Sentences with phrase «polarizing film of»

was perhaps the most polarizing film of 2017.

It is Lynch's most mature work, my favorite of his films, and at the least, the most conversation - inspiring and polarizing film of the year.

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The approach to making a figure like Oral Roberts so down - to - earth, to make a topic like heresy so emotional and to make a place like church so relationally rich, makes the subject at the core of the film — the existence of hell — so opposite of what it has become for Christians: polarizing.

A polarizing microscope caught this psychedelic liquid crystal film as it spread over the surface of glycerine.

Polarizing film is like a screen of parallel bars that the rope passes through: it lets through waves polarized parallel to it unhindered, blocks perpendicular ones completely and allows waves on other angles to get through with reduced amplitude.

The quantum description of what happens to light going through a polarizing film sounds only slightly different: The light is made up of individual particles called photons, and like a wave, the photons can each have a direction of oscillation.

You lose a staggering amount of light and texture watching a movie through dark polarized lenses, and Deathly Hallows is a film that lives in the nuances of earth tones that are turned to mud by 3 - D.

Like Only God Forgives before it, this one will polarize and is not for everyone, but if you're up for a vivid and distinct sensory treat unlike most films you find in a given year, this arthouse flick is one beautiful satire of beauty.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Ridley Scott's much anticipated prequel / sequel to his hit film Alien and the polarizing Prometheus will be moved from it's October release into the summer in August while «The Predator» will come out in March 2018 with the director of The Monster Squad and Shane Black returning to pare up for the sequel to the 1987 classic.

So this is probably a common trend at most film festivals, but I don't think I have ever had such fun discussions following screenings of certain films, because there were a plethora of polarizing films at this year's Fantastic Fest.

February and High - Rise proved to be the most polarizing out of all of the films at the festival, with half of the attendees either loving or hating them with no middle ground (I loved February and absolutely loathed High - Rise).

I've heard lots of polarized opinions on the film, and I'm mightily curious to check out its apparently dreamlike and poetic qualities.

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

Going against my better judgment, I decided to give the new Brad Pitt film, World War Z, a shot as the polarizing effects of its release seemed to reach heights similar to those of Man of Steel.

itself, Kameron, you wrote that it was «the kind of movie that makes me want to avoid the internet for a century,» which makes me curious about how you and the rest of the gang have approached writing about tricky films in a moment where everything feels polarized between «this movie will save mankind!»

We laughed till we cried, the «we» being the diverse, usually combative press corps, which almost unanimously embraced Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann as the first great film of the 2016 festival, in part because it accomplished what few films do in these polarized times: it made us aware of our common humanity.

M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most polarizing figures in film, and Decider's own team is duking it out to find out whether or not he is the literal...

The project was a labour of love for Zanuck and Ford in a film whose socialist politics and subtle sentimentality polarized American audiences after years of suffering under the same conditions.

Along with the Blu - ray debut of one of Brian De Palma's most polarizing films, the two - disc set includes what is being called a «Director's Cut» but was actually edited by Peet Gelderblom, a commercial filmmaker and critic from The Netherlands, to reorder the film to De Palma's original plan.

A tough - talking priest (Bryan F. O'Byrne) lambastes him at one point for a choice that Frankie has concerning a paralyzed friend, but because the film feints and dodges at moments of real crisis, the fact that a lot of Catholics were polarized by their clergy this last election over issues of stem - cell research is never broached.

It's a smooth, dreamy - looking film on the surface, but its two leads, Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, are so out of sync and polarized they spoil the movie like acid curdles milk.

This kind of tone used to depict the interconnectedness between sex and crime set by Cool Hair evokes Harmony Korine's polarizing 2012 feature film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco, but Mr. Orozco - Cubbon delivers this content much more naturally and with the poise and confidence of an experienced filmmaker who already has a well - defined style, knowingly and purposefully playing with the two intertwining dynamics that keep the audience on its toes.

