Sentences with phrase «pieces of film history»

Kino Lorber has a great gift idea for the film fan on your shopping list, especially if they appreciate rare pieces of film history.

Who better than a jury of film critics to remind of that these pieces of film history are still vital and worthy of elevated placement.

Such collectors have spent sums of money normally associated with new car purchases for their piece of film history.

It's a piece of film history that every film buff should see at least once.

Restored in 2K with native sounds and traditional songs that Flahertys daughter recorded over a half - century after they shot it, Monica Flaherty's Moana with Sound is a beautiful work of docufiction and an important piece of film history.

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But for serious collectors, nothing less than a tangible piece of the film's history will do.

Filming this momentous occasion is something that an increasing number of parents are doing — after all, it's a heartwarming, if sometimes graphic, piece of personal history to look back on.

Oh then you definitely need to see it, it's such a lovely piece of film and fashion history!

This film really is a piece of history, an old iconic pop culture movie that has inspired so many other ideas in various formats.

Although the director's multipronged approach may dilute the impact of Intent to Destroy, there's no denying the film's value as an introduction to a major piece of history that continues to inspire debate of the most intense kind.

Back - to - back, these films are important pieces of our history.

Johnson turned in a piece of studio entertainment that for the first time in its franchise's ten - film history was actually about something, yet never skimps on entertainment.

And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Blu - ray extras include a piece in which Renoir expert Olivier Curchod discusses the film's history and controversy; a discussion about the movie with film professor and critic Ginette Vincendeau; a featurette on the remarkable tale behind the discovery of the original negative; a look at the restoration; and the theatrical trailers from 1937 and 1958.

Whedon returns as the film's writer and director in this once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to revive his epic space tale, and as the first installment in a possible franchise, «Serenity» is without a doubt one of the best pieces of fan service in the history of the sci - fi genre.

Releasing the film during Black History Month was a shrewd piece of marketing, but it could hamper aspirations for an awards run further down the line.

Despite lacking B - roll, overusing film clips, and getting comments from Cianfrance, Gosling, and Williams posed next to a poster stand, this piece does a good job of explaining the fascinating, long, unusual production process designed to maximize realism and create histories among the actors.

Twenty years ago, Super Mario Bros. made the leap from the NES to live - action theatrical films, in the process creating an unforgettable piece of cinematic history.

The film features an impressive young cast (all male, of course) who immerse themselves completely in this harrowing piece of history, and are backed up by recognisable faces such as Shane Bourne and William McInnes (Look Both Ways).

Dawson City: Frozen Time is a feature length film by Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s — 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered...

Dawson City: Frozen Time is a feature length film by Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s — 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory.

Exclusive to the Blu - ray is a thorough and detailed commentary track by director / writer Richard Kelly, the featurette «The Box: Grounded in Reality» (about the real - life history of his parents that inspired the characters), three brief yet quite efficient snapshots of the film's digital effects, a trio of bonus mood piece shorts (more ominous suggestions of otherworldly surveillance) and a bonus digital copy of the film for portable media players.

This quest to save these priceless pieces of history had the potential to serve as a tense and inspiring film.

It's a period piece that feels remarkably present, a little bit of magic from the master that allows the film to become a parable as much as it is a history.

Blu - ray extras include four separate audio commentaries, with participants including the late O'Bannon, Matthews and author Gary Smart (The Complete History of The Return of the Living Dead); a making - of documentary; the final interview with O'Bannon; pieces on the film's effects and music; and a featurette on»80s horror films.

The film's prologue consists of a concise 2,000 - year history of Iran (The information provided in the sequence, which mixes storyboards and archival footage, is the first and last piece context to the events that follow), which leads directly into the events of November 4, 1979, when a massive group of angry students stormed the embassy and took everyone in the compound hostage.

The film's cinematography is second to none, and Anton Karas» inimitable zither score has become one of the most recognizable pieces of music in cinema history; Welles, Cotten and the rest of the cast are equally superb.

