Sentences with phrase «greatest war film»

The Thin Red Line, arguably the greatest war film ever made, ended two decades of silence from Terrence Malick, cinema's wandering auteur.

Today, after seeing the film again for the first time in years, I feel that Saving Private Ryan is, if not an absolute masterpiece, an extremely powerful and moving work that stands as one of the greatest war films of this or any era.

There have been many great war films, and any number that have vividly evoked the tension, tragedy and terror of battle.

It's a pointless endeavor, really, since the movie has already been deemed by nearly every critic as one of the greatest war films (if not the greatest war film) ever made.

Anthony Mann's Men in War is one of the great war films, and one of the least known.

One of the great war films.

Not only does it have one of the most perfectly shot horizon driven silhouettes reminiscent of a great war film, but it also proves to be a calm before a possible storm adding to the beautiful tension already constricting our hearts and hands.

Samuel Fuller's 1951 Korean war movie Fixed Bayonets does not have impressive special effects, a stylish script, in - depth characterization, or subtle acting, but it's one of the greatest war films ever.

(Special Effects and Cinematography), The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.

Not exact matches

Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plowar film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plowar ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him ploWar I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)

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.

Star Wars is nothing short of pure unadulterated entertainment, something that has been sorely lacking in a great majority of recent films.

Despite the obvious Star Wars overtones / wholesale rip - offs, this is a fun film with some great scenes.

You can't really make this 2D arcade classic much better than it already is, and it is a great title, but it shows it's age, and the fact that it is re-released more than any Star Wars film doesn't help.

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.

Quite a few of these didn't even make it into 2012: World War Z, The Great Gatsby, Gravity, The Grandmaster (s) and tragically Gangster Squad are among the numerous films to get bumped to 2013.

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.

In fact the majority of the film takes place during the final months of the War Between the States, that great act of treason.

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.

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.

The film chronicles much of his life, and depicts key historical events that deeply affected the course of Jiro's life, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan's plunge into war.

Conventional double - cross Cold War espionage tale that's exciting but to be a great film could have used a more forceful direction by Michael Winner.

Most such war films also rise from being good to great by the bond its men share.

The seventh and final film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight series, War Comes to America is one of history's great propaganda movies.

He also found time to appear in grandpa roles in films like Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War as well as lend his voice to the animated masterpieces Spirited Away and Wolf Children.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Transactions between the living and the dead are the fabric of the film, which begins conventionally, as a melodrama about two Great War poilus wrangling over the same woman.

He did two films with John Irvin: the great Dogs of War, and this, 1981's seedy, singularly unpleasant Ghost Story, which represents the final screen appearances of Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Melvyn Douglas.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

In the wider scheme of things, «Tigerland» is not a great movie, but it is solid and unusually heartfelt for Schumacher, and what it lacks in nuance (the director has never knowingly turned in a subtle film), it makes up for in a simplistic but emotive understanding of the mechanics of masculine friendship and rivalry in the shadow of a nationally emasculating war.

Lauded by Winston Churchill as being the man who made the greatest single contribution to the war effort, the film is both a celebration of Turing's life and an infuriating look at the circumstances that turned him from a hero into a pariah.

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

Thanks to some great performances, «War Dogs» rises above similar themed films (for some reason, I kept thinking back to 1983's «Deal of the Century» as well as 2005's «Lord of War»).

The greatest film about the First World War is unquestionably Lawrence of Arabia (1962) though that film is more of a biographical study of a troubled warrior than a study of that wWar is unquestionably Lawrence of Arabia (1962) though that film is more of a biographical study of a troubled warrior than a study of that warwar.

The staggering vistas of the war sequences owe a debt to the great David Lean who gave us Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago (1965) both magnificent, and magnificent looking films.

How many great films are there about that First World War?

Ostensibly filmed to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, Parajanov moved far from accepted limits.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Starring an excellent cast (George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett), the film focuses on a group of men from the United States, Great Britain and France, who are moved by their love of art to recover the masterpieces that were on the verge of being destroyed by the war, or stolen by the Nazis (and the Soviets), in the waning years of World War war, or stolen by the Nazis (and the Soviets), in the waning years of World War War II.

It's all more than a little obvious, a red, white, and blue pastiche of Forties war films set to an amped - up techno beat — maybe just what the masses demand on the eve of our next great conflagration.

There's a great sense of that in this recent chat from the DGA's podcast The Director's Cut which features Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson interviewing Paul Thomas Anderson about his new film Phantom Thread.

Some of the greatest science fiction films of all time were made in the 1970s — and we're not talking about Star Wars.

Plenty of Star Wars fans got some great, great news late last week: Donald Glover was cast as Lando in the upcoming young Han Solo anthology film.

While Vidor's career continued well into the talkies — receiving Best Director nominations for «Hallelujah» (1929), «The Champ» (1932), «The Citadel» (1939) and «War and Peace» (1957)-- he was most closely associated with, and celebrated for, the great filmmaking of the late Silent film era.

Rogue One: Great cast, a compelling relatable heroine and great action, Rogue One is a very enjoyable film for every Star Wars fan and even those who are finding a door to enter this immersive wGreat cast, a compelling relatable heroine and great action, Rogue One is a very enjoyable film for every Star Wars fan and even those who are finding a door to enter this immersive wgreat action, Rogue One is a very enjoyable film for every Star Wars fan and even those who are finding a door to enter this immersive world.

And with General Okoye fast becoming a fan - favorite character in both Black Panther and her brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, it would be great to see her take on the lead role in film about the Dora Milaje.