Sentences with phrase «masterpieces of short film»

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Of the countless films they made during their (amorphous) multi-decade run, undergoing nearly as many lineup changes as the Fall and Yes put together, no single Three Stooges short or feature is an actual, legitimate masterpiece of the cinema — that is to say, none has been recognized as sucOf the countless films they made during their (amorphous) multi-decade run, undergoing nearly as many lineup changes as the Fall and Yes put together, no single Three Stooges short or feature is an actual, legitimate masterpiece of the cinema — that is to say, none has been recognized as sucof the cinema — that is to say, none has been recognized as such.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

Australia is brutal and beautiful, and Roeg's film is nothing short of a captivating masterpiece that, like Ted Kotcheff's Wake In Fright the same year, suggests that Australia is never more fascinating than when viewed through the lens of a foreigner.

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

Not since Chinatown has a modern noir film been able to captivate on this level, and while it falls just short of being the artistic masterpiece that Roman Polanski had been able to deliver, it's difficult to imagine improving LA Confidential to make it any more engaging or satisfying.

1) Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, set one of the key scenes of his masterpiece — on the short list of films up for discussion as the Greatest of All - Time — at Fort Point, now a National Historic Site in the heart of the Golden Gate National Parks.

Screened in conjunction with Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, Bruce Conner's short film, THE WHITE ROSE (1967), chronicles the removal of DeFeo's nearly one - ton masterpiece, The Rose (1958 - 66), from her second - story San Francisco studio.