Sentences with phrase «from foreign language films»

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Foreign - language films and documentaries are Kino Lorber's twin specialties, though this year it also released a trio of British dramas (which doesn't quite count as a foreign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and ExhiForeign - language films and documentaries are Kino Lorber's twin specialties, though this year it also released a trio of British dramas (which doesn't quite count as a foreign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and Exhiforeign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and Exhibition.

Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

This week, get the latest casting details on the next Superman movie, and watch a dozen just - released trailers for upcoming films ranging from summer comedies to Sundance hits to foreign - language Oscar contenders.

Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best foreign language film prize from the much - fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.

The film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César Awards.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

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.

On Wednesday night at Cannes, I took the night off from seeing foreign - language films to settle onto the sand for a beachfront screening of Black Panther.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.

Geographically, the five nominated titles in the foreign language film category stretch from the discos of Santiago, Chile («A Fantastic Woman») to the outskirts of Moscow («Loveless») with stops in Lebanon («The Insult»), Hungary («On Body and Soul») and Sweden («The Square»).

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

Wild Tales Director: Damián Szifron Running time: 122 minutes Certificate: R A collection of darkly funny tales from Argentina, revolving around themes of anger and revenge, which was nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar.

«Cold War» Pawel Pawlikowski (Main Competition) Pawlikowski's last film, «Ida,» won the foreign - language Oscar, and stills from this film have the same gorgeous black - and - white look and disconcerting, nearly square aspect ratio.

«The issue is not what you have done, but what you do now...» Denmark's entry for this year's best foreign language film Oscar is a gripping and thought - provoking affair from writer - director Tobias Lindholm that counterposes battlefronts at home and abroad.

Coincidentally, a reader asked yesterday why the Academy doesn't drop the foreign - language requirement from their foreign film award.

«Toni Erdmann» from Germany probably will win foreign language film, although «The Salesman» from Iran may triumph.

• But for omitting «Gomorrah» from their 9 - film shortlist, AMPAS» foreign - language committee earns this week's biggest dunce cap.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «A Fantastic Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

The initial batch of announced films include a few key foreign - language titles including Desierto, from Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón, about a group of people crossing the border from Mexico who uncover a racist patrol officer, and from France, a Jean Dujardin comedy called Un plus une, directed by 77 - year - old Claude Lelouch.

In the last 25 years, nine best - actress nominees have come from foreign - language films, compared to only three best - actor nominees.

Bruce Springsteen once sang, «God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of,» and Force Majeure, a Critics Choice Award winner and Golden Globe nominee for best foreign language film of 2014, illustrates the waves that can stir from just a few ripples of such doubt.

The 2015 Oscar nominations for foreign language film are in, and this year's picks are small films that tackle big subjects, from the plight of Jews after World War II to the Georgian civil war of the 1990s.

He was responding to a question from an Italian journalist who observed that two of the three Italian films in Competition were in English, Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Great Beauty recently took best foreign language Oscar) is there with Youth, starring Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, and Matteo Garrone (director of previous Cannes prize - winner Gomorrah) brings an adaptation of fantastic Neapolitan classics in Tale of Tales.

Although nominated for an Oscar again this year in the best foreign language film category for The Salesman, Farhadi has announced he will forgo the trip to the United States for the ceremony due, in his words, to» the unjust circumstances» of the proposed U.S. travel ban from seven predominantly Muslim countries.»

«Secret in Their Eyes» (November 20): Eduardo Sancheri's novel that previously made for an Oscar - winning foreign language film (directed by Juan José Campanella) now gets the American treatment, this time from the acting talent of Chitwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman.

All our research projects with the BFI (British Film Institute), working with a variety of teachers, have confirmed that short films help students to gain enjoyment from language learning and develop confidence to express themselves in a foreign tongue, whilst learning more about culture.

Apart from writing and traveling, Joan's hobbies include reading mystery novels, hunting for vintage vinyl records, and watching obscure foreign language films.