Sentences with phrase «most classic films»

As with most classic films, the backstory offers some interesting tidbits and the players are fun to catch up with.

When Clarke died in 1992 at age 81 most classic film fans remembered her as the woman who gets a grapefruit smashed in her face by James Cagney during THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) or they might have recalled her daring leap from a window to protect the man she loves in THE FRONT PAGE (1931).

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Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

The last Sunday night of each month, Cabaret at The MERC features the most memorable songs and catchy tunes are performed live; themed evenings include the best of Broadway, classic films, beloved songwriters, specific eras and genres.

If you're not familiar with Tim Burton, you're probably familiar with his films — he has directed such classics as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Charlie Factory, and most recently, Sweeney Todd.

We have 25 talented bloggers gathered together to share with you all the wonderful crafts and recipes you can make this Christmas season, based off of some of the most beloved holiday classic films.

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

Sugar Club is Dublin's most creative nightspot, where the very slick theatre - style venue hosts an array of events from music to comedy to classic film - themed nights and there's even some saucy cabaret and sexy burlesque dancing shows to heat up your evening.

Among his most popular films was the 1964 Italian co-production of The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price, based on Richard Matheson's classic vampire chiller I Am Legend.

The music is quite twisted and cool, the film definitely has the most unique take on a classic, and it succeeds in getting a point across while pleasing exploitation fans.

The absolute in spy classics, and Carol Reed's best directorial effort, «The Third Man» remains one of the most interesting and politically driven films of all times.

One of the most inspiring underdog stories ever made, the Little 500 bicycle race in Bloomington, Indiana, is a local classic as made famous by this film.

Reviewing independently since 1998, the Savant database has grown to over five thousand reviews and articles, and become one of the most respected and sought - out review pages on the web for news and opinions about classic films on disc.

By Sloan De Forest Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind - bending movies ever made.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES GARY COOPER»S BLU «THE HANGING TREE»: Producer / host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein celebrate the Warner Archive's lustrously restored Blu - ray release of THE HANGING TREE one of legendary superstar Gary Cooper's most unjustly forgotten masterworks and actress Joan Leslie (who at the tender age of 16 costarred with Cooper in SERGEANT YORK) and acclaimed director Michael Anderson (who directed Cooper's final two films) regale Dick with their praise of Cooper's uniquely invisible acting technique.

Donnie Darko, the 1st cult classic of the 21st century, a masterclass in assiduous filmmaking, remains one of the most relevant, urgent and timely films of the last 50 years.

Your evening kicks off with The Day the Earth Stood Still, an enduring classic and easily one of the most influential science fiction films of all time.

Hiroshi Teshigahara, most famous for his 1964 classic The Woman In The Dunes, directed this stellar short film in 1965.

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

Every October for most of the last two decades, director Adam Green and his production company Ariescope have released a new Halloween - themed short film, resulting in classics like Jack Chop (2009) and the hilarious Halloween «deleted scene» Driving Lessons (2012), and this year's 18th annual film, Don't Do It, has just arrived.

As film versions of classic Television shows go, this happens to be one of the most appealing, from «The Hangover» director Todd Phillips.

Perhaps the most memorable reveal comes at the end of the trailer when we see Charles with his classic bald head, which Patrick Stewart's older version of the character is so well - known for having in previous X-Men films.

Emily Blunt, «The Devil Wears Prada» Can you believe Blunt achieved instant - classic status as an acid - tongued assistant to Meryl Streep's fashion mogul — serving devastating snark and the film's most quotable one - liners — and didn't get Oscar recognition for her comedic brilliance?

From its idyllic, adventurous setting to the selection of music and Alexandre Desplat «s tremendous score, it somehow felt like a classic kids» film (arguably more so than «Fox») airing on TV on a Sunday afternoon, while also featuring some of the most exciting filmmaking of 2012 so far.

