Sentences with phrase «with cinephiles»

It's Tarantino's eighth movie and his worst by a widescreen, a boring, self - indulgent mess that squanders a big chunk of the goodwill he's built up with cinephiles by shooting on film and supporting independent theaters.

Ex Machina helmer Alex Garland also carries clout with cinephiles thanks to screenwriter credits on such Danny Boyle faves as The Beach (he penned the novel), zombie pic 28 Days Later and Sunshine.

Not exact matches

It was truly one of the most beautiful and moving films I've ever seen and — although that's not saying much considering I don't watch many movies (I'm cursed with almost always falling asleep)-- my cinephile husband agrees.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

Tarantino's film is not as explicit as it can be, yet it still resonates when the realization sets in (a realization cinephile Tarantino knows all too well) that slavery is usually treated in cinema with kid gloves.

Kindly ignore anyone with the temerity to suggest that Miguel Gomes's newest film is strictly for cinephiles.

And with her outstanding performance in «Lady Bird ``, she shows exactly why she has become such a favorite of cinephiles all over the world.

Barry Jenkins» film marked the first time cinephile - friendly studio A24 produced a movie from end - to - end and the result is just as staggering as those familiar with the studio's work might expect.

«I think Elio [the young man played Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile and I'd like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More,» a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.

I stayed in a nice flat up the hill with three Spanish cinephiles, and one Italian journalist.

Wanting to make sure his vision for the film would come to life with the nuance and edge it required, he made the leap to directing, a lifelong dream for the cinephile.

Cinephiles, especially those enthusiastic about the avant - garde, are probably familiar with Robert Gardner «s series Screening Room, which hosted numerous directors working in documentary and experimental film in the 1970s and early»80s.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

I never thought we'd have a year where Todd Haynes would make a new movie and cinephiles would regard it with a shrug, yet here we are.

CCS co-director Jason Coffman recently published a book of his collected film reviews, THE UNREPENTANT CINEPHILE, and we're celebrating with two of the most insanely entertaining films recently released by AGFA and Bleeding Skull!

This is a great idea, and in conjunction with Art House Theater Day, will be an exciting annual event that all cinephiles should participate in every year.

One such upstart definitely worth a cinephile's time (and money) is the Warner Archive's Instant service, supplementing Warner's made - to - order DVD program for their extensive, esoteric back - catalog with a cheaper, easily accessible online platform.

Wright had invited producer Steve Golin, which was enough to satisfy the die - hard cinephiles in the audience who knew him as the architect of Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films, but even without that, he charmed everyone with stories of Lynch's good luck rituals before a film like checking license plates in a parking lot for his initials and how he had a lunch meeting with Lynch where moments after he said he wanted Nicolas Cage for the part of bad boy Sailor Ripley, Cage walked into the restaurant they were eating at.

It is a film that — maybe more than any frontrunner of recent years — is in danger of drowning in its own critical attention and press acclaim, creating successive eddies of contrarian backlash from columnists and late - breaking social media dismissal from cinephiles, who compare it unfavourably with the classic work from Hollywood and France that is their own area of expertise.

The International Cinephile Society (ICS) has chimed in with their awards for 2014 films and have chosen Stranger by the Lake, from director Alain Guiraudie as the best film of the year.

She's a name that's known to ardent cinephiles, but rarely mentioned with as much frequency as her contemporaries Jean - Luc Godard, François Truffaut or Claude Chabrol.

I personally enjoyed it but can't say I was as enamored with it as other cinephiles.

And though we devoted cinephiles might mourn that lost 70 minutes, having already sat through 119 gloomy minutes, I couldn't be convinced to revisit the endeavor in its entirety to work out the filmmaker's original intent were I offered an exclusive interview with Jessica Chastain and a walk on role in her next project.

Never feeling like a hagiography, in part because it shares the humility of its subject, The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his work.

Though Andersson is mostly popular with reclusive cinephiles like myself, it's nice to see that Pigeon has been garnering hype since it's been on festival prediction lists for a few years now; hopefully this means more people will get to experience the bizarre, hilarious, and foppish world Roy Andersson so meticulously crafts with his distinctly angular, motionless camera style.

Many of these changes in the movie - watching experience are a result of the digital revolution, something the first century of cinephiles didn't have to deal with.

