the reader ( 1988 film )
for the development of the motion picture industry’s first paper tape reader incorporating microprocessor technology .
for the development of a high - speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories .
tied with bell diamond (1986) and alouette, je te plumerai (1988) .
snapped up the film rights before the novel was published with the intention of writing and directing the film himself .
technical review: section 72 copyright, designs and patents act 1988 (cdpa) - gov. uk
still, murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you' d expect, and the 1988 version of hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the cgi purgatory we live in today .
tacky in the extreme, this self - congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced .
see also: the history of the canadian film industry; the cinema of québec .
, successor to the bell & howell professional equipment division, for the development of a high - speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories .
winner of the national magazine award for his film reviews for the nation, stuart klawans is author of the books film follies: the cinema out of order (a finalist for the 1999 national book critics circle awards) and left in the dark: film reviews and essays, 1988 - 2001. when not on deadline for the nation, he contributes articles to the new york times, parnassus: poetry in review and other publications .
under the domim tree
is the sequel to mr. cohen' s 1988 film ,
the summer of aviya .
like the earlier movie, it is based on a memoir by the israeli actress gila almagor, who wrote the screenplay with eyal sher. ms. almagor also appears in the movie .
in recognition of the company’s fundamental contributions to the art of motion pictures during the first century of film history .
to date, no film has won all four of the academy awards for acting .
the film is a dazzling display of director tim burton' s unique pop culture sensibility .
it’s easy to underrate the impact of director george sluizer’s 1988 film. after all, the population explosion of cold, calculating killers featured in “murder of the week” television shows and news program reenactments makes the vanishing ’s innovative structure—introducing the viewer to the villain early and featuring him throughout the picture—seem almost formulaic. but the approach was riveting then, and still is today. —m. b .
respondents welcomed the removal of ‘film’ from section 72. the government intends to introduce legislative changes to effect this at the earliest opportunity .
the winners of the genie award for best motion picture are listed below, along with the producer (s) of each film .
a fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have - nots .
waters' most hygienically commercial film is a retro schlock - fancier' s delight .
the film forces the audience to confront the most vile aspects of life, without offering enough intellectual substance to justify sitting through such brutality .
in the iranian filmmaker' s last film, he has figured out a new way to stretch time .
the genie awards were presented between 1980 and 2012 by the academy of canadian cinema & television to honour distinguished achievement in the canadian film industry .
the academy award for best foreign language film is handed out annually by the u. s. - based academy of motion picture arts…
the genie awards became home to the golden reel award, for the film with the year’s highest box - office gross, and the air canada award, for an individual’s outstanding contribution to the business of filmmaking in canada. the claude jutra award, for best director of a first feature film, was created in 1993 .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
frances mcdormand won the best actress oscar for fargo (1996), thereby becoming the first star to win in a film directed by a spouse, husband joel coen. her brother - in - law, ethan coen, was the film' s producer .
the genie awards were presented between 1980 and 2012 by the academy of canadian cinema & television to honour distinguished achievement in the canadian film industry. they succeeded the canadian film awards (1949–78) and were merged with the gemini awards in 2013 to form the canadian screen awards. the genie’s french - language counterpart, the jutra awards, continue to honour filmmaking in québec .
in the last days of the city is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of cairo .
the only instance of a best actress nomination for a science - fiction film role was sigourney weaver for aliens (1986) .
from a slow starting film to a realisticly, disturbing, impact of a story. this film is created with the intention to demand your attention. it' s lack of explation or motive adds to the authentic feeling, it could almost be a fly on the wall documentary .
a short film about killing is as grim as a motion picture gets, but the intelligence and insight applied to its themes will keep the viewer riveted despite the pervasive gloom .
this list collects every film from the starting list that became they shoot pictures don' t they' s 1000 greatest films. this…
a politically subversive blend of horror and sci fi, they live is an underrated genre film from john carpenter .
it is absurd and jolly, parodying not only the worst conventions of the teen film but also the sixties social - conscience movie, with an anti - racist sub - plot .
