Top 10 Greatest Films of Hayao Miyazaki. Movies and TV Hayao Miyazaki is a legendary anime film maker. He collaborated with long time film company, Studio Ghibli. He has directed ten fantastic films, as of 2011, having made his first feature length film in 1979. But it wasn’t until 1984, when people really started getting intrigued by his films, as he had marvelous story telling. The visuals and animation kept improving in each film he made. He has a legendary list of films, ones that barely any other animation could compare with. Despite the masterpieces Pixar makes, they cannot top the amazing story and epic visuals of Studio Ghibli, despite being CGI.
The Castle of Cagliostro A film about a few bandits who attempt rescuing a princess from an evil Count. Though Miyazaki’s newest film is not his best, that is, in all honesty, not saying much at all. Another one of Miyazaki’s newer films, Howl’s Moving Castle is an epic tale of a young girl cursed by a witch and turned into an old woman. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Louie CK's 1998 film Tomorrow Night: a portrait of the comedian in black and white. This week, the comedian Louis CK made available on his website for the cost of $5 his little-seen first feature, Tomorrow Night, which he wrote and directed in 1998, but which has never been released. It has, he says, “been sitting in storage in film cans for 15 years. No one has ever seen it. There are no tapes of it or even clips of it anywhere.” If its relative obscurity and negligible price suggest the whiff of the bargain bin, that is dispelled within minutes by the technical expertise and the deadpan sensibility which makes it consistent with his innovative FX sitcom Louie (the fourth series of which will arrive later this year). I made this movie, meaning I wrote and directed it, back in 1998. It would indeed if the results are anywhere near this good. The main focus is on the withdrawn, taciturn manager of a camera store, Charles (Chuck Sklar) and his underdeveloped romantic life.
The movie has a pretty warped idea of relationships. But it is strangely intoxicating. The 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013. Just yesterday, a friend of mine posted a message to her unborn child on Facebook, saying that if the little bugger came a week before the due date and ruined her chance to see Star Trek Into Darkness, there would be consequences. That’s dedication. It’s also the kind of excitement we just can’t keep bottled when we look at the upcoming slate of potential greatness lying ahead. Every year, after shoving the last 365 days into every taxonomy possible, we like to look optimistically toward the future — stretching our gaze to the fresh hope of a new cinema season where there is at least one movie a week to look forward to. At least statistically speaking. There’s nothing we can do about that one week in September where all the crap gets unloaded. But more than that, this list of 52 most anticipated movies represents the mindset of Film School Rejects itself.
Go grab your calendar. 52. Release: December 25th 51. Release: TBA Read the Review Watch the Trailer Release: July 19th 49. 48. 47. 46. Is 'The Wolf of Wall Street' The Funniest Movie of the Year? Sure, it's three hours long, but The Wolf of Wall Street has wowed audiences stateside and is planning on wooing the UK this weekend.
Martin Scorsese's retelling of the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort is being praised as one of the funniest, wittiest and outrageous films of the year and a standout - perhaps career best performance - from Leonardo DiCaprio has pulled in the movie fans. Leonardo DiCaprio [left] in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Belfort was an infamous broker who turned to a life of fraud and corruption in the late 1980s. However, for the most part this isn't a dark tale of criminality. Not at all. Quite the opposite. This is a story of supermodels, luxury yachts, midget throwing and champagne. Dicaprio won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy on Sunday (January 12, 2013) and although he's likely to fall short at the Oscars, he'll almost certainly be in the mix.
Watch the Wolf of Wall Street trailer: American Hustle Has Nothing To Say (And That's Okay) David O. Russell is more about entertainment than statement, but his films still matter. Simply, Russell may not quite be the auteur we want him to be—the kind with Something to Say. He may just be a comic whirlwind of unsavory impulses and high dudgeon, given (notoriously) to screaming seizures and incapable of shooting a dull scene. One of the few American movies of 2013 that managed to both enthuse critics and magnetize audiences, and the only one of that small company to do so with no computer-generated special effects at all, David O. Russell’s American Hustle is an easy movie to love. Just when you thought movies about grown-ups and made for grown-ups—with a lavish helping of cynicism, zest and brazen sex appeal—constituted a costly habit Hollywood is looking to drop, this thoroughly unpretentious and nervy film bursts into the room, satisfying itches that haven’t been reliably scratched by American movies since Martin Scorsese gave up on contemporary New York’s five boroughs.
