Sentences with phrase «subsequent years the film»

Robin Williams's biggest blockbuster sprang unsuspectingly on the critics, who didn't cotton to its lowbrow humor, but in subsequent years the film has grown in stature and was recently voted one of the funniest movies of all time.

Not exact matches

A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

Von Trier's subsequent foolhardy remarks notwithstanding, Melancholia was received with the warmest embrace by the international (and particularly North American) press of any von Trier film in the 15 years since Breaking the Waves.

Ten years later, working from an adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.

He was also nominated for a directing Oscar for his subsequent film, UP IN THE AIR, for which he DID win the AFI movie of the year award.

Where the first film positioned him as a 6 - year - old boy who grew up to be an agent of vague, unspeakable evil after murdering his sister Judith with a kitchen knife, each subsequent entry revealed more about his backstory.

But years passed, and she never made a subsequent film, leaving fans wondering when they'd see her return to the director's chair.

First, a brief remembrance before we get into the year's best movies: The film world said its heartbroken goodbyes to Mike Nichols in November, an occasion for returning to the director's seismic The Graduate, along with four decades of subsequent work, much of it brilliant.

When asked about the possibility of reprising his role in other Marvel Studios film subsequent to Doctor Strange, the 44 - year - old British actor seemed excited.

Of course, he's never been very far out of the limelight, having completely dominated the Horror genre over the past 40 years as the «go - to» storyteller for genuine scares; leaving a multitude of classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wake.

Set amid the chaos, violence, and anger of the riots that dominated Motor City during the summer of 1967, the film's narrative focuses on the police brutality that took place at the Algiers Motel on July 25 and 26 of that year, and the justice system's subsequent whitewashing of that heinous event.

12:00 M — IFC — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The combination of mysticism and martial arts on wires turned magical in this film, spawning a mess of imitators in the subsequent years, though none have quite equaled Crouching Tiger «s success.

Suffice to say that this is the home world of the Engineers, the towering race that seeded Earth with human beings millions of years earlier, and toward which the survivors of Prometheus — Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the android David (who like Walter, the subsequent model, is also played by Fassbender)-- had charted their course at the end of the previous film.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

But Matthew Vaughn's punk - attitude action film had one of the year's best shots: Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl letting a true glint of fear, and subsequent heroism, flash into her eyes.

I underestimated Spike Lee's 25th Hour badly upon its release a few years ago, misunderstanding it, fearing it, seeing it as a mediocre film when, in fact, subsequent viewings have revealed it as possibly Lee's tonal masterpiece.

Kirk Honeycutt was chief film critic for The Hollywood Reporter for many years and subsequent to that, senior film reporter for that publication.

Below we break down what that relationship has meant in recent years: For each of SAG's film categories, how often do the subsequent Oscar wins mirror results?

Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis» film tells the story of the 2014 killing of 18 year - old Michael Brown and the subsequent outcry from the point of view of those who were there at the time.

In this subsequent film that was made eight months later, Principal Humphrey and library volunteer, Linda Mills talk about the progress that they have made this year -LSB-...]

This break with painting spurred an exploration of media, and in subsequent years, Nauman became prolific in film, performance and sculpture.

The project made headlines last month after Seagal, best known for his action film roles in the 1990s, publicly endorsed the cryptocurrency offering through his official Twitter account - a notable development given the string of endorsements seen last year and the subsequent warning by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding celebrity involvement in token sales.

Seeking the job of a production manager in a growing media company where my many years of experience; manning my own media company, will be a major asset in achieving optimum success in subsequent film productions.

The basis of the book and subsequent film series went on the market last summer for $ 850,000 and sold earlier this year for more than $ 200,000 less than the asking price.