Sentences with phrase «studio era»

These traits replicate the models of films like Funny Face and Charade, late studio era vehicles that Stanley Donen made with ageing stars Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

Outside of their historical perspective (and, some would say, overall better quality than contemporary cinema), studio era films are worth exploring for a lesson...

Since its Kino - Lorber merge in 2009, their stronghold on the home video market has only intensified, producing Blu - ray / DVD releases from a treasure trove of more than 700 titles, making available everything from silent masterpieces to studio era classics to underground features and documentariess.

In style and tone, it rivals studio era standouts like Twentieth Century (1934) or Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), and more recent fare like Allen's resplendent Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

The film enables the Coens and their brilliant cinematographer, Roger Deakins, to pastiche every kind of genre from the classical studio era.

TCM — Great Director: John Ford TCM starts off their celebration of great directors with John Ford, usually considered one of the greatest auteurs of the American studio era.

Frankenheimer's reverence for the work of Wyler and Welles links him to the classicism of the late studio era, and yet in retrospect The Gypsy Moths and I Walk the Line anticipate the style and the concerns of the American New Wave.

In the studio era, when he would have flourished, Viggo Mortensen's shorthand description might have been «dashing but dangerous; cultivated veneer hides mysterious, checkered past.»

In keeping with Cruise's revivalist take on the classical Hollywood star, the films of this period — from Jack Reacher to Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation — are all rooted in the aesthetic ideals of the end of the studio era in the late 1950s.

And Ralph Fiennes enlivens a couple of scenes as a refined gay director trying to direct a cowboy actor in a drawing - room comedy - the studio era described in a single sentence.

,» a loose riff on the studio era, set in the early 1950s.

While the film is nominally about Hitchcock's search for his next project after the enormously successful North by Northwest, it's really about the mystique — and deconstruction of that mystique — of movie production at the tail end of the studio era.

One of the most prolific writer / directors since the end of the studio era, Woody Allen cranks out a script and film every year.

3:30 am (5th)-- TCM — Gigi (1958) Maurice Chevalier's «Thank Heaven for Little Girls» might come off as more pervy now than it was originally intended, but as a whole Gigi stands as one of the most well - produced and grown - up musicals made during the studio era.

This happened a lot in the studio era (James Stewart as Glenn Miller, Cary Grant as Cole Porter, etc), but does it ever happen now?

12:00 N — TCM — Gigi Maurice Chevalier's «Thank Heaven for Little Girls» might come off as more pervy now than it was originally intended, but as a whole Gigi stands as one of the most well - produced and grown - up musicals made during the studio era.

Not a lot in the way of newly featured stuff this week — most of the new ones are part of TCM's Moguls & Movie Stars History of Hollywood series, which moves into the dawn of the studio era this week, with 1910s films from Thomas Ince, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford.

7:00 pm — TCM — Moguls & Movie Stars: The Birth of Hollywood Part Two of TCM's History of Hollywood series, moving on from the so - called primitive film of the early 1900s and into the beginnings of the studio era in the 1910s.

11:15 pm — TCM — Gigi Maurice Chevalier's «Thank Heaven for Little Girls» might come off as more pervy now than it was originally intended, but as a whole Gigi stands as one of the most well - produced and grown - up musicals made during the studio era.

Bingham sets as his goals to both redeem a genre that has been unjustly demeaned and to outline its dynamic historical evolution over time by tracing its «life - cycle changes... from the studio era to the present» (p. 10).

Glenn Ford, one of the most versatile and reliable leading men of the studio era, had a particular talent for crime pictures — playing...

But occasionally I meet modern actors whose careers are still in full swing, and I have to admit it's intimidating in a different way: while I may be in awe of the filmography and performances of a studio era star, I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the sheer magnetism and vital force of a working actor — that «it» factor that makes a star a star.

The Wilder film, directed for German TV by Volker Schlöndorff, has some fun anecdotes about life directing films in the studio era but nothing I hadn't heard before.