I've
watched hundreds of films throughout my short 29 - year history and I've seen some difficult cinema.
Not exact matches
In five «Dirty Harry»
films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not
hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has
watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.
But I thought a lot about the 1979
film while
watching Ready Player One, and not only because Alan Silvestri's score deliberately quotes John Williams's bombastic military march from the earlier
film (one
of hundreds of hidden nuggets in a
film that is quite literally an Easter egg hunt).
With some 10,000 entries, including
hundreds of titles we never covered in our annual guide, this is the perfect companion for anyone who
watches TCM or dotes on silent
films, European classics, and the golden age
of Hollywood.
Netflix has already completely rewritten the movie and TV - viewing rulebook by pouring a
hundred million dollar budget into a
film without a theatrical release, and creating their now ubiquitous «binge -
watch» format that the service rolled out for the first season
of House
of Cards.
There's no better time
of year for fans
of classic cinema, no better place to
watch classic
films than movie palaces like the Chinese and Egyptian Theatres in the heart
of Hollywood, and no better audiences to
watch films with
hundreds of people who love the classics as much as you do.
The title
of the
film was made famous the late great Don LaFontaine, who voiced
hundreds of movie trailers that we all
watched and listened to.
There were
hundreds of films at the festival, thousands
of people, approximately 2,000 volunteers, press and industry, and just a plethora
of film enthusiasts who come every year to
watch and celebrate independent
film.
Chad Hartigan, who premiered his third
film Morris from America at this year's festival, described a larger epidemic
of movies becoming two things: «One is the
hundred - million - dollar movies you see in the theater, and the other is everything else you
watch on iTunes or Netflix.»
But once I had the chance to see it with
hundreds of people all screaming and going wild, I came to the realization that this is just not a good
film to
watch without a crazy crowd.
It was actually quite encouraging to experience the
film with
hundreds of people and
watch just how well it worked the room, drawing laughs at all the right spots.
And as you find your place amongst the crowd
of a few
hundred brethren, sweaty fanboys, and
watch this
film which you've waited so long to see, you realize something... It sucks.
It's exhilarating to
watch a
film that charts the efforts
of one person to save the life
of another, and that is precisely what Kailash does in this movie, as he strives to track down a young boy and return him to his father, and save
hundreds more in the process.
He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for those one
hundred terrible days depicted in the
film, relating the anguish
of those who
watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result
of the UN's refusal to help at this time
of crisis.