Ben Stiller directs and stars in the uneven but likable — and sometimes beautiful — ‘Secret Life of Walter Mitty.' This has been such an exceptional year in movies that calling a movie “perfectly likable” or even “good” starts to sound like faint praise. Which means that “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Ben Stiller’s contemporary adaptation of the James Thurber story, may well get lost in the shuffle of its betters. But that shouldn’t detract from the strengths of a film that, while imperfect, has much to recommend it. As the title character, Stiller brings his jut-jawed, laser-blue glare to a character who starts off as something of a passive cipher. As a longtime manager for “negative assets” at Life magazine, Walter processes the magazine’s photographers’ celluloid — in other words, he’s an obsolete guy working in an obsolete media platform within a soon-to-be all-digital art form.
The film’s opening scene — wherein Walter hesitantly “winks” at a woman on an online dating forum — makes it clear: This is a man working at Life, rather than living it. PG. At area theaters. Johnny Depp's New Film, Transcendence, Releases Trailer [Video] Johnny Depp is back at it with yet another upcoming film. The film is called Transcendence, and features an outstanding ensemble cast with Johnny Depp and several others. News of the film has been buzzing for a while, and the trailer has finally been released. Transcendence will see Johnny Depp return to his original type of character, playing a scientist in an odd type of science fiction thriller. The film centers on a terminally iill scientist who downloads his body into a computer. With this act, the computer grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon, he becomes unstoppable. The trailer begins with Depp’s character, Dr.
Dr. The film is sure to be a hit with science fiction lovers, and with the star-power attached with the cast, will dazzle audiences come spring time when it is released. In case anyone missed it, here is a teaser trailer that was released last week. In addition to Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Dr. Transcendence will be released in theaters on April 18, 2014. In A 'Miraculous Year' For Movies, Edelstein Picks His Favorites. Hide captionIn the sci-fi romance Her, a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) finds love in a rather unexpected place — with a computer operating system named Samantha. Warner Bros. "It was a miraculous year," film critic David Edelstein tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. At a time when Hollywood is churning out Blockbusters and superhero movies that are guaranteed to make money at home and overseas, "it's really great when so many interesting movies, somehow or other, manage to bleed through," he says. " ... You really feel as if directors are taking chances in their storytelling.
Hide captionIn Short Term 12 — named for the youth facility where it's primarily set — John Gallagher Jr. and Brie Larson play young counselors not too far removed from their own adolescent struggles. Cinedigm Here are his favorite movies this year: Her: A lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix in the year's best performance) forms a wondrous bond with his Operating System (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) — which (who?) Documentaries: The 10 best movies of 2013: Our critic's picks. If we’re talking about the finest of the finest, 2013 was a pretty wonderful year for movies even though most of that wonderfulness sidestepped Hollywood. The screen glowed brightest, as usual, in the offbeat realms, in the small, specialty films, the indies and the documentaries.
Many of the movies I liked most this year went relatively unheralded; all the more reason for me to issue this annual clarion call on behalf of the best. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition But first, the Overview, heavy on the quibbles and cavils. Consider, for starters, “Gravity” and “All is Lost,” two of the year’s more highly touted films. Sometimes movies that were supposed to be “saying something” about America were, in the final analysis, not saying very much at all.
To no one’s surprise, the Hollywood franchise folderol continued unabated in 2013. Top 10 Movies of 2013: 'Stories We Tell,' 'Her,' '12 Years a Slave' round out strong year of cinematic choices. Robert Redford as a sailor in distress in “All Is Lost” Six months ago, Hollywood was churning out bomb after bomb. What a delight it is now to look back at 2013 and realize we’ve actually been gifted with one of the strongest film years in recent history.
Last year, it was tough to put together a Top 10 list that I could get really get excited about. Today, it’s a struggle to contain my favorites to the titles below. 1. Filmmaker/subject Sarah Polley in “Stories We Tell” 2. 3. "12 Years a Slave" Steve McQueen’s somber, unusually artful evocation of our country’s gravest horror felt both impossible to sit through and essential to see.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson star in “Don Jon.” 4. 5. Oscar Isaac and Justin Timberlake as folk singers in the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” 6. 7. Amy Adams and Christian Bale in David O. 8. 9. Chiwetel Ejiofor (center) in “12 Years a Slave” 10. Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze’s “Her” "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" Please don’t. The Best Movies You Didn't See in 2012.
