Sentences with phrase «made classic thrillers»

Not exact matches

The man with no name may have been the character that made Clint a star, but it was Harry Callahan that made him an icon; he is the personification of tough guy charisma in one of the all - time classic cop thrillers.

Seemingly out of their elements, Cliff and Cydney make the classic mistake of befriending the wrong people, a thriller staple, but the filmmaker never goes on automatic pilot; he composes with soft focus photography to give a sense of ambiguity at key moments whenever both couples are within the same frame.

I had a window before I promote Green Inferno, and I wanted to make a movie like Roman Polanski or Paul Verhoeven made when they were young, a classic psychosexual thriller that's not a horror movie, but would have everyone on the edge of their seats.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

Alfred Hitchcock never made a more purely entertaining film than North by Northwest (Warner), a classic «wrong man» thriller with a romantic cast and a breathless series of adventures across a cross-country romp.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

2:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m.): «The Postman Always Rings Twice» (Tay Garnett, 1946) John Garfield and Lana Turner make the screen blaze as the bloody, adulterous lovers in this hot - as - hell, cold - as - ice movie of the steamy James M. Cain classic noir sex - and - murder thriller.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

How the actor and the director made a brilliant, brutal thriller while battling the clock — and ended up with an expressionistic modern classic

Redford directed based on a script by Lem Dobbs (The Limey, Haywire) and the trailer makes it look like a pastiche of classic Redford political thriller hits All the President's Men, and Three Days of the Condor.

The three minutes or so, comprised of 52 cuts shot with 78 set - ups, that make up the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror thriller Psycho.

In 1948, a year before they made the nonpareil thriller «The Third Man,» director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene collaborated on another tilted - camera film - noir classic: this mesmerizing story of a French diplomat's son (Bobby Henrey), who hero - worships the embassy butler (Ralph Richardson).

Although this subject matter never could have been made decades ago, Bad Education is, at its heart, a throwback crime thriller, very similar in themes to the classic film noir days.

Jeremy Saulnier makes his long awaited return to the director's chair with his thriller Blue Ruin, a straightforward classic tale of a revenge that takes a simple concept and turns it into pulse - pounding suspense.

After forays into auteur cinema like the magnificent TOKYO SONATA (Un certain regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2008), J - horror pioneer Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose classics CURE and SÉANCE were adored at Fantasia in their day, makes a triumphant return to the horror thriller genre with the Berlin Film Festival selected Hitchcockian horror thriller CREEPY, which will be screened in Canadian Premiere.

Few thrillers are as willing to kill off characters, including random civilians, as cavalierly as this one does, and in that light it did remind me somewhat of John Frankenheimer's final classic, the 1998 Robert De Niro barnburner Ronin, a comparison I do not make lightly.

A sci - fi thriller that focuses on the growing threat of Artificial Intelligence, The Fall Part 2: Unbound plans to improve on the game mechanics of the original without losing the tight - knit focus on story that made the original a cult - classic.