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The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.
* Shabu Shabu fanatic * art admirer * part time wino * beach bum * former swim instructor / lifeguard * mob movie junkie * serious day dreamer * lives in Rainbows * Child of an Aussie * water baby * wearer of too much black and maxi dresses * love is love is love * secret novel writer * fiercely loyal friend * reader of hundreds of halves of books * seeker of fascinating faces * walking contradiction * lover of one tall corn husker *
Im a fun loving guy who wants that one person in his life.I love horror, Comedy and romance movies, i also love comedy shows like family guy and south park.My dream is to become a writer and director and also a game designer
Subtly passionate poetry writer, creative, funny, movie goer seeks siren for love affair, outdoor rendezvous, and occasional semi-criminal conspiracy.
widowed, loving, trusting, honest, am a hopeless romantic, writer, romantic music lovers, Lover of God and his Word, like a variety of different movies,
I'm a writer, an avid movie goer, a reader, a silly face maker, an artist, a poet and dreamer looking for love.
Avant - garde performance artist / writer, lives part time in San Francisco and Mexico City; very famous but loves privacy, tours internationally, bohemian type, 57, fit, good sense of humor, loves conversation, good food, art, literature, indie movies, creative dancing, costuming, unique art objects
Just a man who loves the Female and love to have fun I'm also a singer / song writer that love's to hit the town or just stay in and watch a movie I cook a little bit I love... Read More
These guys have good writers and the TellTale engine supports doing that; writing directly to gamers a zombie movie in so many parts is successful and this is one of the few games I'm on my second time through and limited it may be replay wise I just love the different ways to get my characters killed and chose to slay.
Those specs don't really fit the characters, but at least puzzling over writer - director Mike Cahill «s costuming choices distracted me from the ridiculous love story underpinning the first half of the movie.
Remaining an indefatigable writer and essayist into the 1990s, Vidal has reiterated his love affair with movies on several occasions, notably in his 1992 volume Screening History and as contributor to Past Imperfect (1995), a book about Hollywood's slant on historical facts.
The directorial debut of Dan Fogelman, writer of Crazy, Stupid, Love and Last Vegas, the movie combines the compulsive sub-plotting of the former with the retirement - age asides of the latter.
After watching it, I really think that this one will divide the audience and any time could go both ways - some would love figuring it out what the writer and director wanted to say while others could simply walk away, deciding that their life is too precious to be wasted on such movies.
Writer - director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, The Night Before), who had just come off of a similar survivalist horror tale, Sole Survivor, imbues his film with a tongue planted firmly in his cheek, and a genuine love for the various B - movie genres that gives the film the necessary sense of fun needed in order to not get bogged down in deadly seriousness that would have done the film in for sure.
His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.
It was announced on Friday that movie distributor The Orchard would not be releasing his film, I Love You, Daddy, which is about a successful television writer (C.K.), whose 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker (John Malkovich) with an appalling past.
The sometimes - stale «Danny Collins» is the directorial debut of writer Dan Fogelman, who has penned movies as charming as «Crazy, Stupid, Love» and as... not charming as «The Guilt Trip.»
Agora (On DVD) The American (On DVD and Blu - ray) Best Worst Movie On DVD and, umm, pictured) Blue Valentine Brooklyn's Finest (On DVD and Blu - ray; also Netflix Instant) Daybreakers (On DVD and Blu - ray) The Eclipse (On DVD and Blu - ray; also Netflix Instant) Farewell The Ghost Writer (On DVD and Blu - ray) The Good, The Bad, The Weird (On DVD and Blu - ray; also Netflix Instant) Greenberg (On DVD and Blu - ray) I Love You Phillip Morris Inception (On DVD and Blu - ray) The King's Speech Let Me In The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (On DVD; also Netflix Instant) Never Let Me Go Rabbit Hole Red Hill Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (On DVD and Blu - ray) Shutter Island (On DVD and Blu - ray; also Netflix Instant) Solitary Man (On DVD and Blu - ray; also Netflix Instant) Somewhere The Town (On DVD and Blu - ray)
Think of it as Love Story meets Total Recall and Dark City, which doesn't quite do justice to the movie - going experience at hand, but comes close to describing the idiosyncratic, highly cinematic world writer / director George Nolfi generates here for his filmmaking debut.
There is something definitely intriguing about a movie that boasts the Working Title production name (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually) and Dan Mazer, the writer of Borat (Mazer has collaborated with Sacha Baron Cohen on multiple projects and I Give It a Year is his directorial debut).
REGARDING CLASSICAL CINEMA By Imogen Sara Smith A writer luxuriates in the exquisite out - of - time existence of classic movie love, after visiting a silent film festival
Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.
Writer - director Jeff Nichols had to cast Loving this way because the entire movie insists on the ordinariness of its quiet, barely verbal protagonists.
