Sentences with phrase «great old films»

The House That Dripped Blood has my highest recommendation if you're a fan of these great old films, Hammer, or Amicus.

The series either ran out of steam or ran out of great old films and directors to reconsider; it just stopped.

Not exact matches

Whether it's the collage artist who consciously dumps scraps into disorderly boxes or the film editor who prefers old - fashioned editing technology that forces him to scroll through more footage to find the clip he thought he was looking for, all these artistic greats understand that disorder has one exceptionally valuable side effect — more serendipity.

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.

A third film, The Law and the Prophets (McGraw - Hill Text Films, 1970; 51 min., 2 reels, color), not only offers a good summary of the Old Testament but also demonstrates the influence of the Bible on Western art, for, it shows great works of painting and sculpture inspired by the Bible.

I'm all cozied up in my pjs on the couch with my mom, sipping multiple cups of coffee, and watching the new episode of This Old House — which will probably be followed by a handful of cooking shows and / or westerns and / or a really old movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on fiOld House — which will probably be followed by a handful of cooking shows and / or westerns and / or a really old movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on fiold movie I've never heard of but my mom swears is the greatest thing ever recorded on film.

Second - run theaters are another great option for cash - strapped parents; they offer the same advantages as matinees, although they might have an older selection of films.

If your kids are older, there are always great films playing at the IMAX theater (schedule here).

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.

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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).

Compared to Malick's sumptuous art film, Marton's old Line looks awfully naive, and yet it goes a great deal further in grappling with the author's touchy subtext of soldierly love.

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.

Ash vs The Evil Dead is the perfect example of how to bring life back into an old series, it takes all the elements from the past films, the gore, blood, violence, campy humour, cheesy dialog and absurdity and really does a great job modernising the franchise while sticking true to its past.

The film has a great opportunity here, casting an older woman with the promise of a deeper relationship.

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.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.

Its very title lovingly derives from the name of Miguel's oldest living relative, great - grandmother Mamá Coco, whose importance to the story only becomes clear late in the film.

This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in Director Joseph Kosinski's love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.

The 31 year - old star of «Mad Men» (which wrapped its third season this week, though me and my fellow Brits haven't even got started) has essayed the best female character in American film or TV in two years, gives great interview and, -LSB-...]

Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy called Donovan «a sort - of Atticus Finch of the north» and Variety writer Peter Debruge wrote of the film, «[Spielberg]'s mythmaking approach makes for great Capra-esque entertainment, [though] younger audiences may find it terribly old - fashioned.»

The interview with him on the Criterion release in which he speaks about the emotional response he had to the film at 9 years old is a great one for fans of either Renoir or Scorsese.

The film follows Tomas over twelve years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening... Every Thing Will Be Fine carefully and precisely tells a story of guilt and the search for forgiveness, and the fact that it is not time that is a great healer but the courage to face up to things and to forgive.

I think that within the first five pages, I wanted to do the movie and it was because of my character... Richard [LaGravenese] has a really great understanding and a great knowledge of film in general and I felt a lot of the older films that I'd grown up with, I felt that Ethan was a character out of some of those older films.

Neither great nor grim but somewhere in between, this is a film for nostalgic older audiences with fond memories of Dynasty, Shirley Valentine and Camelot.

The result is, that it plays more like a voyeuristic film that a dirty old man made than one of a great filmmaker.

with great sequences, including movies within the movie (these are more introductory sequences for our cast), a smart banter between different religious figures on how Jesus should be portrayed, and some beautiful imagery (the film is shot by Roger Deakins of «Skyfall» and «No Country for Old Men»).

DVD Extras A great range of features for a film so old — including an audio commentary, deleted scenes, three documentaries (The Great Idea, The Self Preservation Society and Get A Bloomin Move On) and a theatrical tragreat range of features for a film so old — including an audio commentary, deleted scenes, three documentaries (The Great Idea, The Self Preservation Society and Get A Bloomin Move On) and a theatrical traGreat Idea, The Self Preservation Society and Get A Bloomin Move On) and a theatrical trailer.

Meanwhile something girlier: Sally Field's little film is doing great with older moviegoers and enters the top ten in its 3rd week despite being on less than 500 screens.

Fully aware that most critics loved seeing the old Hollywood musical reinvented, I found it hard to believe that this film could be as great as the first impressions made it seem.

Personally, I would love to watch the film while listening to Spielberg, Dreyfuss and gang discuss all the great old stories about the trials they went through while in the process of making history.

Once again, the greatest strength in the film is a hypnotic performance by Parks as the old seafarer with nefarious motives.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

«Room,» which is now being considered in the running for end - year honors including the Oscars has already picked up the People's Choice award as best film at the 2015 Toronto International Festival, doubtless because the crowd were justifiably amazed by Brie Larson's greater depth as a performer, but most of all by one of the great acting jobs by eight - year - old Jacob Tremblay.

The New York Times said the film «creates wonder with great flair and feeling,» IndieWire called it «the best Marvel movie so far, by far,» and USA Today noted the film was adequate at «dealing with the consequences of age - old colonialism and exploring isolation at a time when actual countries are building borders rather than breaking them down.»

If Refn played his cards right, this could be a love letter to the great mafia films of old.

Beyond all that, the performances in the film were great, too, especially Radnor and his young counterpart, nine - year - old newcomer Michael Algieri.

The 1080p transfer is very sharp and looks great for a film nearly 40 years old.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

«And there was Max von Sydow doing that character that he did, so in a way, it's attracting certain people who do film, and, of course, I've got friends like Clive Russell and Liam Cunningham and Charlie Dance is an old pal, being in it, and they had a great time in it.»

There's that great scene near the end of the film where Chris is showing these young musicians old records in his music shop, introducing them to Mance Lipscomb and the like.

«Hampstead» is ultimately a rather handsome film that captures the gorgeous, great outdoors of the heath as well as a lovely romance for an older couple.

It had a great backstory that paid plenty of homage to the old films.

Probably 56 during filming but looking a great deal older, Wayne seems determined to prove he's still got it, with deliberate medium - shot compositions doing little to flatter his overtan, wrinkled hide.

He channels great old war films such as Battleground and Attack!

To capture elements of the battles and storms at sea, despite the replica vessels at his command (Surprise was a replica of HMS Rose, bought by 20th Century Fox after filming, it now resides at the Maritime Museum in San Diego; Acheron was constructed for the film from digital scans of the USS Constitution, the oldest floating commissioned vessel in the world), it was necessary for Weir to engage with a greater degree of VFX than he was used to previously.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

Even on the catalog release front, there are some really great early older films coming out, including some outstanding Frank Capra and some better - known - than - usual pre-codes from the Warner Archive.

They're back with their twelfth and perhaps greatest film, No Country for Old Men.