Sentences with phrase «west of films like»

Saloons and shoot - em - ups, good guys and bad, the West of films like Shane and High Noon are all debunked as pure fiction.

Not exact matches

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

He does the things that leaders do, like paying the way for several of his receivers to join him for off - season passing workouts, dubbed Jets West, at his old high school in Mission Viejo, Calif., and putting in long hours of film study.

Jamie and I were talking about this — the requests to Jamie on this matter happened somewhere near the end of filming, like episode 4 (as LAUSD was banning him from the West Adams campus).

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

It's an east and west hybrid much like the film's setting, the fictional, futuristic city of San Fransokyo, it's a vibrant mash - up.

Basically, Spielberg saw the original West End play on the recommendation of his long - trusted producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (who snapped up the film rights), liked what he saw and used his endless clout and resources to make the movie as he saw fit.

Like its characters, Slow West is a film determined to make the destination worthy of the journey.

It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).

But Claes Bang holds both halves of the film together with the arrogant, flawed but not wholly unlikeable Christian, although talents like Dominic West and Elizabeth Moss are under - used and have only a handful of scenes apiece.

Like many traditional Westerns, Slow West ends in an explosive shootout that takes place around a little cabin abridging a wheat field, but the ending thwarts conventional expectations and lifts the film from the ordinary to the transcendent, suggesting that not only is there more to life than survival, but that the possibility of transformation is always present.

In what feels like a touch of name - dropping, the film tacks on a couple of scenes with Hemingway (Dominic West) and Fitzgerald -LRB--RRB-.

Many young people may be unfamiliar with or uncaring toward some of the great dancing films (like Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, and Strictly Ballroom) and revered classics (like An American in Paris, West Side Story and 42nd Street) that have come before.

Rather like an extremely damped - down There Will Be Blood, Reichardt's film — based on historical events — depicts one group's journey through the Oregon Trail in 1845 as a trek through a hauntingly empty and alien landscape, with cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt exquisitely taking in the natural beauties of the settings while framing the increasingly desperate wanderers in wide shots to emphasize, in part, their ultimate smallness within the wild west.

West is a talented actor in his own right, primarily known for his work on both The Affair and The Wire, and he should be able to bring the right kind of weight to a role that seems like it'll hold some serious gravitas over Lara and the other characters in the film.

Featuring never - before - seen Coltrane family home movies, footage of John Coltrane and band in the studio — discovered in a California garage during production of this film — along with hundreds of never - before - seen photographs and rare television appearances from around the world, Coltrane's story is told by the musicians that worked with him including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, musicians that have been inspired by his fearless artistry and creative vision like Common, John Densmore, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Kamasi Washington, along with Coltrane's children and biographers, in addition to well - known admirers such as President Bill Clinton and philosopher Dr. Cornel West.

It was only last year that the Thunderpants film star made his stage debut, in the West End revival of Mojo, but it looks like he has been fast - tracked to the most prestigious theatre circuit in the world with his latest role.

The film plays like a mishmash of Rear Window and my favourite Nicolas Cage film Red Rock West.

After having watched the first season of HBO's stellar new series Westworld and recent films like the Magnificent Seven remake, I am very eager to sink my teeth into a new Wild West game which is good since Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently scheduled to launch in fall 2017.

They came out of the gate strong with Enemy in 2014 and have had some cool genre offerings like The Blackcoat's Daughter and and Slow West, while films like Life After Beth and Dark Places haven't quite matched the quality of that A24 shine.

Make it your mission to find and enjoy films like Tangerine, The Look of Silence, Welcome to Leith, and Slow West.

A musical version of hit British comedy film Bend It Like Beckham is to open in the West End in May (15).

The directing talent involved with this film is fantastic with directors like Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Read Sands), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), along with Radio Silence.

Had its trippy - dippy, anachronistic cross-cutting and madly - inappropriate scoring appeared in 1968 (the year of Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, If..., 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the film to which it perhaps owes its greatest allegiance, Once Upon a Time in the West), Performance would've found traction and good company as a foundational film for the American New Wave instead of as a picture that, for all its foment and formal revolution, seemed hysterical against a maturing, more sedate (d) mainstream avant - garde parade of stuff like El Topo, Zabriskie Point, MASH, and Five Easy Pieces.

«Inside Llewyn Davis» gets its milieu just right, from cold - water flats to the West Side digs of bohemian academics (Ethan Phillips and Robin Bartlett — the Coens repurpose familiar character actors as well as anyone this side of Charlie Kaufman or Ryan Murphy), but there's never a sense of fawning, things - were - so - much - better - then - man nostalgia that often surfaces in films like this.

West Side Story — I'm not a fan of this kind of musical in general, I like the dance musicals of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly over the big Broadway adaptations and Rodgers and Hammerstein films.

There is a peculiar aspect to the entire production that evokes the feeling like you're watching a film, and not a story, constantly aware that this version of the Old West if completely fabricated.

Ugly pre-rendered characters replaced the sprites, and each Bomberman was given a voice, with the likes of Charlie Adler (Starscream from the Transformers films) and Billy West (Fry / Stimpy / Doug) lending their vocal talents.

At MASS MoCA West will exhibit Edge of the Cloud (2011), a grid of thirty ink - jet prints, which, like many of West's works, were created by digitally scanning an object into the computer, eliminating the camera and traditional film processes.

West treats her films by exposing them to a variety of substances such as coffee, mascara, lipstick, and habanero sauce, or by staging interactive events where people are invited to perform actions to the film strips, like snowboarding or skateboarding directly on them.

I also really liked the inclusion of Jennifer West's painted film at the front of the show.)

A key figure in West Coast experimental cinema, O'Neill is probably best known for highly plastic and technically accomplished films like his lysergic 7362 (1967) or his extraordinary 35 mm feature Water and Power (1989), an experimental documentary concerning, among many things, the development of the Los Angeles Basin from prehistory to the present.

The fact that a flashy painting of three black women, who look like they just stepped out of a 1970S blaxploitation film, could be hanging in the West 53rd Street window of the Museum of Modern Art's eatery astonished the artist.

Silver, mirror - like films typically are more effective than colored, more transparent films, and east - and west - facing windows benefit most because of their greater potential for heat gain.