Sentences with phrase «arty movies»

[It's] Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most obsessively arty movie and by no means his best.

This 1978 epic, culled by Tom Stoppard from a Nabokov novel, and with a smouldering performance from Dirk Bogarde as a distressed chocolate manufacturer in proto - Nazi Germany, is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most obsessively arty movie and by no means his best.

It was a Coen Brothers movies so I figured Husband — being an arty movie lover — would go for it.

Not exact matches

I am incredibly arty and love making things, Music, Club, Movies, Cinem a, Reading, Spent Romantic Moment with some one i love and spend time with people who are important to me.I don't mind to show the world that I love someone as I feel...

Even Haley's stabs at arty interludes (crashing surfs, are - they - real - or - not excerpts from Lee's western movies) fall flat.

The movie's lure is sensual and unflagging; that's what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s.

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.

Is it a nasty little B - movie thriller or a somber and arty character study?

The movie is just good enough to make you wish that he'd leave his artier inclinations on the back burner.

Happily, writer - director Mike White, whose métier is quirky movies like «Year of the Dog» in which a secretary's life changes when her dog dies, is not so arty this time.

They don't seem to get too excited about blood if it has arty pretensions or if a movie has some social commentary.

Andrew Niccol's clever satire Simone combines the two, as Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino), an arty director whose career is spiraling downward, replaces a spoiled star with a computer - generated beauty synthesized from earlier movie stars.

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.»

While the movie suggests he learns an appropriate lesson concerning the costs of vengeance, it's also displayed by the representation of those costs — at once thrilling and arty (see also, Nispel's remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

Previously, I found Egoyan's movies to be interesting but self - conscious and arty to the extreme.

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.

I haven't seen some of the big movies of that year (eg Love Story) nor all the arty ones (The Confession), and it does seem like a weird year, a kind of transition year.

applies his compilation skills to a far broader and artier canvas of more than 200 different movies from 130 + different directors, where mainstream filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock are outnumbered by experimental artists like Jonas Mekas and Bill Viola, and where the closest thing to voices of the mainstream comes from David Lynch and Robert Altman.

Typically, it's the 16,000 - plus DGA voters rewarding the helmers behind big, commercial movies («The Martian,» «American Sniper,» «Captain Phillips») while the much smaller academy directors branch (512 active members this year) go for artier dramas («Room,» «Foxcatcher,» «Nebraska»).

The movie is difficult to watch, often intensely brutal, yet ultimately humane and life - affirming, never crossing the line into either midnight movie excess or pointlessly arty affectation.

(This also arguably hurts some of these movies — these artier choices often have a smaller pool of voters to choose from in the first place.)

But I did see I AM LOVE and since that movie annoyed me so much — once again a woman gets punished for having sexual desires — and it was so goddamn arty — that I can't really separate my impression of her performance enough from my annoyance so I'm glad you left her off your list!

Complete with actors, arty cinematography and a noirish voice - over, it's the closest the book industry has come to a movie - style preview for a new title.

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».