Sentences with phrase «important films of all time»

Spotlight review: While not the strongest of this year's awards contenders, Spotlight is one of the most important films of all time.

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«I think my movie, personally, is one of the most important films that have ever been made in America... I don't know if anyone is going to see it, but I feel the film is going to take care of itself in time and be around as long as there are films.»

Though some critics took issue with Gibson's creative choice, beyond its artistic merits, The Passion remains one of the more important Bible films ever made: Taking in nearly $ 400 million, it is the highest - grossing R - rated film of all time, and it helped usher in a new era of Hollywood creating content for Christian audiences.

«Free Fire» is not Wheatley's best film, but it is a rollicking good time and, more important, an inadvertent skeleton key to thinking about and understanding the rest of his films.

Far and away the best and most important film of recent times, this depicts life in the first world, when you are put into the welfare machine, and if it spits you out you will be on the street.

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.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.

Oscarology is not an exact science and quite why it has done so spectacularly well is still a bit of a mystery to me, but the time has come for those, like me, who have treated the film with a touch of friendly scepticism to wake up to an important part of what made it so compelling: its differentness, its originality.

This is a very important message that many of us tend to stubbornly ignore in our day - to - day lives, making the timing of Spielberg's latest film perfect.

At times, this congeals into intoxicatingly energetic and disturbingly violent moments of survival play, but whenever the narrative returns to moments of static calm the film has a nagging sense of perfunctory ornamentation, it's more important elements given short shrift in an effort to balance a variety of odds and ends.

«He has been an important part of our company for a long time and has helped deliver consistent results during a particularly challenging time for the film business.»

As well as being visually rich in colour detail, it is a genuinely moving film and an important example of covert subversive filmmaking since it contains a very strong anti-racist message at a time when racial segregation was still very much alive in the USA.

After a string of incredibly successful art house favorites throughout the late 1960's and early 1970's, Herzog, who alongside trailblazing filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders, was a major figure in the German new wave movement, turned his gaze to the film he correctly acknowledged as the single most important German movie of all time.

And while the programming of the 58th edition of the Muestra is not as attractive as it should have been, it brings several important films for the first time to Mexico City, so I'm highlighting five of them.

Somewhat reductively, it's a Rushmore for our times — even contemporaneous with that film given it's technically a period piece — a coming - of - age story where overcoming pretention and forced mannerisms is as important to growth as learning self - confidence and kindness.

It's important to familiarize the audience with the history, but the film takes too much time away from the players and instead focuses on historical figures and file footage of what was happening off the court.

For the first time in over a decade, all the major film studios including Paramount, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Disney (and their partners at DreamWorks, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar) and Universal were represented at CinemaCon 2012, the annual convention of NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) that is the largest and most important gathering of cinema owners and operators from around the world.

It has not only stood the test of time, it became perhaps most important film of the year, its meditation on race and racism saying something relevant to the world we're living in now.

Tom Jolliffe on whether standards in film have dropped this century... I've made passing reference to it before, but the tail end of the year always brings time for reflection, and I've often bemoaned the decline in important cinema being made in recent years.

What remains important in this film is that it focuses on some jarring universal notions: subjective autonomy, loyalty to one's convictions, the misunderstanding of others, friendship, and the passage of time.

Unfortunately Bening presiding over the Venice jury not only rules the film out of that festival, but also out of Telluride which takes place at the same time, and the first and more important week of buzz building at TIFF.

I grew up in Montreal, so not very close to the most important centers of the film business at the time.

The last time director Thomas Carter made a feature film, it was the inspiring true story of high school coach Ken Carter who, though leading an undefeated team, believed there was something more important to the future of his players than winning.

The film is a reminder of the most important things in life: those priorities that somehow get washed away some time between adolescence and adulthood.

I don't know why River of Grass didn't immediately achieve a cult reception similar to Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Clerks or other films similar in their time and space, but thankfully Kelly Reichardt persevered, allowing you to take a look back to over-analyze or simply discover the roots of one of today's most important filmmakers.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

However, this is a children's film and a lot of the children in the theater couldn't stop laughing and were having a great time, so that's what is really important.

