Sentences with phrase «while earlier films»

Leigh has said in an interview that while his earlier films (including «High Hopes» and «Life Is Sweet») might have embodied a socialist view of the world, this one edges over into anarchy.

While earlier films bristle with the promise of future success, and classics merely reaffirm those initial inklings, later films can offer a chance to evaluate a performer's career trajectory.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating...

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.

While his early films were solid, many of his more recent endeavors have gone off the rails.

Not exact matches

While Marvel's earlier films dazzled with stories of great power from great men, women acted merely as props, but Marvel has taken a giant leap forward in female representation.

Co-owners Yamaguchi and Walker met while working at a sushi joint together in the early 2000s — she had moved from Japan to NOLA to study English, and he was in grad school for film.

so filming schedules will undoubtedly be changed to fast - track new episodes while Washington is still in the early stages of her pregnancy.

The sexual behavior in question was noted in early November 2015 by co-author Alexandre Bonnefoy while filming on Yakushima Island south of Japan during the macaque breeding season.

Jack hands off one of his stories early in the film for his brothers to read and while hints to its plot are dropped, only later does it manifest itself into one of the few scenes in the film that felt not merely fresh to me but touching; briefly, we glimpse an event from the day of the funeral, awkward and uncomfortable, with the kind of details that only siblings might later recall.

While «Other People» begins with a big moment — daringly, THE big moment — then flashes back to a year earlier, the film is more interested in the mundane ways the characters relate to each other and in the minutiae of their lives.

At the end of a big rhinoceros battle, a male character submits to Gurira in the film's single most iconic shot, while an earlier scene in which she tosses aside a bad wig ranks as the most gay - friendly Marvel moment to date.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Noah Taylor repeats his «Danny» characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school.

While I haven't gone back to watch his earliest works, his work on The Lobster made it one of my favorite films of 2015.

You can see why this must have sounded like a sure thing in a Blumhouse pitch meeting, and for a while Jeff Wadlow's film really feels like one: the early rounds of the game are a frisky potpourri of self - mutilation, loud jump scares and ironic comeuppances.

While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them — early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail — he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double - fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car.

Moss» striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second - rate films while waiting for her big break.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age.

Given that Spielberg only committed to «The Post» in March while already involved in the effects - laden «Ready Player One,» due out early next year, this film had to be made with remarkable speed to meet the 2017 deadline.

While most of his film roles were supporting, Anderson was starred in the early special - effects-fest Destination Moon.

And it's meticulously designed by Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Slawinski; the lounges and bars echo the mood of the underground spaces of Wajda's Fifties films (a friend also detected a flavor of early - Sixties Forman), but more than anything I was reminded of the melancholy retro of Aki Kaurismäki's Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana, while a wide shot of a car in a glum garage yard made me think of early Jarmusch.

While the plot stands apart from the earlier two films, you still should watch each film in this trilogy in turn to properly understand what's happening.

His latest film, «While We're Young,» is an extension, temperamentally if not altogether thematically, of such earlier films of his as «The Squid and the Whale,» «Greenberg,» and «Frances Ha.»

So while anyone who has any memory of the early Seventies will feel like they're back there again with the establishment / counterculture antagonisms and raging ego trips and spells of mellow sunlight, they will also, like the film's hero, detect another phantom vibe.

In The Player, Robert Altman's early nineties comeback film, the director brilliantly skewers Hollywood — getting all the details right, as only he could — while constructing his own kind of Hollywood Movie.

Earlier this year I posted my 25 Films to Look Forward to Look Forward to in 2011, and while I stand behind most of those decisions half the year has gone and a lot of the films that I had only cast for at the beginning of the year now has a trailer and or... Continue reading «TOP 15 MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER FILMS FOR 2011&rFilms to Look Forward to Look Forward to in 2011, and while I stand behind most of those decisions half the year has gone and a lot of the films that I had only cast for at the beginning of the year now has a trailer and or... Continue reading «TOP 15 MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER FILMS FOR 2011&rfilms that I had only cast for at the beginning of the year now has a trailer and or... Continue reading «TOP 15 MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER FILMS FOR 2011&rFILMS FOR 2011»

Those who caught two of the actor's other films at festivals earlier this year have been touting Unbroken star Jack O'Connell as one of the breakout performers of the year, and while Starred Up already enjoyed a limited release, the...

