Sentences with phrase «on early cinema»

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Earlier on Monday, a British theater chain Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group said that it experienced record demand for online ticket sales for the movie.

Saudia Arabia's conservative clerics instituted the ban on cinema in the early 1980s.

He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made - for - television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast).

Saw it on an early Friday afternoon in a pretty empty Dutch cinema and liked it a lot.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

British cinema in the early 1960's pulsed with the ambitious energy, on the screen and off, of young men — not angry, necessarily, but certainly restless.

On the one hand, [modular narrative films] hark back to much earlier innovations of modernist literature and cinema.

His passionate interest in the cinema developed early on, and shortly after the second world war he accompanied Jean Renoir when he travelled to India to scout locations for The River.

Boasting a bigger cast with a slew of newcomers who will supposedly be pivotal in the franchise's future, the upcoming comic book flick teases a crazy good time at the cinema, and based on the early reviews from the critics, it appears to fulfill its promises.

Theatre owners were pissed when the cinema - to - VOD window was downsized to 60 days earlier in the year («Unknown» was one of the films available to buy on the telly after only a couple of months at the cinema) so they're likely not going to be happy about giving up a movie 3 weeks after it's debut.

On the other hand, Venice, which used to be just a glamorous showcase for classy world cinema, too early to factor in the Oscar race anyway, has now proved to be a viable place to kick off six - month Oscar campaigns.

For fans of superhero cinema, that's amazing news, given that on the strength of «Cop Car's» early buzz and his previous film «Clown,» Watts landed the coveted job directing the next Spider - Man movie, co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures.

The UK will get to see Solo: A Star Wars Story earlier than many parts of the world, hitting UK cinemas on May 24.

The UK will get to see the film earlier than many parts of the world, hitting UK cinemas on May 24.

Earlier this month it was announced that Corin Hardy (The Hallow) has signed on to direct New Line Cinema's The Nun, and now comes word that the Conjuring spinoff is set to hit cinemas on July 13th, 2018.

The Safdie Brothers match Pattinson and Duress» individual and collective performances with visual pyrotechnics of their own, swapping out an early reliance on claustrophobic close - ups, beginning with the notably disorientating scene between Nick and the social worker that opens Good Time, for a cinema vérité - inspired, often exhilarating mix of location shooting, hyper - active editing, and dense, propulsive plotting.

American critics did not come around until the early 1970s, particularly after the publication of Paul Schrader's essay in Film Comment «Notes on Film Noir,» in which he anatomized «the new mood of cynicism, pessimism, and darkness which had crept into the American cinema» after the war.

As such he fulfilled his promise as a cinematographer early on, since Paramount, then under the influence of Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg, was the home of great photographers of black - and - white cinema.

Miller's parents, playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, initiated her into art - house cinema at an early age, fostering the eclectic taste that would go on to inform her creative life.

The film will open in cinemas Stateside on April 20th, 2018 while UK audiences will get it a little earlier on April 13th.

During this time in cinema, the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, the film points out directors felt as if they were putting their dreams on film, such was the expansion of the craft and its ability to capture one's imagination.

Covenant also lacks the claustrophobic tension of the earlier films and as mentioned above, the amount of cannon fodder characters that we have ensures that no one leaves an impression on you when you leave the cinema.

: Heaven Knows What played extremely well with the IONCINEMA team — our Jordan M. Smith called the film an «open - hearted, rawly bellicose realization of addiction has only been graced on celluloid but a handful of times, making the Safdie's film a new exemplar of narcotic cinema for the ages,» the directing team plus regular contributor Bronstein are undoubtedly at the top of their game early into their filmography.

Being an early career researcher who focuses on queer cinema, I have a keen interest in films with LGBTI themes.

The film opens in the UK in cinemas and on Netflix October 13th, following its UK premiere as the Laugh Gala at the BFI London Film Festival early next month.

Early Man is set for release in UK cinemas on 26th January 2018.

And if you thought it was just me, last night we held a special early screening of Game Night at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood as part of the Collider screening series and it played like the crowd was on laughing gas.

Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Bebel Gilberto, Jake T. Austin, Jamie Foxx, Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Crow, Pierce Gagnon and Natalie Morales star in the film, which hits US cinemas on 11th April 2014, and the UK a week earlier on 4th April, 2014.

A second Inbetweeners movie made # 2.75 m on its opening day at cinemas earlier this week, a record for a live - action comedy at the UK box office.

In the latest episode of Observations on Film Art, Professor Kirstin Thompson explores the sonic innovations that Fritz Lang pioneered in a masterpiece of early sound cinema.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

That would be Ismael Vuillard (Mathieu Amalric), a genial, shambling man of cinema who's on a beachside retreat with his astrophysicist girlfriend, Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), when the two are suddenly paid a visit by his wife, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard), who vanished mysteriously 21 years earlier.

Just as Keaton used his early two - reelers and features to explore the illusions of the cinema (his first impulse on getting into movies was to tear a camera apart and figure out exactly how it worked), Kovacs seized on the optical tricks of the new video technology and mined them for every conceivable laugh.

Nathalie has lectured on costume design (in which she takes a special interest) and the early history of cinema and conducted feature interviews at literary events like the International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Comics Arts Festival.

He received his M.A. in Native American Studies, focusing on Native American exploitation in early cinema and his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma.

The adoption of ultraconservative religious standards in Saudi Arabia led to the closing of cinemas in the early 1980s on the orders of hardline Muslim clerics.

Disney • Pixar has released the final trailer for their incoming animated feature Coco, which is set to land in U.S. cinemas very soon on 22nd November, though not the UK until early 2018.

His long list of impressive credits includes his work on Vikings, Ripper Street, My Brothers, Kings, The Runway, Rewind — his directorial debut — and Earthbound, Alan Brennan's Irish sci - fi comedy, which opened in Irish cinemas earlier this year.

Tron Legacy arrives in UK cinemas on 17th December, but you can see it over two weeks early!

There is a shot early on in Steve McQueen's Shame, a frame filling close - up on Carey Mulligan as she sings a desperate, melancholic version of Frank Sinatra's «New York, New York» that is such pure cinema, albeit in a highly stylized and perhaps melodramatic form, but it gets at truth.

Throughout the 12 days of Cannes, early screener I, Daniel Blake wasn't high on critics» lists to take a top prize and, though most appreciate the work, some also feel that Loach promotes a singular perspective rather than a nuanced cinema, that he puts his politics before his art.

An ambitious, over-budget love letter to both the Big Apple and the classic Hollywood cinema of Scorsese's childhood (its lavish sets were built on the old MGM soundstages), New York, New York is a heady tribute to the outmoded school of filmmaking that gave way to the New Hollywood class who came to dominate American cinema between the late»60s and early»80s.

Balding and white - haired, shaking uncontrollably and hobbling around on a cane, Stephen epitomizes the way blacks were portrayed in the early days of cinema.

Ullmann's experience as protégé to the cinema's most profound dramatist, and a talented cast (Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton) raised early hopes she could find a fresh take on playwright August Strindberg's canonical 1888 play about the tortured relationship between a spoiled heiress and her family valet.

Are You Here is coming home for Christmas early this year: Lionsgate has announced that it will release the comedy drama, starring Owen Wilson, on UK VOD on Christmas Day before it hits cinemas in January.

This volume on black actors in American cinema begins with the «Toms» found in early silent films and goes all the way up to recent Oscar winners Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman.

Using high - quality film stills and boxed sections focusing on major themes and personalities, Lace takes the reader through the early blackface actors, the servant roles so prevalent in Depression - era cinema, the broadened awareness of African Americans following WWII, the blaxploitation films of the 1960s, and the impact of Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.

Scott Eyman does a masterful job at recounting the cinema's several earlier failed attempts at sound films, and the later, fateful attempt that set an entire indusry on it's ear.

His work draws on varied sources, including philosophy, literature and early cinema to create intricate art works and spellbinding environments in which he explores theories of time and relativity, the history of colonialism and the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.

Building on this process, how do you describe your current interactions with cinema / film / video, the stuff animals, and the audio manipulations in relationship to your earlier exploitations of pristine (virgin) objects and materials?