, Fellini deserved all of his.

by John Villeneuve Generally, it is difficult to surmise what the academy voters will choose amongst the foreign films submitted to them, because, more often than not, they pick films without controversy, without edge, and without...

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.

Beyond that, A Fantastic Woman and Foxtrot are two of the most critically acclaimed foreign films of the year.

A range of intelligent blockbusters, inventive foreign films and beautifully crafted storytelling made 2012 a good year at the cinema...

In the 1990s, the Society published Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You've Never Seen (1990); Foreign Affairs, its counterpart for foreign films (1991); Love and Hisses, a guide to the most controversial films and issues (1992); They Went Thataway: Redefining Film Genres (1993); and Flesh and Blood (1995).

Foreign films are eligible and the director does not need to be a DGA member.

The 2012 New York Film Festival was an eclectic mix of breathtaking foreign films and star - powered Oscar bait.

It's a tricky thing to translate foreign films into American sensibilities (or the lack thereof).

She loves foreign films and dramas and reading books that have film adaptations.

Wild Tales lives up to its title and to the prestige that comes with claiming one of the few Academy Award nominations relegated to foreign films.

Easy online access to foreign films of all eras has broadened the horizons of British cinema fans

Obviously, there's some crossover; there are tentpoles ranked right up here, and foreign films too.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Darling Companion (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Midlife crisis comedy, set in the Rockies, about a neglected housewife (Diane Keaton) who enlists the assistance of a psychic gypsy (Ayelet Zurer) and the local sheriff (Sam Shepard) after her narcissistic husband (Kevin Kline) loses track of their dog during a walk while talking on his cell phone.

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.

In a Better World will not join the ranks of Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, acclaimed foreign films that took the world by storm.

American adaptions of foreign films have an important task to accomplish: they must seamlessly adapt themes of another culture for an American audience.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 (Unrated) Cinematic collage culled from found 16 mm footage of vintage interviews conducted by Swedish journalists with leaders like Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver at the height of the Black Power Movement.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Afghan Star (Unrated) Post-liberation concert flick chronicles the nationally - televised competition entered into by thousands of aspiring, Afghani pop stars including several women willing to risk incurring the wrath of the Taliban by appearing unveiled on their country's equivalent of American Idol.

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.»

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Departures (PG - 13 for mature themes) Foreign Film Oscar - winner revolving around the plight of an unemployed cellist (Masahiro Motoki) who moves back to his hometown where he discovers the true meaning of life when he takes a job as an undertaker over the objection of his wife (Ryoko Hirosue) and friends.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 24 City (Unrated) Modernization mockumentary, set in Sichuan Province, shot from the diverse perspectives of nine interviewees representing three generations of Chinese whose lives are affected in different ways by the demolition of a military factory in Chengdu to make way for a complex of luxury apartments.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Blind Date (Unrated) Stanley Tucci directed and co-stars opposite Patricia Clarkson in this remake of the late Dutch director Theo van Gogh's bittersweet drama about an estranged couple's attempt to reconcile by going on a series of blind dates as strangers following the death of their daughter.

Among the foreign films, two perhaps unexpected titles are «Tsotsi» and «Paradise Now.»

(Tarantino, recently granted his own subdivision at Miramax, is allowed to select a few foreign films a year for distribution, and Chungking Express was his first choice.)

Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter shared with three co-writers), two categories rarely recognizing foreign films.

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.

Among our most anticipated foreign films (# 27) for 2015, along with Pablo Larraín's The Club, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years has turned out to be among the most buzzed items at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

With the slew of super hero mega films, book to film adaptations and unoriginal American pictures that hope the star power will singlehandedly carry the film, foreign films are often refreshing, no matter the theme.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Beeswax (Unrated) Quirky ensemble comedy, set in Austin, Texas, centering on a couple of identical twins, one, a wheelchair - bound paraplegic (Maggie Hatcher), the other, a clothing store owner (Tilly Hatcher) who rekindles a romance with an ex-lover (Alex Karpovsky) in order to get legal help with a lawsuit filed against her by her business partner (Anne Dodge).