One of the highlights of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this documentary by cinephile and programmer Kent Jones takes the famous tome of the title and runs with its spirit rather than its story.

Two years ago Yorgos Lanthimos made his English language film debut with The Lobster and cemented his place in the hearts of diehard cinephiles.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

As one of the greatest actors of the 70s with some of the best films of that decade to his name, De Niro has a pretty high standing in the cinephile world.

Moreso than Shaun of the Dead or The World's End, Hot Fuzz inhabits its influences with the kind of aplomb to which any cinephile can relate: Somewhere between fascination, revulsion and pure visceral joy there walks the Michael Bays, the Don Simpsons, the John Woos, the Jerry Bruckheimers, and Wright gives each stalwart his due.

It is a cinephile's delight and a believer's conundrum, an austere American art film with a bracing B - movie soul, and a story in which the cruelest of cosmic punchlines may finally be no different from the most beautiful accession of grace.

The logic for audiences was that with more time and space to navigate the program (whose slender catalogue fits in a back pocket), the packed houses and epic queues would be diffused to a level more commensurate with a holiday weekend of moviegoing than an arduous pilgrimage to cinephile mecca.

But that's why I love his movies so much - each one is so unique and so different, yet all of them are made with the same brilliant, humorous sensibilities and passion for original entertainment that comes from deep within the cinephile heart of Edgar Wright.

It was the same festival that saw him really come to the attention of cinephiles in 2008, thanks to Kornel Mundruczo «s «Delta,» a gorgeous, glacially - paced drama with more than a little in common with Terrence Malick, which premiered in competition on the Croisette, where it won the FIPRESCI prize.

Before the films of Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean Renoir, Preminger or Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray or Satyajit Ray — or, indeed, Bertolucci — cinephiles rightly gasp at the expressive eloquence and power of that three - point relation of camera - actor - environment as it clicks into place with precision.

Ingeniously conceived, meticulously crafted and effortlessly breezy, this is a movie for true cinephiles that their kids can have a blast with as well.

This year, as Europe and the U.S. retreat from each other politically, cinephiles seem to have cut back on Hollywood fare, leaving us with a wealth of decidedly left - field film fodder that address topics such as discrimination against refugees, an adolescent Karl Marx, and all kinds of sexual diversity.

This irreverent show mixed footage of creator and host John Pierson and his band of cinephiles gathering impressions from the fringes of the movie - loving community in the late 1990s, intimate encounters with icons such as John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis, and sneak peeks of new work, including a little juggernaut known as The Blair Witch Project.

If you're a cinephile who adores features borne on actual celluloid, patronize your nearest 70 mm exhibitor and is enamored with the technology behind practical filmmaking, there's a lot to love about «Dunkirk.»

A must for cinephiles, foodies and wine lovers alike, the five - day «extended weekend» features a premier selection of independent films and hotly anticipated Oscar contenders, as well as conversations with some of the most exciting actors, directors, producers and writers working in movies today.

Only obsessed cinephiles would instantly identify that track with Werner Herzog thanks to its unforgettable use at the end of the masterpiece «Stroszek» (and «Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans» if memory serves).

Never mind that it gives you the joy of reliving the magic of a film made with such obvious love by and for cinephiles.

For nearly 20 years, cinephiles have argued over the strengths and weaknesses of the writer / director's work, but the biggest twist yet came just this year with the release of Split, his latest feature effort.

By any reckoning he owes a lot to privilege: the right upbringing in the right place with the right parents (a cinephile professor and a film critic), the right schools, right connections and right friends, even the right producer (Scott Rudin).

It's an insightful, unapologetic, entertaining conversation with one of the most knowledgeable, charismatic programmers in the country and it's one true cinephiles won't want to miss.

From Kim Ji - woon making a fun throwback to 80's action with The Last Stand, to long time cinephile favorite Park chan - Wook making the best film of the year (so far) with Stoker, modern American filmmakers could learn a thing or two from their foreign colleagues.

It's rarely a film that people point to first as a sign of Welles» mastery, but it's no less essential to understanding his place in cinema history, and Criterion continues to prove their commitment to his filmography by LOADING this release with the kind of special features that make it desirable to cinephiles.

No one is asking for a monster movie that aspires to Tarkovsky-esque levels of formal control, but films that don't register as entirely lifeless would surely be greeted with open arms by cinephiles and mainstream audiences alike.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.