Sentences with phrase «zeitgeist films»

Irma Vep is obviously a great film, but Demonlover is almost as great (and one of the decade's great zeitgeist films), and Summer Hours makes the same concerns he's been mulling over since then fresh in explicit verbal formulations; it's consistent but not wearisome.

«But it's a zeitgeist film it captured a moment in New York independent filmmaking when anything was possible.

Get Out — if there is a zeitgeist film burning like wildfire, this one seems to be it.

Barry Jenkins turned a 1.5 million dollar budget into the zeitgeist film of the year with Moonlight and his follow up, If Beale Street Could Talk, hopes to double down on that success.

Not exact matches

Ninety percent of the money came in, reports its former general manager, from people who wanted «the cancer - curing Double Helix water, the right - wing conspiracy film Zeitgeist, and the writings of David Icke, which promote the theory that reptilian shapeshifters control our world.»

The Social Network shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist - savvy films like Network and All the President's Men, as well as more recent fare such as The Insider and Michael Clayton.

The service has films licensed from major studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — as well as indie distributors including Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus Films, Kino, Milestone, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, Global Lens, First Run Features, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Shout Factory.

Genre classics like Ocean's 11, The Italian Job, and The Great Train Robbery ensured that heist films were a viable box office endeavor, and they've been part of the zeitgeist ever since.

One can salivate over the prospects of this, but there's little in the way of content to suggest this film will last longer than a week in the zeitgeist.

Talks about making a film about transgender issues when the subject is so relevant and such a part of the zeitgeist.

There's much discussion about how the film is supposedly a game changer, how it's more in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a period piece like The King's Speech.

and groundbreaking cinematography by James Wong Howe that apes Wexler's, is a startling instruction on zeitgeist as it relates to movements in film.)

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine - Nine) as Bedlam, Lewis Tan (Iron Fist) as Shatterstar, Bill Skarsgard (It) as Zeitgeist, Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) as Russell, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Eddie Marsan (Atomic Blonde) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

But the decade writ large at this year's edition was not the 1930s, but the 1950s, if only thanks to a couple of high - profile studio films that re-created its zeitgeist as a meticulously curated waking nightmare with pointed lessons for the present.

Greta Gerwig had some awards buzz ever since «Frances Ha» premiered at Telluride in 2012, and the film certainly hit the zeitgeist among younger viewers.

The case of the DVD, which is available tomorrow from New York - based limited distributor Zeitgeist Films, declares, «Despite some mild bad language in French, this film is appropriate for children.»

Beautifully rendered and assuredly directed, the film raises a lot of questions about the nature of damaged people in a culture of excess and non-stop barrage of information, capturing the zeitgeist in ways that no other film this year has done.

To pad out the rest of the film, writer / directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have plucked some pop psychology from the parenting zeitgeist, stuffed it into a high school mean - girls formula and then added plenty of F - bombs and raunchy sex talk to make it edgy.

Finally, we get Zeitgeist's subtitled U.S. theatrical trailer for the film (1:32), which throws out many a grandiose cinematic comparison and makes no effort to appeal to your typical American moviegoer.

Which is to say that the Best Picture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caboodle.

I bring this up only to state that the HFPA has made a point of awarding whatever film is in the zeitgeist at the moment.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

A fascinating film, soaked in the anti-establishment zeitgeist.

But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.

The production design, which includes a lavish nightclub (wherein we get the title of the film), the cars from the period, the double - breasted suits, all highlight the zeitgeist of this time in America.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.

-RRB- become obfuscated in the factual critiques of them that the zeitgeist loses sight of the quality of the film itself (those looking for pure facts should, after all, consult a documentary and not Bradley Cooper or David Oyelowo).

Looking at the historical record, it's pretty amazing that The Bourne Identity even exists as a coherent film, let alone one that would tap the zeitgeist of the moment, launch a franchise, and help reshape action cinema in its image.

Few actresses have been in a zeitgeist - defining film, let alone two in a two - month period.

Is it going to be a coming out party for Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga, both sensational in one of a very few films tackling the political zeitgeist this year (and successfully at that)?

Earning back its budget several times over, the much - watched, much - quoted film quickly etched a place in the cultural zeitgeist alongside Animal House and The Blues Brothers as modern marvels taking funnymen from «Saturday Night Live» to heights and distances that weekly sketch comedy TV couldn't.

The film certainly ticks the boxes as a period biopic and the subject matter may also unexpectedly tap into the zeitgeist, following the recent media attention given to Bruce Jenner's own gender transition.

Also new this week: super-deluxe special editions of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount) on DVD and Blu - ray [read my review of the film here], Carlos Saura's music film Fados (Zeitgeist), a Criterion edition of Mira Nair's 2001 Monsoon Wedding (on DVD and Blu - ray) and Jean - Jacques Beineix's The Moon in the Gutter (Cinema Libre).

The film is anti-military but pro-police, which strikes me as a relatively sophisticated attitude and more attuned to the present zeitgeist than to that of the post -»60s counterculture.

The grey area is whether it's Schmidt's fault or the zeitgeist's that the film doesn't resonate even ten seconds past the finish line, although its crowd - pleasing instincts are unmistakably of trend rather than tradition.

While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with far scarier convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national discourse has swung into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).

Maybe every 10 years, there's little blips of films, but I think it's as you say — because they're all in development for such a long time they all hit at a certain moment in the zeitgeist.

While the 2016 - 2017 season didn't see any new show rise to Hamilton - like popularity — it's hard for any TV show, film or stage production to reach that level of pop culture zeitgeist — there are plenty of standout showcases of what fans have come to know and love about the New York City theater scene.

Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander — both now nominated for acting honors from the Golden Globes, Critics» Choice Awards and SAG — the film has hit the zeitgeist in terms of public interest... Read

«Alps «As extraordinary a film as Georgos Lanthimos «debut «Dogtooth» was, there was something about its Fritzl - ish premise that seemed like it was riding the zeitgeist (even if it marched firmly to the beat of its own drum), and I wondered how the director would fare with something that felt less ripped from the headlines.

It's funny how the zeitgeist works, in that it is hardly unusual for two films with very similar high concepts to hit the screens at close to the same time.

Midway through the film, Deadpool recruits a group of superheroes with mutant powers, including Domino (Zazie Beetz), Bedlam (Ter - ry Crews), Shatterstar (Lewis Tan), Zeitgeist (Bill Skarsgard) and Vanisher (a blink - and - you - missed - it Brad Pitt)-- plus one decidedly non-superpowered corporate shmoe from payroll named Peter (Rob Delaney).

Those of us who made films in the 70s were not following the zeitgeist: we shaped it, writes William Friedkin

I mentioned earlier that the era of a coming - of - age film is, more than anything else, an incidental environmental backdrop, but as epochs go, I can't deny how satisfying it is to see my own underused zeitgeist explored with such love and care.

Jordan Peele's satirical horror film hit the zeitgeist like nobody's business.

When the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, it had the weight of a legion of Suzanne Collins fans and pop culture zeitgeist behind it, but managed to be little more than a vaguely interesting (if derivative) story told in a mediocre fashion by director Gary Ross.

Set aboard a spaceship with interiors resembling the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film features Captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson), whose mustache, chain - smoking, and predilection for drinking while on the job places him within the film's attempted anachronistic paradox, where «a galaxy far, far away» is actually the dregs of a 1970s social zeitgeist past.

Lau's reunion with Wong Kar Wai eight years on stars Tony Leung Chiu - wai and Faye Wong in a deconstruction of Ashes of Time that celebrates and satirizes Chinese classical literature, Hong Kong film, and anything else that'll fit inside Lau's zeitgeist blender.