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

With «The Kids Are All Right,» Lisa Cholodenko interestingly courted mainstream audiences, playing gender roulette with classic rom and bedroom - farce formats; the result was arguably her most well - rounded film, but still not as sensual or electric a study of lesbianism as her 1998 breakthrough «High Art.»

I never really liked the idea of Levy directing one of the most classic monster movies of all time; especially when you consider his body of work includes films like Real Steel, Date Night, and Night at the Museum.

Those who see the original after this remake will now be bored, but most will choose not to even view the classic because this one seems so weak and stupid it will make them care even less about seeking the 1960 film out.

While most of Hagney's film work is forgettable, he had the honor of contributing to a bonafide classic in 1946.

Perhaps the greatest film in a career full of great films, arguably the finest achievement in a rich and magnificent genre, and undoubtedly the best version of one of America's most enduring myths, the film is an undeniable and genuine classic.

by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's best film since sex, lies, and videotape (and the film most like it in theme and execution), Solaris is a moving, hypnotic adaptation of the classic Stanislaw Lem novel, which was first made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Rita Hayworth is at her most iconic as the forties sex - bomb in Gilda (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), a 1946 film noir classic co-starring Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell, an American tough guy in Buenos Aires, and George Macready as Ballin Mundson, the owner of a nightclub and illegal casino who hires Johnny as his club manager.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

The thoroughly awful movie that resulted from their collaboration would go on to become a midnight cult classic, one of the most highly regarded so - bad - it's - good films ever made.

The most underrated facet and best aspect of the Blu - ray revolution is seeing a classic film in a great 1080p transfer.

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

Leading to one of the most satisfyingly - earned endings in Hollywood film history and with every single actor from the leads to the supporting cast (William Sadler, Clancy Brown, and Bob Gunton among them) on not just career - best but definitive form, «Shawshank» is simply a masterclass in classic Hollywood storytelling, on every conceivable level.

Turner Classic Movies recently honored acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola at a hand print footprint ceremony at the world - famous TCL Chinese Theatre on Friday, April 29, 2016 and as part of the festivities of the TCM Classic Film Festival 2016, the legendary Director sat down with Ben Mankiewicz to discuss The Conversation and a few of his most famous films.

With at least a dozen classics spanning just as many genres, Tsui stands among the most accomplished directors in film history, Hong Kong or otherwise.

Among the most exciting supplements on our new release of Jean Renoir's classic short A Day in the Country is an eighty - nine - minute compilation of outtakes from the film, titled Un tournage à la campagne, which features revelatory behind - the - sce...

The classic comedy from the Python troupe is paid homage in the film through one of its most memorable weapons: the holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.

Like most of the festival's recent key art images it harkens back to a classic moment or, in this case, film.

A terrible film by most standards, but an unintentional action camp classic.

That's the foundation of many a classic heist or men - on - a-mission thriller and this film offers it as a kind of skewed redemption for a misfit band of former military men, most of them drummed out for conduct unbecoming (you know, petty schemes and such), many of them fallen into cons and criminal schemes and all of them adrift in the post-war culture.»

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).

After all, here is a truly visionary film - maker who has been behind some of science fiction cinema's most bona fide classics.

Ostensibly spun from the same cloth as most YA dramas, the film latches on to a generic high - school kid named Greg (Thomas Mann) who spends all of his time making parody versions of classic films (i.e. Eyes Wide Butts, The 400 Bros) with his «coworker» Earl (excellent newcomer RJ Cyler).

It no doubt has some pretty big shoes to fill as Psycho is not only one of the most classic of horror films but it was brought to us by one of the most recognizable directors of all time in Alfred Hitchcock.

One of the most thunderously applauded entries in Toronto this year was itself a fascinating film about failure: «The Disaster Artist,» which revisits the making of that 2003 bad - movie classic, «The Room,» is a triumph for its prolific director and star, James Franco, best known of late for clogging the festival circuit with wan adaptations of «In Dubious Battle» and «The Sound and the Fury.»