Sentences with phrase «of art house films»

After nearly four years and an investment of $ 41 million, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's new theater complex, the group's most significant undertaking in years and one that could prove a boon for lovers and distributors of art house films, now has an opening date.

Not exact matches

To push the movie analogy further: It's harder for films to generate a ton of excitement when they're only being shown in art houses.

Going Gaga is a baby friendly showing of first run films with a heavy bent toward indie and art house films.

In his remarks, the Chairman, House Committee in Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Desmond Elliot stated that Lagos State was not just in Cannes to sell and market itself as a venue for shooting films but to tell the world that the State has a Government that is a lover of the arts and entertainment indusArts and Culture, Hon. Desmond Elliot stated that Lagos State was not just in Cannes to sell and market itself as a venue for shooting films but to tell the world that the State has a Government that is a lover of the arts and entertainment indusarts and entertainment industry.

Omaha singles who love movies are also fortunate to live in a city with one of the Mid-West's best art house film theaters.

Housed in an art deco building almost as interesting as the exhibits within, here you can find 100 years of Australia's film history and sound recordings preserved for posterity.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Not only did the film fare stratospherically well in August's native Denmark, but its sensitive portrayal of youthful love and loss earned the earnest film a place in numerous art - house theaters in the U.S. as well.

To its credit, this visibly theatrical opening draws attention to themes including conversation and compromise, ideals and art, themes reinforced and complicated in the film's focus on the political manipulations Lincoln managed in order to ensure that the 13th Amendment was passed by the divided House of Representatives before the end of the war (it has been passed by the Senate before this film begins, in April 1864).

Still, it is an interesting film that can be recommended to both fans of sci - fi and art house, though be warned that it has a fair amount of non-violent / psychological horror.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Consequently, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent art house cinema; his films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence.

Set in the 1970s and co-directed by Cristina Gallego (a producer on Serpent), this «superbly crafted» film is both «ethnographic chronicle and art - house thriller,» according to Jordan Mintzer of THR.

After a subsequent appearance in Showtime's made - for - cable film Off Season (2001), Culkin once again appeared as a younger incarnation of an older sibling, this time Kieran, in the art - house comedy Igby Goes Down (2002).

As an experiment in genre mixing, an art - house curiosity, a new way of handling the grand theme of adolescence, and an example of the inherent powers a film score can possess; yes, it's really great.

The studio also boasted one of the year's most varied lineups of films, with everything from documentaries to horror films to foreign imports to art house fare.

Almost big enough now to qualify as a major studio, Lionsgate shouldn't be confused with some of the art house distributors on this list; its films clearly target a wide audience.

One of the most anticipated films of the art - house calendar, it won French Cesars for best film, actress, cinematography, adapted screenplay and costume design.

Said Focus World touting the feature:» Focus World acquired writer / director Julia Ducournau's Raw out of Cannes where we fell in love with her bold and original voice and the genre - bending style; Raw is a film that both hard - core genre fans and art - house audiences will absolutely love.»

The No. 1 request from FilmStruck users was to have access to classic Hollywood films, in addition to the lineup of art house, indie, foreign and cult films on the service, according to execs.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

We always like to end our weekend box office reports with a little reminder to «Support your local indie theater, boys and girls,» and with the roster of films hitting art house and repertory cinemas in 2011, it was an especially great time to stray away from the sticky floors and text friendly megaplexes.

While names like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut may not be familiar to even film - buffs without an extensive education in European art house (though most would certainly recognise the name of Jean - Luc Godard) they have gone on to influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese and Michel Gondry.

Titled «La Creatrice,» the film is based on the true account of the sculptor Camille Claudel who was injected into a mental asylum by her family, spending her last thirty years in the nut house without ever touching her art again.

Duournau has set up an aesthetic of European low - budget art - house film, a sense of verisimilitude, to further drive home the allegory, and this extends to the effects and sound, with a score by Jim Williams that evokes both the generic French countryside, and the ongoing discord of Justine's mental and emotional state.

I love art house films but this is one of the worst films I've ever seen!

I was thrilled that the trophy for Director, Motion Picture went to the maker of a different film, Guillermo Del Toro, for one of my favorites of 2017, the highly imaginative art house horror The Shape of Water.

After a string of incredibly successful art house favorites throughout the late 1960's and early 1970's, Herzog, who alongside trailblazing filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders, was a major figure in the German new wave movement, turned his gaze to the film he correctly acknowledged as the single most important German movie of all time.

Art house riches abounded; films such as «The Artist and the Model,» «Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me,» and «Frances Ha» stole the hearts of audiences willing to look beyond the multiplex.

Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled into an art - house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.

It was the first theatrical distribution company dedicated to bringing international art - house films to U.S. audiences, including the work of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, and Yasujiro Ozu.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the film is that of an art - house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes into focus and one is subsequently drawn into the proceedings.

The only problem is that aside from his more commercially focused film Drive, a lot of Nicolas» work is even more divisive than Zack Snyder's, and some would say are borderline incoherent art - house pantings caught on film.

If you enjoy art house films and those off of the beaten path, I probably don't have to tell you to run (or fly, if you have wings) to go see Birdman, as it is one of the best films of the year.

Part of what makes these films Hollywood comedies is their ability to please a wide variety of viewers, not just an art - house crowd.

His grainy choice of film stock gives the entire production the look of a low - budget art house from decades hence.

The man behind the art house favorite of Y Tu Mama Tambien and the major blockbuster of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has made easily the best film of his career.

And the film truly is beautiful, certainly the most visually stunning martial arts movie ever made, which is saying a lot given the recent competition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (# 1, 2000) and director Zhang Yimou's own follow - up to Hero, The House Of Flying Daggerof Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (# 1, 2000) and director Zhang Yimou's own follow - up to Hero, The House Of Flying DaggerOf Flying Daggers.

Rather than hold The Happening to the standards of the art house, or Shyamalan's earlier films, it's fairer to compare it to the B - grade science - fiction flicks of the 1950s.

The vast majority of people don't get sent awards screeners, they don't live near an art house cinema showing the films that all critics rave about.

Showing at the art - house theater was «Errors of the Human Body,» a dark science - fiction film by Eron Sheean.

The BarbieWorld casino in Las Vegas, the TV show of obituaries called «Finales,» the helicopter journalism on the Chopper Channel, Adam Sandler's remake of the art - house film...

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»

I'd recommend this film wholeheartedly to the art - house film crowd, fans of Anderson, and also fans of Adam Sandler who maintain that he could be a fine actor if he weren't pigeonholed into making dumb comedies.

THE DVDs Carrying the «Vault Disney» tag within its platters but not on the cover art itself, Disney's THX - certified, 2 - disc Special Edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (overseen by production house Sparkhill) presents the film at its original, true CinemaScope aspect ratio of 2.55:1 in a transfer enhanced for 16x9 displays.

But while I would only recommend it to art - house enthusiasts due to its slow pace, it is refreshing to see a film that deals with body image from an older woman's point of view.

The one that it brings slight reminders of is Jerry Zucker's Ghost but as that film played to the masses and went for entertainment value, Lowery's film plays the to art house, Terence Malick crowd and is much better for it.

Featuring all sorts of titles ranging from the greatest hits of Sundance, highly - anticipated studio films, art - house darlings, foreign imports, special screenings of classic films, and much more, it's slowly turning into a juggernaut that can rival the likes of Tribeca and SXSW.

That sentence in itself already reeks of pretentiousness, connoting the image of an art - house wannabe, try - hard effort of a film.