Sentences with phrase «grand old films»
Remakes of grand old films are to be discouraged, but director Philip Kaufman gets away with this one on style and verve.
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Other large projects include York Studios» $ 59 million film and television studio at 1410 Story Avenue and Young Woo's $ 43 million revamp of the old post office at 558 Grand Concourse.
«The Grand Old Man of Westerns,» as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early»40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper.
The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.
The action that's peppered in between all these grand ideas is very much in the mold of Padilha's old films.
«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.
The grand old man of Japanese animation has retired and this film, not a fantasy or mythical adventure but a delicate biographical drama about an idealistic engineer devoted to making «beautiful airplanes» for a country he knows will use them as instruments of war, is his final feature.
After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.
He's been to the Cannes competition three times (winning the Grand Prix for «To Live») and this film, which reteams him with muse Gong Li will very likely make it four — it's rumored to already be a done deal.The story follows an old man, who'd been sent to a labor camp, as he eventually returns to his family, and presumably sees Zhang work in a more intimate register than some of his epic outings.
Clint Eastwood stars as another grump old man in his film Grand Torino.
Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22 - year - old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.
Notwithstanding the recent interest, at least among the cinephile set, in such films as this year's Cannes Grand Prix winner Old Boy (Park Chan - wook, 2003), and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki - duk, 2003), Korean cinema remains an unknown quantity to most filmgoers.
Isle of Dogs, the new film from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel) tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12 - year - old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi.
At the center of this year's film selection is Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» which revolves around a six year old's youthful imagination as she deals with the harsh realities of her ailing father and her rapidly sinking house following a huge storm.
The action in «Wild Card» is markedly more adept, thanks to the work of Hong Kong choreographer Cory Yuen, who put Statham through his paces on the «Transporter» films and who has a grand old time here staging an epic casino brawl scored to the Drifters» cover version of «White Christmas.»
He was 28 years old, had just won the Grand Jury Prize for his fourth feature film and was the toast of indie film circles.
Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and rising young star Lucas Hedges (from both Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel), the film tells the story of Lee, a Boston handyman (played by Affleck) who is crippled by the sanctity of his own bitter isolation up until he is, ultimately, forced to face those tragedies of the past as well as welcome life - changing obligations following the unexpected death of his older brother.
This 1930s segment is where we are introduced to the film's real hero, M.Gustav (Ralph Fiennes), as he romances rich old ladies, mentors young refugee lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) and runs the Grand Budapest to a rigidly perfectionist, and already outdated, code of discretion and honor.