Sentences with phrase «of cinephiles»

While heralded by a dedicated group of cinephiles in the U.S. (as well as most critics in France), director James Gray has always been more talked - about for his sure hand with actors and drama than for his visual style.

For starters, it limits the number of cinephiles who can see a given movie after it is released, and during awards season, film buffs are interested in any and all titles that come with the phrase «for your consideration.»

Funny how the most well - known person in Japan is a secret shared by a select group of cinephiles in the United States.

The science - fiction genre has always held a special place in the hearts of cinephiles over the decades.

Jarmusch spoke eloquently about his love of Janus film - makers like Bergman and Ozu, and even the significance of the Janus logo, and he struck a resonant note for the assembled crowd of cinephiles when he discussed his stash of Criterion Collection laserdiscs, even though his laserdisc player is currently broken.

Paramount and Warner Bros. made a lot of cinephiles happy today by posting the first trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci - fi Interstellar.

The discussion, led by Film Comment Digital Editor Violet Lucca, touches on modern audiences» emotional distance from older works, the enduring power of the film medium, and the particular experience of younger generations of cinephiles.

But few have been more emblematic of the reality that film festivals have become their own competitive sport — a kind of cinephile Grand Slam.

Programmer Michael Sragow and former Film Society of Lincoln Center program director Richard Peña discuss the holy grail of cinephile TV series and the legendary figures it profiled.

Cinéastes de notre temps has long been the holy grail of cinephile TV series.

The group began as a small band of cinephiles eager to see classic, independent, and art - house features not readily available at video stores or the local multiplex, with Linklater renting prints and arranging screenings across the city.

After working with Joel and Ethan Coen, John Hillcoat, Andrew Dominik, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar - wai, Kathryn Bigelow, David O. Russell, Spike Jonze, Werner Herzog, Bennett Miller, and Richard Linklater, producer Megan Ellison has been deemed something of a cinephile savior in today's increasingly garish blockbuster movie world.

Steven Spielberg's one - of - a-kind science - fiction saga became a rallying point for a number of cinephiles when it was released in 2001, including us.

JUSTIN CHANG: The first time I became distantly aware of the Oscars was the 1992 ceremony, mainly because «Beauty and the Beast» was up for a bunch of awards — I wasn't much of a cinephile then but I was, like a lot of 9 - year - old kids, a total Disneyholic.

And with her outstanding performance in «Lady Bird ``, she shows exactly why she has become such a favorite of cinephiles all over the world.

A joyous occasion for most of the cinephile kingdom, but one for which warnings need to be issued before film reviews start trickling in.

Although Romero generally claimed to be a Ford / Hawks / Welles type of cinephile and didn't often mention Cassavetes or Bergman as favourite directors, if at all, that's how a lot of this film plays — as an intriguing combination of the former's downbeat cinéma vérité style and the latter's more artfully - composed 1960s chamber pieces.

There are a handful of Americans who attend Cannes, but I love that the festival attracts a diverse crowd of cinephiles from all over the world.

It is, in other words, vintage De Palma, and if he'd actually helmed it, legions of cinephiles would've flameproofed it by now.

With new films by Hou Hsiao - hsien, Béla Tarr, Brian DePalma, Todd Haynes, Claude Chabrol, Abel Ferrara, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Alexander Sokurov, Noah Baumbach, Carlos Reygadas, Gus Van Sant, Eric Rohmer, Jia Zhangke, and the Coen Brothers (their first film since their highly dubious 2004 remake of The Ladykillers), even the most fastidious of cinephiles will find little at which to sniff.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

-- to be drawn between the relationship of huckleberry hustler Joe Buck and his crippled pal Ratso and Forrest and his crippled pal Dan, no sense to the reference unless it's there entirely as a sop to the same group of cinephiles anxiously awaiting Shrek 4.

Refn makes films for a small subset of cinephiles, specifically cinephiles who embrace Refn's ultra-stylish, hyper - violent explorations of masculinity and its (many) discontents.

Many of these changes in the movie - watching experience are a result of the digital revolution, something the first century of cinephiles didn't have to deal with.

From the moment Dogtooth barreled onto the film festival circuit in 2009, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos has been on the radars of cinephiles hankering for absurdism and social critique.

