Sentences with phrase «magnificent film went»

However that scuppered Zero Dark Thirty's best chance of an award (for Jessica Chastain's sterling work) and that truly magnificent film went home with nowt.

Not exact matches

Yes perhaps not a film with a particular story that will suit those cinema - goers who like to know what's going on, although there are those of us who just enjoy the medium, stunning sets and magnificent photography, I'd take this over Avitar anyday!

And Judi Dench, magisterial and magnificent as M, Bond's boss, lets go with the emotional heat she withheld in the Pierce Brosnan films.

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.

Bronson, who began acting in the early 1950s, appeared in a collection of films that would go on to become classics, including John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape.

This film goes the extra step, making fans of anyone with open ears to this remarkable performer, forcing one to confront their intimidation and fall for the sheer bravado of a magnificent artist.

The title is at first glance an echo of Gianfranco Rosi's magnificent refugee documentary study Fire at Sea: a film whose subtlety, complexity and depth I have to say go way beyond this.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Yul Brynner (The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments) may have only five lines in the film, but he is brilliant as the gunslinger gone berserk, chasing after the hapless Richard Benjamin (Love at First Bite, Saturday the 14th) for the latter half of the film.

Ostensibly a spin on Western films of all stripes, the most obvious being The Magnificent Seven, Ridiculous 6 follows Tommy Stockburn (Sandler), a white man raised among Apaches as the warrior White Knife, as he goes on a mission to rescue his newly - discovered biological father Frank (Nick Nolte, his voice sounding more like passing air through a gravel truck with each passing year) who's been captured by stock baddie Cicero (Danny Trejo).

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.

While such a magnificent war certainly helps the trilogy go out with a bang, it is riddled with such elements that ultimately make the film rather anticlimactic.