Sentences with phrase «modern cinema»

This film ended up being a classic of modern cinema.

This sort of cohesion between an emotionally involved couple is surprisingly rare in modern cinema, and it provides the foundation for all that comes afterwards.

This is modern cinema at its most technically advanced, a fact that is delightfully shown off in high definition.

This creative and unusual film easily stands out among modern cinema and though it is sure to divide viewers, those who appreciate it ought to really appreciate it.

But how did the film come to be one of the classic pieces of modern cinema?

It is a testimony to his genius that this may not be his best film, yet it is one of the most striking films in modern cinema.

The New Classics is a weekly series of extended film reviews and essays on modern cinema, hoping to shine a spotlight on the undervalued, the worthy of reappraisal, and the indisputable modern masterpieces.

There are gems in modern cinema as much as classical cinema that I think are overlooked by putting too much empathsis on cross-comparing real life to fictional ones.

They assail Spielberg for two of the greatest problems in modern cinema history: the Blockbuster mentality that now permeates the commercial film industry, leaving little room for intellectually challenging works; and the dumbing down of contemporary movies that promotes bloated budgets and relies on wham - bam action flicks.

The last time this breakthrough piece of cinema was touched by modern cinema, the remake paled in comparison and backed up the theory that the classics should be left well alone.

So often modern cinema spares us any sense of despair with a heavy sugar - leaden ending to satisfy our fairytale cravings.

The latest TV screens have a ratio of 16:9, the shape of modern cinema screens, but as most people still have 4:3 screens broadcasters seldom transmit new wide - screen programme material.

This is a rare case in modern cinema where the effects actually look real rather than something designed by committee on a computer during postproduction.

Considered alongside modern cinema as a whole or imagined from a writer - director with a lower batting average and it's not even weak enough to be deemed a disappointment creatively.

But trying to explain to them the significance of the shadow caped crusaders have cast over modern cinema is a little like articulating what the world looked like before Star Wars.

The cumulative emotional effect is devastating: the final scenes here are as angry, as memorable, as overwhelming as anything modern cinema has to offer.

Where Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven mined the subtext of Douglas Sirk's films, locating modern cinema's obsession as the uneasy illusion — the hypocrisy — of the traditional family, Down with Love is just an obnoxious magnification handcuffed, ironically, by its adherence to the dissolved Code and the new trend of political correctness.

The group, which inaugurated modern cinema, included Jean - Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, Jean - Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette and Louis Malle.

Also starting Friday in Westwood: The Crest Theater, in association with Emerging Pictures, will present the 20th annual Rendez - Vous with French Cinema — a first - time look at some of France's most exciting modern cinema.

Critics of this wing of modern cinema largely attack it as a «style over substance» approach to filmmaking and yet every whim of this aesthetic approach would retort that style is substance.

In dramatizing Mathison's script, Spielberg and his usual army of key collaborators — led by Janusz Kaminski (director of photography), Rick Carter (production design), Michael Kahn (film editing), and John Williams (original musical score)-- have fashioned a movie for children that looks at home in modern cinemas while retaining an «old - fashioned» pacing and temperament.

The parallels to modern cinema shows that more than twenty years after being made, Never Cry Wolf does not feel dated at all.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Nowhere is the paucity of well written female characters in modern cinema more evident than in this years» Supporting Actress category.

The announcement includes details of the enterprise relaunching Universal's iconic characters into modern cinema, as well as confirmations of superstar cast and that Academy Award ® winner Bill Condon will direct Bride of Frankenstein.

I'd be one of the last people to write off modern cinema altogether and indeed one can find plenty of well - made entries into this class from Disney and others.

In part one of our talk, Walter takes questions from other leading sound designers Ren Klyce and Gary Rydstrom about his work, talks about how documentary film has affected modern cinema style, discusses his work in Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, and ends the episode with a discussion of the use of music in The Godfather and The English Patient.

No matter what title you choose to bestow upon director James Nguyen, the fact remains that he is the man responsible for one of the most unimaginable feats of moviemaking in the history of modern cinema: Birdemic: Shock and Terror.

In essence, though, a director leaves a project that's been covered in the entertainment media, and everyone presumes — out loud or deep down — that it's some kind of apocalyptic foul - up that will further tarnish a studio's mark on modern cinema.

I think something very interesting could have been made out of The Disaster Artist, a true story retelling of the creation of quite possibly the most famous bad movie in modern cinema history, The Room, but James Franco's biopic (of a sort) seems far too pleased with itself to get to the core of what it's trying to say.

Influenced in content and colour palette by modern cinema and a variety of notable artists of the 20th century as Henri Matisse, David Hockney or Philip Guston, Yanai borrows, appropriates easily from and is in awe and even confused (all simultaneously) by European visual culture and its rich heritage.

Culling from the riches of behind - the - scenes footage from the films, Comic - Con panels, and an assortment of TV clips (from ABC News to «Saturday Night Live» and «The Colbert Report»), this is a thoughtful and well - produced reflection on the biggest force in modern cinema, one that «Agents» belongs to and its fans are sure to care about.

Bond's central problem is that the tropes of the franchise are out of step with what a modern cinema audience expects from its protagonist.

Check it out if you want to see a CGI sword - and - sandal disaster flick, but perhaps skip it if you bemoan any scientific inaccuracies whatsoever in modern cinema.

«The release of «Avatar» in December 2009 represented the pivotal moment for digital cinema, with digital technology forming the bedrock of the modern cinema environment,» Hancock added.

Filmworker amounts to yet another rite of devotion in the ongoing cult of Kubrick — a cult that worked its power not just on Vitali but on all of modern cinema.

The first of these movies remains one of the great sci - fi horror achievements of the modern cinema, but its sequel, «Aliens,» is that rare instance where a follow - up deviates from the formula and finds an effective rhythm in propelling the story

It looks fantastic and the air of subtlety and sophistication that permeates the entire film gives it a maturity so often lacking in modern cinema.

Critic Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the - scenes look at one of modern cinema's most spellbinding talents, with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.

Critics Consensus: Spielberg takes a behind - the - scenes look at one of modern cinema's most spellbinding talents, with absorbing — albeit somewhat uncritical — results.

In close - up Neeson's anguish holds the screen like few other sights in modern cinema, and a comparatively late scene in «Silence» pits Neeson against Garfield in a stimulating, discreetly combative war of words, and beliefs.

Based on the book The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, the film tells the behind - the - scenes story behind one of modern cinema's biggest cult classics The Room.

A good video game movie is the golden goose of modern cinema.

He continues to perform at a high level, and he's forged a partnership with Villeneuve over the course of three films now («Prisoners» and «Sicario» being the others) that makes for one of the great visual signatures in modern cinema.

The cast is lead by the Liam Neeson who is one of my favorites in modern cinema.

Debutant director Steven Bernstein's two - tiered heartfelt drama defies its Movie - of - the - Week premise with an integrity all too rare in modern cinema.

«The LEGO Movie» is guaranteed to provide that fun, and believe in this — it doesn't happen that often in modern cinema.

What a lofty term to use («modern cinema») for so much joy.