Sentences with phrase «as backdrop»

A decade after There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day - Lewis reunites with Paul Thomas Anderson for a satirical delve into the world of high fashion, with 50s London as backdrop.

The bleakness of the Sheffield landscape serves to show the barrenness of the unemployed men's lives, and acts as a backdrop to the optimism symbolised by the glamour of a strip show.

Let the falling rain serve as the backdrop to the creepfest that is this film.

Locations in Savannah, Georgia, served as the backdrop for Africa.

An elaborate sequence that uses Downtown L.A. as a backdrop sees Enos» Alice Vaughan and her requisite crack team of colleagues try to set up their man, Ben (played by Peter Krause), only to have him cleverly avoid them.

Nicholas Martin's screenplay could have been given the standard Hollywood biopic treatment, but in the hands of Frears, cinematographer Danny Cohen, composer Alexandre Desplat, production designer Alan MacDonald, and costume designer Consolata Boyle, the film presents 1940s New York in all its flashy glory, a heightened world suited to serve as backdrop to such an extraordinary — and sometimes painfully funny — story.

SYNOPSIS: A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop.

Much like their attempt at spoofing slasher films in the 2004 misfire, «Club Dread,» using the restaurant industry as the backdrop for their latest comedy wasn't exactly a novel idea.

Haneke, though, brings in the refugees as a backdrop for his solipsistic well - to - do clan.

In fact, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With might best be thought of as a romantic comedy generally trading on Woody's trademark themes, except substituting Chicago for New York as a backdrop and as the cinematic source of its inspiration.

First - time director Emanuele Della Valle uses this as a backdrop for his crime - drama film debut, Wetlands.

Like the best sports movies, the 1970s - set Formula One racing drama Rush doesn't just use its sport as a backdrop.

Coogler and cinematographer Maryse Alberti use the gritty cityscape as a backdrop for Adonis» transformation: While the young man grew up fighting all the time in group homes, he was able to live a life of luxury after Mary Anne found him.

The historic 2008 U.S. presidential election functions as backdrop as later does Iran's early 2009 presidential election.

Chazelle, the quintessential film nerd, lays in a good supply of trainspottery factoids about his aesthetic choices amid the more practical information such as the amount of times they shot the iconic dance number with the LA sunset as a backdrop (three times over two nights in a half - hour window as the horizon shimmered pink).

A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop.

It is as much a colossal void as the vacuum that serves as its backdrop, so relentlessly plot - driven that it resembles a video game not only in its near - total animation but in its stage - oriented narrative movement.

Cimino does occasionally get to take advantage of Colorado and Utah's breathtaking landscapes, though, using them as the backdrop for the dramatic — and ultra-violent — apprehension of one of Michael's accomplices.

Sure, that classic film offers up a splashy Grauman's Chinese movie premiere, and the canyons that have served as the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, but it never captures that uniquely Southern California atmosphere, where the blisteringly bright sunlight fights its way through a hazy sky to deliver its glow to the hills, the swimming pools and the clogged freeways.

It talks about Harvey Milk and the Communist Manifesto and the Civil Rights Movement and the CIA installation of Pinochet and the madness of a majority that still believes there were weapons of mass destruction in an Iraq... and it does so as backdrop to the disintegration of privileged white boy Dan (Gosling), a teacher at a rough inner - city school nursing a crack habit.

This historical event served as the backdrop of James Jones's 1962 novel, a semi-autobiographical work which offers some searing insights into the human condition.

Ballast like character development goes right out the window and into the icy Russian river that serves as backdrop for The Darkest Hour's anticlimax.

Elaborate, mythical settings serve as the backdrop for the adventure where talking animals (voices by Shane Rangi, Simon Pegg) and a fire breathing dragon play a part in the success of the dangerous journey.

If he wanted more than a skit, he needed a serious rendering of Austen's world, first as a backdrop to the zombie absurdity (as an ongoing source of humor), and second for its inherent emotional power.

Tarantino is a massive film buff and historian and uses the idea of the old spaghetti westerns as the backdrop of the story.

A staple of any multiplayer get together, Paperbound is a blisteringly paced arena based battler that uses the pages of literary classics such as Dante's Infernos or the Book of Five Rings, as the backdrop for its twitch - based visceral combat beats.

Still, despite strong performances from both actors, «Doubt» never really achieves anything beyond serving as the backdrop for a series of electrifying face - offs between its contrasting lead characters.

It also helps if you've attended a few horror conventions, as the industry serves as the backdrop of the entire movie, making the Smothered world premiere screening this past Friday at the Mad Monster Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina just that much more fitting.

But The Dreamers isn't about Paris's 1968 cultural revolution in a literal sense, choosing instead to use its setting as the backdrop for a chamber piece about Matthew, Theo, and Isabelle, left alone in the siblings» parents» flat.

Though it isn't the first time that the recession has been used as the backdrop of a movie, director J.C. Chandor at least makes his story unique by focusing on the cause of the crash rather than the aftereffects.

«Snow White and the Huntsman»: The castle may have been computer generated, but the expanse of beach that serves as the backdrop for the fantasy film's climactic battle scene can be found in Wales.

The crime thriller uses London's seedy Limehouse district as its backdrop.

With one of the world's most beautiful and interesting cities as a backdrop, Mr. Allen delivers four stories — none of which intersect with the others.

The Last Face is his attempt to shift that focus on this part of the world, using it as a backdrop for a love story between a relief - aid doctor and the director of an aid organization.

While it's cool to see all of them wearing their new Samurai - inspired costumes, this lineup of Batman rogues serves mostly as a backdrop to the main attraction.

With The Immigrant, director James Gray told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

Using the Day of the Dead as a backdrop for a touching story about the importance of family and remembering those who have come before us, it carefully balances emotional moments with great gags and delightful original songs.

told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

Using that ghost story legend as a backdrop, the effective, low - budget Munger Road is part ghost story, but mostly straight - up thriller.

While the bodybuilding world serves as backdrop, it's finally a story of transition between cultural traditions — between worlds old and new — as Bridges» well - to - do layabout drifts back to his hometown.

As you run around you'll constantly be surrounded by peaks and mountain tops in the distance that only exist as backdrop.

There is a strong narrative to tell here; it's just a shame it only exists as a backdrop to an overused and recycled central story.

The choice of a stable South American country as a backdrop — Iraq in the French original — adds to the impression that Special Correspondents was pulled from the dregs of the 1980s.

An African Election / Switzerland, U.S.A. (Director: Jarreth Merz)-- The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind the scenes at the complex, political machinery of a third - world democracy struggling to avoid civil war and establish stability for good.

Dead Man Down has its most success as a fractured romance between two broken people, and their chemistry is almost sweet despite the mutual desire for blood that serves as its backdrop.

Second, the architecture at Agnes Scott College, which previously served as a backdrop for Scream 2.

In most voodoo movies, voodoo itself is taken only as a backdrop, a gimmick.

And yet, director Jon Amiel skates over this epic clash of ideologies, using it only as a backdrop to Darwin's inner conflict while he procrastinates over writing the book.

That's fine if you're only using history as the backdrop for an interesting story, but if the history is the story, then shouldn't you adhere to it?

Featurette one, Into The Wild; The Story, The Characters is 21 minutes worth of interviews with actors, Penn, Krakauer, and varying bits of behind the scenes footage used mostly as a backdrop for the interviews, rather than for giving us a look at production methods.