Sentences with phrase «overture films»

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The film's opening overture, Ligeti's Atmospheres, plays behind a black screen - signifying, in a gestaltish way, a pre-creation era, or the mysterious unknown time of the universe's birth.

Presented in 70 mm and with a running time of 187 minutes (because Tarantino), the film continues his love for old school cinema, right down to the three minute «overture» that opens the film, something I don't think I've seen since Dancer in the Dark.

There is an overture at the beginning of the film and then, two - thirds in, a 12 - minute intermission, like the Roadshow presentations of yore.

It takes a perfectly ordinary urban moment — a jog through Central Park in wintertime — and turns it into a visual and aural overture for the film's layered and shifting moods.

But Morricone's ominous overture, a death knell tolled from a bell choked with icicles, lends the 187 - minute film incongruous gravitas.

FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR Cloverfield: «ÄúRoar Overture, «Äù music by Michael Giacchino The Happening: «ÄúBe With You, «Äù music by James Newton Howard Valkyrie: «ÄúThey «Äôll Remember You, «Äù music by John Ottman and Lior Rosner Wall * E: «ÄúDefine Dancing, «Äù music by Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel Wanted: «ÄúSuccess Montage, «Äù music by Danny Elfman)

The film opens in an unexpected and very graceful way with a montage of faces of the audience members as we listen to the musical overture.

There are some very impressive segments within the film and having Rossini's William Tell Overture playing over the heart - pounding climax adds a level of fun that most movies don't have.

The Hateful 8 — My second viewing of QT's 8th film was in glorious 70 mm, complete with overture and intermission.

The final action sequence (also set on a train) proves to be as exhausting as the first was amusing, with the body count escalating unpleasantly and the William Tell Overture — used sparingly throughout most of the film — commencing to trample everything in its path.

But at London's famed Abbey Road Studios this week, director Quentin Tarantino joined composer Ennio Morricone, as the maestro conducted a special recording of the overture from Tarantino's new film, The Hateful Eight, for a limited edition vinyl press.

The whole film is overly studied and calculated, including the symmetrical overture and finale.

And rolling the film out in a limited «roadshow» release in the long - obsolete 70 mm film format, complete with overture and intermission.

Selah and the Spades: an Overture (2014), the multi-media exploration into the dynamism of teenagehood in a fictional small town that her first feature film is based on, has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine and IndieWire, and the feature film has gone on to receive development grants and support from Cinereach, the Leeway Foundation, and Small But Mighty Arts, among others.

(One wonders whether Alan Pakula, who once confessed an urge to make a contemporary silent film, ever made serious overtures to the studios.)

The original overture has been rejoined to the film for the first time in over 50 years, so this will be a main draw for hardcore fans of the film.

Nearly doubling its modest budget in domestic admissions alone, The Crazies became the third highest - grossing film in the 2 1/2 - year history of Overture Films, which is somewhat expected since it is also the young studio's third widest release to date.

The film opens with a fast - paced 1937 wedding set to a sped - up version of The William Tell Overture.

BY STAFF As the «outbreak» of Overture Films» release of The Crazies draws closer, the studio is gearing up for an exciting launch of a comic book series inspired by the film along with various other multimedia content including a motion comic book series, Facebook «tower defense» game and more.

But with Overture Films planning an Oscar campaign for the character - actor - turned - leading - man and a year increasingly giving credence to smaller films, this gem of a performance from way back in the first quarter of the year could find room to make a move.

Some of the film's action sequences are also lacking, but it goes all out with a brilliant final set piece involving two trains and the famous «William Tell Overture» that the 1930s radio series used as its theme.

Rather, this is Rodriguez's Latino answer to the blaxpoitation action films of the seventies, complete with Trejo as an accidental sweet sweetback sex machine, irresistible to every woman he meets without making the slightest overture to toward them.

And, from the moment its 4 minute overture fades to black and the film starts in earnest, The Hateful Eight is an experience.

In a recent interview with Famitsu translated by 1UP, Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama, who was already a celebrity in Japan for his TV / film work long before he began working on video games, reflected on his 24 - year history with the series and revealed that he came up with the melody for the iconic overture in just five minutes.