Sentences with phrase «great films this year»

Everyone gave me a different answer for each question, and if you're tired of hearing my opinion, this features a range of opinions mentioning a variety of great films this year.

Nevertheless, thanks mostly to Netflix and FYC screeners, I saw a great many great films this year.

It won't be long before this movie's late - game success has journos pushing the narrative that it's a great film year for women, and thanks to Bigelow, it may very well be.

Though I saw quite a few great films this year, I definitely saw some stinkers.

The top of the list is cluttered with some personal favorites; there's not a lot of consensus great films this year, though there are quite a few good movies.

There are nine other great films this year (Henry V, Crimes And Misdemeanors, The Killer, The Decalogue, Heathers, When Harry Met Sally, Glory, Mystery Train, Drugstore Cowboy) easily giving it the best peak.

Not exact matches

Best foreign language film of the year «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Belgium «The Great Beauty» Italy * WINNER «The Hunt» Denmark «The Missing Picture» Cambodia «Omar» Palestine

A couple of years ago, the film writer David Thomson, a great fan of Hoffman, suggested the actor was not stretching himself.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

The truly amazing part of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife film - star team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.

I read books that extended the original story 20 years into the future, played the video games, and have even recently spent an evening at Secret Cinema dressed as Han Solo, recreating A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back (two of the greatest films of all time).

We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

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In truth, this news should come as no great surprise, considering Fury was filmed singing about «sniffing gear» with a group of England football fans earlier this year.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

I enjoyed the movie when I first saw it many years ago, and there is great footage of the Rolling Stones sitting in an editing room after the fact and forlornly watching the stabbing which was caught on film.

The year 2015 may have come and gone but lovers of Nigerian films will continue to talk about some of the great...

As well as the $ 15 million film hub, the company is building a $ 90 million factory for high - efficiency light bulb manufacturer Soraa — and any other projects Fort Schuyler carries out in the Greater Syracuse area as part of a deal that could run for as long as 10 years.

The WWF said on Thursday that the money from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, set up by the 39 - year - old star of «The Great Gatsby» and the upcoming film «The Wolf of Wall Street,» will be used for an initiative to double the number of tigers in Nepal by 2022 - the next Chinese year of the tiger.

The magazine will be in the Barnes And Nobles stands all over the country in the U.S. Thre is a great cover story in the issue on how he stays lean all year round and how he was able to help Morris Chestnut get in great shape for the Best Man Holiday film.

Last year they launched their 1920's Deco collection, timed nicely with Besame Cosmetics appearances in the new Great Gatsby film.»

Between Glamour's annual Women of the Year awards, the Dior - hosted Guggenheim International Gala and the premiere of Tom Ford's latest film, «Nocturnal Animals,» this past week served up a lot of great fashion moments, making it pretty difficult to narrow our list of the best dressed celebrities.

Any horror movie fan can see that this film has been made with a gleeful love of the genre, flaws and all, and the final half - hour delivers one of the greatest visually spectacular finales I have seen all year (even compared to that of another Joss Whedon project, The Avengers).

Truly one of the greatest horror films of the past few years.

As the film opens, Ron is in the midst of great personal and professional humiliation, having been passed over for a cushy network position in favour of his wife Veronica (a returning and game Christina Applegate); his response is to walk out on her and their seven - year - old son, taking a job as an announcer at Sea World (where he drinks heavily and insults the dolphins).

Sure it doesn't make much sense that the teenagers of this small town that has outlawed dancing for five years could all dance so well, yet this is an enjoyable film with a great soundtrack and John Lithgow as a character who is more complex than your typical zealot antagonist.

However, Bill taking up with a barnstorming aerial circus always reminds me, bizarrely, of a movie released three years earlier: George Roy Hill's The Great Waldo Pepper, one of the most utterly forgotten films of 1970s Hollywood.

Early on in the film, he sustains the plot build - up with a series of innovative sequences that look great even thirty years later.

At no point will I ever consider the Harry Potter series to be a great one, but after eight films and 10 years, I must admit it developed into a consistent, dynamic and engaging franchise.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

I wasn't aware that the great actor / director made some pretty weak films over the years.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

The Great Dictator began filming in September 1939, the same month that Britain declared war on Hitler's Nazi Germany, and more than two years before the United States became involved.

Spike Lee has made one of the few films in the year 2000 that is actually about something, and for that he deserves great credit.

This movie is worth seeing for the three heavies, they are great and it's 15 years before Bogie and Holden teamed up for Sabrina.Sadly this film is hampered by the Hayes Code crime does not pay rule.

The following year, he was part of one of the most successful films in Great Britain in 1997 when he starred in Twin Town.

Not surprisingly, this film stirred up a great deal of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one of the film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's blind, unthinking allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.

Miguel, pleading with the specter of his great - great - grandmother — the one who was ditched by a musician all those years ago — articulates a portion of it near the end of the film: «You don't have to forgive him, but we shouldn't forget him.»

After introducing the magical plant of the film's title — a phosphorescent wild berry that blooms just once every seven years — the movie settles into the bucolic lull of its rural surroundings, as Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the English - language version) unpacks her belongings at her new home, a charming cottage belonging to her Great - Aunt Charlotte (Lynda Baron).

* Grades are determined (on a curve) almost entirely by average Metascore, but with a small bonus awarded for each «great» film (with Metascore of 81 or higher) released during the year.

Need more proof that 2012 is shaping up to be a great year for film?

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

At any rate, a really great year for film, and I hope they do a similar feature for 2013.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

Lastly, this year's Palm Dog went to really the only film it could go to: Matteo Garrone's Dogman and Joy the Chihuahua, a surprising upset winner over Jack the Great Dane.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

The documentary - first distributor improved the quality of its output in 2014 compared to the prior year, and cracked the top 10 in our rankings despite having just one «great» film: the art doc (or is it a «rockumentary»?)

But this is all one film, and now that we see it whole, it's greater than its two parts; Tarantino remains the most brilliantly oddball filmmaker of his generation, and this is one of the best films of the year.

In the years just prior to his death, Elliot Sullivan made a brief comeback in such films as On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), The Spikes Gang (1974) and The Great Gatsby (1974).

Unfortunately, its inescapable comparison is to David Gordon Green's «George Washington,» made the same year as Mr. Davidson's film but with a far greater sense of style and a more profound grasp of the fragility of young lives.