Sentences with phrase «wide world of film»

There's a wide world of film festivals beyond the major international fests.
I love a popcorn flick as much as the next guy, but any discerning film fan knows that there's a whole wide world of film out there and even North America still has a few unsung directors who work outside and inside the system producing great, interesting fare.

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A Hindi - dominated medium that still competes with regional cinema in India, Bollywood is the best - known and highest - grossing film industry in India, with a global scope attracting a wide range of talent from across the world.
Braid would be the first feature film fully financed this way, its makers say, potentially opening up film production to a wider world of emerging talents and prospective investors.
As Joe sets out to learn how to be healthy in an unhealthy world, he talks to a wide range of experts, follows up with folks from the first film, and connects with new people along the way.
Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big - budget feature film from a decades - old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald movies?
In a weird way, that can be a little disturbing to some folks, but films such as Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, and Me, Myself & Irene illustrate their unique treatise on democracy, in which we are all collectively equal in our wonderful, horrible, messy humanity: a whole wide world of freaks.
I like the World War II films that cover the stuff everyone knows, but I'm stating to get even more appreciative of the ones that bring the lesser known parts to a wider audience.
So it seems appropriate that it's the day that two new pieces of casting for Nolan's latest film, Interstellar, broke into the wider world.
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled the re...
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled...
As part of the BFI's major UK - wide Black Star season the BFI Southbank is currently home to the Separate Cinema Exhibition, showcasing original film posters loaned from the most extensive private holdings of African - American film memorabilia in the world, The Separate Cinema Archive.
This is per Collider, which reports that Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz's new additions to this scatalogical little corner of the wider X-Men world were popular enough that fans were questioning why there wasn't more of them in the film.
Writer / director Ana Lily Amirpour has made the world's first Iranian vampire movie, and though she borrows liberally and lovingly from a wide array of inspirations, the film she's crafted is undeniably, peculiarly her own.
It is a film of a world wide zombie panic.
The world - wide, overwhelmingly ecstatic early reviews don't do his work justice, and I'm not quite sure anything besides multiple viewings might allow film fans of any kind to understand just how improbably dastardly perfect Fury Road is.
The film centers on artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness.
In fact Peeta, who is still something of a liability during the actual games (he does temporarily die, after all), thanks to some sensitive writing, gets to deliver some decent dialogue that suggests his independent thought processes, and makes it clear that Katniss, to her credit and that of the film, has a choice to make not between Hottie 1 and Hottie 2, but between two different young men who are defined by different things in the wider world, and not just their relationship to her.
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled the resul...
The other filmmaker is Theo Angelopoulos, whose recent death in an accident caused world - wide sympathy and inspired a rather overcompensating re-evaluation of his films.
Between the Oscar nominations, Sundance, leftover films from the previous year going into wide release, and the lack of anything good to see otherwise in theaters, January can always feel a bit stop - start in the movie world.
These people may have fallen down some rabbit hole of their own devising, but couldn't it be argued that we have as well, in a topsy - turvy world that finds its reflection onscreen, alongside references to Trump and racist websites, not to mention such diverse films as Django Unchained, Eyes Wide Shut, and Fight Club.
From there, the film spreads out like the virus, pulling in the CDC and the World Health Organization to investigate this Minnesota woman's quick demise and the already world - wide spread of the disease through Hong Kong, London, China, Chicago, and World Health Organization to investigate this Minnesota woman's quick demise and the already world - wide spread of the disease through Hong Kong, London, China, Chicago, and world - wide spread of the disease through Hong Kong, London, China, Chicago, and more.
So it shouldn't be much of a surprise that I jumped at the opportunity to interview Bong Joon - Ho, a great voice within the oeuvre of South Korean films and a leader of the movement to turn it into a world wide product.
With the filmmaker Mark Cousins, she set up the 8 1/2 Foundation, a Scottish - based not - for - profit organisation dedicated to the idea that when kids turn eight - and - a-half they should have a film birthday — on which date they're introduced to the wider world of movies beyond what's on TV or in the multiplex.
Reflecting on the film's release as the Me Too and Time's Up movements dominate debate in Hollywood and the wider world, she said: «It's a strange thing, the themes this film touch on, the themes that we wanted to focus on and discuss and let an audience discuss during the process of seeing the film have to do with class - ism and abuse towards women and if they are believed when they come forward.
