Sentences with phrase «magnificent film from»

Absolutely magnificent film from start to finish.

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead — magnificent film from the late, great, SIdney Lumet.

Not exact matches

Featuring footage of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) and narrated by actress Jennifer Lawrence, images of our magnificent blue planet demonstrate the effects humanity has had on it over time in this film captured by the astronauts aboard the ISS.

n the heels of a magnificent season that ended with the Houston Texans» All - Pro defensive end becoming the first NFL player to register a second 20 - sack Taraji P. Henson decided to take a break from filming»Em pire» with some sun, sand and some sizzling PDA with a stunning NFL champ named Kelvin

Overall, Star Wars is a magnificent film that captures not just one spirit, but multiple ideals from throughout history.

Adapted from a well - known short story by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of Music.

I really miss John Barry, after his departure from Bond we had to make do with some adequate scores over several years even from David Arnold, then along came a new Bond in the form of Mr Craig and wow DA really found the formula for Bond and composed two truly magnificent scores if only he could have done Skyfall, that said lets give Thomas Newman a chance see the film with the score then listen to the score as stand alone then we can judge, one thing, I really wish just once they could use John Barry's brilliant 007 theme in a sequence just for old times sake and as a tribute to the man that gave Bond so much.

The film's narrative construction — when he introduces a character, when he returns to a character, how he transitions from one character to another — is magnificent.

Now, however, Kino Lorber has issued a magnificent Blu - ray edition, derived from an original copy of the film at the Library of Congress.

And though Holt is the most often ignored of the three leads (too many dismiss him out of hand as a B - movie staple), in watching a scene where he struggles with whether or not to save a partner from a cave - in one is reminded that Holt spent time in films like My Darling Clementine and The Magnificent Ambersons.

And the Criterion release has a great 4K transfer, a new interview with the timeless Angela Lansbury (and if you only know her from «Murder, She Wrote,» you really need to see what she does here), and a great new feature with the magnificent Errol Morris that will allow you a new appreciation for the film.

Leslie Megahey interviews Orson Welles for The Magnificent Ambersons and his unfinished film It's All True, also, Robert Wise and Peter Bogdanovich talk about The Magnificent Ambersons, from the documentary Arena: The Orson Welles Story (1982).

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»

Anyway, the film from frequent Sandler collaborator Frank Coraci («The Wedding Singer,» «The Waterboy,» «Click») is a Western, in theory, because it takes place in the American West and it's a knock - off of «The Magnificent Seven.»

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

So begins Paul Thomas Anderson's glistening, magnificent Phantom Thread, and it's a moment of rare, blithe sexiness in his oeuvre: a light little flirt - note — were the film set half a century later, it might be signed off with a smiley face — that sets in motion a far darker, more perverse and conflict - riven romance than most would expect from such breezy beginnings.

Ostensibly a vignette from the life of jaded prison warden Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) who bonds with mysterious, possibly magical prisoner John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), the film's ugly combination of brutal prison realism and high sentimentality is a tough pill to swallow, even despite the best efforts of Thomas Newman's magnificent score.

The film is magnificent from start to finish.

In collaboration with the Parisian agency les bons faiseurs, La Semaine chose the image which better reflects this 50 +5 edition: the magnificent actress Jessica Chastain in a scene from Take Shelter, second feature film by Jeff Nichols where her performance in one of her first leading roles was particularly remarked.

And then there is the really off - beat stuff like a post-apocalyptic-vampire-western-road movie, Stake Land (which is magnificent), a naughty DIY costumed hero flick from James Gun called Super and starring Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon, an Eva Green starring ethereal cloning drama from Hungary, but in English, called Womb, and a film that will make you completely reassess how you feel about Santa Claus and his elf posse when the jolly fat man is portrayed as a 25 meter tall horned demon encased in a block of ice under a Finnish mountain.