The movie began production earlier this month and Paul got an early start to his work as Scott Lang this summer while filming for Avengers: Infinity War in Atlanta as well.

Ramsay would send Greenwood, who had read the script early on, five to fifteen minute pieces of the film while she was editing with the hope of luring the busy musician.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Offered a job as assistant director by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's Bambule (1979), Soavi continued to act in such films as Alien 2 and City of the Living Dead (1980) while serving in multiple capacities including assistant director to filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi in the early»80s.

But while that film, a teen romance set in the early 1970s, was a rather intimate, small - scale film, Assayas has come up with something much grander with «Something In The Air» (or «Apres Mai»).

But I thought a lot about the 1979 film while watching Ready Player One, and not only because Alan Silvestri's score deliberately quotes John Williams's bombastic military march from the earlier film (one of hundreds of hidden nuggets in a film that is quite literally an Easter egg hunt).

The original A Nightmare on Elm Street also gets a Blu - ray debut this week, featuring all the supplements from the earlier DVD «Infinifilm Special Edition» release (two commentary tracks, alternate endings, three documentary featurettes), plus the Blu - ray exclusive interactive «Focus Points» mode, which allows instant access to alternate takes and behind the scenes footage while watching the film.

While back in the earlier films Logan would unsheathe his adamantium claws and baddies would fall to the floor, you could see he was a formidable presence, but you could never truly feel the gravity of his power, or the emotional burden he's carried for well over a century.

The 5.1 DTS - HD master audio consistently pleases while serving the film well, from early»90s British pop songs to a creative Steven Price song to the aggressive sound effects befitting the more fantastical elements.

While watching the bourgeoisie cavort in Bernardo Bertolucci's indulgent new «Stealing Beauty,» there's reason to recall the early, politically impassioned stage of the film maker's career, during which he might have preferred to see such characters lined up against the side of their villa and shot.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

Tarantino's «Death Proof» is up next, and while the first half of the film is so boring it might cause some people to walk out early, it's well worth it to stick around for the adrenaline - pumping finale.

The film's special effects are variable: some are highly effective, while the early, rudimentary CGI can be badly dated in spots.

While the more critically esteemed New Wave cinema of Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) and My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979) presented a refined image of Australia, early genre films like Stork (Tim Burstall, 1971), The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Bruce Beresford, 1972) and The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Richard Franklin, 1975) were seen as portraying a more crude side of Australian society.

These films do not have the reputation of Hoffman's earlier work, and while you may be able to dismiss each individually, the lot of them is tough to ignore and marginalize.

While a number of critics consider the film the most accomplished of Lupino's early films, The Bigamist remains a problematic entry in Lupino's directorial career for most viewers.

As with every feature here, the commentary track, while superb, has been ported over directly from Criterion's already fairly recent DVD release of the film, which makes it difficult to recommend to those who already own the earlier iteration.

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

Despite Philip Seymour Hoffman «s tragic death earlier this year, the actor will continue to appear on screens for just a while, thanks to films completed before his passing.

While the math doesn't quite work out, the film at least tries to explain it by identifying Brolin, who's 44, as a weathered 29 - year - old (which would believably put the wrinkled present - day Jones in his early seventies).

If one had to guess why critics and audiences have responded to this movie, while Mackenzie's earlier films — which have similarly dealt with difficult interpersonal relationships and discomfiting power dynamics — were indifferently received, the answer probably lies in its subject matter.

There are also clips from Kotting's earlier films and home movies, while Eden's exuberant charm shines through every scene she's in, whether she's teasing her father or singing along with something from her eclectic CD collection.