Sentences with phrase «last film of this scale»

There are clearly defined Chinese characters who are allowed to speak in their own language for once (I can't remember the last film of this scale with so many subtitles) and, in particular, Tian Jing makes a striking impression.

Not exact matches

After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.

One insider said of the smaller - scale X-Men films last month.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

Chadha, whose last film The Viceroy's House tackled the tragic causes and epic scale of the partition of India, said she hopes Blinded by the Light will, by contrast, mix a little of the quirky British humour of some of her earlier films, such as Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) with the lively energy of 1980s high - school movies written by John Hughes such as Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

After this run of deeply ruminative, small - scale works, one last major film was still to come; Akerman's final narrative feature film, La folie Almayer (Almayer's Folly, 2011), based on the 1895 novel by Joseph Conrad.

The Production Design (or «Art Direction») category normally favors large - scale fantasy films or lavish period epics, but this year's nominees reflect a subtler batch of contenders (which makes sense given that the subdued Lincoln won the trophy last year).

The last time Deakins managed that feat was in 2002, for his work on the Coen brothers» The Man Who Wasn't There, and while we predicted that Deakins would complete the hat trick on Oscar night (we even thought he was due after five nominations), he lost to Andrew Lesnie's epic - scale lensing of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which surely benefited that year from being the only film in this category that was also up for best picture.

If you're not interested in Dan Brown or the film adaptation of his hit novel, «Angels & Demons,» you may want to avoid the travel pages for the next few days — I haven't seen travel - movie - mania on this scale since last year's Sex and the City movie transfixed shoe - loving travel writers everywhere.

His last film to date, Messiah (1999), reveals on an epic scale a summary of the themes present throughout his artistic career.

Over the last 15 years, DuBois has produced a prodigious body of work ranging from musical composition and collaborative performance, to large - scale public installations, film, and generative computer works.

Over the last decade, New York - based DuBois has produced a prodigious body of work ranging from musical composition and collaborative performance, to large - scale public installations, film, and generative computer works.

This very welcome large - scale show focuses on the last 10 years of the Polish painter, photographer and film - maker's work.

The CEO of thin film solar company Miasole, John Carrington, made a very public to - do last year about how Miasole needed a large partner to commercialize and scale — this year Miasole sold for $ 30 million in a firesale to China's Hanergy, despite that it raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money.