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Bucket List (PG - 13 for profanity and a sexual reference) Oscar - winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman co-star in this bittersweet end - of - life saga as terminally - ill cancer patients who make a break from the hospital after compiling a checklist of everything they want to do before kicking the bucket.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (Unrated) WWII documentary examining Jew Suss, an anti-Semitic feature film produced by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in 1940 and directed by Veit Harlan who was later tried for crimes against humanity but exonerated after raising the «I only followed orders» defense.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bloody Aria (Unrated) Appearances can be deceiving in this gruesome examination of bullying about a perverted music professor (Byeong - jun Lee) who kickstarts an escalating roundelay of revenge after making unwanted advances on his pretty protégé (Ye - ryeon Cha) while driving her to an audition.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eldorado (Unrated) Unlikely - buddy comedy about a Belgian auto dealer (Bouli Lanners) who befriends the young burglar (Fabrice Edde) he catches in the act of robbing his house.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eden (Unrated) Romance drama, set in Ireland, revolving around a woman's (Eileen Walsh) desperate effort to save her disintegrating marriage when her husband (Aidan Kelly) of ten years starts hanging out in pubs where he has his head turned by younger women.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Teacher (Unrated) Matt Damon narrates this reverential documentary which pays tribute to the country's 3.2 million teachers by profiling the careers of a quartet of dedicated educators.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Babies (Unrated) The world as a global nursery documentary chronicling the first year in the lives of four infants, one each from Mongolia, Namibia, Japan and America.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Swing (Unrated) Wife - swapping documentary revisits the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the New York City sex club which opened in 1977 and catered to its orgy - loving clientele until the specter of AIDS began to take the luster off the hedonistic lifestyle by the early Eighties.

9:45 am / 8:45 am — IFC — Amarcord One of Federico Fellini's four Best Foreign Film statuettes is for this film, and though I rail against many of Oscar's choices when it comes to foreign films, Fellini deserved all of his.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Earth (G) Disney nature flick, narrated by James Earl Jones and Patrick Stewart, chronicles the efforts of several families of wild animals, including polar bears, ducks and cranes, not only to elude predators but to adjust to atmospheric warming trends.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 1911 (Unrated) Jackie Chan directed and stars in this historical drama recounting the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty which led to the founding of the Republic of China.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Che (Unrated) Steven Soderbergh directs this four - hour bio-pic chronicling the political exploits of Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), the daring Argentine Marxist who led the Cuban revolution with Castro (Demian Bichir) before inciting guerilla warfare around the rest of Latin America until his assassination by the CIA in 1967.

Victor Diaz Victor Diaz is the chief movie critic and film reporter for News 8 Austin, covering everything from Hollywood blockbusters to obscure independent and foreign films.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Good (Unrated) Viggo Mortensen stars in this adaptation of the C.P. Taylor play, set in Germany during the rise of Nazism, chronicling the plight of a previously decent college professor who finds himself increasingly compromised after his novel advocating euthanasia is employed as propaganda to advance the government's evil agenda.

(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Secret of the Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France by a family of Arab immigrants headed by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bird in the Air (Unrated) Romance drama about a freewheeling librarian (Rachel Nichols) who helps an uptight loner (Jackson Hurst) locate the owner of the loquacious parrot that flew into his trailer home.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Azur & Asmar (Unrated) Animated fairytale about a couple of boys raised like brothers in a castle, one, a motherless, young aristocrat (Cyril Mourali), the other, the son (Karim M'Ruba) of the family nanny (Hiam Abbass), who grow up to find themselves rivals in a race to find a princess (Thissa d'Avila Bensalah) in a magical, faraway fantasyland.

8:00 am / 7:00 am — IFC — The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa's Samurai epic usually appears very near the top of any list of favorite / best foreign films.