The lineup's buzziest movies were audacious,
polarizing films from new voices often focused on larger societal themes.
Not exact matches
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.
«The Handmaiden (Agassi)» (Park Chan - wook) Chan - Wool's first feature
film since the
polarizing «Stoker» was a crowd favorite at Cannes and has been crisscrossing the world
from festival to festival since.
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.
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.
Polarized reactions to the
film will lead to some colorful post-viewing discussions... exactly what would be expected
from an artsy non-horror movie entitled A Ghost Story.
Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice is sure to
polarize and challenge the expectations
from a
film noir.
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.
Piven describes the
film as «The Big Chill» meets «Apocalypse Now» and while male bonding is the glue that holds all three
films together, there are some
polarizing dark turns that set «I Melt With You» apart
from those earlier comparisons.
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.
Pedigree: Von Trier has been terrorizing the festival circuit for years with
polarizing films like Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Dogville, and his enfant terrible status was reaffirmed at the infamous press conference for Melancholia, where his remarks on Nazis got him banned
from Cannes.
One of the most controversial
film from mast filmmaker Terrence Malick,
polarized audiences and critics alike.