Sentences with phrase «in modern film»

It's high time all you «big - shot reviewers» learned that personal opinions have no place in modern film criticism.

One of the greatest achievements I've ever seen in modern film.

The $ 1.5 million production budget is surprising, considering it includes salaries for three household faces (whose names are also well - known by anyone versed in modern film).

Of course this isn't Buckley's first foray into horror films, the fate of her character in Carrie remains among the most iconic in modern film history, and while her film appearances have been sporadic, she makes an unforgettable impression whenever she's onscreen.

Alexandre Desplat has emerged in recent times as an original and exciting voice in modern film music; but so far, he has stuck resolutely to art house fare.

Among other films receiving awards in 1965 was A Patch of Blue, which includes the first kiss of a white girl by a black man in modern film and a brutal rape scene.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

As conversation about sex becomes more fluent within our prominently conservative society, it only makes sense that various topics once considered taboo are being used as the centrepiece in modern film.

«The English Patient» be damned (not to mention hugely over praised)-- the best film of ’96 was «Trainspotting» one of the most extraordinary expeirneces I ever had in a film — I sat numb when it was over, and could not wait to see it again — Robert Carlyle is one of the most terrifying characters in modern film — just brilliant.

The don't make movies like this anymore and that's a shame, because even though it's a film essentially about «sport killing»; there is a poetry to it that I think is lacking in modern films; mainly because of current editing techniques.

Though it begins interestingly enough, with a somewhat technical discussion of the rarity of the use of the colour purple in modern film (and how September 11th necessitated that a stupid joke be dropped from the final product), Wong is a maddening rambler who will begin an anecdote at an appropriate time yet ramble on for several minutes with an endless slow - leaking drone of «um «s and «uh «s that makes one wish for a «disc destruct» button.

A subplot involves the torture of one such POW («Pigeon of War,» Valiant's brain - dead punsters will hasten to prod us — they have a future in modern film criticism should they never get another screenwriting gig), Mercury (John Cleese), who at one point loses his mind and comes dangerously close to resuscitating Monty Python's «Dead Parrot» sketch.

The Disaster Artist explores the «it's so bad, it's good» idiosyncrasies of «The Room,» reinforcing its place as one of the greatest cult phenomena in modern film history.

Still, Hugh Jackman — maybe the most charismatic performer in modern film — is in great voice in yet another big, big musical.

Contains some of the most extraordinary things I've seen in modern film: that entire lighthouse sequence, with Barrow & Salisbury's bowel - shaking score - had my chin on the floor.

His next project, Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic «There Will Be Blood,» is a giant, both in his personal body of work and in modern film history.