a multi - faceted film based on raymond jean' s novel
la lectrice
. constance (miou - miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. inspired by the story of marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, constance decides to do the same. here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of constance and marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. this structure is further complicated when the lives of constance' s clients become tangled with the stories she reads. the film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, baudelaire, duras, tolstoy, lewis carroll and de sade' s
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to keep the story contemporary, cuesta (“kill the messenger”) and his team of screenwriters headed by “the americans’” stephen schiff shift the backstory forward in time. instead of a grizzled professional forged when his high school sweetheart died in the 1988 lockerbie bombing, this rapp was a 10 - year - old on 9 / 11. when the film starts, he’s a naïve, soft - bellied millennial, played by “teen wolf’s” dylan o’brien, proposing to his girlfriend katrina (charlotte vega) on a spanish beach .
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betelgeuse doesn' t fully emerge until the film is half over, but michael keaton makes a strong enough impression in the role to explain why the picture is named after his character .
of technical film systems for the design and development of a high - speed light valve controller and constant current power supply for motion picture laboratories .
this list is not meant to be just another rehashing of critical favorites nor a popularity contest. instead, it’s a bit of both, with a few other considerations thrown in to boot. the result is a list that compares apples and oranges—and lima beans and lamps—with the ultimate goal of providing the paste reader a list of movies that are worth checking out .
, which is what the film is called in england .) the film isn' t without its difficulties—a plot with no easy identifications due to a virtual absence of close - ups, a large cast of characters, and a periodic displacement of narrative centers—but these are all intimately related to its uncommon achievements. significantly, utamaro' s artistry only becomes visible at any length in the film' s final shot, and many of the moments of greatest beauty and power take place in the margins of the story proper. a neglected and important film by one of the supreme masters. with minosuke bando and kinuyo tanaka. in japanese with subtitles. 97 min .
for the masterly and ironic depiction of the character realization in the narrative structure .
while it is almost impossible to conceive of kieslowski making a bad film, in the decalogue, and particularly in killing, style and content were perfectly matched .
hairspray is perhaps john waters' most accessible film, and as such, it' s a gently subversive slice of retro hilarity .
in spite of the jokes at the expense of television - network censors, there' s very little in the film, aside from naughty words, that wouldn' t be perfectly acceptable on prime - time television .
to date, no female directors have had their starring husbands receive an oscar nod. the only married couples who acted together in the same film with each spouse being nominated for an award were :
in recognition of its 50th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to originate artistic, creative and technological activity and excellence in every area of film making .
without a doubt, this is john waters' s best film, and he crafts something that is quite enjoyable, funny, entertaining and well worth your time. if you' re familiar with waters' filmography, you' ll notice that he was more an exploitation, trash director who made some of film' s most bizarre films. with hairspray, he makes his most accessible picture, a film that is highly enjoyable, well acted and with a good story. the film may not be a perfect effort, but it does manage to be an entertaining film while using the theme segregation and racial issues as its backdrop for its story. with that, i thought it brought something serious to a comedy, and the way it handled it was very well done. john waters has made his finest film yet with hairspray, and this is a highly amusing entertaining film that is one of the finest musical comedies that i have seen. every actor here brings something wonderful to the screen, and it' s a satisfying film that will certainly appeal to any viewer looking for a pleasant time waster. hairspray works well because it' s a witty, funny picture with a message and it is a film that shows us that john waters is a capable director who was able to shift from exploitation to a more mainstream type of movie. hairspray is worth seeing, and it' s a film that surprised as i didn' t expect to really enjoy it, but i did. if you' re uncertain about john waters, give this film a shot, it' s easily one of his most accessible works, and with many well thought out characters, it' s a memorable musical that ranks among the genres finest films .
whether this represents god’s vision or that of the priests, it is very much the point of view of the movie’s own creator. this overhead shot and others suggest that there’s a divine aspect to the priests’ mission, an idea that mr. scorsese visually and narratively underlines in the lazarus - like cave in which rodrigues and garupe first take shelter in japan; in rodrigues’s self - aggrandizing identification with jesus; and, crucially, through the figure of judas. as in mr. scorsese’s 1988 film, “the last temptation of christ, ” his messy, excitingly alive adaptation of that nikos kazantzakis novel, judas must play a part in “silence” because without him there can be no jesus .
