Sentences with phrase «known as film critics»

For a film that tries to buck the gymnastics trend by thumbing its nose at the judges that count off points for any attempts at originality, the «movie judges», otherwise known as film critics, can thumb their noses right back and slam it, ironically, for not being nearly original enough.

Not exact matches

That's right, Ryan Gosling fans, with this film, Refn first got his Danish derrière (Oh, wait, that's French) over here to America, and you know what, that was the time critics decided to question some of his storytelling methods, either because foreign films are much easier to forgive for their pretentiousness - I mean, «experimental artistic vision», or simply because Refn had so little of an idea on how to bring his visions to America that he decided to get John Turturro, of all people, as his lead.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Herzog's languid, meditative anti-horror film was completely at odds with both the times and stateside sensibilities and his film, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (or Nosferatu: The Vampyre as it was known in the US and UK), although critically praised by many, got lost in the sanguinary shuffle, deemed by some as pretentious and thought by some critics to be a pointless attempt to revisit a picture that was already perfect as is.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

Like that film, there will no doubt be a number of critics and members of the audience who view it as a revolting piece of trash.

Still, it takes some courage for a longtime professional film critic to make his directorial debut with a movie about a professional film critic, knowing his peers are likely to treat it as a mirror.

His newest film, Caché (also known as Hidden), received the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as several other American awards, leading to the assumption that a wide variety of reviewers not only liked the film, but also bothered to see it at all.

Its attackers have mainly been the I - was - in - Nam - so - I - know school who, not being film critics, have ignored any considerations as piffling as those of art.

I almost didn't post them because this is the kind of thing that makes me really hate film critics or even fake film critics masquerading as real film critics; don't tell me how your collective minds work because I don't really want to know!

As one of the early film awards events of the season — and a venue where attendees already know they've won — the New York Film Critics Circle awards is a fine opportunity to see leading Oscar contenders try out their speech material.

some people are being picky and trying to pass themselves of as a know it all film critic... if you went into this movie with your brain in anything higher than 1st gear you are a fool, i went looking for a bit of action and a salute to a cult classic and i got what i wanted @ 25 «if anybody thinks either Topher Grace or Adrien Brody could stand - up to a Predator seriously needs to consider suicide.»

Sometimes all three can happen to one person, they're commonly known as losers and or film critics.

In addition to her law degree, Chaz is well known as the wife of film critic Roger Ebert, from 1992 until his death in 2013.

So you were talking about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these less - well - known films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.

Then I sent some follow - up emails and when that didn't lead to work as a film critic, I figured, you know, «Whatevs.»

Despite the critic hate, Warner Bros. clearly knew what it was doing in positioning the film as 2016's last must - see summer blockbuster.

Kent Jones may be best known as a New York - based film critic and programmer, serving as the editor - at - large of Film Comment for a decade before eventually becoming the director of programming for the New York Film Festival.

As 2009 came to end so started every blogger and film critic letting the world know what he / she thought was the best of the best of the year.

So, let a listing of some of the major characters suffice to bring an anticipatory smile to your face: Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller, best - known for playing a frankfurter in television commercials; Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin, Miller's worthless agent; John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft, clueless publicist; Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown, superfluous producer / financier; Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane, stylist to the semi-stars; Parker Posey and Christopher Monyihan as romantically entangled co-stars; Bob Balaban and Michael McKean as the screenwriters; Jane Lynch and Fred Willard as hosts of an «Entertainment Tonight» - like TV show; Michael Hitchcock and Don Lake as TV film critics; Ricky Gervais and Guest himself as the director of «Home for Purim.»

If said pet lover likes Glenn Kenny's writing too, you're in luck, as the film critic himself contributes an essay to this new Criterion package, joining the special features like an alternate no - music soundtrack, deleted scenes and a Christmas card from Anderson's beloved dog, Lolabelle.

«Pulp Fiction» finally gets the Blu - ray treatment thanks to Lionsgate, and it's every bit as good as the movie deserves, with a director - approved high definition transfer that looks amazing, a 5.1 DTS - HD Lossless Audio track, and two brand new special features: a 43 - minute retrospective titled «Not the Usual Boring Getting to Know You Chit Chat» that includes interviews from several key cast members about making the movie, and a film critic roundtable («Here Are Some Facts on the Fiction») moderated by Elvis Mitchell.

As a film critic, I was left with a feeling of dreadful hopelessness as one of the most prominent film critics of all time was no longer with uAs a film critic, I was left with a feeling of dreadful hopelessness as one of the most prominent film critics of all time was no longer with uas one of the most prominent film critics of all time was no longer with us.

The Immigrant — Though it was touted as Gray's most accessible movie, it ended up dividing critics into «strongly admire» and «actively loathe» camps, as all his films do, but backed by Harvey Weinstein, you know it will figure into the conversation.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

His second feature film JUNK was praised by critic Amy Taubin as «everything indie film no longer is» having its premiere at the New York Underground and as well as screening at the Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival and Exground Filmfest in Wiesbaden.