Sentences with phrase «recent film history»

Her chemistry with the charming Claflin makes Their Finest one of the strongest love stories portrayed in recent film history; a unique, earned and unforgettable.

one of the strongest love stories portrayed in recent film history; a unique, earned and unforgettable.

Of course, Wes Anderson's «Moonrise Kingdom» is a very well - known film, and its addition to the Criterion Collection is not so much to bring it to a wider audience as with something like «Blind Chance,» but to really elevate its place in recent film history with a perfect transfer and interesting special features.

When Australian cinematographer John Seale got word of the Sisyphean development of Mad Max: Fury Road in its early stages, he was just glad that it wasn't his cross to bear, not realizing that he would soon find himself working on one of the most infamously challenging productions in recent film history.

installment in this reboot series is not only an emotionally dour thrill ride, but has once again highlighted the brilliance of Andy Serkis, whose performance as Ape leader Caesar proves to be the exclamation point on an argument that he has brought to life one of the greatest characters in recent film history.

one of the greatest love stories portrayed in recent film history; a unique, earned and unforgettable.

Both of the roles could have been tired retreads of similar characters in recent film history, but Gosling and Pitt serve their characters with more devotion than is often seen in actors of their age.

, even the recent» Flight», which encompassed one of the most realistically disturbing plane crash sequences in recent film history), Zemeckis's» The Walk» noticeably limps for most of its two - hour running time.

Not exact matches

The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.

The film boasts an accumulation of black artistic talent unlike anything we have witnessed in recent cinematic history.

The Hunger Games has appeared almost from nowhere to become one of the biggest films in recent history.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

No, «Rampage» is only critic - proof because it's one of the few studio films in recent history that's too hollow to support any critical thought.

Whatever caused all the production angst on this film I don't know, but you never get the feeling that Forster loses control of the images, and «World War Z» contains several of the most effective big - canvas action sequences in recent history.

The film opens with Miguel's family history playing out on lively Mexican banners, which I got to see for myself during a recent trip to Mexico with my wife.

Two of Spielberg's recent history films were also made in a messianic spirit of topical fervor: «Munich,» a dread - inflected thriller that addressed the post-9 / 11 world, and «Lincoln,» a kind of dramatized time machine that commented on our own increasingly fractious and divided political arena.

It's a nice irony that one of the worst movies in recent history has enabled James Franco to make one of the best films in his own chequered career.

«History is written by the winners» is a recurring theme in the «Thor» films, and this time around, they expose the ugly truths behind Asgard's long reign of success, not unlike our country's relatively recent re-evaluation of one Christopher Columbus.

With Independence Day: Resurgence and the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, we have ranked, by Metascore, those film with the funniest, bravest and most inspirational fake POTUSes in recent cinema history.

The sci - fi noir that is Blade Runner has since become one of the most iconic sci - fi films in recent history thanks to the direction of Ridley Scott and an enthralling performance by Harrison Ford.

Deathwatch presents a sweeping history of on - screen death, from the silent film era to recent Hollywood blockbusters.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

Villenueve, an Academy Award and BAFTA nominee for his 2011 film «Incendies,» delivers one of the greatest Hollywood debuts I can remember in recent history.

What You Need To Know: Things were looking up at DreamWorks Animation for a while, but of late, their slate has been a little disappointing, with «Rise of the Guardians» marking the least successful film in the company's recent history.

But stirring and solid, «12 Strong» is the kind of film that might make you think twice about January releases, and spotlights a riveting story in our recent history that many Americans might not know.

The critics have ripped this film to shreds, deeming it one of the worst in recent history.

Loving, however, should not be dismissed as one of 2016's most important films, especially now that we're about to enter the darkest period of recent American history.

The company, which has a long and contentious legal history with former Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, filed an updated claim on Thursday about the «repeated misrepresentations about an illusory investment opportunity» in the studio behind films like Henry Cavill's «Immortals» and the recent Zach Galifianakis comedy «Masterminds.»

Yann Demange's debut feature»71 has shown me exactly how ignorant I've been of recent history, with a film he himself describes as an excoriation of our propensity, across nations and time, for sending our young men off to fight «dirty» wars.

Our educated guess (based on the evidence in the trailer), is that the aspect ratios work in a kind of reverse chronological order — the more black in the frame the older the time period, the less black, the more recent (which is basically similar to how aspect ratios progressed in film history anyhow).

The characters are very sympathetic, the performances are first rate (especially Bridges), and it has one of the most perfect scores in recent science fiction film history.

Even Amazon, Netflix, and A24 — recent history's most aggressive acquirers — arrived at Sundance this year with finished products, launching films to critics and select audiences with the hope that this will buoy the movies» performances when they are unveiled in theaters, and on the companies» services, later in the year.

Despite the ambition associated with his recent work — their formal grandeur, volcanic performances and evocation of American history — it's easy to overlook that films like There Will Be Blood and The Master were more often than not hysterically funny in their parodies of the human animal.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

Granted, it's a bit too long and deeply convoluted, but the 2006 film is also one of the most nightmarish and gorgeously shot horror films in recent history.

The movie is one of the funnier and more enjoyable live - action family films in recent Disney history.

Meet a dynamic group of women from Pixar, whose experience and success at the studio have helped craft some of the most memorable animated films in recent history.

«Detroit» takes all of the abovementioned elements (and more) and combines them in a masterful telling of a not - to - be-proud-of incident in our recent (and relevant today) history... the film, «Detroit,» transcends the words and brings to life, in a real time feel, the event, the people and the victims, and not just those murdered by the (exonerated in court) policemen.

It's a welcome change to all of the recent — and let's be honest, dating back through all of film history — whitewashing by Hollywood.

It's too early in the game, in my opinion, to think this film won't be a player, as recent history points in favor of Tarantino's bloodiest work.

She is barely recognisable from her two most recent appearances I mentioned (and nothing like her bit part in Quantum of Solace) and I can only imagine that this must have been one of the most uncomfortable shoots in history, since she spends much of the film gagged and handcuffed to a bed, often naked.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the great works of art in the history of film, and yet, except for some recent television screenings, this British production is largely unknown in the United States.

In his two most recent films, QT has been on a kick for creative revisionist history.

In a recent article on Tarkovsky, Julian Graffy notes that the Russian journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski (Notes in Cinema Analysis) asked 27 critics from around the world to list the twentieth century's 12 best films «from the point of view of history» and «from the point of view of film criticism».

Peter Pan Begins: Peter Pan's film history is quite expansive going way back to the 1924 silent film to the 1953 Disney version of the tale up to 1991's Hook and then, to the most recent Pan film, 2003's Peter Pan, but still, there's room for more.

After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the season did.

But the tale of Sean Archer and Castor Troy was almost a very different film — multiple times over — as revealed in a recent oral history courtesy...

Guillermo del Toro's recent movie history is haunted by so many half - formed projects, it's become something of an event whenever he gets a film into cinemas.

In recent movie history, we've seen our fair share of remakes, reboots, re-imaginings, and repackaging of films that have been bona fide hits.

But even before the film's finale, it's filled with nods to changing times and the traumatic effects of recent American history, themes Cimino explored on an operatic scale in his next film, The Deer Hunter.