sophia loren was the first foreign - language performing actress to win an oscar (best actress) for a foreign - language film, two women (1960, it. )
with kate winslet' s sixth career nomination for the reader (2008), she became the youngest individual (at age 33) to have six oscar nominations. she was one year younger than bette davis who (at age 34) received her sixth for now, voyager (1942). now in 2015, winslet received a seventh career nomination, best supporting actress for steve jobs (2015) .
they live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging .
french actress marion cotillard won best actress for the french film la vie en rose (2007, fr .) - it was the first acting oscar awarded to a french - language film [ note: some lists also include marlee matlin for using american sign language (asl) for her oscar - winning role in children of a lesser god (1986) ]
for the invention of a method known as video assist, whereby a scene being photographed on motion picture film can be viewed on a monitor and / or recorded on video tape .
the reader opens in post - war germany when teenager michael berg becomes ill and is helped home by hanna, a stranger twice his age. michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out hanna to thank her. the two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. michael discovers that hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. hanna is enthralled as michael reads to her from
the odyssey ,
huck finn
and
the lady with the little dog .
despite their intense bond, hanna mysteriously disappears one day and michael is left confused and heartbroken. eight years later, while michael is a law student observing the nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. as hanna' s past is revealed, michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. the reader is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another .
was very keen to adapt the novel but minghella refused. eight years later minghella went to hare and asked him to write the screenplay as he simply couldn' t find the time to do it himself. ironically, minghella died prematurely following an operation during the film' s production .
devoid of sentimentality, self - satisfaction and subconscious sexiness, a short film about killing has the coolness and rigor of a mathematical proof. yet few films have cried more passionately and articulately against the cycle of human violence .
that is kieslowski' s underlying point; that each death is a morally repugnant as the other - - and a short film about killing tackles that subject with gloomy poetry and undeniable power .
constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called marie decides to become a professional reader. having placed an advertisement in the paper, marie is offered work by a curious mix of clients, including a wheel - bound young man, an elderly widow who thrives on tolstoy and marx, and a love hungry executive interested only in pornography. as she reads, constance becomes embroiled in the story and imagines herself in the part of marie ...
john carpenter' s 1988 sf action - thriller about aliens taking over the earth through the hypnotic use of tv. the explicit anti - reagan satire—the aliens are developers who regard human beings as cattle, aided by yuppies who are all too willing to cooperate for business reasons—is strangely undercut and confused by a xenophobic treatment of the aliens that also makes them virtual stand - ins for the vietcong. carpenter' s wit and storytelling craft make this fun and watchable, although the script takes a number of unfortunate shortcuts, and the possibilities inherent in the movie' s central conceit are explored only cursorily. all in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst, with lots of
the academy attracted 100 founding members, all working professionals in the industry. it absorbed the canadian film awards and created in their place the genie awards, which were voted on by the academy’s peer groups. the “etrog” statuette (designed by sculptor sorel etrog) that had been presented to winners since 1968 was renamed the genie to symbolize “the magic of filmmaking and the hidden genie seeking expression in all creative people. ” the first genie awards ceremony was held on 20 march 1980 at toronto’s royal alexandra theatre .
note: the calculated time is from date of birth to the date of either (1) the nominations announcement, or (2) the date of the awards ceremony .
genie awards database search the complete database for the genie awards at the academy of canadian cinema & television .
alex gibney exposes the haunting details of the usa' s torture and interrogation practices during the war in afghanistan .
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kenji mizoguchi' s first postwar film (1946), made under the censorship pressure of the american occupation, might be interpreted as a story about the director' s own artistic confinement as well as that of the great 18th - century wood - block printmaker kitagawa utamaro (1753 - 1806). (a less offensive and more accurate translation of the title would be
of all the big year - end films, guillermo del toro’s the shape of water is the most deeply moving .
for the design and development of the spectra cinespot one - degree spotmeter for measuring the brightness of motion picture screens .
the best actress award should actually be titled
the best performance by an actress in a leading role .
the same rules that govern the best actor category apply to the best actress category .
bill murray is the one of the greatest screen scrooges in this 1980s updating .
