Sentences with phrase «language of films such»

The mechanics of the music box, cylinder, metal elements and pins, enlarged and magnified to an industrial scale, remind us of the visual language of films such as Chaplin's Modern Times andFritz Lang's Metropolis, as well as the austere objectivity of German photographer Adolf Lazi's 1930's photographic series.

Not exact matches

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.

Since first citing year - end cinematic achievements in 1929, NBR has recognized a vast selection of outstanding studio, independent, foreign - language, animated and documentary films, often propelling recipients such as George Miller's visionary 2015 Best Film winner MAD MAX: FURY ROAD into the larger awards conversation.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

(There's a specific cinematic language these films speak; when you hear a certain kind of music cue, or see a shot framed in just such a way, or when a character expresses anything approaching contentment, you'll know it's coming, so gird your loins.)

Anderson — who's become even more of an actors» director in his last few films than he was already — is at the peak of his powers here, ironically but appropriately directing «Vice» in such a way that phrases like «peak of his powers» (and other language connoting masculine swagger or preening mastery) seem contrary to the spirit of the thing.

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.

Though U.S. audiences likely weren't able to appreciate the movie on the same level as native Chinese speakers because of the way that the film plays around with the language, it's still an amusing and wildly madcap spaghetti western that's anchored by a trio of fantastic performances by director / star Wen, Chow Yun - Fat and Ge You, who have such great comedic timing between them that the subtitles often move too quickly to read.

Such a bonus is bound to hold great appeal for fans of the film and its disappointing absence here is almost certainly the result of having newly - added foreign language tracks and just over three hours of feature film video on Disc 1, as opposed to the 84 minutes plus cartoon short that comprised the Vault Disney's first platter.

Bruce Springsteen once sang, «God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of,» and Force Majeure, a Critics Choice Award winner and Golden Globe nominee for best foreign language film of 2014, illustrates the waves that can stir from just a few ripples of such doubt.

Xavier Dolan, the French - Canadian director of such films as Mommy, Laurence Anyways and Tom at the Farm, is exploring such a correspondence with his first English - language feature, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.

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.

Written and directed by Maggie Carey, the film can easily be compared to American Pie or Super Bad, but from the female perspective and set in 1993, an interesting choice considering much of the language or concepts discussed are significantly more recent than 20 years ago, but let's not quibble about such issues.

«The costume fittings were endless,» notes the 34 - year - old Luxembourgian actress, who along with dozens of European films has had small roles in English - language productions such as «A Most Wanted Man» and the 2011 «Hanna.»

Berlin - based Films Boutique has been thriving with critically - acclaimed movies such as Houda Benyamina's «Divines», which won the Camera d'Or in Cannes; Lav Diaz's «The Woman Who Left», Golden Lion in Venice, Ciro Gerra's «Embrace of the Serpent», which won Directors» Fortnight and earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

After considering such directors as Danny Boyle (then hot off of «Trainspotting»), Bryan Singer, Peter Jackson and David Cronenberg (the mind reels as to what the latter might have done at the helm of an «Alien» film), the producers once again elected to go with an up - and - coming talent by selecting French filmmaker Jean - Pierre Jeunet, who had caused an international sensation with his visually stunning fantasies «Delicatessen» (1991) and «City of Lost Children» (1995), to make his first English - language film.

Yet to simply describe the film in such reductive, point - of - reference language seems to obfuscate the most triumphant reason to celebrate the minimalist action movie: it was the announcement of a fresh, formalist voice in the world of genre filmmaking.

Scenes such as an encounter with a bearskin - wearing dentist deep in the territory who seeks to trade Rooster and Mattie a man's corpse are invented for the film, though the cadence of the language and unusual diction feels lifted straight from the book.

Hammer is at her strongest when she's defying the male gaze, in such works as Multiple Orgasms (1976), a film that attempts to find a visual language for female pleasure, with moaning faces superimposed over images of caves.

One such example of engaging art filmmaker is the influential Valie Export, whose films are absolutely never boring — harnessing direct performance, the language of commodity, Hollywood, poignant dialogue, and narrative to make their point.

The book finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean - Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall, tracing the lasting impact of such seemingly disparate cultural phenomena as voguing, hacking and the use of audio and film as a kind of a globally available, open source language in art that deals with the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.

He develops his pictorial language by assembling and layering found images from diverse sources such as magazines, monster fanzines, art books, and film publicity, and equally from a fund of forms whose origins, even if not directly referential, derive from American Surrealism.

This type of file is very popular with purveyors of anime and foreign films because it allows them to be distributed with extra features such as subtitles and multiple languages.