Sentences with phrase «of modern cinema»

This film ended up being a classic of modern cinema.

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

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

A must - see for any fan of modern cinema.

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.

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.

«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.

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 may not be a film you buy on Blu - ray to add you your personal libraries, but I feel it's a great addition to the Film Noir genre of modern cinema.

From Patrick Holzapfel's Stray Dogs review: «If Stray Dogs really is the last movie of Tsai Ming - Liang, then it would be one of the harshest losses of modern cinema, but at the same time one of the most powerful retirements in the history of the medium.

He's one of the true giants of modern cinema — and, at age 89, he's still doing it, earning a 2018 Oscar nomination for writing «Call Me by Your Name.»

Cleverly concealed edits give the illusion of a 119 minute take, pushing both the technical and creative boundaries of modern cinema to their fullest potential.

That is refreshing at a time when unoriginality has long factored into discourse of modern cinema.

Terrence Malick, one of the great directors of modern cinema, created one of the most alarming and visually striking pieces of work in years.

Kristen Stewart is fast becoming an icon of modern cinema, and her latest performance in Personal Shopper confirms her as one of most interesting and daring actors out there.

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

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.

Paul Schrader is one of the finest American writers and filmmakers of the modern cinema.

Sooner or later, the Academy is going to have to address the spectacle aspect of modern cinema.

This film may not be great enough to wonder why it didn't feature in the award season discussion (and its Visual Effects nomination over the more effects - driven Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Tron: Legacy is a real head - scratcher), but it still easily lands at the better end of modern cinema.

As such, they call to mind the stately dramas of yesteryear, before objectionable material became an inseparable part of the modern cinema's fabric.

Both offer quite the dynamic aural experience expected of modern cinema.

Also starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, The Lost City of Z represents a form of epic storytelling that has all but vanished from the landscape of modern cinema, and a rare level of artistry.

Throughout the film, the soundtrack merges very old instrumental songs with the epic, driving force of modern cinema.

That list, not surprisingly, triggered cranky responses from various corners of the Internet — notably the Web site Jezebel, which called the MPDG «the scourge of modern cinema.»

Birthplace of modern cinema and self - professed gastronomic capital of the nation, ancient Lyon has much more to offer a would - be tourist than the fantastic restaurants it has become synonymous with.

Edweard Muybridge's animal locomotion series showing how bodies move through time and space led to the birth of modern cinema, which then strung together frames of grid - like imagery.

Today, the film is considered one of the great cult classics of modern cinema — «the «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» as Ross Morin dubbed it in 2008 while an assistant film professor at St. Cloud University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

I know that the Universal Monsters Dark Universe might be the worst attempt at capitalizing on the Marvel movie model in the history of modern cinema.

It is an outstandingly beautiful piece of modern cinema, and is also frequently hilarious.

Brave - Even one of Pixar's lesser efforts is still more magical than the vast majority of modern cinema.

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.

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.

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.

Fast emerging as one of modern cinema's foremost provocateurs, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn blends visceral genre thrills with a seductively cold vision of human dysfunction.

The Lady Vanishes is a classic comic thriller and The Vanishing is one of modern cinema's greatest existential horror movies.

After a weekend putting up with his antics, Ines believes her father has gone back to Germany, only to discover in what has to be one of the sweetest - sourest reveals in all of modern cinema that he's still in town, or rather Toni Erdmann, life coach and consultant, is in town.

I really like the Fox team, love this bold new direction they have for their franchises and am proud to be working alongside some of modern cinema's biggest talents.

The central cast are all superb: Leonardo DiCaprio is genuinely creepy as brutal slave owner Calvin Candie, Samuel L Jackson gives the performance of his career thus far as his servant Stephen (a deeply unsettling Uncle Tom figure), while Christoph Waltz as kindly bounty hunter Dr King Schultz and Jamie Foxx as the eponymous hero (a slave Schultz frees to become his henchman) make one of modern cinema's great double acts.

Leviathan and Deep Star Six came out the same year (1989) and neither was considered classics of modern cinema.

Though he is one of modern cinema's fastest talkers, it's not because he's in a hurry to tell us anything.

Nor can you mistake this study of choppy romance for anything but the work of one of modern cinema's great risk - takers.

Well worth the wait of almost a decade since her last film, We Need to Talk About Kevin establishes Lynne Ramsay as one of modern cinema's most creatively daring and visionary filmmakers.

[As a result,] there are some aspects of classic cinema and some of modern cinema, so it was a mixture between classic and modern cinema, filtered through Greek tragedy.

The set contains two of modern cinema's most charming gems, films that illustrate Pixar's revolutionary computer animation is matched by their clever screenwriting and original concepts, plus several hours of genuinely entertaining bonus features.