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for the concept and engineering of the arriflex 35 - 3 motion picture camera .
a multi - faceted film based on raymond jean' s novel
la lectrice
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brutal and disgusting, a short film about killing is frequently virtually unwatchable. this is just as kieslowski intended and it' s also a unique, profound and, eventually, a humane achievement .
it' s like network with a sci - fi twist, a remake could expand the ideas of the film, but considering how shitty every single remake of carpenter' s movies have been i say we rather stick to this one. it' s a lot of fun and piper fits the lead role perfectly .
). perhaps the film is so engaging because herzog’s own obsession with the unthinkable parallels that of his mad title character, a wild - eyed and wild - haired opera lover who wants to build an opera house in a small peruvian city along the amazon and tries to get into the rubber business to do it. klaus kinski embodies the role perfectly, allowing us to sympathize with his foolish dreams .
beetlejuice is peculiar yet fascinating. the film' s infectious laughter, obscure thrills and sensational performance from michael keaton upholds to this day; making this bizarre piece of entertainment one of tim burton' s best, if not, the best directorial effort. 4. 5 / 5
the intense, complicated teen - agers who reside in the oudim state boarding school in eli cohen' s film
under the domim tree
represent israel' s shining youth at the same time that many of them are traumatized survivors. it is 1953, and these students are among the thousands of young people orphaned by the holocaust whom the youth aliyah movement relocated in israel in kibbutz - like communal villages. while they are helping to build the foundation of the emerging israeli state, beneath their communal hope and idealism lurk horrifying memories and haunting questions that may never be answered .
check out highlights from some of the best recent trailers including mandy, the predator, zoe, and the king of thieves .
a biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator howard hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s .
in light of the responses received, this is a further consultation and technical review on the draft regulations for introducing the changes .
for their individual contributions and the collective advancements they have brought to the motion picture industry in the field of motion control technology .
inspector lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province' s notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. the perspective of the inquiry changes when the... see full summary »
in 2012, following “extensive industry consultation and outreach, ” the academy announced that it would merge the gemini and genie awards into the canadian screen awards, which were first held in toronto on 3 march 2013 and broadcast on cbc television. academy ceo helga stephenson explained that merging the awards for television and film was part of an effort “to put a much bigger spotlight on those industries. ”
murray, it' s clear today, was the perfect scrooge of the' 80s .
indigenous (aboriginal) peoples are the original inhabitants of the land that is now canada .
at the end of the day, when the singing and dancing stop and the lights go out, the ghosts of the past loom large. in the movie' s eerie opening scene, the students methodically comb the muddy fields around the school in search of a runaway classmate who turns out to have drowned himself. the scene echoes their own desperate flight from the nazis. one young man, yurek (ohad knoller), who survived in the woods for two years with a younger boy, periodically reverts into a wild - child state in which he dashes around piggybacking the boy (jeniya catzan), who emits frightening animal cries .
the big - budget pop movie surprises with themes and emotions that might escape the attention of action fans but are present all the same .
it’s near impossible for moviegoers under a certain age to understand just how bleak the fantasy - film landscape was for avid fantasy buffs in the early 1980s. most of the classics of fantasy literature were deemed unmakeable and those that were made were pretty much unwatchable. as for original screenplays? krull. dark times, indeed. ladyhawke, richard donner’s tale of cursed lovers and the thief who helps them, was a break in the clouds, or more precisely, the first pebble of an eventual avalanche of genre that dominates the box office today. as etienne, isabeau and the mouse, respectively, rutger hauer, michelle pfeiffer and matthew broderick invest their characters with a degree of role - appropriate personality and charm that marks them more as fantasy archetypes than film stereotypes. shot simply and beautifully, ladyhawke represented an important watershed for the genre—it felt real. (the soundtrack, sadly, sucks .) —m. b .
