Garcia's scenes with at home with his young grandson, teaching the youngster to make arancinis and instilling in him the importance of love and passion, are surprisingly touching moments of real emotion that add depth to
an already excellent film.
Not exact matches
Both stars are
already receiving great praise for their roles, and under the watchful eye of Anton Corbijn whose
excellent Control captured later Joy Division singer Ian Curtis so profoundly, it's safe to assume we'll be getting a touching, insightful, and rather beautiful
film.
In between the admittedly
excellent musical moments, no character in the
film speaks except to deliver the exposition that moves the
already thin plot forward, and the pace moves forward so quickly for everyone except August.
It's been an
excellent year for documentaries
already in 2017 with such incredible
films as Icarus, An Inconvenient Sequel, Nobody Speak, and Trophy all premiering at Sundance (those last two playing SXSW as well).
While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's
film certainly features some
excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's
film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The
film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not
already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the
film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the
film is, or what it tries to accomplish.
She's
already filmed her next five roles: as previously discussed she'll play the showy small role of James Brown's mom in Get On Up (August, 2014); she's
excellent as a college professor in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Pts 1 and 2 (release date still TBA but I saw it at TIFF); she's in Michael Mann's thriller Cyber (January, 2015) with Chris Hemsworth as the headliner and supposedly her role is large there as an FBI agent; She'll headline Shonda Rhimes TV series «How To Get Away With Murder» and if it gets picked up past the pilot, don't expect to see her on your movie screens for awhile; The other leading role is Lila & Eve (she plays Lila) but her co-star is... (wait for it)... Jennifer Lopez?
If you've read Janet Halfyard's
excellent score analysis for Elfman's Batman score (published by Scarecrow Press, and also reviewed by MFTM), the featurette basically adds a fat chapter on the composer's transitional period from stage to
film; it's
already well - outlined in her book, but the DVD's interview fills in some gaps that Elfmanites will find highly informative.
I've only seen Hush and Ouija 2 thus far — it looks like Before I Wake has been delayed yet again — but I can say that when taken with his first two
films, the moody Absentia and the
excellent Oculus, Flanagan is
already at the forefront of the new American horror revolution.
Catching Fire is not a bold or ambitious
film, but it's an
excellent take on an
already much loved franchise.
However, the presence of a narrator in a
film does not need to be justified and there are too many times where the narration spells out aspects of character that were
already ascertained visually by the
excellent performances by the cast.
The Oliver Hirschbiegel
film has since had to deal with becoming something of a meme, but the actual movie is
excellent and worthy of a watch if one has not seen it
already.
Ultimately, What Just Happened doesn't encroach on much territory not
already covered by Robert Altman's
excellent 1992
film about a Hollywood producer, The Player, and as a result, it's only really recommended for fans of the stars, the director, or those interested in the insider look into Hollywood.
Director Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Caddyshack) does an
excellent job never losing the comedic tone of the
film, despite a rather large number of killings and gunfights, and terrific supporting players bolster an
already impressive core cast.
With Joey Harrelson and Richard Jenkins
already cast in Rob Reiner's LBJ, this upcoming drama promises to be an
excellent film.
What is hype, the
excellent marketing Disney (which owns Marvel) telling fans who were
already going to buy a ticket and love the
film without seeing it to get excited?
and whilst the central car chase is
excellent, we've
already had a bunch of those in the previous
films.