Sentences with phrase «great year in cinema»

Sure, this is a time for everyone in the industry to come together and celebrate a great year in cinema, but it is also a time all for insane machinations as everyone jockeys to win the world's most popular popularity contest.

Not exact matches

As a 3D film I wonder if I like it more than the film that I saw earlier this year, How to Train Your Dragon, which was the film that reminded me that 3D can be great in the cinema.

Great art, terrific characters, unique personal expressions and, wonder of wonders, original ideas were everywhere to be seen, however, so much so that a top 10 list (or, in my case, a lucky 13) seems a woefully inadequate way to sum up the year in cinema.

Let us get this out of the way first: Anurag Kashyap's generation spanning story set in the coal capital of India and spanning almost 70 years comfortably, nay confidently, belongs alongside the great crime sagas of the cinema: The Godfather Trilogy, City of God, Bertolucci's 1900, Heimat and Election.

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.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

A female Iranian vampire, forbidden love and Pixar's brilliant depiction of a teen's inner turmoil helped make 2015 a great year for cinema • Observer critics» reviews of the year in full

With the defiance expected in the greatest of social causes, Polish female filmmakers have insisted for years that they do not make women's cinema...

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

Writes Klady of his organization's seventy - six - year - old honoree, «He is one of the great and certainly most versatile actors in the history of cinema... He's tough, funny, passionate, organic, certainly charismatic, and always engaged.»

Tsai is one of Taiwan's finest, and one of the great humanists in modern cinema, and hopefully his appearance on the Lido this year will see him back on top.

It's a shame that a film directed by one of the greatest emerging talents in cinema — ’12 Years» is only McQueen's third feature - length film — overshadowed the new film from the director of «The Other Boleyn Girl,» but it's an even greater shame that no one has quite made a great film on the very great and inspring Mandela.

Through his leadership roles in film distribution and exhibition over the last 15 years, John Vanco has strived to connect great works of cinema with appreciative audiences.

The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) seeks to highlight the best and most interesting movies that should be seen each year, and to enhance public education, awareness and appreciation of cinema in the greater Seattle area.

They Live is one of the rare films that seems to gain more popularity every year — not just for its ahead - of - its - time warnings of the role the media plays in manipulation, but because it features what is generally considered one of the greatest fight scenes in the history of cinema between Piper and Keith David.

Still, there's some great options here as the last year provided many laughs in the cinema.

France's «Of Gods and Men,» the grand prize winner at last year's Cannes Festival, offers up just such a message in a finely wrought, quietly observed ensemble piece starring Lambert Wilson and the 79 - year - old Michael Lonsdale, whose jowly, hangdog countenance has graced over half a century of great cinema.

A great melodrama with a memorable Tracy performance; he is harassed by three of the American cinema's great villains: Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine (in the same year Borgnine won an Oscar as the gentle Marty).

2011 was a year that didn't deliver a tremendous amount of great cinema but the great cinema was really incredible and I think 2011 gave us some future classics, not least of which is The Skin I Live In, maybe my favourite Almodóvar film of all time... and that's saying a lot.

There is a parallel with the asthmatic Scorsese, living in Little Italy but not of it, observing life from the windows of his apartment, soaking up the cinema from television and local theaters, adopting great directors as his mentors, and in the case of Michael Powell, rescuing their careers after years of neglect.

These are the few films that really moved me to attend the cinema, in a year of a scarcity of really great films available.

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Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016), a French - language debut by one of the world's greatest living directors that should have happened years ago, stands in for the contemporary world cinema I still haven't been able to sample.

«Each year even greater strides are made in supporting an Indigenous - created body of cinema while supporting the growth of Native American and Indigenous participation in the film industry,» says Runningwater.

Even 50 years on, A Space Odyssey is still the sci - fi movie against which all others must be measured and demands and rewards repeated viewings, preferably on the big screen, in order to appreciate the magnitude of a visual and aural feast of all that is great about the cinema.