Sentences with phrase «language film ever»

That not only topped «12 Years a Slave» and «Blue Jasmine» as the highest grossing specialty release of 2013, but beat out «Pan's Labyrinth» to become the highest grossing Spanish - language film ever at the domestic box office.

Filmed entirely in Spanish despite Farhadi being unable to speak the language, Everybody Knows is only the second Spanish language film ever to open the festival, following in the footsteps of Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education all the way back in 2004.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Madea Christmas, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions» Mud and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever released in the U.S.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever in the U.S.

It is now one of the four highest - grossing foreign - language films ever in the U.S., ranking behind only «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» (Taiwan), «Life is Beautiful» (Italy) and «Hero» (China).

Not exact matches

Not only is In the Fade Kruger's first film in her native language, it's also the most prominent onscreen role she has ever had; she appears in practically every scene of the film.

This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for award - grubbing.

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Verdict: Easily one of our most anticipated of the year, we started to worry if we'd ever see «Snowpiercer,» the English - language debut of Korean master Bong Joon - Ho («The Host,» «Memories Of Murder,» «Mother «-RRB-, given the bubbling controversy over the film and Harvey Weinstein «s intentions to release a severely truncated version.

Advisory: On top of the film's violence and strong language, «Ultraviolet» may be the worst date movie ever.

It feels like the most German comedy ever made, but its Oscar and Bafta nominations for best foreign - language film suggest the fears and frailties it needles away at are universal.

Created by the producers of the TV show Gomorrah, Suburra is Netflix's first ever Italian - language original series, and continues the story (however, as a prequel) to the film of the same name which was released in 2015.

So in a year with four of the most - acclaimed Chinese - language films of all - time (the two that appear on Sight & Sound - type lists, the one that is the only Chinese film to ever get any real Oscar consideration and a favorite among the critical intelligentsia), I'm going with a four hour documentary about a leftist revolt in 19th Century France.

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

It's been a decade since Cantet won the Palme D'Or for his drama The Class; his accomplished and very promising early films (Time Out, Human Resources) now seem a lifetime away, while neither his English - language Joyce Carol Oates adaptation Foxfire nor the subsequent Return To Ithaca ever actually opened in the United States.

Ever since Sofia Coppola's Somewhere won the Golden Lion in 2010, no other English - language film had won this prize.

The film opens with a title card that reads «Day 89,» where we meet the Abbott family; pillaging the remains of the drugstore ever so carefully so as not to disturb any pill bottles, communicating in sign language, and teaching the children the life or death ways of silence, no matter what.

And casting directors take note: If there's ever an English - language film in which an actress to play Isabelle Huppert's daughter is required, Browning's the one; they share the same short stature, similar pale skin and reddish - brown hair and the ability to fascinate even as they just sit and watch the world go by.

The first foreign language movie ever nominated for the best picture Oscar, this most celebrated of antiwar films had a host of admirers, including Orson Welles, who once said, «If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be «Grand Illusion.»»

«Disobedience» is the English - language debut of Sebastián Lelio, who became Chile's first - ever Academy Award winner with his best foreign language film win for «A Fantastic Woman.»

The Darjeeling Limited: Criterion Edition Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Wes Anderson's film about three brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Jason Schwartzman) traveling through India to visit their missionary mom is getting the ultimate collectors touch with this new Criterion set which contains tons of great special features and everything you would ever want to know about what went on in the making of the surreal comedy.

But you can not take this film away from its two leads, who beneath the sparse dialogue seem to be ever communicating in a language of looks and gestures and sideways glances, a secret lovers» morse code blinking out between them like the light at the end of Daisy's pier.

«Snowpiercer» Easily one of our most anticipated of the year, we started to worry if we'd ever see «Snowpiercer,» the English - language debut of Korean master Bong Joon - ho («The Host,» «Memories Of Murder,» «Mother «-RRB-, given the bubbling controversy over the film and Harvey Weinstein «s intentions to release a truncated version.

It is here that there is a slight problem, whenever I watch a non-English language film, I never, ever resort to dubbing rather than subtitles.