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“silence” argues against orthodoxy, but its messenger is too pallid. this is less the fault of mr. garfield than of mr. scorsese’s conception of rodrigues as the story’s fulcrum instead of its void. mr. scorsese fills the film with haunting tableaus and performances — including from tadanobu asano, as the interpreter — that tug from the edges, pulling attention away from its center. in the end, nothing that rodrigues says resonates as deeply as inoue’s terrifying, teasing whine, which conveys the larger cultural and political stakes; nothing imparts the mystery of creation as potently as the flicker of a darting emerald lizard or an eerie parade of cats prowling through a spookily deserted village .
the joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. and some time soon, they live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us .
in order to be eligible for a genie award, a film was required to qualify as a canadian production or co - production (as defined by cavco and / or crtc criteria), and to have been released theatrically in canada between 1 january and 31 december of the previous year .
it’s appropriate that the arrival of a naked cyborg (shaped much like the future governor of california) heralded the arrival of a filmmaker whose use of technology has had almost as significant an impact on the film industry as dark lord lucas himself. (the box office receipts are comparable, as well .) granted, in terms of special effects, james cameron ’s 1984 sci - fi thriller is a simple affair when compared to its sequel (or titanic or avatar), but its frenetic action and iconic title character made the success of the terminator as unexpected as it was deserved .
the story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years .
john carpenter' s they live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci - fi of the 1950s .
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his assigned ex - navy seal instructor stan hurley (michael keaton), a persian gulf vet who wakes up his students with gunfire, doesn’t trust him at all, and with good reason: this crazy kid reminds him of his last unhinged prodigy (taylor kitsch), a madman currently brokering plutonium deals in poland. a deeper film might underline the sour joke that this angry american who wants to kill muslims discovers his real enemy is a second angry american created by a third. this film doesn’t want it’s catharsis to get too complicated .
by gifting the 23 - year - old character the skills readers expect, including pick - pocketing, drag racing, dog evasion, multiple languages and parkour, he’s less an intelligence expert than a superhero in jeans. the excess makes him silly. but the movie’s thrumming cello and shadowy cinematography demand we take him seriously, a combination made for giggles. even oscar nominee keaton, here as lean and deadly as a garrote, nearly chokes on the braggadocio. early on, when he stares down the camera and dares his pupils to “kill me, ” the advance screening audience howled. keaton’s better cackling with a mouthful of blood, the kind of exploitation mayhem that the film pretends is beneath it .
once in japan, rodrigues and garupe make contact with a village of hidden christians, who live in fear of the authorities and a cobralike smiler known as the inquisitor, inoue (issey ogata, in one of the film’s strongest performances). by day, the priests hide in a small, cramped hut near the village; by night, they lead their new flock in dimly lighted rooms, delivering sermons in latin, baptizing children and taking confession. mr. scorsese draws some modest, uneasy comedy from the linguistic and cultural differences between the priests and their congregation, as when a grabby, highly agitated woman begs the rather startled garupe to hear her confession .
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when michael reads hannah the odyssey, he reads from the robert fagles translation, not published until 1996 .
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the movie is a bubble - headed series of teenage crises and crushes, alternating with historically accurate choreography of such forgotten dances as the madison and the roach .
as the movie sadly observes, the dream of family can also be a nightmare. when a couple arrive at the school insisting that mira is their daughter, the antisocial teen - ager denies it and tries to run away. the matter is resolved in court .
the spectacle of alexander payne’s downsizing, the anti - trump propaganda of steven spielberg’s the post, an inexplicable period melodrama by paul thomas anderson, and more .
nicole kidman won the best actress oscar for her role as virginia woolf, the troubled and depressed author of mrs. dalloway, in the hours (2002 )
during the ’80s, john sayles established himself as a smart indie writer / director with a knack for social commentary. but only one of his films embedded said commentary into a zany sci - fi plot. the result is the story of a mute alien who looks like a black man with weird feet, who crash - lands in harlem and meets and observes the people of new york city. joe morton gives a stellar silent performance that, like the film itself, seamlessly moves from comic to empathetic. —j. m .
