Sentences with phrase «known film classics»

Taylor - Wood puts a strong focus on the individual person, while Gordon is usually inspired by well - known film classics, and in the exhibition Robert de Niro's film figure from Taxi Driver reappears in an unexpected way.

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Fans know Dan Aykroyd as the star of classic films like «Ghostbusters,» «Coneheads» and «The Blues Brothers,» but he's also among the ranks of celebrity entrepreneurs — and celebrities who own vodka brands.

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I use the Wizard of Oz — that great book, that classic American film — as one of the sort of parables that helps us sort of know how to work with the enneagram.

Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.

Although best known as the director of the cult classic films Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch is also a painter and designer.

There's something so classic and romantic about a drive in and it's great for a date because unlike a movie theatre you can chat to one another throughout the film and get to know each other without being hushed!

Located in the former home of George Eastman himself, the Dryden and the Little Theatre located just down the road are known to show cinematic classics and curated selections of foreign films.

Even if you have never seen the movie, or read the book, you know the name of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, adapted from Robert Bloch's book by the same name, Psycho.

It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.

The lack of a convoluted motivation felt that much more terrifying, a tactic also used in 2006's Them and 2016's Hush, maybe because the indiscriminate nature of the violence makes us all feel unsafe and maybe because, as many classic horror films have shown, the less we know, the more terrifying it can all seem.

Steven Spielberg might as well be known for directing well - loved classics, but he's also the same guy who also directed modern art like The BFG and this film.

In Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi, fifty unforgettable films are profiled, including beloved favorites like The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Fantastic Voyage (1966), groundbreaking shockers like Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), and lesser - known landmarks like Things to Come (1936) and Solaris (1972).

Their latest adventure into the classics is «I Know Where I'm Going», a simply plotted film that still manages Read more...

A film that has influenced so many genres, as anyone who remembers the classic Amiga computer game «Speedball» will know.

We've known the new film, directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle) will have some radically different concepts going on than we're used to seeing in the classic Fantastic Four comics.

More Jeepers Creepers 3 cast details have appeared online via the Cinema Runner website, which reveals that Adrienne Barbeau, who is known for her film roles in such classics as (The Fog, Escape From New York, Swamp Thing, Creepshow) is on board for the third film.

Perhaps the most memorable reveal comes at the end of the trailer when we see Charles with his classic bald head, which Patrick Stewart's older version of the character is so well - known for having in previous X-Men films.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not just as a terrific genre film but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

From the moment the Sony Pictures Classics logo pops up not in the usual blue — but in cupcake frosting pink — you know that Whit Stillman «s first film in 13 years -LRB-!)

The film knows that it's pretty derivative when you think back to all the classic fantasy films, however it utilizes the new technology to its advantage to see it in 3D.

In case you are wondering about the director, Jeff Kanew, he is known best for directing the classic comedy film «Revenge of the Nerds».

The film presents some classic Marvel laughs and scenes, but what does it mean when I know what the punchline is going to be?

The eighth major screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, and the fifth film from hit - or - miss Brit Joe Wright, this spare - no - expense movie wears its grandiosity on its ruffled sleeve, as the recently released trailer certainly attests.

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In this case, former The State alums David Wain and Michael Showalter took that sweet, sweet Netflix cash, called everyone they knew, and made this deliriously funny prequel series to their enduringly hilarious cult classic film Wet Hot American Summer.

So the institution known as the hoopla.nu classic movie review is quickly becoming a place for me to have a whinge about those older films that everyone knows and loves.

They are best known, at least among film music fans, for their reconstructions and rerecordings of many classic scores on the Marco Polo label, featuring works by Korngold, Waxman, Tiomkin and others.

You may have heard that Paddington 2 was not only the BEST REVIEWED FILM of 2017 but in all of Rotten Tomatoes history... we saw it feature on a number of respected critics» top 10 lists and we want to know what all the fuss is about so, keeping in line with the explicit, fringe and classic programming you've come to grow and love from Academy we've decided to put on a Paddington double feature....