As with any Apatow - produced flick, the runtime is overlong and the amount of improv often derails any momentum, but for the first time in the run of films produced by the man, that momentum is incredibly important: in action cinema, tension and pace is required to make things exciting, but Pineapple Express forgets about that so its characters can sit around smoking weed and saying silly things another four or five times.

Cowperthwaite's film brings up important issues, and features some impressive cinematography and editing at times, but it never hits the power level like something like, say, the similar film The Cove (2009)-- which dealt with the slaying of dolphins, and had more participatory moments to add to the effect.

Another writer - director who was himself, like Fuller, at the forefront of a particularly important moment in the history of American independent film, John Sayles, used his time introducing Park Row to eloquently characterize the film, in one of the overall best, most informed, beautifully delivered speaker presentations I've ever seen at TCMFF, as «Citizen Kane printed on butcher paper.»

I kept thinking of that all the time and that was the main idea that I took to Fabian, that I wanted to make a film about when someone loses someone who is very important to him and how to keep going.

Blackfish: This heartbreaking, essential documentary is difficult to watch at times, yes, but it's also an important film that works as both a piece of cinema and a call to action.

Co-writers and co-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (first time directors, co-writers of HE»S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU) work hard to deliver the type of humor that Amy Schumer fans expect, while also paying respect to the all - important female body image message the film strives to deliver.

But it's important to regard the series as a whole, and with the eighth installment («The Fate of the Furious «-RRB- opening this weekend, now is the perfect time to chart its bizarre evolution from action film knockoff to genuine pop culture phenomenon.

«We've thought it very, very important to have a theatrical release, to have reviewers writing about movies, to have word of mouth spread about a movie that you saw in theaters this weekend, so that by the time a film shows up on Hulu, people know what it is, they're aware of it,» said Holme.

In an important note, this may very well be the last time the true, original version of the film will be seen on this format, or future formats.

Did the most important, most - anticipated Marvel film of all time are living as much as the hype?

by Walter Chaw It seemed like a good idea at the time: Kevin Costner — still a hot commodity just four years removed from Dances with Wolves, fresh from what might be the most important film of his career (A Perfect World), and not yet stigmatized by Waterworld — reteaming with his Silverado director Lawrence Kasdan, then one of the best genre writers in Hollywood, for a biopic of the famous lawman Wyatt Earp.

Since many of you might not have the time to read a full report or you just might not care about everything I did, here's the most important thing I want to tell you: if you are a fan of Zack Snyder's three previous films, Sucker Punch is going to ram its figurative fist in your face with how cool it is.

«X-Men,» more than any other film, is responsible for the glut of superhero movies we now have — the film was the first in a long time to treat the source material with respect (after the 90s «Batman» movies and things like «The Phantom,» this proved important), and showed that they could work without A-list stars, with the property doing the heavy lifting.

At the time, Feige likened the film to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, stating that it would be an important part of the MCU's Phase Three.

It was an eye - and heart - opening experience at an important time for me, as I was going through a period of not really having a clear direction in how I could make films that would reach people.

Also important is that at Oscar time the Academy likes to nominate the kinds of films that reflect well upon the industry.

Sure, Faris says, «timing was somewhat critical» for the film, which echoes important issues of gender and LGBTQ equality.

«Professional learning is very important and I think one of the things that's helped us is flipping the classroom so we've done a lot of work in that area, developed a teacher film studio, recruited a digital coach who's very skilled in it and doing continuous work in teacher learning communities of three people to support each other, to learn how to film those lessons that are the lower order skills of remembering and understanding to allow more time in class with the teacher to do the higher order skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

«We host some of Hollywood's most important annual events to serve as a backdrop for many of the most memorable moments in film and at times take a starring role in various storylines.

Richard D'Cruze, British Airways» in - flight entertainment and technology manager, said: «We know that in - flight entertainment is really important to our customers — being able to relax and watch a film or listen to music helps customers to pass the time enjoyably — so by installing this state - of - the - art equipment we will be able to deliver even more programming on board.»

For the first time, experience the world's most important art exhibition through a series of 360 ° films produced by Scenic in collaboration with UBS.

For the first time in the US, these important video works spanning a 25 year history of collaborations between contemporary dance, movement, and visual art with film and video were shown.