Not exact matches
Evidently Nicolas Cage, who (big spoiler if you haven't seen the
film already)
died in the original
film, may return in the
form of a cameo, which we would assume would be flashbacks (though Cage's people claim he hasn't received an offer yet).
After devoting two
films to the bedevilment of the Lambert family — specifically, a spooky old hag that had attached itself to patriarch Josh (Patrick Wilson) from childhood — the «Insidious» series seemed poised to continue on as a series of «Ghostbusters» - style adventures involving the paranormal investigators Specs (Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) and their mentor Elise (Shaye), who returned to the series in spectral
form after
dying (at Josh's hands) in the first
film.
In
film form, the misadventures of Wilson (Woody Harrelson) are but over-familiar stock quirk of the kind distributor Fox Searchlight relishes (see: Garden State, Me and Earl and the
Dying Girl).
Guerra's assured direction and the mesmerizing performances from his small cast combine to
form a visceral, challenging experience that simultaneously defends a
dying way of life and homages some great survival / adventure
films.
In an early scene from the opening night
film of FILMeX 2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a
dying man is visited by his estranged son who appears in non-human
form.
«First Reformed,» which played at the Venice and Telluride
film festivals before arriving in Toronto, is an exceptional return to
form for Schrader after several much - maligned disappointments («The Canyons,» «
Dying of the Light»).
Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's
films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like
Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple
forms of peculiarly German afterness.4
As the two slowly
form a friendship, the teenager decides to make a short -
film about his
dying friend, putting his classic
film parodies on hold.
The
film sees Brosnan — 12 years after his last outing as James Bond, in
Die Another Day — return to action - movie
form as a former CIA operative (with, somehow, an unexplained British accent) with an axe to grind with his ex-employer and ex-trainee (now promoted to full operative status).
These two books record surprising moments that enhance our view of life, and reinstate
film photography as anything but a
dying art
form.