Sentences with phrase «sound film eras»

Not exact matches

In the sound era he played leads and then later character and supporting roles in many films; he continued working until the late»70s.

Feige also said that the movie will pay homage to the action films of the era, which sounds pretty interesting.

Fairbanks, in the silent era, was succeeded by the dashing Australian actor Errol Flynn - the major swashbuckling male star of the 30s and early 40s adventure films in the sound era.

Tuesday, August 21st marks Kay Francis day on TCM's Summer Under the Stars and the lineup of films should not only please her avid fans but also introduce newbies to this elegant underrated actress of the early sound era who is not that well known today.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

I came to it with little knowledge of the Beach Boys and their story, and the film focuses on their pre-Pet Sounds era, it's recording, Brian's discintegration afterward and then Brian's later life.

The film arose from a project called «Séances,» a museum installation at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris where he «remade» lost films and unfinished projects from the silent and early sound era.

Never more so than in the complex sound mix (one of the first great soundscapes of the postmodern film era) over the now famous, climactic, tracking shot.

That Thing You Do is another film that creates a bygone musical era and parodies its sound with an original score.

The movie does a terrific job of mimicking the sound and styles of the folk music era, attesting to the talent of the art directors, makeup artists, and songwriters / cast - members who created all of the original tunes featured in the film.

G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in Germany and beyond.

They aren't all masterpieces, of course, but they do offer a history of the evolution of film comedy through the silent era to early sound films.

Every flashback to the 20's is fully treated as a film from the era, entirely without effects of any other diegetic sound and shot in hazy black and white.

Westfront 1918 (1930 — Germany) G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond.

As Rian audaciously had teens mouth off with film noir finesse, Johnson cast an atmospheric spell that turned all manner of metallic sounds and unstrung instruments into the fast - talking patter for secondary education's murderous underbelly, an eerily innovative «junkyard orchestra» that used every «found» instrument from cheese graters to closing cabinets to reflect «Brick's» 40s era homages.

Westrate's delivery does not sound like a forced impression of the way actors talked in those films, but instead comes across rather naturally, while capturing all the elements which made the speed and style of speaking unique during the screwball comedy era.

Berberian Sound Studio is a masterfully made film that will please audio experts, cinephiles and horror fans, especially fans of films from the era made by directors such as Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava.

The injudicious use of the zoom lens, impressionistic editing techniques, and an ill - advised sound mix featuring mainly Donald Sutherland's moaning all contribute to a film that feels very much of its era.

Inspired by songs written by MGM producer Arthur Freed at the beginning the sound era, Singin» in the Rain takes that seismic shift in film history for its setting, focusing on heartthrob screen couple Don Lockwood (Kelly) and Lina Lamont (the hilarious Jean Hagen) as the transition into sound — problem being that Lamont's voice, like many actual silent screen stars, doesn't fit her onscreen persona.

This double feature of pre-World War II Ozu is a beautiful match - set of dramas in duty and sacrifice, but the five years between 1936 and 1941 make all the difference in the world, for both Ozu the artist stretching himself into the sound era and Ozu the director doing his duty in the Japanese film industry.

Much like Aaron Sorkins» Steve Jobs, the film is split but this time between two specific eras in Wilson's life with his younger years and build up to the recording of Pet Sounds being portrayed by Paul Dano, and then John Cusack takes on Wilson's later life during his turbulent relationship with Dr Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti) and the meeting of Melinda Ledbetter, played by Elizabeth Banks.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

Newly announced comic book one - shot Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Storms of Crait may sound like it's set in the era of the new films - but it's actually set during the Galactic Civil War - the original trilogy era.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

It preserves the full silent film image area (rather than a sound - era copy with reduced image area) and, though it has wear and some damage due to screenings over the decades, the image is quite strong.

Shot in black and white super-8 the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era.