Sentences with phrase «language film for»

Sebastian Lelio, winner of the award for foreign language film for «A Fantastic Woman.»

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump's travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House.

First English language film for Ang Lee.

It also played at the Toronto Film Festival, and was the Chilean entry for the best foreign language film for the Academy Awards.

It was the Mexican filmmaker's second BAFTA, after having won best foreign language film for his 2006 Spanish - language film «Pan's Labyrinth.»

The Iranian drama «A Separation,» which would've been graced with a dozen Oscar nominations (instead of two) by a more internationally minded academy, won for best foreign language film for this tale of a Tehran custody battle, a series of deceptions and the emotional costs of divorce.

This is the first English language film for Norwegian director Morten Tyldum.

His sentiments were echoed in more specific terms by the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who won best foreign - language film for The Salesman, but elected not to attend the ceremony in protest of Trump's immigration ban on seven majority - Muslim countries.

The official State Department Persian - language Twitter account, @USAdarFarsi, congratulated Asghar Farhadi for winning best foreign - language film for «The Salesman,» as Reuters first reported.

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

It has been used on foreign language films for decades (this trailer for Wong Kar - Wai's 2046 is a perfect example), but it's only in recent years that it has caught on in a broader sense.

TOP 100 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS FOR 2017 Listed By US Box Office Gross only Title links go to reviews = still in theaters Note: Figures are as of January 21st, 2018

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The streaming service also earned three nominations for its documentaries «Icarus,» «Strong Island,» and «Heroin (e),» and one nod for the foreign language film «On Body and Soul.»

In L.A., he worked on a successful lobbying campaign that helped earn the Canadian film Les Invasions Barbares an Oscar for best foreign - language film.

In the West, however, the austere film language that results from censorship is often mistaken for profundity.

Miramax picked up Children of Heaven for distribution, and it was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar in 1998.

Despite all modern advances, however, in this book I will reserve the use of «language» for speech, ignoring the language of gestures, mime, and film.

While free diving with a great white shark, a film crew captured this video, in which she was able to read the shark's «body language» and decided to take the man - eater for a ride.

This is my favorite quote of the chapter... maybe even the whole book: «If we're more opposed, for instance, to what we take to be «bad language» and nude scenes and films about gay people than we are to people being blown up, starved to death, deprived of life - saving medicine, or tortured, our offendedness is out of whack.»

For his intervention, Lord Sugar uses a new film to «explain in simple language why we must remain in Europe».

The film contains some strong language and graphic images and is not meant for young children.

Whether it's romantic body language Classic instructional film for teen daters, presented here in the rare (but incomplete) Kodachrome version.

Like fellow French - Canadian drama Incendies (see below) the previous year, Monsieur Lazhar earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

And the actor's ability to quietly express a whole range of emotions with his body language and his eyes, is staggering — especially since, for much of the film, he's limping and covered in blood.

Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a foreign - language - film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.

The only negatives is the strong language, an adult film for sure and that sometimes the flow of events is a little slow but when you start to relax the film always manage to suprise you.

That's an impressive feat, especially since 2015 could almost be considered a down year for the studio, since it secured just one Oscar nomination (for the acclaimed foreign - language film Son of Saul) after collecting 18 nominations the previous year.

Infinity War isn't a life - altering experience that changes the language of film, but it is an ass - kicking popcorn superhero flick that delivers the spectacle fans have waited years for.

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

Leon Ichaso's film soft - pedals everything save the language in what often resembles a made - for - cable biopic.

But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar, and it is elevated, as it would need to be, by Diane Kruger's superb performance in the central role.

Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.

His latest, «In the Fade,» is Germany's Oscar submission and one of the nine films shortlisted for best foreign language film.

The art style and language of the film really helped with it being in the 1600's, and that sadly doesn't do justice for me.

The only negatives is the strong language, an adult film for sure and that sometimes the flow of events is a little slow but when you start to relax the film

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

For Denmark, the film, an Oscar nominee in the foreign - language category, might seem quietly radical, but Mr. Lindholm errs too far on the side of quiet.

The film is amiably silly, gaudy and even pleasantly diverting for the non-Hindi-speaking viewer who realizes that the verbal gags that elicited laughter in the original language tend to elude translation via English subtitles.

The only negatives is the strong language, an adult film for sure and that sometimes the flow of events is a

This week, get the latest casting details on the next Superman movie, and watch a dozen just - released trailers for upcoming films ranging from summer comedies to Sundance hits to foreign - language Oscar contenders.

Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for.

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.

(There's a good reason for the latter, however: its unusually high total the year before was a result of releasing the Swedish - language films based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.)

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

Silvia speaks Ku, a language invented for the film.

This French - language film did not make the cut of the five nominated 2017 films for Best Foreign Language Film.

Several hundred Los Angeles - based academy members screened submissions for the foreign language film category late last year.

«Blue is the Warmest Color» was released too late in France to qualify for foreign language film, and though there was an Oscar push for its actresses, nothing materialized.