Say what you will about Roland Emmerich's ludicrous piece of revisionist history, because while the conspiracy theory at the center of his film may be a load of bullshit, it doesn't make «Anonymous» any less entertaining.

This ever - striving «Shawshank Redemption» cue still one of the most obviously copied, earth shaking pieces of film music in modern scoring history, raging towards the lightning with its bold defiance.

While the initial film offered moviegoers one of the most original twists in movie history, the subsequent sequels have done little to mix - up the formula, instead relying on an increasingly violent set of gut - wrenching set - pieces that escalate the brutality and shock with each new installment.

Dennis Muren introduces a second piece about the film's innovative use of morphing technology and its place in effects history.

A biographical novel, Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, was made into a film in 1991, and she has appeared in juvenile biographies and history books.

I have also omitted extraordinary works, such as «In What Distant Sky,» the specially commissioned video piece, filmed at Mass MoCA, by Megan and Murray McMillan; Christopher Gausby's illuminated manuscripts recording his own philosophical musings and mappings; and Rachel Sussman's hall - length diagram, «[Selected] History of the Space Time Continuum.»

FInally, BAMPFA's 16,000 - piece film and video collection comprises movie reels, musical scores, pictures and documents covering the history of film from its origins to the present day, with a special focus on American, Russian and Japanese filmmaking.

Each appropriated piece offers it's own course in which to channel history, precipitating new stories through a range of alternative processes including wet plate collodion, silver gelatin prints, image transfers on film, collage, and 3 - D mixed media objects.

The piece includes a film that incorporates the sounds and symbols of forgotten histories, which plays on a flat - screen monitor affixed to the back of the piano.

Therefore, the encounter will survey works with either a complex exhibition history or with limited exposure; for instance, the assemblages and pieces the artist made at the end of his life, after officially retiring, in which he revisited, reformulated and refined old materials, such as his «90s punk collages or his «60s and «70s films, which he transferred to a digital format.

Just last month the Museum of Modern Art acquired a major «Modern History» piece from 1979, Movie - Television - News - History, made of 27 prints showing papers the day after the murder of television journalist Bill Stewart by the Nicaraguan National Guard, with the newspaper images pulled from a film taken by Stewart's cameraman.

But Julien's making of the piece resurrebts the spectre of a history of artistic practice that traverses the film / theory nexus of the seventies and eighties, and, although now long gone, it is perhaps waiting in time for a future generation to discover.

This comprehensive catalogue of Lorna Simpson's critically acclaimed 30 - year body of work highlights her photo - text pieces as well as film and video installations to reveal how the artist explores identity, memory, gender, history, fantasy, and reality.

As with other films of Jankowski's, such as Casting Jesus of 2011, the live, performative elements of Heavy Weight History have been documented in the style of scripted reality television, or specifically in this case as a convincing piece of outside broadcast coverage of a competitive sport, with a well - known Polish commentator on hand to describe the action.

Engaging with the city's rich history of filmmaking, the piece turns the space into an abstract, three - dimensional film.

So with oil on my mind, and thinking of Marfa's rich film history, I returned to the stars and made the Spindletop piece.

Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection highlights the breadth of the museum's collection, which includes over 90,000 pieces including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, works on paper, artist's books, applied arts and industrial and graphic design.

In this film, Pennell turns from filmmaker to forensic detective as she pieces together hundreds of photographs in search of what she believes to be a buried history, only to find herself inside the story she is researching.

The film is complimented by an exhibit of Douglas» photographs; the show spans Douglas» career — from his earliest pieces to his most recent, large - scale images — to examine his consistent engagement with ideas of documentation, place and history.

In sculptures, fieldworks, sound pieces, installations and films realized in a host of remote locations, he critically examines the history, specificity and geopolitics of place.

Their work often revisit materials from the past, such as a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance, wondering about and excavating unrepresented or illegible moments of utopia in history.