Sentences with phrase «stunning film year»

Much as I hate to bring such a stunning film year to a close, there's a small pleasure in being able to move on to what 2017 has to offer.

There have been some stunning films this year, many of which still need to hit theaters.

Ida is one of the most visually stunning films this year, and if doesn't win here I hope it wins Best Cinematography.

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A handsomely - mounted, muscular, red - blooded Old West adventure... One of the most stunning films to look at in recent years.

That company actually averaged a stunning 83.5 for its 2014 slate, but released one film too few to qualify for this year's rankings.)

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

A film that I considered my all - time favourite for years (which may be a little out - dated now) it has the stunning, British - representing main cast of Zeta - Jones and Connery.

Mad with care and affection, for both the material and the films of years gone by, Spielberg has crafted a film of stunning beauty and simplicity in which story means all.

Exarchopoulos takes us deep inside Adèle's skin in the film's more compelling final third, and she is especially heartbreaking when she portrays the character's attempts to move on with stunned dignity despite the crushing physical isolation she feels even years after the carnal relationship has run its course.

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In what turned out to be one of the highlights at this year's CinemaCon was the stunning, 10 minute footage from Peter Jackson's new movie, the epic 3D film adaptation of Tolkien's The Hobbit (which opens December 14) that was shot at a frame rate of 48 per second achieving an unprecedented combination of uniformity and brightness.

He's delivered seven films in as many years and they've covered areas as wide as a biographical rugby drama with Nelson Mandela as one of the leads to a supernatural fantasy about the afterlife which featured a stunning tsunami sequence.

With stunning cinematography and camera movement and one of the best leading male performances of the year (FLF or not), this is one of Brazil's finest films this decade.

There are joys to be found in the beautiful cinematography, though it is this film's misfortune to have been released in the same year as Life of Pi, a film which showed us just how stunning a film about a drifting boat can be.

The film opens with a stunning opening sequence, as an 11 - year - old girl exits her own birthday party and jumps off the balcony, killing herself, and from there, Avranas slowly pulls back the curtain on the horrifying truth behind her family.

For a film that is over 30 years old, it looks quite stunning.

Oli caught it first at the London Film Festival, calling it «absolutely stunning, one of the year's best films,» and Jess reviewed it in full in Marrakech, agreeing that it's a «small, quiet, polished film that unfolds slowly but with remarkable assurance,» with some «truly remarkable cinematography,» and a «striking central performance» from young Polish actress Agata Trzebuchowska.

Six years later and his new film has left me stunned.

It is one of Scorsese's most accomplished productions ever (stunning 3D color cinematography; gorgeous production design by Dante Ferretti) and one of the year's very best films.

Three Kings Year: 1999 Director: David O. Russell Armed with invention, flare and an unflinching point of view, indie filmmaker David O. Russell charged into Hollywood and made an absolutely stunning war film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf War.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

2:00 am (22nd)-- TCM — 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick's visually stunning journey through thousands of years of technological evolution and man - vs - machine conflict is still one of the ultimate science fiction films.

Stunning cinematography comes together with a story full of truth and heartache to create one of this year's finest films.

A great film lies on the shoulders of the year's greatest performance, and perched on either side of him are the stunning turns of Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg (and, to a quieter extent, Amira Casar and Esther Garrel).

Cinematographer Roger Deakins (who also shot this year's Doubt and The Reader) presents the tale with a crisp, stunning look that adds another dimension to the film.

VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR (honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography) Birdman — Fox Searchlight The Grand Budapest Hotel — Fox Searchlight Interstellar — Paramount Snowpiercer — Radius / TWC Under the Skin — A24

Perhaps in 28 years, as the effects go from stunning in 2010 to dated, people will look back and wonder why anyone would be entertained by a such a film, but for today, it delivers on action, effects, solid choreography, art design, and should hold the interest of the genre fans for which it is intended.

VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR (honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)

The Italian director has been making feature films for twenty years, but he achieved international renown for his stunning and brutal crime film Gomorrah in 2008.

Covering the final 25 years or so in the painter's complex, strange life, the film is a visually stunning portrait of a physically undesirable — but ingenious — man.

As it is, screen legend Eva Marie Saint — one of Hitchcock's «icy» blonds — makes a stunning appearance near the film's end, only to be stranded in its dead, sappy finale and tundra of miscalculations; these include a math - challenged chronology which would make her character about 107 years old.

After stunning breakout performances last year, it's a certifiable shame to see Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan's considerable talent put to absolute waste in this turd sandwich of a film.

To this day I remain stunned that the Academy, the pretentious windbags who normally select whatever gassy «epic» appeared that year, chose a movie, not a «film», as the Best Picture of 1991.

It's absolutely stunning, one of the year's best films, and a fulfillment of the promise that the director has shown for so long.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

A beautifully crafted and visually stunning film coupled with a heartbreaking and emotional journey make A Monster Calls easily one of the best films of the year.

(Brief digression: If you liked her in Room, seize the earliest opportunity to see Short Term 12, one of the best small films of the last several years, featuring an absolutely stunning performance by the actress.

4) «Fruitvale Station» Ryan Coogler's stunning movie detailing the last day in the life of Oscar Grant who was fatally shot by a BART police officer in the early hours of New Year's Day 2009 was not only an amazing directorial debut, but one of the most riveting and emotional films of the yYear's Day 2009 was not only an amazing directorial debut, but one of the most riveting and emotional films of the yearyear.

The first of several films to be adapted from Barker's seminal Books of Blood series, Rawhead Rex has garnered a strong cult following over the years — now clawing its way to the surface in a stunning new 4K restoration from the original camera negative.

The writer / director has partnered up with A24 (possibly the most reliable studio working in the entertainment industry today) to release the film - and that, in combination with a reportedly stunning performance by Ronan as the film's lead, has helped the film to emerge as one of the more promising, wild card end - of - year awards contenders.

«There are movies where horror is just horror for horror's sake, but sometimes supernatural things can become a key to push you out of a certain way of experiencing and seeing,» says Ana Lily Amirpour, whose visually stunning vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, much like next year's cannibal - adjacent The Bad Batch, defies easy categorization.

«THE OTHER MAN» The idea that Laura Linney, Liam Neeson and the director of the stunning «Notes on a Scandal» could join forces to make the year's most inept drama is ludicrous, but then, so is the film.

Oli caught it first at the London Film Festival, calling it «absolutely stunning, one of the year's best films,» and Jess reviewed it in full in Marrakech, agreeing that it's a «small, quiet, polished film that unfolds slowly but with remarkable assurance,» with some «truly remarkable cinematography,» and a «striking central performance» from young Polish actress Agata Trzebuchowska (a non-professional actress who Pawlikowski found waitressing in his local cafe).

The 35 - year - old artist Laure Prouvost, meanwhile, continues in the genre - remixing tradition of last year's headline - grabbing upstart, Spartacus Chetwynd, with unkempt yet visually stunning installations that she builds around films that she creates.

The shortlist of nine includes the Berlin - based Israeli artist Omer Fast, whose expertly scripted and produced films exploring truth and fiction include a study of drone warfare and post-traumatic stress disorder that stunned audiences at the Imperial War Museum last year.

Located in a stunning Herzog and de Meuron building, The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will exhibit a video installation by Oscar - winning film director and visual artist Steve McQueen, who's enjoyed cross-disciplinary success in recent years (he also had a show at the Whitney).

Swedish film - maker Ruben Östlund had a stunning success at Cannes this year, carrying off the Palme d'Or for this art - world satire.

Back for its fourth year at Hardwick, the Summer Nights film festival brings you two great movies against a stunning backdrop.