Rob Zombie is one of the most polarizing genre filmmakers working today, with equal amounts of people believing his films to be brilliant art or tasteless filth.

We talked about what it was like to get the offer to direct Star Wars, how he arrived at some of the themes of the film, and how he's dealing with the polarized reaction from fans.

It quickly became a polarizing film for film critics, many embracing the Red Shoes meets Repulsion psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman (Natalie Portman) who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams, others critical of the melodrama, hysteria and blunt metaphors («high - grade hokum,» as one critic called it).

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

Though ultimately her traditional point of view gains sympathy, the titular monarch is criticized for much of the first half, but gladly this much - acclaimed film values its captivating tale of clashing human personalities over any kind of polarizing political commentary.

Prometheus polarizes plenty of Alien fans, but we can all likely agree Michael Fassbender «s performance is not one of that film's problems.

At moments, it feels like Tarantino is really trying to say something about the bizarre, angry jigsaw of people who help make this country the polarized mess it remains today, but once the film shifts into an expected cacophony of violence, whatever that might be slips through his gore - stained fingers.

Film critics Bruce Reid, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, and Robert Horton debate and discuss the polarizing film The Neon Demon, the work of director Michael Cimino, and the unifying filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the July 2016 edition of Framing Pictures from Scarecrow Video.

FilmStruck's director of the week is the polarizing Lars von Trier and they've added eight of his films to the catalog, from his breakthrough murder mystery The Element of Crime (Denmark, 1984, not rated) to his Oscar nominated Breaking the Waves (Denmark, 1996, R) with Emily Watson to the dark psychodrama Antichrist (Denmark, 2009, R) with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Like most David Lynch films, Wild at Heart will polarize viewers, though I imagine it taxes the patience of even the most dedicated fans.

Maybe it's this careful balancing act, this embrace of diametrically opposed visions of war, at a time when political passions were so polarized, that led to the film's quick drift into obscurity.

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The Sea of Trees by Hope Madden In 2002, filmmaker Gus Van Sant released one of his more polarizing and thoughtful films.

If it can't get a substantial number of votes in the first round of counting, ballots from eliminated nominees will be redistributed and we suspect most will go to other less polarizing films.

Max Landis is a fairly polarizing figure in the film industry, partly because he's the son of John Landis and will continue to get opportunities even when his projects flop and partly because he tends to have awful opinions about Star Wars characters, but now he may have finally landed a film that will prove once and...

Though it received a fairly solid 68 percent on — please stop reading here if you're Martin Scorsese — Rotten Tomatoes, it was deeply polarizing, throttled by some critics as «the worst film of the century,» and hailed by others as a wholly unique, engaging piece of art.

In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of her.

«Obviously, we have a very strong point of view regarding these events, and I think the film reflects it, but we didn't want it to be this piece of propaganda or this polarizing movie,» says Dayton.

One of the most controversial film from mast filmmaker Terrence Malick, polarized audiences and critics alike.

Speaking of polarizing movies, last night I hosted a Q&A with Charlie Kaufman after a showing of Anomalisa, one of my favorite films of the year.

Both of his previous films — the critically acclaimed crime drama Drive (2011) and the quite polarizing revenge thriller Only God Forgives (2013)-- played in the official competition and Winding...

But the polarizing reaction to The Last Jedi isn't a sign of the film's shortcomings; rather, it's a sign of its audacity.

If you thought Star Trek Discovery was a polarizing show for Trekkies, imagine how they must be dealing with the news of J. J. Abrams and Quentin Tarantino teaming up to create an R - rated Star Trek film.

Then there are two video artists, Price and Fowler, who have contributed, respectively, a short film dealing with a deadly 1979 fire at a Woolworth store (mixed in with footage of the Shangri Las) and a feature - length film about the polarizing Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.

This film is a little spooky as despite the age of the subject material, it catches some of the anxiety going on in the polarized U.S. right now — especially some of the violence that has erupted during the political rallies.