Iconic film roles include a wide variety of films ranging from his Oscar - winning performance in Good Will Hunting to other notable performances in films like The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Jakob the Liar, Hook, Patch Adams, Desconstructing Harry, Insomnia, One Hour Photo, The Final Cut, Man of the Year, August Rush, Flubber, Toys and Jumanji.
Herzfeldt's bleakly hopeful World of Tomorrow is unique among the nominees in its verbosity and wide - ranging ideas — the rest of them are essentially one - track - minded silent films.
In the world of Hollywood movies, films have usually tackled such ideas in a wide variety feature films from hard - hitting dramas to more lighthearted romantic comedies.
He may well plagiarise but his knowledge of world cinema and the heavy influence it has on his films, in some ways, allows a wider audience to access some wonderful cinematic ideas they normally wouldn't.
Film festivals mostly tend to feature a wide collection of upcoming indie films, including many of which that are seeking out major studios for distribution to audiences around the world.
For me, it reflected poignantly on how each of the micro worlds we create, such as a film festival like Rotterdam, participates in and wrestles with the wider global matrix.
In fact, writer / director Ana Lily Amirpour has made the world's first Iranian vampire movie, and though she borrows liberally and lovingly from a wide array of inspirations, the film she's crafted is undeniably, peculiarly her own.
Nobody really cares what you and I think personally; it's really more of how films connected to the wider world.
Helpless H.I. is thrust from one outlandish situation to another throughout, the wide - angle lenses warping the edges of the film frame and bending the fragile borders of H.I.'s topsy - turvy world.
From the team that brought you The Matrix, comes another epic Sci - Fi film, Jupiter Ascending, which, unfortunately, didn't do well at the box office ($ 200 million world wide of a $ 176 million dollar budget), and did not get the good reviews that they hoped for.
But he has a deep influence on Ip Man, opening him up to innovation in his martial art just as his time at an English college in Hong Kong is opening him up to the possibilities of the wider world (one of the primary themes of Wong Kar - wai's film).
The Senses of Cinema podcast is a monthly podcast that covers wide - ranging discussion of contemporary cinema, retrospectives on films and filmmakers, and includes lively, intelligent debate on the world of cinema and screen.
As an imperfect but heartfelt and exquisitely rendered portrait of the world's mysteries seen through wide, guileless eyes, the film can proudly stand next to VELVET GOLDMINE and FAR FROM HEAVEN in the oeuvre of an endlessly, passionately curious auteur.
But the film's true power comes from Rees» vision of this world, as her wide angle shots frame the full scale of prejudice and injustice and reframe the larger issue of systemic racism that is as deeply rooted in this country as the McAllan's cotton crop.
The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a hot - button, racially charged horror film to an intimate portrait of a feisty teenage girl growing up in Sacramento.
From shyly uptight to iconically wide - open, that was the arc travelled by Lovelace (born Linda Susan Boreman in Yonkers, New York) in the early 1970s, as she became the most famous pornographic performer in the world on the strength of a single film: 1972's Deep Throat.
He has also appeared in Sneakers with Robert Redford, The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, L.A. Confidential with Russell Crowe, The Firm with Tom Cruise, Lost in Yonkers with Richard Dreyfuss, A Map of the World with Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore, as well as a wide and diverse mix of characters in several of maverick filmmaker John Sayles» films.
McDonagh has a wonderful feel for his homeland's beauty and ruin, as well as for simple dialogue that conveys more by what it doesn't say than through needless exposition, and Gleeson is more than up to the task of carrying the weight of the film — and of the world — on his wide and weary shoulders.
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled the...
Most footage of the war was shot in black and white, but the filmmakers spent two years on a world - wide search of any existing color film that might exist and what they found was that much of it was practically pristine since it had never been seen before.
Tsai Ming - Liang, Brigette Lin, British war films, Maurice Pialat's Le Garçu, John Carpenter's Guilty Pleasures, artists as filmmakers, Nick Gomez, Jacques Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort, Eric Rohmer, Dan Ireland's The Whole Wide World, Kent Jones on summer blockbusters
Also announced during the press conference not only was the Reader Hub was announced but also the «Media Hub,» a gateway to a world of films and videos, and «Music Hub,» an application giving access to a wide range of music tunes.
The infrastructure of films being made and distributed to thousands of movie theaters world - wide, turns the actors into iconic stars.
Insight Editions, a long - time publisher of a wide range of books and collectible products for the Harry Potter film franchise, has also acquired rights to a global publishing program in support of the new films that returns fans to the wizarding world of J.K. Rowling.
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