Sentences with phrase «with polarizing films»

Pedigree: Von Trier has been terrorizing the festival circuit for years with polarizing films like Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Dogville, and his enfant terrible status was reaffirmed at the infamous press conference for Melancholia, where his remarks on Nazis got him banned from Cannes.

Not exact matches

Polarizing film is like a screen of parallel bars that the rope passes through: it lets through waves polarized parallel to it unhindered, blocks perpendicular ones completely and allows waves on other angles to get through with reduced amplitude.

Ridley Scott's much anticipated prequel / sequel to his hit film Alien and the polarizing Prometheus will be moved from it's October release into the summer in August while «The Predator» will come out in March 2018 with the director of The Monster Squad and Shane Black returning to pare up for the sequel to the 1987 classic.

February and High - Rise proved to be the most polarizing out of all of the films at the festival, with half of the attendees either loving or hating them with no middle ground (I loved February and absolutely loathed High - Rise).

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

The film has been drawing a polarizing response at Sundance, with many noting the disappointing ending.

To say the film was polarizing is an understatement and it's Rotten Tomato score only confirms that with a 50 % the last time I checked.

Along with the Blu - ray debut of one of Brian De Palma's most polarizing films, the two - disc set includes what is being called a «Director's Cut» but was actually edited by Peet Gelderblom, a commercial filmmaker and critic from The Netherlands, to reorder the film to De Palma's original plan.

This kind of tone used to depict the interconnectedness between sex and crime set by Cool Hair evokes Harmony Korine's polarizing 2012 feature film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco, but Mr. Orozco - Cubbon delivers this content much more naturally and with the poise and confidence of an experienced filmmaker who already has a well - defined style, knowingly and purposefully playing with the two intertwining dynamics that keep the audience on its toes.

Rob Zombie is one of the most polarizing genre filmmakers working today, with equal amounts of people believing his films to be brilliant art or tasteless filth.

A polarizing film that may leave you with more questions than answers, but boy did I love it.

We talked about what it was like to get the offer to direct Star Wars, how he arrived at some of the themes of the film, and how he's dealing with the polarized reaction from fans.

With unrepentant bombast — and, one imagines, a smirk — Yorgos Lanthimos announces, in just the first shot, that this is his film, and he doubles down on the stylistic tics that define his polarizing work.

FilmStruck's director of the week is the polarizing Lars von Trier and they've added eight of his films to the catalog, from his breakthrough murder mystery The Element of Crime (Denmark, 1984, not rated) to his Oscar nominated Breaking the Waves (Denmark, 1996, R) with Emily Watson to the dark psychodrama Antichrist (Denmark, 2009, R) with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Piven describes the film as «The Big Chill» meets «Apocalypse Now» and while male bonding is the glue that holds all three films together, there are some polarizing dark turns that set «I Melt With You» apart from those earlier comparisons.

Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey sits down with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky to discuss his polarizing film, Mother!

Speaking of polarizing movies, last night I hosted a Q&A with Charlie Kaufman after a showing of Anomalisa, one of my favorite films of the year.

If you thought Star Trek Discovery was a polarizing show for Trekkies, imagine how they must be dealing with the news of J. J. Abrams and Quentin Tarantino teaming up to create an R - rated Star Trek film.

Then there are two video artists, Price and Fowler, who have contributed, respectively, a short film dealing with a deadly 1979 fire at a Woolworth store (mixed in with footage of the Shangri Las) and a feature - length film about the polarizing Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.