Related Reviews: New to DVD: Pete's Dragon (High - Flying Edition) • Earth • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (Gift Set) • Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (SE) Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Edition) • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Special Two - Disc Collector's Edition) The Aristocats (Special Edition) • Escape to Witch Mountain • Return from Witch Mountain • Robin Hood (Most Wanted Edition) Directed by Robert Stevenson: The Love Bug • Herbie Rides Again • The Shaggy D.A. • The Island at the Top of the World • The Gnome - Mobile Hocus Pocus • Enchanted • Candleshoe • The Barefoot Executive • The Million Dollar Duck • Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection From Bedknobs and Broomsticks Writers: That Darn Cat!
I wasn't a big fan of Richard Curtis's sappy - silly «Love, Actually,» but the writer - director's new fact - based film, «Pirate Radio» has moments of gleeful anarchism drawing on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including «The Goon Show,» the «Carry On» movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as «The Lavender Hill Mob.»
The original script was written by Larry Stuckey, but John Hamburg, writer of the first two movies and director of Along Came Polly and the upcoming I Love You, Man, has since been brought in for a rewrite.
«If you went to the 1950s version of this movie Michael Shannon would be the star and the creature carrying the woman at the end of the movie would be a scene of horror, and here is an image of love, so the complexities are kind of flipped,» del Toro says, letting loose a minor spoiler for a film that has PR teams urging critics and writers not to divulge major secrets.
It is entirely appropriate, since my guest for this session is actor / director / writer / and Knight, Sir Kenneth Branagh, who shows in all his films a deep love and knowledge of the things that made movies great.
Writer / Director Joe Swanberg really loves his characters and his actual baby son is one of the best babies you'll ever see in a movie — so much personality!)
Official Premise: Winner of 6 Academy Awards ® including Best Director for writer / director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record - breaking 7 Golden Globe ® Awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year — it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again and again.
Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.
Director Nanette Burstein and writer Geoff LaTulippe (love that name) attempt to merge the gross - out sex chatter of the Judd Apatow movies with the sensibility of a chick flick.
Writer - director John Hughes, a local, called the movie his love letter to the city.
It's a hard thing to put your finger on, not least because in the 20 plus years since he started making movies, the American writer / director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch - Drunk Love, There Will be Blood, The Master and Inherent Vice has never really settled into a familiar groove.
Writer / director Nick Love (The Business, The Football Factory, Outlaw) has made his living from showing the criminal's side of things, so much so that even on The Sweeney, his first movie told from the vantage point of the law, the good guys still act like the bad guys.
Our Sundance Interviews: Tim and Eric - Writers / Directors of Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Mark Webber - Writer / Director / Star of The End of Love Bart Layton & Dimitri Doganis - Producer / Director of The Imposter
In the movie, Biggs stars as Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, who falls in love at first sight with a free - spirited young woman named Amanda (Ricci).
Sitting with the creative team behind new indie «The One I Love,» genial actor - producer - writer - director - cool - guy Mark Duplass says of his breakthrough film, «My first movie [«The Puffy Chair»] was shot on VHS - C with a dead pixel in the middle of it, and it looked and sounded like shit, but it went to Sundance because of the spirit.
Co - writer / director Sebastián Lelio's movie touches upon these ideas, but their presence is always confined to the context of its story, a melodrama about the conflict between forbidden love and traditional values.
It's a type she played most memorably in Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang, a movie whose post-modern, meta - textual smartassery so resembles what Playing It Cool is trying to do, and feeling miserably at, that I just found myself wishing I was watching a Shane Black movie instead of a movie full of characters that, like, Shane Black, are movie - and - self - obsessed writers deeply in love with the sound of their (and by extension the screenwriters») voices.
Thursday afternoon, Austin director Jeff Nichols, whose movie «Loving» opened the Austin Film Festival Thursday night, sat down for a chat with Christopher Boone, who is currently wrapping up work on «Cents,» his first feature film as writer / director.
I can not express enough how much I love that instead of mocking The Room, the writers, along with the entire cast and crew wasn't afraid to simply celebrate the accomplishment of making a movie.
Burdened with a craft that's essentially uncinematic, writers in the movies are perennially blocked, broke, and insane, simultaneously romanticized and ridiculed for their excesses — from the wise - cracking drunks of «Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle» to the sticky sweetness of «Shakespeare in Love,» the self - regarding self - reflexivity of «Adaptation,» and the homicidal madness of «The Shining.»
Despite having the flat visual style and heatedly bubbling emotions of a made - for - TV movie, «The World Unseen» benefits from a quiet purity of vision - writer - director Shamim Sarif adapted her own novel, about women in 1950s Africa wrestling with the beginning of apartheid and their growing love for each other.
Apparently Tarantino recently pitched an idea for a Trek movie to producer J.J. Abrams, who loved it, and they'll soon begin to assembling a writer's room to flesh it out.
«[Kingsman: The Secret Service writer Mark Millar] and I fell in love with movies at the same time.
Kazan also stars as the title character in the movie that tells the story of famed writer Calvin Weir - Fields (Paul Dano) as he creates the love of his life on paper, and she miraculously comes appears in his apartment.
The writer - director of «Loving,» «Mud,» and «Midnight Special» screened a selection of smart movies, including Jim Jarmusch's «Paterson» and J.J. Abrams» «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» hosted by star Adam Driver, whose family spent summers in Arkansas.
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