Sentences with phrase «way film history»

The discourse is cut together with clips from early Merchant Ivory films like Bombay Talkie and The Guru, providing an interesting platform for the way film history invariably impacts each generation differently.

Not exact matches

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

Deadpan, the film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened by the traumas and injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.

All that goes a long way to securing the film its status in cinema history but, in addition to how the passage of time is beginning to erode its impact, there are others drawbacks, not least of which is the stilted acting style of both Lockwood and Dullea.

Along the way the film reveals how the plant changed the course of U.S. history, how farming helps incarcerated addicts with their recovery, and how a community of young growers have rediscovered their farming roots.

But the film embraces cultural specificity in a way that no other Pixar production has before, combining the studio's customary emotional directness with a deep dive into a great nation's art, music, history, and customs.

Disillusioned with the official script, Daniel eventually goes cloak - and - dagger rogue and is on his way to publicizing the Pentagon Papers, a momentous decision that Mr. Spielberg enlivens with spooky shadows and what may be the most nervous - making photocopying in film history.

The film may live as little more than a supplement on a future box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.

Filmed in part to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the legendary switch - hitter's death, this film tells the remarkable tale of the athlete who overcame constant, nagging injuries to blast 536 home runs out of the ballpark over the course of 18 unforgettable seasons and swing his way into the history books.

It's difficult to think of a director less - suited to take on the intricate, minutiae - obsessed writing of Peter Morgan than Howard — a director who, even in his finest films, has always been interested in the big picture first, with characters serving history rather than the other way round.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

The moderately successful artistic pursuits of this sculptor and retired Bard College professor, coupled with the short story structure of the film, lay the foundation for its exploration of the way in which history and perception become intertwined with identity and how people often cling to an idea of themselves, be it objective fact or socially constructed fiction.

A Disney animator once told me that if you were to remake Pinocchio today the way it was made then, it might end up being the most expensive film in history.

It's a film that may work differently for you, but I kept trying to find my way into it as history or art and never quite could find either.

As for the film's chances, Oscar history tells us that She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, way back in 1950, was the last film to win this award without being nominated in any other category.

But it really takes unique talents to make a film like this, which doesn't rely upon hullabaloo or history to bore its way into your heart and tickle your soul.

It's to the credit of Lincoln's filmmakers that in the relatively short running time of a feature film, we genuinely get a similar sense of the ways in which history is actually written.

Given that Germany, with few exceptions such as the comedy genre and the history film, does not have a well - established genre film tradition anymore (at least not on the big screen), the only way to rejuvenate such a tradition is by explicitly committing to producing many genre films for the cinema.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

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.

«We have a long history of supporting first time filmmakers from around the world, and we felt that this film comes from a director with a fresh voice in cinema, and that it tells a new story in a particularly vibrant way,» commented Michael Rosenberg, president of Film Movement.

The power of things unspoken also interests Rees in the way a film like «Mudbound» may well get audiences thinking about their own families, their own histories, and their own country.

While this film certainly paints a different picture of the only president never to seek reelection, history buffs won't find much in the way uncovered material.

The final showdown in this film may very well be the best shoot out in the history of the western; its length, pace, and the way in which it was framed all seem perfectly calculated by Costner.

The guys talk over some of their favorite and least favorite dragon - related entries in film history, the different ways film has depicted dragons and wrap up by talking about where the dragon sub-genre is today.

Combat Girls (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- It's reductive to call this «German History X,» but there are definite parallels with the way this film weaves a coming of age story into the underground Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

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

An index of Winner & co.'s sense of film history: at the world premiere of the new Rudy Montague (Rudolph Valentino by way of Ron Leibman) picture, the image on the screen is blocked - up, ultracontrasty, and scratchy («Gee, didn't old movies always look like that?»).

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

Starring Hemlock Grove's Kaniehtiio Horn — a First Nations Mohawk who grew up on the Kahnawake Reserve — as a Mohawk woman driven to violence by soldiers» assault on her family and her ancestral home in early 19th - century New York, the film engages with the horrors of American history in an uncommonly blunt way, using them to tell a tale of supernaturally tinged revenge.

But there's no way a superhero film directed by a woman that has made box - office history isn't going on my list.

There's a sense of history you can't escape with this film — after all, it's been 25 coming, stretching all the way back to Wesley Snipes» failed first attempt in 1992.

Take the whole film history of artists from 1956's «Lust for Life» all the way to the 2000's Oscar - winning «Pollock.»

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

The DVD offers only deleted scenes in the way of bonus features, and that is disappointing considering the wealth of history covered in the film.

In some ways, McDonald's examination of IMAX is an example of technological history being repeated as the economics of exhibition require a greater supply of films than can be produced in large format systems.

In some ways, this reminds me of films like The Wild Bunch, where how we interpret the performance of the actors is directly informed by our long history watching them previously.

Facile, but good in a pinch; apply it to Todd Haynes's fascinating I'm Not There and suddenly there's the thought that the film is an autopsy of film - as - history to this moment — an analysis of how the moving image has become in this century the only real way we access history as a people, as well as of how the image, eternally malleable within the image - maker, has now become malleable within a mainframe.

Two major goals of the film seem to be to faithfully document a crucial moment in history through entertaining fictionalisation and to use Lincoln's involvement as a way of shining some light on the type of person he was.

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.

News - making subject matter grants Citizenfour instant significance, but the film succeeds not just for what it captures but the bold and interesting way it presents history in the making.

However, considering how dense the Underworld mythology is and how each sequel / prequel hardly ever slows down to rehash backstory covered in previous installments (much to the franchise's credit), those in need of any sort of refresher in the world's now vast history will find this an invaluable resource, and the disc producers have executed it in such a way that it never disrupts the flow or skips and / or runs over any key scenes in the film.

Does an understanding of film history change the way we look at movies?

Peter Pan Begins: Peter Pan's film history is quite expansive going way back to the 1924 silent film to the 1953 Disney version of the tale up to 1991's Hook and then, to the most recent Pan film, 2003's Peter Pan, but still, there's room for more.

Though primarily focused on the week in July 1967 when Detroit erupted in extreme civil disturbances matched by extensive police overreach, the arc of the film traverses the ways of life before, during and after this poignant moment in American history.

And The Greatest Showman was indeed consigned to history, but not in the way anyone expected: the film became a breakout hit and the soundtrack is currently No 1 in the UK album charts and No 2 in the US, having previously been No 1.

In terms of the four - way romance at the heart of the film, the Spall - Faris thread is more effective, as it is easier to symphatise with with the husband's predicament, given the warm history that he shares with his former partner.

This unique story provided an interesting look at the history of slavery and its effects in a way that had never been done in a film before.