Sentences with phrase «through film history»

What the Disney shop did with its first animated features has resonated through film history.

In HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD, Maltin opens up his vast and illustrious personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history.

Not exact matches

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

In Victorville, Cracker Barrel's new store celebrates the history and culture of the local area through decorative walls that pay homage to the famous Route 66, the area's contributions to the film industry and to California's Gold Rush era.

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.

Through a series of interviews with business leaders, politicians, economic experts and journalists, this film charts the history and ultimate cause of the economic crisis.

It's a handsome production, featuring a fine ensemble (that also includes Garrett Hedlund) who remain on - point through what must have been difficult filming circumstances, as well as a potent reminder that the Second World War, for all the glamorizing it endured over the ensuing decades, was as horrifying and devastating as any other conflict in human history.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

Luckily, Ben Kingsley is charismatic enough in the title role to command some warmth and interest, and the film is paced so quickly — rushing through 55 years of hastily exposited history — that it's never really boring.

Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.

The magnitude of what it has accomplished needs to be understood through two paradigms: The context of what this film represents as a milestone, and its greatness as a work of popular art that speaks intelligently about both politics and history.

Baumbach and Paltrow entertain those notions, but the film remains a serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.

Timelessness connects audiences to the film not through the understanding of the details of this history — which some audiences might not know — but through the emotions expressed such as fear, anger, and regret.

Take home Chappaquiddick and explore the process of recreating history on film through candid interviews with the filmmakers and cast in two featurettes exclusive to the home entertainment release.

With a photographer's eye, a philosopher's curiosity, and a searing intellect, Stanley Kubrick's films have cut a distinctive path through cinematic history with a scope that is still hard to estimate.

That the director is launching us on a strange journey through his own version of film history?

Personally, I would love to watch the film while listening to Spielberg, Dreyfuss and gang discuss all the great old stories about the trials they went through while in the process of making history.

John Landis, a director with a great sense of film history and surely a Psycho fan through and through, appears in a minor role as a radio show producer.

In any case, the film presents the history through an Israeli narrative of events, starting from its depiction of the Six Day War, to the rise of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Each film represents a decade of film history, from the 20s through the present:

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

They will identify and promote these film projects to their audiences, while in turn, the Institute will endorse their availability through its own marketing and promotional efforts and through the vast social community developed over the course of the Institute's 30 - year history.

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.

Mitchell also narrates a tour through the film poster and film history in Tarantino's movie.

The killer scene: As Simon Pegg once accurately enthused, «the greatest foot chase in film history,» Reeves pursuing Swayze through the backstreets of L.A.

Peeping Tom is considered the first slasher film in movie history and introduced the convention of seeing the murder through the killer's point of view.

is considered the first slasher film in movie history and introduced the convention of seeing the murder through the killer's point of view.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Moments later, the voice of the late Howard Zinn tangentially comments on the image, providing the film its ideological husk through his plaintive reminder that «the soul of history is economic.»

A former professor of history and marketing executive, he has worked his way into the business of film punditry through diligence and dedication.

One of the most iconic shots in film history is the look at a young Dustin Hoffman through the arched leg of Anne Bancroft in «The Graduate.»

The Appendices — A multi-part chronological history of the filming of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, covering pre-production in the various departments of the film in the months leading up to the start of principal photography, the boot camp training for the main cast, the work done on set chronologically through the three shooting blocks and in the world of its digital effects.

Loganbroke through this year as the first superhero film to be recognized for a writing award (Best Adapted Screenplay), while Morrison made history as the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography.

A former professor of history and marketing executive, he has worked his way into the business of film punditry through diligence -LSB-...]

4:35 pm — IFC — Häxan Or, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages — a silent film telling the history of witchcraft using several different visual styles.

Culinary Cinema returns with a spread of film delicacies including Bugs, in which Nordic Food Lab chef Ben Reade takes an entertaining journey through one of the last culinary taboos in the west; Sour Grapes, featuring a good humoured take on one of the most impressive wine frauds in modern history; and Barista (above), providing an enlightening and intense glimpse into the art of producing a flawless cup of coffee.

Using archival footage to tell the story, and accompanied by an originally composed score by Alex Somers,» Dawson City: Frozen Time», will depict a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation — and through that collection, how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.

THE DVD Shot through with grain and a certain, specific colour blanch I associate with the best movies from what I believe to be the best era in film history, Night Moves looks on Warner's DVD as good as it ever has, or, I daresay, should.

I still stare at it, amazed and entertained, but dwarfed by the very idea of attempting to untangle the crow's nest that has formed through the film's ever - expanding histories.

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.

The critical paths into The Hitcher that this book explores are rich and plentiful, and through an exploration of its origins and production history, a close analysis of the film itself and a consideration of the immediate fallout following its release and its longer legacies, this book celebrates one of the greatest highway horror movies ever made.»

Eastwood's film is dark and brutal, leavened by some deadpan comedy, a tour de force performance from Gene Hackman, and a sly encapsulation of the history of the Western genre, as seen through the eyes of a pulp writer played by Saul Rubinek.

After a quasi-lecture about his history with the film in Georgetown University's Healy Hall, we've walked through classrooms, courtyards and churches that all played significant roles in the making of the picture and the book that inspired it.

It's a film about a sweeping court case that echoed through American history and undid a crucial strand in the South's Jim Crow laws, but Nichols's focus remains trained at all times on the two people at the heart of it.

One extended montage runs through the 90 - year history of films, another honors the military on film, but the most powerful one highlights the importance of inclusion and representation on the big screen.

Inspired by true events, the stylish and heartfelt film — although it tends to meander through a bloated running time — is both an incisive history lesson and a potent glimpse into the power of protest that carries contemporary resonance.

Can't Stop Won't Stop — Directed by Daniel Kaufman and produced by Sean Combs and Heather Parry, the film is a raw and exclusive look behind the scenes at the history and legacy of Bad Boy through a complex portrait of the label's mastermind, Combs, as he tries to reunite his Bad Boy Family during a frantic three - week rehearsal period.