Sentences with phrase «of films from»

The Toronto International Film Festival began in 1976 as a collection of films from other festivals and has since expanded to become one of the most influential fests in the world.

Let's start with the Criterion quartet, a really diverse array of a trio of films from three of history's best filmmakers and a truly unique animated masterpiece that's decidedly not for kids.

Although Lucas directed all of the prequels himself, he's known for directing many of his films from the editing room, doing uncredited work on the first three Indiana Jones films in that respect.

Announced yesterday, the 2018 competition lineup includes the highest number of films from female filmmakers since 2011 (17.6 %, three out of 17 currently announced films), and the festival will play home to new works from Nadine Labaki, Eva Husson, and Alice Rohrwacher.

Limited Edition box set (3000 copies) containing The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times Brand new 2K restorations of the films from the original camera negatives High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original Italian and English soundtracks in mono audio (lossless DTS - HD Master Audio on the Blu - ray Discs) Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks Limited Edition 60 - page booklet containing new writing by James Blackford, Kat Ellinger, Leonard Jacobs and Rachael Nisbet

I'd rather hear from somebody who has watched and read about a range of films from various nationalities, cinematic movements and time periods, than somebody who thinks The Dark Knight is the greatest film ever.

If Francis Ha was Baumbach's ode to French New Wave and While We're Young his comment on hipster culture, Mistress America feels somewhat like the 80s throwback to the comedy of manners revival of films from the 30s.

Though I didn't physically attend CPH: DOX, I did manage to catch a couple of films from the programme.

Most recently, I was given the opportunity to check out some of the films from the 15th edition of the Calgary Underground Film Festival * one of the top rated Genre Festivals in Canada * which I'm really excited to talk about.

The bad news: With the exceptions of these films from women, John Hughes movies with Molly Ringwald, «9 to 5,» «Terms of Endearment,» «Moonstruck,» «Working Girl» and «Driving Miss Daisy,» it's hard to find a leading lady in a mainstream film.

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in Park City, Utah, with a pair of films from Chicago directors who also happened to be married to one another.

The programme features a selection of films from 1897 to 2013, chosen for their relation to the possibility of an Irish experimental cinema.

As with most of the films from which The Reaping derives its thematic backbone, a child is seen as the potential vessel for Satan's emergence into the world, causing great conflicts within Katherine, who also witnessed the loss of her own daughter (about the same age).

The fest is celebrating its 10th anniversary with screenings of films from all around the world, as well as independent and locally shot productions.

The director of films from Slacker to Everybody Wants Some!!

, and a number of films from frequent collaborator Denis Villeneuve, has died.

Beyond the inside - the - mediasphere headaches of scheduling and other logistics, the transition only served to underscore how the festival continues to be torn between premieres of Hollywood films hitting theaters within weeks, the carefully calibrated launch of award - season hopefuls, the rediscovery of films from earlier in the festival year, and the emergence of new international and independent titles.

British director Dearden made a swarm of films from 1940 to 1970, almost all forgotten outside his native land.

Eirk Childress looks at the track record of films from the Sundance Film Festival going to the Oscars.

Every year they partner with the Riverview Theater and Heights Theater to present a variety of films from the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.

Their comprehensive site posts reviews of virtually every movie released in the United States, as well as reviews of films from all major film festivals (Cannes, Toronto, AFI, Hollywood, Montreal, Venice, Berlin, Sundance, etc.).

In addition to these fun catalogue titles, Film Comment's lineup boasts several other classics, including a trio of films from Andrzej Żuławski to accompany Cosmos.

At that point in the»70s I think you had your ideal audience, schooled on lots of different kinds of films from Bergman and Fellini to James Bond.

Other special events and programs will include: the 25th Anniversary screening of PINK FLAMINGOS, by John Waters; two programs of films from Native filmmakers, sponsored by Turner Original Productions and Educational Foundation of America; and the Shorts program, sponsored by GAP, consisting of numerous short films chosen from 1,200 - plus submitted for their intellect, artistry, and charm.

Extra features on the Fox Blu - rays have minor overlaps with the Criterion DVDs of these films from 2001 and 2002, but for the most part the bonus features are original.

We can't excuse The Scalphunters for being a product of its times, not only because we aren't living in 1968 anymore and such arguments transform film criticism into archaeology, but also because there is an entire bushel of films from that same year that needn't any apology, including George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, another pulp action picture with racial tensions bubbling beneath the surface.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

I love a lot of those films from the»70s.

Next week we will begin presenting reviews of a number of films from the TIFF, providing a sample of films that audiences may anticipate in the coming months.

Nostalgia and movie sequelitis are the two main ingredients that invite back the majority of films from yesteryear looking to make a big screen impact yet again.

Most people, for example, consider the majority of Quentin Tarantino's work to be inspired by and homages to his favorite kinds of films from the 70s (exploitation, etc).

On Feb. 27, the most worthy of films from 2010 will be selected to win Academy Awards for their accomplishments.

The FilmStruck library features a regular rotation of films from major Hollywood studios and indie studios.

This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for award - grubbing.

Offering up a wide and eclectic selection of films from The Big Lebowski to The Godfather, this «cinema social» is a great place to shake up the routine of dinner and a movie, or to start things off to a fun start from the very first date.

It reminds me of films from the late fifties and sixties.

It was PIC's Celldance subcommittee chair Duane Compton who came up with the idea of directly commissioning a small number of films from ASCB member labs and then providing post-production services, according to Atkinson.

In his book Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere, Mason notes a key characteristic of films from The Matrix to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Inception: they all feature a hero trapped in a world he can not control or hope to escape.

It is also true that the code has served in the past to restrain exhibition of films from producers not in the association.

This structure is the basis of films from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, from thrillers and dramas to romcoms.

While none of his films from that time were religious, per se (besides the provocative The Last Temptation), Scorsese sees much of his work as getting at something spiritual.

He spoke fondly of traveling to Manhattan to rent a 16 mm version of the film from a distribution house.

Silicon Slopes Tech Summit features prominent keynotes, premium breakout sessions, breathtaking entertainment, unbelievable parties, incredible networking opportunities, and an exclusive screening of a film from the Sundance Film Festival.

But when I picked up a roll of film from a disposable camera a week after my senior prom, I sat in the CVS parking lot in a pool of 18 - year - old devastation: Despite the careful thought with which I had picked out my perfect fuchsia dress, I didn't like any of these pictures.

You can go with a stainless steel scraper or a plastic one, they'll each help to scrape the layer of film from your tongue.

Despite those issues, however, the piece mostly worked well, and it offered interesting coverage of the film from the actors» point of view.

The conclusion transforms at least this part of the film from sappy romance to beautifully authentic meditation on life, death and a family's love for its long - time loyal dog.

I can't wait to write my review, but suffice it to say that it's unlike any film you'll see this year, just as its probably one of the last gasps of this kind of film from a major studio, where the shock and awe comes from expert artistry of the hand drawn variety rather than CGI (which Scorsese mastered in Hugo).

Deja Vu is the latest film to employ tampering with the past in order to secure a different outcome in the present, but by the time you realize that it is highly illogical as a film, you've already gained enough enjoyment out of the film from a thriller standpoint to forgive the shaky foundations in science fiction.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith