Sentences with phrase «from dogtooth»

Recent generations of art - house audiences have reveled in this theme since Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) and have made the works of Yorgos Lanthimos, from Dogtooth (2009) to The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) insufferably chic.

The latest from Dogtooth's Yorgos Lanthimos and Tuesday, After Christmas's Radu Muntean are fascinating, but symbolically dense to the point of opacity.

The A.V. Club's own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos, «funny,» «unsettling,» and, «occasionally gruesome» when he watched it at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Not exact matches

Cut from a soft, virgin wool blend, the «Inna» sweater is woven with a textured jacquard dogtooth design, and features a ribbed crew neck, long sleeves and ribbed trims for a casual finish.

Number of Oscar nominations: 18 (notably, eight of which came from «Basterds» and one — the foreign language nod for «Dogtooth» — the following year)

I'll recommend work from two directors already mentioned - Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth, and Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure.

Lanthimos hails from Greece and has been making provocative films for years, first bringing his break out hit Dogtooth to the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

The other disappointment in the Official Competition programme — though more from an expectations point - of - view than anything else — was Borgman, which calls to mind Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997/2007) and Yorgos Lanthimos» Kynodontas (Dogtooth, 2009).

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless god.

Such is the message we seem to be gleaning from the cinema of 2009, as a vast range of unrelated titles — «Precious,» «Coraline,» «Dogtooth,» «Antichrist,» «Fish Tank,» even «An Education» — appear united in visiting the physical and / or psychological -LSB-...]

This loopy, surreal, cutting comedy from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos («Dogtooth») is destined to become an out - there favourite: its wild premise is that anyone single who doesn't find a partner after 45 days will be turned into the animal of their choice.

Tonally similar to recent cultish favorites from Yorgos Lanthimos and Ben Wheatley («Dogtooth» feels like a particularly close and favoured first cousin), there's also a little Haneke in its chilly dissection of a perfect bourgeois life.

On paper, Yorgos Lanthimos» latest seems to depart from the pitch - black humor of Dogtooth, The Lobster, and last year's The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, exploring instead the 18th - century intrigue of Queen Anne's court.

Audiences have come to expect the bizarre from director Yorgos Lanthimos, who broke out in 2009 with the wonderful and unsettling Dogtooth, and The Lobster definitely doesn't disappoint on that front.

From the Greek filmmakers behind the acclaimed anti-thriller Dogtooth, this fiendishly inventive drama is just as complex and telling.

How to see it: The Battle of Algiers is currently available on Filmstruck as part of a special Academy Award collection on winners of and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, from Mon Oncle to Rashomon to Dogtooth.

It's an absurd premise, but we'd expect no less from the director of Dogtooth.

From the moment Dogtooth barreled onto the film festival circuit in 2009, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos has been on the radars of cinephiles hankering for absurdism and social critique.

Kirsten Dunst is about to get weird, as Deadline reports that the Spider - Man and Fargo star has signed on for a new TV series from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of Dogtooth and The Lobster.

Yorgos Lanthimos» bizarre explorations of the human condition have steadily increased in star power over the years, moving from the relative unknowns who played the deranged family in Dogtooth, up to his recent The Lobster, which featured a star - studded cast that included Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw, and Léa Seydoux.

I'm already eager for another look at The Lobster, the latest absurdist whatsit from Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos (whose third feature, Dogtooth, was the best film I saw at Cannes 2009).

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

This is the first English - language film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

Keeping the children from leaving the house, the parents have created stories about the outside world that has convinced the children that until they lose their «dogtooth» they are not capable of surviving outside the perimeters of their family home.

I am SUPER EXCITED about The Lobster, from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who made the incredibly disturbing Dogtooth.

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The Lobster is from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who also made the deeply creepy Dogtooth.

The Greek auteur scored a surprise 2011 Best Foreign - Language Oscar nomination for «Dogtooth,» and now Colin Farrell has landed a Best Actor Musical or Comedy nod from the Golden Globes for his leading turn in Lanthimos» 2016 arthouse hit «The Lobster» ($ 15 million worldwide).

Most of the top 10 films of the year I barely read much of anything about them: Dogtooth, The Ghost Writer, Mother, Nowhere Boy, etc... and they probably benefited from that as well as there wasn't major publicity campaigns about their masterpiece mantle status.

«Alps «As extraordinary a film as Georgos Lanthimos «debut «Dogtooth» was, there was something about its Fritzl - ish premise that seemed like it was riding the zeitgeist (even if it marched firmly to the beat of its own drum), and I wondered how the director would fare with something that felt less ripped from the headlines.

The first English - language feature from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), and co-written with his regular collaborator Efthymis Filippou, The Lobster is very funny, occasionally brutal, and completely bizarre.

Just last week we posted the domestic trailer for Greek surrealist satire, Dogtooth, and now I find the art department over at Kino - Lorber is taking a page from the Funny Games remake with a stunning one - sheet that would certainly turn heads in a multiplex display case.

As unforgettable as it is unshakable, the fifth film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster), The Killing of a Sacred Deer, is an unsettling and transgressive domestic odyssey that astounds with its unrelenting menace and imaginative fluency.

Who & What: The Lobster is the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, writer - director of Dogtooth.

The French - Belgian debut from Julia Ducournau is a surreal, deliriously twisted coming - of - age story that suggests «Heathers» by way of «Dogtooth.»

Anyone who saw Dogtooth knows exactly how effectively Yorgos Lanthimos can stage an unsettling set piece, unpeel the decay of a fractured family, and suspend an entire movie from a single steel filament of dread.

This is the first English - language film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos («Dogtooth») and it's shot in Ireland, although we're never told that explicitly.

Drawing on the Greek myth of Iphigenia — Agamemnon's daughter, whom the king had to sacrifice after offending the goddess Artemis — The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a disturbing drama from director Yorgo Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster).