Not exact matches
Im not a
film junkie or anything so i def
appreciate the
in depth scouting articles
like this.
Filmed in 2.35:1 Panavision and originally released
in four - track magnetic stereo sound (a rarity
in 1975, a period
in which nearly all movies were mono), the movie was all but impossible to
appreciate on television and even subsequent superior home video formats
like laserdisc.
I'd
like to think that he would
appreciate our
film's intention to capture forever,
in Koni's words, «the sort of everyday life that is accessible to everyone and understood
in its cruel internal irony by almost no one.
Lowery is spending the capital he's earned on big gigs
like Pete's Dragon to make something bizarre and experimental, and as his
film starts flitting through the weeks
in unannounced leaps, you'll come to
appreciate his gamble.
mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long
film to the detriment of context and the other players
in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts
like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly
appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I
appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the
film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the
film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the
film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction
Like his last
film, the under -
appreciated and costly The Walk, Robert Zemeckis» The Women Of Marwen is a true story about an eccentric artistic vision that's already been told
in an acclaimed documentary —
in this case, 2010's Marwencol.
So much of the
film is a replay of previous battles, conversations, characters arcs, its often difficult to
appreciate the arresting visual work
like the last battle
in the salt lands.
While I
appreciated bringing multiple Lego franchises together into one
film, I felt
like this was done very similar to the way that it was done
in the Lego Movie.
Yet it also goes deeper: as
in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the
film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to
like a writer to
appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave
in peace.
I
appreciated the fact that emerging actors starred
in the
film, together with well known ones
like The Rock or Jack Black, however, I must also say that the well known actors have not obscured the emerging ones, which is great!
In watching the film, you come to appreciate Al Pacino's off - kilter approach and his counterpart (sort of like a Sienna Miller naturally good looking girl next door) in Kitty Winn, whose Helen makes an almost conscious decision to join Bobby in his downward spiral is just as rivetin
In watching the
film, you come to
appreciate Al Pacino's off - kilter approach and his counterpart (sort of
like a Sienna Miller naturally good looking girl next door)
in Kitty Winn, whose Helen makes an almost conscious decision to join Bobby in his downward spiral is just as rivetin
in Kitty Winn, whose Helen makes an almost conscious decision to join Bobby
in his downward spiral is just as rivetin
in his downward spiral is just as riveting.
While earlier Kaurismäki
films like Shadows
In Paradise and The Man Without A Past were deadpan, blue - collar subversions of melodramatic plot points and classic
film genres, this is pure self - commentary, best
appreciated by fans.
Crucially, the
film is pitched as an underdog story, and whilst the man did indeed face battles with studios and censors, its hard to believe that this really is a story of the «little guy achieving greatness
in the face of adversity», even if the
likes of Vertigo weren't
appreciated until years later.
Loosely based on actual events, this stark Australian import may sound wildly familiar to those who
appreciate crime fiction, but this
film manages to hook you early and suck you
in like quicksand, thanks
in large part to some great actors, but also because of Mr. Young's gradual, persistent escalation of tension.
I can't say for sure whether audience members of this
film who didn't grow under these very specific circumstances will be able to fully
appreciate the significance of things
like admitting that, despite the overwhelming pressures of teenage coolness, you actually
like the Dave Matthews Band song, Crash Into Me, but I can say that those who recognize versions of themselves on the screen
in Lady Bird will be grateful to be represented by an auteur with such an astute and funny method of illustrating the meaning behind our reference points as they applied to us a long time ago.
Yet if Carruth's debut was a work of poetry (or a textbook, if you don't find much to
appreciate in Carruth's visuals), then Byrkit's
film is
like a graduate student's bluntly written genre novel.
But even as we are
appreciating what is successful, starting with the impeccable work of Irons, Rampling and Schoenaerts, it's hard not to notice that the level of intensity, intelligence and involvement here does not reach the level of classic all -
in spy movies
like the Bourne
films or Tomas Alfredson's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» and Anton Corbijn's «A Most Wanted Man,» both based on novels by the genre's master, John le Carré.
If you
like the
films of Noah Baumbach or the plays of Annie Baker, and if your favorite movie of 2016 was «Manchester by the Sea,» I suspect you'll really
appreciate «Five Mile Lake,» a thoroughly wintry and rather gorgeously written little play
in which not much happens.
Do you think people
like John Waters and his crew of Dreamlanders had ANY idea that their
films would be as
appreciated in 2017 when they made them almost a half - century ago?
Grieser
appreciated Baer's advice on
film school, as well as his directing students to websites
like Harvardwood.com, a Harvard alumni networking site based
in Hollywood.