Worst - case scenario: Viewers don't pick up on or appreciate the film's darker themes, and merely enjoy it as a magnificent exercise in sustained white - knuckle tension, featuring top - notch work from its three leads (especially Blunt, who's terrific in a tricky role that's intentionally diminished over the course of the film).

Director Xan Cassavetes blends interviews with clips - often devoting entire portions to specific films (including an intriguing look at the whole Heaven's Gate fiasco)- and although the filmmaker occasionally goes overboard with her the of stock footage, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a highly effective documentary that doesn't shy away from some of the more difficult times in Harvey's life.

In honor of his latest film, Roman J. Israel Esq., I decided to highlight and rank all of his movies from the soulful For Queen and Country to Antoine Fuqua's bloated remake of The Magnificent Seven.

The magnificent centerpiece of Hunger ends with neither side convincing the other, and the prisoner, whom we now learn is Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), and recognize as just another face in the crowd, from earlier in the film, resigned to his plight.

Bousdoukos (who co-wrote the script) enters the film as an amiable slob with a vague attachment to a business that has become a matter of routine, but even as he makes plans to join his journalist girlfriend in China, where she has jumped as a choice opportunity, the transformation of his business from a glorified cafeteria with sleepy clientele to a social of young patrons, energetic music and magnificent cuisine (courtesy of a mad - dog chef with a tendency to end conversations with a well - thrown knife) stirs a new passion in him.

His frame composition, sorely lacking from the previous film, is magnificent.

Seven outlaws come together to save a helpless town from a greedy tyrant in Antoine Fuqua's new version of The Magnificent Seven, a remake of the original 1960 film (directed by John Sturges) which in itself was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

Not only is it a likely awards - reaper for its magnificent leads Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett, and Todd Haynes» best film since 2002's Far From Heaven, it passes the Bechdel test in its first five minutes.

Previously available in a movie - only edition from MGM, Criterion delivers a stunning DVD and Blu - ray two - disc edition with a magnificent transfer and the correct aspect ratio (1.66:1, not the open - matte 1.33 as previously released, which reveals the top of the set in at least one scene), on a two - disc set featuring with commentary, an original 40 - minute documentary, new and archival interviews and clips, but the great treasure is the 159 - minute documentary Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter, an unprecedented look at a director directing composed almost entirely of recently discovered outtakes and production footage from the film.

Speaking about the film, director Jordan commented that «Byzantium was a thrill to shoot; although set in England, we shot the bulk of it here in Ireland, and managed to create a mythical backdrop from the magnificent Beara Peninsula.

But the Isabel Vendle character is sourced in Dickens» Mrs. Havisham, and in characters from Orson Welles film of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and in characters from Paula Fox's novels, and in the character Agatha Harkness from Marvel's Fantastic Four comic book — as much, or more, than she is a portrait of Helen Buckler.

American Humane Association is challenging 1 million people to take the Kindness 100 Pledge online at www.Kindness100.org to protect and better the lives of animals in four distinct areas, including 10 billion farm animals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers.

An overarching retrospective, it charts her progress from small carvings to magnificent bronzes, while photographs and film reveal how these works were presented — in the studio, the theatre, the landscape or alongside architecture.

This show may not offer any big new revelations about the nature of the circle, but it brings together a magnificent, occasionally mad cornucopia of rounded works, from the London Underground sign from Oval station to magical pieces of Zen Buddhist calligraphy, created during a single exhalation of breath; from Marcel Duchamp's Anaemic Cinema, a whirling «psychedelic» animated film from 1925, to Chicago artist Theaster Gates's A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, in which a stuffed goat on a tricycle, originally used in Masonic ceremonies, runs noisily round a circular railway track.

The third artifact is a 1961 film by Youssef Chahine titled «A Man in my Life», a remake of Douglas Sirk's «Magnificent Obsession» from 1954.

An overarching retrospective, it charts her progress from small carvings to magnificent bronzes, with photographs and film revealing how these works were presented — in the studio, the theatre, the landscape or alongside architecture.