Sentences with phrase «recent film choices»

Not exact matches

Even after «The King's Speech» surprised at the Producers» Guild Awards and took a dozen Oscar nominations, I held on to the notion that critical favorite «The Social Network,» a film more in line with the Academy's recent choices, would emerge victorious on Oscar night.

Aside from the school's recent films, you might have seen CFC in the news lately when it was announced that director Christopher Nolan selected CFC as the charity of his choice to receive a $ 100,000 donation.

Among the most achingly beautiful of recent American films, Certain Women is predominantly composed of variations of brown and gray, with contrasting wardrobe choices — such as a faded pink sweater or a black jogging suit — standing out as expressions of women's yearnings to break out from their stiflingly yet comfortingly dull surroundings.

Although spy intrigue is an essential element to the winning M: I formula, the feature films have always tilted more toward the action spectacle, and snagging Oscar - winning animation director Brad Bird to fill the director's chair proves to be an inspired choice — and, upon thought, a bit of a no - brainer, given that his The Incredibles was one of the most exciting action pictures in recent memory, animated or otherwise.

Indeed, Offerman has quite a bit in common with his signature creation — like Swanson, he's a genuinely talented furniture maker — but in recent years he's broken from his man's man persona to branch out with more dramatic roles in films like The Founder and the second series of FX's «Fargo,» for which he received a Critics» Choice Television Award nomination.

Written and directed by Maggie Carey, the film can easily be compared to American Pie or Super Bad, but from the female perspective and set in 1993, an interesting choice considering much of the language or concepts discussed are significantly more recent than 20 years ago, but let's not quibble about such issues.

Okay, so Ramsay is still a pretty reckless choice for a studio in need of a billion - dollar hit — and not only because the cumulative gross of her previous films is less than Daniel Craig's personal speedo budget from «Casino Royale» — but her elliptical style could play to the series» recent strengths.

Not the most likely or inspiring choice for the job, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) takes the helm of this $ 160 million production with a script attributed to Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the film adaptation of Rent) and Disney DTV veteran Evan Spiliotopoulos (whose more recent credits include the maligned not - quite - tentpoles Hercules starring Dwayne Johnson and The Huntsman: Winter's War).

It was the writings of Spanish novelist Javier Marías, one of Redonda's more recent sovereigns, and Marías's own eclectic choice of courtiers (including film director Pedro Almodóvar and English novelist AS Byatt) that inspired Chambers with his imaginary court of 101 different ethnicities, cultural affiliations (carefully indicated by clothing and hairstyles) and professions - not just poets, philosophers, artists and writers, but also patients, pharmacists, harlots and «bums».