Sentences with phrase «greatest film of all time»

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).

So this week the magazine Sight & Sound posted the results of their poll which involved 846 critics chiming in on what they believe the be the greatest films of all time.

You know how Citizen Kane is considered by some to be the greatest film of all time?

If you look back in history, some of the greatest films of all time were genre films that really had something to say about where we are in the world.

Remember, Vertigo never won a single Oscar, was only nominated for two, and is now considered the greatest film of all time.

Critic Andrew Sarris once declared, «Lola Montès is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time.»

Every 10 years or so, Sight & Sound magazine (the «grande dame» of film publications) asks critics, film - makers and other luminaries to help them select the greatest films of all time.

Finally available as it should be seen (thank you Film Forum and Quad), one of the great films of all time.

We don't have a list to hand of how many directors have casually tossed out three of the greatest films of all time in quick succession, but it's got to be a small club.

Orson Welles already had the greatest film of all time under his belt (Citizen Kane), and a few years later he gave us the greatest movie entrance of all time in Carol Reed's funny, thrilling and fatalistic The Third Man.

FAVORITES I genuinely think Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is the greatest film of all time, followed closely by National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (a perennial classic cruelly denied Oscar glory — Randy Quaid should have been a shoo - in for Best Supporting Actor at least).

2:15 am (1st)-- TCM — Rear Window Hitchcock, Stewart, and Kelly mix equal parts suspense thriller, murder mystery, romance, voyeristic expose, ethical drama, caustic comedy and cinematographic experiment to create one of the greatest films of all time.

While it's true that Get Out is probably still the landmark film of the year and will do what all great films do when they don't win Oscars: consistently land on the greatest films of all time lists, Spielberg says Guillermo del Toro has joined a legacy of filmmakers and he did do that.

Paramount is good about releasing classics on Blu - ray from time to time, and their latest batch offers one of the greatest films of all time, and an entertaining minor work by a master director.

«If you look back in history, some of the greatest films of all time were genre films that really had something to say about where we are in the world,» he added.

When people rave about a movie so bad it's good (a common pose is to announce ironically that it's «the greatest film of all time»), all they're really doing is asserting their own superiority, not just to the movie but to the valuation of movies.

Not exact matches

We adapted this ranking from our list of the worst sequels of all time, selecting the films that had a vast discrepancy in Rotten Tomatoes critic scores between their terrible sequels and great originals.

Experiencing the world of Harry Potter can be a great way for film and TV crafts pros on hiatus to spend time.

Widely recognized as one of the greatest American movies of all time, when it released in 1956, The Ten Commandments was arguably the most ambitious film ever attempted by Hollywood.

I also wanted to talk up what is perhaps John Sayles» greatest film, the very play - like Sunshine State, as a beautiful illustration of the fact that in modern times especially, some need to heed the Berry-esque call to stay (or return) and build the community, but others need to sell and go, and get free of a community, or mere arrangement, that is holding them back.

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Braveheart's a great movie - even if it is one of the most historically inaccurate films of all time.

In 1970, I Told You So was one of the first Ghanaian films to receive international acknowledgement and great reviews by The New York Times.

Kristen Connolly's Dana is a decent and empathetic primary protagonist, but the real casting highlight is Fran Kranz, who completely steals the show as one of the great all - time movie stoners Marty, whose unique drug - addled world logic not only aids in its survival, but provides some of the film's best jokes.

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

If you can find it, look at the great British documentary Song of Ceylon (1934), one of the most poetically structured films of all time.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

Spoof movies come and go, and there will always be the ones that are great, but as time goes on, this genre of film is what really makes this industry hurt inside and out.

Not knowing that this film would spend so much time focussing on the relationship of Edward and his girlfriend Lindsay (Shailene Woodley), I was pleasantly surprised to see such great chemistry from these two unlikely performances.

Without a doubt, Friedkin is one of my all - time favorite directors, although it could be argued that he hasn't done a truly great film since 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.

Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice.

By the time Great Balls of Fire was released, X had announced their breakup (though the band would stage several reunions throughout the 1990s), and while Doe began recording and touring as a solo act, he also devoted an increasing amount of his time to his acting career, so much so that by the end of the 1990s Doe's film work had outstripped music as his primary livelihood.

The awards made some questionable decisions when it came to recognizing this film, and among the most questionable, in my opinion, was a lack of recognition for the score by the great Alfred Newman, who hit some conventions and contrivances, but did what he did best by breaking down a lot of barriers for epic scoring sensibilities at the time to come up with refreshing and stellar compositions whose symphonic beauty is remarkable by its own right, and important in the selling of the sweep of this film.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] The Pact feels as if it's been constructed from an infinite number of inspirations stretching from classic ghost story horror cinema to the recent wave of found footage films but at the same time because of such great execution you could never actually call it generic.

The depth of emotions you begin to feel for these animals was a great surprise and I wanted more by the time the film ended.

It's also, quite unexpectedly, one of the all - time great feelgood movies, and if you don't take anything else from the film, then take its unabashedly positive moral to heart, and «choose life».

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.

The cinematography and location shooting are excellent and things look great, the music is decent, and this is one of those films that was made at a time when you could still make them like this and not have to worry about too much tinkering and interference.

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.

It doesn't rank up their with the all - time Pixar greats for me personally, but there's still no denying it offers not only many eye - popping sights to behold, but a refreshing examination of Mexican culture that is certainly unique, not only for Pixar but for a major animated film in general.

Graham's father, a wealthy industrialist, bought the paper in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction, a fact not mentioned in the film, curious for a movie that spends a great deal of time talking about the paper's dire finances.

Also, the film feels a little long and draggy at times, as if the great director John Landis was just very unfocused and unsure of how to use all of the great talent at hand to its fullest.

All that mixed with the ingredients of a blockbuster film, a great cast, good humorous timing and spectacular set pieces makes for a very entertaining ride that works as a standalone film as well as part of the bigger picture.

Possibly the greatest science fiction film of all time, The Empire Strikes Back put the spirit of adventure and drama back into action movies.

There have been few better British films than Brief Encounter even at a time when our studios are taking their place in the vanguard of this great contemporary art.

Far From Heaven would have been one of the great American films of the»50s; it is certainly the finest American melodrama of our time.

It's not merely that Stoller's film is long (clocking in at just over two hours), it's that so much of its time is misappropriated; plot threads with Tom's parents (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy) and Violet's mother (Jacki Weaver) could be jettisoned entirely, with that time freed up to examine in greater interesting detail Tom's emotional waywardness.

The film is essentially a primitive rah - rah story about an underdog's triumph over a bully, and in the times that Americans are living through now the things in it that are merely simple seem simplified to the point of odiousness... In the Heat of the Night seems to be made up of a great deal of attitudinizing and very little instinct.

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob was one of two RKO Radio films produced by silent - screen great Harold Lloyd, who reportedly dropped in on the set from time to time to offer a bit of sage comedy advice (note the «handkerchief» bit utlized by Edmond O'Brien; it had previously done service in Lloyd's own Welcome Danger).

A rolling and thundering color film that is herewith devoutly recommended as one of the great motion pictures of our times.