Sentences with phrase «magnum opus film»

But what other noun used as an adjective could be more appropriate for an Achievement list that actually references Fred Savage's 1989 magnum opus film The Wizard?

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Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world history.

This film is based on a 2002 novel by Sono, and though the adaptation came out the same year as his magnum opus Strange Circus (2005), it's clear that in that three year gap he learned a lot about restraint and framing.

From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus follows multiple plotlines, while still deeply developing each of the film's many principle characters — played more than ably by some of the decade's greatest actors — Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards and Alfred Molina, to name but half.

Plenty of films took satirical aim at familiar targets prior to the David Zucker - Jim Abrahams - Jerry Zucker brain trust's magnum opus: Mel Brooks» Blazing Saddles was a Western spoof as roaringly un-PC as the films in which it found inspiration, a baby - faced Woody Allen made one of his first film appearances in the spy parody Casino Royale (now doomed to an eternity of being referred to as «no, the other Casino Royale»), and Murder by Death was a takeoff on the whodunit complete with off - brand versions of Sam Spade and Hercule Poirot.

But while Wiseau's ineptitude and tyranny behind the scenes of his mystifying magnum opus make for a few funny scenes, there is no point at which The Disaster Artist attempts to work on its own as a film — not even as a poor man's Ed Wood.

Today considered one of the best films of all time, Federico Fellini's magnum opus was probably destined for the Palme d'Or regardless of the shenanigans surrounding its Cannes premiere.

In spotlighting Ingmar Bergman's magnum opus Fanny and Alexander as one of the great films of the 1980s, one can not help but marvel at how out of step with the «80s it is, and least of all for its period setting in the early years of the 20th century.

A magnum opus that ultimately still falls prey to the director's penchant for sentiment over substance, the film is nevertheless a refined piece of filmmaking that revealed deeper artistic fissures in the man.

What Rowling, and by extension the films, should be praised for is constructing the single greatest magnum opus on coming of age.

There is a box of Chantal Akerman's work, along with her magnum opus Jeanne Dielman, There are two box sets by Agnes Varda, films by Claire Denis, Lena Dunham's debut film, 2 films by Jane Campion, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher.

Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles is hosting a retrospective of Conner's work in the context of this magnum opus, offering screenings of the classic film alongside drawings by Conner that contemplate destruction and rebirth.

Day Is Done, 2005 - 2006, Kelley's magnum opus, is a kaleidoscopic multi-media, musical horror show, of sorts, filmed in a high school auditorium.