And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great (Zero Dark Thirty), some weird (Holy Motors), some are for your parents (Lincoln), and some are just plain sadistic (Les Misérables). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies—The Master, Argo, Magic Mike, Looper—there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly. Here are the best of those, which—if their box office receipts are any indication—you didn’t see. But hey, it’s okay! New Wachowski Movie Trailer Teases Sci-Fi Action. Ever since the first Matrix movie, the Wachowskis have been dabbling in action and sci-fi, with mixed results.
V for Vendetta was well-received, though Speed Racer was not. Last year’s Cloud Atlas was long and ambitious and caused wide disagreement among critics. For their latest project, the Wachowski siblings seem to be going back to the roots of their success. Jupiter Ascending is a sci-fi action thriller that deals with concepts such as space, genetics, and power. The movie stars two of the most popular current actors in Hollywood, Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum.
The first teaser trailer for Jupiter Ascending was released today and previews plenty of what the Wachowskis seem to be good at: action, CG sci-fi ships, and a bit of philosophical rumination: New Wachowski Movie Trailer Teases Sci-Fi Action. 6 filmów samurajskich, które nie zmuszą Cię do popełnienia seppuku. Kino samurajskie to specyficzny gatunek, który nie każdemu przypadnie do gustu, ale warto jest przynajmniej go liznąć. Sześć poniższych pozycji to dobre miejsce, aby zacząć. Bunt (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967) Klan Isaburo, na czele którego stoi podstarzały Sasahara, zostaje zmuszony przez pana feudalnego do przygarnięcia kobiety o imieniu Ichi. Chodzą słuchy, jakoby narozrabiała na dworze, ale szybko okazuje się, że poza wymierzeniem kilku zasłużonych policzków wpływowej osobie nie zrobiła nic złego i w zasadzie jest całkiem fajną babką. Najstarszy syn, Yogoro, bierze ją za żonę, ale niedługo potem władca zmienia zdanie i każe sprowadzić konkubinę z powrotem.
Jak na ten rozkaz odpowiedzą Sasahara i jego rodzina? Dlaczego warto obejrzeć? Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) Mój ulubiony film w tym zestawieniu. Bezpański samuraj Tsuguma Hanshiro zjawia się w posiadłości klanu Li z zamiarem popełnienia seppuku, czyli rytualnego samobójstwa. Dlaczego warto obejrzeć? Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) The World's End: A Touching Alien-Invasion Pub-Crawl Movie About Finally Growing Up. Photo: Laurie Sparham/Focus Features It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No, not 18th century France, but the experience of being 18 years old — that emotionally magnified fulcrum in life from whence everyone, supposedly, takes off. That glorious adolescent purgatory is one of Western storytelling’s most beloved tools, so it’s only fitting that cult film heroes Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have decided to wrap up their so-called Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy with a final installment that, on its surface, is about a handful of grown men getting hammered in the midst of a condescending alien takeover, but at its core, it’s about the exact opposite.
The World’s End is the culmination of the Wright and Pegg trilogy, which also includes Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Hot Fuzz (2007), two cult-favorite stories about modern life delivered via the Trojan horse of a genre film — a zombie flick for Shaun, a buddy-cop picture for Fuzz. We saw this coming. Depending On The Critic, 'Only God Forgives' Is The Best, and Worst At Cannes. Cannes 2013 has thrown up another noteworthy film if the reviews are to be believed. Only God Forgives - directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling – has caused a stir with the critics. Having already worked with Gosling on Drive, which was also reviewed positively, if not pulled up for plot holes, Winding Refn’s thriller is set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok. “It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen,” says The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw.
“The first scenes made me think that Wong Kar-wai had made a new film called In the Mood for Fear or In the Mood for Hate.” Aside from The Guardian’s 5-star review, the reaction to Only God Forgives has been mixed. "Only God Forgives is a failure but a rather magnificent failure,” say Total Film. “It is a beautiful, hollow film, with the director's insistence that Julian is fighting God – and that the film is about existential crisis – needing to be taken at its word. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All TimeEmpire Features. Układ zamknięty. 10 Movies You Should Check Out in 2014.