Sentences with phrase «arty film»

This isn't so much film art as an arty film, and its inclusion does neither Fowler nor the Turner any favours.

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My best explanation for this is that the film ultimately found itself betwixt and between: too big to be the kind of arty film that critics love to champion, but not big enough (its domestic box office was almost exactly $ 100 million) to force its way into the conversation, à la Avatar, in a «the people have spoken» fashion.

Strikingly mounted, lighted, shot and scored, this tense, decidedly arty film marks a bravura feature directing debut for young American actor Brady Corbet («Melancholia,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene»).

No genre film, Hors Satan presents a meditation on the nature of good and evil, an arty film that might reward patient audiences or bore viewers as vague and pretentious.

He also won the endless love of arty film critics like me, but apparently that's not enough for him, because he's gone back to the rubber - face, mostly.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

With someone else in the role it might have been an even smaller, artier film.

Other important and positive trends at this year's FEFF and that I will consider further in this report included a very welcome sprinkling of surprisingly arty films, some of them from Southeast Asia truly excellent.

Not exact matches

If you haven't seen the Lizzy Caplan spoof of fashion films and the arty white girl fashion bloggers they appeal to, the video is waving and winking at you below.

From writer's festivals and film festivals to satisfy arty singles, to beer festivals and food celebrations to please gourmet lovers, to the legendary Auckland Arts Festival that celebrates life in the City of Sails, there is something here to suit everyone.

She explains to one of her patients, a detective haunted by a murder he was unable to prevent, that the first dreams we have when we fall asleep are like arty short films and longer dreams are like blockbusters.

This head - scratcher of an arty sci - fi film will either seem profound and beautiful, or will have you running for the exits in frustration.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

The film is handsomely photographed, but some of the arty images — like a shot of an empty Las Vegas hotel corridor — seem quite pointless.

Other highlights included a pair of arty horror films, It Follows and Goodnight Mommy.

Once again the most prolific distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one - film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.

Gallic, coming - of - age horror pic is too arty to be considered merely an exploitation film — but it's close.

Seconds (1966), arty and opaque where Grand Prix was vapid and commercial, is a kid's toy - box of a film, a self - conscious appropriation of European New Wave themes and techniques in the same vein as Arthur Penn's contemporaneous Mickey One.

But if «Prisoners» is the grimmest studio film you've seen since «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,» then «Enemy» — chronologically their first collaboration — is the equally dark but more experimental and arty cousin.

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

Scenes occur both inside and outside the fictional film without adequate warning, and this arty ambiguity is as about as far as the movie's pleasures go.

She's helped considerably by a fine cast (including the too seldom seen Marie Riviere and Andre Wilms), but in the end it's Bruni Tedeschi's sure grasp of the milieu — and in particular her acute understanding of the specific foibles of a rich, arty but out - of - touch class nostalgic for an earlier era — that makes the film a modest but surprisingly substantial delight.

Even though this is an extremely well - made film, it's difficult to know who will enjoy it, as it's far too arty for horror genre fans and much too grisly for arthouse moviegoers.

This film may look like one of those annoyingly mannered independent films, with its wacky young cast and arty - farty black and white photography, but it's actually a fresh, smart and very funny comedy.

Even attempts at slapstick come off subdued in a film that, without Sarandon, could have failed miserably but which appears to be holding back from more melodramatic actions as though trying too hard to cater to an arty audience.

The tale of an East German secret policeman (Ulrich Muhe, who would pass away six months after this riveting turn) who spends the majority of the film listening in on the lives of an arty couple (Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck), a playwright and actress suspected of harboring Western sympathies, really gets under your skin.

I'd also say that I'd like to see the new Alexander Payne film at Cannes (The Descendants), but given that it stars George Clooney, they may not feel the need to take it to such an arty festival.

One might think that Peter Jackson is returning to the darker, artier cinema of Heavenly Creatures because of the similar (though inverted) subject matter, but The Lovely Bones fails in comparison to his fantastic 1994 film.

One article in the past few days drew attention to the opinions expressed on her film, Away from Her, by the critics who sit in judgement on all things arty for Newsnight Review.

But with its highbrow talent and arty flourishes — the film received a seven - minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival — it all but dares you to admit that you disliked it.

In some ways, the film is more arty and western version of Ben Wheatley's Free Fire.

If a studio knows that they have a dog on their hands that might be dependent on reviews (i.e. edgy and arty studio films), they hold it.

This arty vegetarian cannibal feature debut tries to fill the recent void of good French horror films.

12 Years a Slave is no less carnal in its inquiries — it is, in its most literal sense, a film about bodies bought and sold — but its context and purposes are so much weightier that they tether McQueen's gifts, enabling him to transcend «arty» and produce a work of genuine, unmistakable art. 12 Years a Slave is likely the most painful, clear - eyed feature ever made about American slavery.

Extras include: international and U.S. theatrical trailers for Zombie (surprisingly, the American one is much artier); a pair of TV spots and a quartet of radio spots for the film; a Zombie - centric gallery of lobby cards, soundtrack covers, video covers, publicity stills (sub-divided into three categories), and the contents of the German press book; credits for the DVD (whose worm - eye menus are actually more skin - crawling than much of Zombie); and the biased, if thorough, biography of Fulci by Tracy Taylor that graces Blue Underground's other Fulci titles.

On the other hand, the almost wall - to - wall techno music (reminiscent of Run Lola Run in its quieter moments), the arty slow - motion and slow - burn pacing of much of the film, and the enigmatic characterization of the main character, known only as «The Driver,» lend a surreal feel to the city I know.

New Yorker Milligan churned out numerous almost zero budget horror films for the grindhouse circuit in the»60s and»70s, occasionally sneaking in an arty melodrama.

For a film that was shot in just 12 days, Phone Booth is a very good thriller which allows director Joel Schumacher to get arty while still producing a very commerical product.

The films in this category tend to be artier than their English - language counterparts, and considerably darker.

Sophia Coppola's films (Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation) have the annoying habit of coming off as unselfconsciously arty exercises that don't stand up under much scrutiny.

Though the film dulls in the third stretch — before the exhilarating, deftly staged final match, anyway — Faris and Dayton otherwise maintain a bouncy, arty pep.

Douglas Gordon too leapt over the wall when he collaborated on the (admittedly very arty) football film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.

Since he became junior minister at the DCMS 18 months ago, he has attacked investors in film for being «unimaginative and conservative», simultaneously complaining that there are too many «arty farty» films and too much «heritage movie - making».