If I recall correctly, the movie was a major divider of cinephiles and casual movie - goes alike when it screened at last years edition of TIFF.

In terms of much - anticipated reunions, the re-teaming of Julianne Moore, Todd Haynes, and producer Christine Vachon should be at the very top of every cinephile's wish list.

It was the same festival that saw him really come to the attention of cinephiles in 2008, thanks to Kornel Mundruczo «s «Delta,» a gorgeous, glacially - paced drama with more than a little in common with Terrence Malick, which premiered in competition on the Croisette, where it won the FIPRESCI prize.

Paul Miller, who is better known by his stage name «DJ Spooky», really got behind the project as Executive Producer, and is helping us reach beyond Kino Lorber's core audience of cinephiles.

This irreverent show mixed footage of creator and host John Pierson and his band of cinephiles gathering impressions from the fringes of the movie - loving community in the late 1990s, intimate encounters with icons such as John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis, and sneak peeks of new work, including a little juggernaut known as The Blair Witch Project.

Once melodrama arises as a subject, it's hardly original to praise the German director Douglas Sirk or to note that — although he has become something of a cinephile godhead; his influence ablaze in recent films like Todd Haynes» Carol — his most enduring melodramas were dismissed by critics of the day.

If you thought Metrograph's first season of programming was an epic slice of cinephile heaven, just wait until you see the new additions to its spring special events.

More importantly, he's on the tips of cinephile tongues long after his passing; unlike some of Welles's neglected late work, Ed Wood's stuff is eternal.

Twilight Time is a little band of movie - lovers, bringing original, eccentric, excellently crafted and intelligently conceived movies from Hollywood's archival vaults to the homes of cinephiles everywhere.

It is tough to me to work on a project related to an icon not only for me but to a very large part of cinephiles.

For decades, the Jodorowsky's attempt to film the cult novel was the stuff of cinephile lore — a crazy myth about a crazy idea.

The films Cannes picks for its screenings and awards inevitably land on the must - watch lists of cinephiles around the world.

It will come to the delight of cinephiles then, that a new collaboration between the pair has today been picked up by Universal and Focus Features.

And so the irony is lost on no one that Lubezki is, finally, all but assured a win for performing precisely the sort of digital cartwheels that have come to represent the downfall of this category in the eyes of the cinephiles in question.

This exposure about the whole rating scandal is nice, but it feel like it is preaching to the choir b / c outside of cinephiles who follow more artsy films, the general public still doesn't know what is going on (or care.)

«We are pleased to once again support this fantastic event,» added Phil Lind, Vice Chairman, Rogers Communications Inc. «Toronto is a city of cinephiles, and our critics are second to none.

The film stars Franco opposite Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jacki Weaver, Joey King and Dave Franco and tells the story of a cinephile who climbs the ranks of 1970's Hollywood and gets caught up in a dangerous romance.

Coinbase even beat out Hallmark Movies Now, the favorite streaming app of cinephiles who prefer their that their holiday movies be seasoned with a heavy dollop of kitsch.

THE SHAPE OF WATER: One way to get straight to the heart of any cinephile is through a feature that pays homage to beloved classics.

Sure, his name doesn't ring a bell for a lot of cinephiles and doesn't carry the same weight as internationally renowned Iranian auteurs such as Kiarostami, Panahi or Asghar Farhadi, but consider this: He is the only filmmaker to have had his films shunned by both the Academy and the Iranian committee that submits them!

LYON, France — Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Monday announced an ambitious new online project at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon that will showcase restored films and other content with the aim of inspiring a new generation of cinephiles.

Verdict: A new film from Tsai Ming - Liang was always going to be an event for the artsier kind of cinephile and «Stray Dogs» (which the Taiwanese director of «Goodbye Dragon Inn» claimed was his last film, though he seems to have another, «Journey To The West,» starring Denis Lavant, premiering in Berlin in February) did not disappoint.

Suffice it to say that I watched The Ghost Writer a second time, after the NSFC (as well as a group of cinephiles I poll annually) gave her their Supporting Actress prize, paying close attention to Williams, and still could not figure out what the big deal is supposed to be.

-- 95 % of cinephiles would experience the rapture and never be heard from again.