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the most interesting part of this movie for me was the cast. like wow, debbie harry and ric ocasek were in this. it is definitely a weird waters film, although it' s pg. this is one of the strangest portrayals of the early 60s i have ever seen. i was expecting more singing, though, hearing from others that it' s a musical and all. i didn' t really get into this movie, but i guess others like it .
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of wilcam for the mechanical and electrical engineering, of the image 300 35mm high - speed motion picture camera .
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granted, later films by hayao miyazaki (especially princess mononoke and spirited away) would explore more serious themes, but the magic that made studio ghibli the only real pre - pixar alternative to the disney machine can be found here: the sprightly imagination, the endearing characters and the evocation of both childhood wonders and fears. —m. b .
naturally, his late - night chats flag the attention of cia deputy director irene kennedy (sanaa lathan), who does the sensible thing when one discovers a temperamental, traumatized, monomaniacal rebel: she trusts him to save the world. the film trusts him less, layering flickers of al - mansur’s face over other strangers when rapp shoots to kill. in a virtual reality training sequence, rapp fires at a hologram of al - mansur even when he knows the battery pack he’s wearing will punish him with a violent shock, like a rat who refuses to learn .
the silence of the title resounds insistently; it’s in the screams of the faithful and in rodrigues’s endless searching. why, he agonizes with no self - awareness, does god not answer prayers and alleviate suffering, a question which proves too heavy a load for mr. garfield’s talents. when he plays against the other actors, he can seem as decorative as a plaster saint (his luxuriously styled hair is right out of a 1950s biblical epic), which makes the other performers and their characters look stronger, and works for the story. rodrigues is weak. but it’s weakness without depth or the burning belief that would make his errors shattering. when he carries on alone, speaking to god, questioning and suffering at great, monotonous length, his weakness becomes tedious, as does the film .
the depiction of violence is far removed from the usual camera choreography, and is, in consequence, truly appalling .
“silence” is based on the 1966 novel by the japanese author shusaku endo that has attracted heavyweight admirers since it was first published. graham greene praised the novel, as did john updike; for years, mr. scorsese tried to turn it into a film. (he wrote the foreword for a recent edition .) filled with reams of religious dialogue, the novel fictionalizes history — the 17th - century purging of christianity in japan — as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference. what preoccupies endo is whether western christianity can take root in what the inquisitor describes as “this swamp of japan, ” which seems inhospitable to outside forces. it’s a story of god, nation and myth .
christopher cain directed this western from a script by john fusco, and on the whole seems much more comfortable with the scroungy and scatological dialogue than he does with the action sequences .
faye dunaway was the only performer who won an academy award oscar of her own (best actress for network (1976) ) and then went on to portray in the film mommie dearest (1981) a real - life star, joan crawford, who won a best actress oscar for her performance in mildred pierce (1945). cate blanchett' s best supporting actress oscar win for the aviator (2004) in her role as katharine hepburn marked the first time a performer won an oscar for playing an oscar - winning actress .
of offbeat systems for the design and development of the streamline scoring system, mark iv, for motion picture music editing .
finally, there are yola (orli perl) and mira (riki blich). while one lives in the distant hope of a reunion with her parents, the other dreads reconciliation with an abusive couple who show up at the school claiming her as their own. the film' s most poignant moment arrives when yola receives word that her father is alive in poland and waiting for her to join him. her seemingly miraculous good fortune awakens a collective longing, and she is showered with letters to carry on a journey that never takes place .
a homeless drifter discovers a reason for the ever - widening gap between the rich and the poor: a conspiracy by non - human aliens who have infiltrated american society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. with the help of special sunglasses that reveal the aliens' true faces and their subliminal messages (
marry and reproduce ,
submit to authority
), our hero tries to stop the invasion. this satire of reaganomics and the
greed is good
era also has one of the funniest (and longest) fight scenes in american cinema .
although the stars are nice to look at, the story, characters, and plot aren' t all that interesting. it' s the typical western, and i really don' t care for westerns anyway. the action was probably the best part. overall, it' s okay, but i bet other people just watch it for the stars as well .