It's a classic case of the film's trailer showing every joke that Standards and Practices will allow them to screen on network TV... and when the only remaining laugh - out - loud moment remaining in the film involves Dr. Phil loudly bellowing an obscenity, you know you're in trouble.

Knowing film buffs may relate the film's plot to the infamous classic All About Eve, but more modern filmgoers will see this more as a mix of Clueless and Single White Female The film has a very high camp value, all intentional, and the humor works well on the occasional scenes where there's some inspiration.

David Cronenberg's classic sci - fi film Scanners is mostly known for its iconic exploding head scene.

Now at last, Mitchell — best known as the director and star of 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch — releases his next film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in select theaters this month.

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

The main plot of the film revolves around a real - life incident known as the Enfield Poltergeist, an extremely well - documented case of a supposed ghost who terrorized the Hodgson family of North London from 1977 to 1979 and was apparently a fan of the classics: knocking on walls, shaking beds, throwing furniture, and even the occasional haunted kid's toy.

That's the foundation of many a classic heist or men - on - a-mission thriller and this film offers it as a kind of skewed redemption for a misfit band of former military men, most of them drummed out for conduct unbecoming (you know, petty schemes and such), many of them fallen into cons and criminal schemes and all of them adrift in the post-war culture.»

Since his screen debut in the 1970 classic Love Story, Jones has appeared in iconic films like Natural Born Killers, Men in Black, No Country for Old Men and, recently, Lincoln.

It no doubt has some pretty big shoes to fill as Psycho is not only one of the most classic of horror films but it was brought to us by one of the most recognizable directors of all time in Alfred Hitchcock.

One of the most thunderously applauded entries in Toronto this year was itself a fascinating film about failure: «The Disaster Artist,» which revisits the making of that 2003 bad - movie classic, «The Room,» is a triumph for its prolific director and star, James Franco, best known of late for clogging the festival circuit with wan adaptations of «In Dubious Battle» and «The Sound and the Fury.»

By now everyone knows Frank Capra's holiday classic and the tears it so effortlessly conjures up year after year — but it's easy to forget how truly vicious the film is, and how brilliantly James Stewart rises to the challenge.

Plus, go behind the scenes of Weta Workshop in New Zealand to learn about the designing of the giant kaiju monsters of Pacific Rim Uprising, and learn some things you might not have known about the sci - fi classic film Logan's Run.

Kim Wilson at the Classic Film and TV Cafe reviews Man in Grey, a little - known British film that sounds rather transgressive for its time!

The film features the actor known for his hard - hitting roles in the likes of WELCOME TO THE PUNCH and and classic Tyneside - set BBC drama series OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, as a man with the ability to enter the memory of any individual.

Easily the best - known and most highly regarded of Mike Hammer's big screen outings, 1999 National Film Registry selection Kiss Me Deadly has its status reinforced by this week's admission into The Criterion Collection, that beloved «continuing series of important classic and contemporary films.»

Not unlike Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the film is built out of classic noir conventions but keeps the circle of characters contained with in the family, to form a knotty plot that results in a domestic hell.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to «The Silent Man,» a film about the life of Mark Felt, the secret high - ranking FBI informant during the Watergate scandal, famously known as «Deep Throat.»

For those who don't know about The Room, it is a 2003 film that has gained cult classic status (or is it classic status?)

And it's no doubt, with just a casual perusal of the film fare planned, including opening night's gala offering of a 50th anniversary screening of In The Heat of the Night in the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX with Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant and director Norman Jewison in attendance — a special festival long showing of original nitrate prints of essential and little known classics — and a screening of one of the greatest comedies of all time — The Jerk — offering Steve Martin and Carl Reiner fans the opportunity to share in the excitement of new phone books arriving.

Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.

You'd never know given her day to day routine, which involves making weak tea for a boss too lazy to fire her (at least for a while), ineffectually feeding her pet rabbit Bunzo, and watching and re-watching a videocassette of the Coen brothers» classic film «Fargo.»