come for the “khaaaahhhhhn! ”, stay for the surprisingly emotional treatise on aging without wisdom, as well as one hell of a potent, humbling gut punch of an ending. anyone arguing for any other film in the trek franchise will find themselves speaking into a black hole chewed in the matte canvas by exquisitely potent villain, played by ricardo montalban. that director / co - writer nicholas meyer somehow coaxes a performance from william shatner that’s only barely un - kosher makes this movie a space opera with broad, lasting appeal. —s. w .
john carpenter goes campy with they live. backed with a catchy tune for 90 minutes, they live hilariously amuses with its sci - fi thriller style plot. the buildup is a little lengthy, but serves as a great contrast for when the sunglasses are on. plot details are thin and under explained at times; however, the subject matter and characters make up for these shortfalls. the action is over the top and a brawl in an alleyway is excessively long, yet somehow it feels right at home in this picture. the visuals through the sunglasses is a delight when compared with the so - called real world view. roddy piper is a hoot and keith david steps in as a successful partner in crime. those two alone are enough to make this film work. < they live steps out of the norm and unveils reality. worth a check out .
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this is a slightly bizarre film, a bit like a pretentious european soft porno movie from the 1970ies, minus the sleaze. i have seen it before in a dubbed version, back when it first came out, and didn' t get it - - the movie relies heavily on the original dialogue. this time i saw the french version, and, although i still can' t say that i managed to penetrate into the story' s every nook and cranny, i can testify that the dialogue is quite witty, the wit is farcical, and miou - miou is adequately sensual. and that' s more than you can say for most movies these days. it won' t make it into my personal list of desert island films, but i' m genuinely glad to have given it another go .
the movie’s early scenes are filled with severe pictorial beauty as the pale thermal steam snaking around the martyred christians gives way to the vaulted white room where the black - clothed jesuits meet. the chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room’s ascetic whiteness finds an echo in rodrigues’s rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested. his resoluteness even seems answered by the calm camerawork (no jitters here), which early on is dramatically punctuated by a ravishing overhead shot of the three jesuit priests gliding down a flight of stony, bleach - white stairs, as if they were being looked down on from high above .
despite the mugging from both confessor and confessed, the exchange feels forced and comes across as a bid to lighten the gloom; if anything, it turns a feverish plea for absolution into a bit of vaudeville. there’s something uncomfortably and literally childlike about this child of god, who, like the other villagers, with their pleading eyes and hands, seems like a relic from a white - savior myth. kichijiro, who enters grunting and twitching, as if in homage to toshiro mifune, and grovels at the priest’s feet, also seems on hand as much for comic relief as for guidance. yet, even as the film seems to share the outsider perspectives of rodrigues and garupe, instructively, it is the village elders — brilliantly played by yoshi oida and shinya tsukamoto — who give these scenes flesh, bone and pain .
as of 2015, there were five actors who were nominated twice for playing the same character in two different films. (see section on best actor .) the sixth performer to accomplish the same feat, cate blanchett, remains the only actress to be nominated twice for playing the same character role in two different films :
when divine' s edna turnblad is on - screen in the sleeveless dresses she' s partial to, the movie has something like the lunacy of a w. c. fields in drag .
martin scorsese’s “silence” is a story of faith and anguish. it tells of a portuguese jesuit priest, father rodrigues, who in 1643 heads into the dark heart of japan, where christians are being persecuted — boiled alive, immolated and crucified. rodrigues (andrew garfield) sets out to help keep the church alive in japan, a mission that perhaps inevitably leads to god. the film’s solemnity is seductive — as is mr. scorsese’s art — especially in light of the triviality and primitiveness of many movies, even if its moments of greatness also make its failures seem more pronounced .
, this is arguably john huston' s best literary adaptation, and conceivably his very best film—a very close rendering of flannery o' connor' s remarkable first novel about a crazed southern cracker (a perfectly cast brad dourif) who sets out to preach a “church without christ, ” and winds up suffering a true christian martyrdom in spite of himself. the period, local ambience, and o' connor' s deadly gallows humor are all perfectly caught, and apart from the subtle if highly pertinent fact that this is an unbeliever' s version of a believer' s novel, it' s about as faithful a version of o' connor' s grotesque world as one could ever hope to get on film, hilarious and frightening in equal measure. o' connor conceived her novel as a parody of existentialism, and huston' s own links with existentialism—as the director of the first u. s. stage production of
a cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. nicholas mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites... see full summary »
kieslowski movingly demonstrates the unexpected connections that strangers make, and ponders the metaphysical forces that not only bind us, but also redeem us .
it would be hard to improve upon the classic, after all, and scrooged not only sticks to the dickens plot, but makes it believable as a modern fable. but the more difficult part of scrooged is its modernization, the colorization of dickens, if you will .
michael keaton is a raucous and hilarious precursor to johnny depp' s drunken gay pirate. however, the story of ghosts trying to exorcise the living is top - heavy, taking too long to start, and the zany parts, while visually stylistic, don' t really push the narrative along - the dinner dance, beetlejuice marrying lydia .
for the design and development of the photo - sonics 35mm - 4er high - speed motion picture camera with reflex viewing and video assist .
teresa wright (best actress for the pride of the yankees (1942) and best supporting actress for mrs. miniver (1942) * )
the shock waters' s cinema offers, then, is not transcendent, but almost reflexive, implicating the viewer in the awkward complexities of his own humanity and forcing him to either celebrate it or run screaming away .
if
under the domim tree
is touching, it is also meandering and narratively diffuse. the stories are interwoven in a dreamy, haphazard way that leaves too many unanswered questions. and the symbolism of a tulip field and the domim tree that overlooks it veers perilously close to sentimentality .
of the 1980s. this list takes into account what the critics and audiences of the time could not—the lasting ripple effects of iconic performances, influential direction and pop - culture sweet spots, as well as some simply overlooked gems. that said, a great performance or popular endearment isn’t necessarily enough. the films on this list must be good, solid examples of their respective genre (and in some cases, the template for said genre) .
sidekicks victor (scott adkins) and annika (shiva negar) don’t make the script’s themes about retribution versus revenge — i. e. , measured justice versus guns - blazing insanity — more coherent. (annika mostly seems there to wear spike heels and charm clerks into giving the team better hotel rooms .) everyone spends the film ruled by their emotions even when they’re claiming not to be, and making loud declarations abut the logical way to be a globe - trotting killer, glaring at each other for not trusting their genius and then doing the opposite, anyway. the action scenes are mostly fisticuffs and knives and a few smashed cars. (the makeup team deserves kudos for their excellent abrasions .) cuesta seems to have saved most of his budget for a big cg sequence at the climax — a fine trade - off, as marcus shakesheff’s fight choreography is strong, occasionally even inventive, like a flurry of traded gut - punches set on a choppy speedboat .
there are side pleasures to be found in going back and reliving the bad parts of the' 80s. a rental of young guns lets us know that at least we' re out of reaganomics and the movies it spawned .
behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know .
it looks like you dipped your face in the cheese dip back in 1957 .
an overly ambitious special - effects comedy obviously influenced by the success of ghostbusters .
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many other actresses have won the best actress award twice. see also below .
luise rainer with her first win for the great ziegfeld (1936), and then her second - and back - to - back best actress oscar win for her performance in the good earth (1937). she became the first multiple oscar winner, and was the first to win an award two years in a row
in this western, a group of young, hotheaded kids, including the infamous william h. bonney (emilio estevez), are hired to help out british land - owner john henry tunstall (terence stamp). when their boss is killed, bonney leads the group of gunslingers out to capture the murderers. giving in to his rage, bonney shoots the guilty men down instead of bringing them back to town, and he and his boys end up on the run from the law.
the reader ( french : la lectrice ) is a 1988 french film directed by michel deville . the film won that year 's louis delluc prize , and was nominated for nine césar awards including best supporting actor , won by patrick chesnais . 
the reader (french: la lectrice) is a 1988 french film directed by michel deville. the film won that year's louis delluc prize, and was nominated for nine césar awards including best supporting actor, won by patrick chesnais.
the reader (french: la lectrice) is a 1988 french film directed by michel deville. the film won that year's louis delluc prize, and was nominated for nine césar awards including best supporting actor, won by patrick chesnais.