Sentences with phrase «before in films like»

Diane Kruger: She has given some memorable performances before in films like Troy and Inglourious Basterds, but she gave the best performance of her career in In the Fade as a distraught woman who has lost her husband and child.

Unlike before in films like Wild Reeds or The Witnesses (and perhaps the six other collaborations between Deneuve and Téchiné, none of which I have seen) his characters are horrifically hard to care about.

We've seen Bradley Cooper play the «bro» type character multiple times before in films like The Hangover or Wedding Crashes.

Not exact matches

In the film, Huajian chairman Zhang Huarong stands before neat rows of Ethiopian workers singing a song about unity, describing himself as a father to his employees, who «like me very much.»

Reagan was a well - known actor before he became president, but he wasn't always watching his own films in the White House theater — that was only on special occasions like his birthday.

Before they made it big, movies like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and The Last King of Scotland seemed like films that would end up in the long tail.

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

Each successive Avengers movie has felt like an exercise in how many characters can fit into one film before it breaks down.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Apparently, because I was willing to be interviewed for print about things like grooming before and after delivery, some people also figured I'd be willing to be filmed in the hospital (um, no).

However, in the fifth film set in the 1920 - 30s, the Dark Side is still present as scientists and doctors continued record brain damage in football players» and boxers» head injuries using terms like «Punch Drink,» Dementia pugilistica, and even CTE (Yes, the term was used before Omalu was even born).

In a film released before he hit the campaign trail, Geldof said: «I know Zac Goldsmith and I like the guy, but the plain fact is that Zac is a political failure,» he declared.

Tim, who has co-written over 400 commercial treatments and music videos with directors including: Wim Wenders, Richard Ayoade and Jonas Ackerlund, for clients and artists such as: Lady Gaga, Honda, and Louis Vuitton, opined that, though he haven't watched Ghanaian movies before, he likes African stories and since he's in Ghana to learn and see how to assist both the needy through Obiba Foundation and people in film - making, he has started watching Ghanaian films.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Much like for Chips himself, the film shows years as they begin to fly by in a blur, as new boys replace old boys, and new faces look the same as their fathers and grandfathers before them, in particular, little Colley, as played by Terry Kilburn (John Colley, Peter Colley, Peter Colley II, Peter Colley III).

I have never felt like I was in the middle of such a violent conflict before and this film just made me plunge right in the eye of the storm.

The Potter movies showed us their characters getting older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Potter was going to grow up like a normal person and never before has any film — or any book — brought home to me how terribly brief childhood is.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

Luckily, the film has a great chick - flicky ending - before - the - ending that stirred my estrogen enough to go home feeling like Steve Carell just fed me some dark chocolate and wrapped me in a cashmere throw, which ain't a terrible day at the movies.

the clearer it becomes that «Solo,» like many a «Star Wars» film before it, is not too interested in women.

In 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of BeeIn 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Beein The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Beein the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Beein the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Beein a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Bees.

But like Mad Max 3 before it, the film never lives up to the promise of the ideas that it raises, resulting in a film which is enjoyable but only memorable in passing.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

The film definitely tries to cover as much ground as it can (It begins when Charlie is 5 in a London music hall and plows through the rest of his life, ending shortly before his death in Vevey, Switzerland, on Christmas Day 1977, at the age of 88) but in doing so abandons depth and development — so much so that the film inevitably feels like a bunch of glossy broad strokes.

It turns out that the film's villain — a Canadian Nazi (played by Haley Joel Osment in fake archival footage, and Ralph Garman in the present day) who's managed to stay alive by freezing himself for 75 years before the two Colleens accidentally wake him up — isn't at all interested in Hitler - like world domination through racial genocide.

Both Thor and Thor: The Dark World presented us with something drastically different than what was before it, including expanding beyond the cosmos and accepting the God - like characters as normal, which really pushed the medium of comic book films, while also blending humor and action in a way that made the character both interesting and viable.

Like Kurosawa did before him, Altman used multiple cameras to film the big crowd scenes; the actors had to remain in character because they had no way of knowing what footage of them might be used.

Like Only God Forgives before it, this one will polarize and is not for everyone, but if you're up for a vivid and distinct sensory treat unlike most films you find in a given year, this arthouse flick is one beautiful satire of beauty.

While the beginning of the film feels like it's setting the audience up for a somewhat boring lesson on drone warfare (I'm looking at you, Good Kill), Hood — still wiping the sting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off with Ender's Game and now this — excellently threads the needle of tension and, before you know it, the thriller aspect of the film becomes abundantly clear as the series of events play out in semi-real time over the course of one day.

He compared the process to Deadpool, which may have seemed like an instant, overnight success, but he reminded fans that the film was in various stages of development for a decade before it hit theaters.

Unfortunately, for the rest of us, it's everything we've seen before, and better, in films like those and countless others.

Perhaps it's something that works best in a box set like this one, as we're more able to see how it plays off the three films that came before it.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored an original screenplay nod.

It's a good thing the dialogue and acting deliver, too, because the film is glacially paced and clocks in at a way - too - long 132 minutes that feels like a DVD director's cut that you'd watch once before always returning to the theatrical cut.

The film was shot after The Act of Killing was edited but before it was released, and Oppenheimer's canny stewardship (and brinksmanship) is not irrelevant to their achievement; like Lanzmann, Ophuls, and Panh before him, in purely formal terms he's set a high bar for chroniclers of violence when it comes to galvanizing an audience.

Like I was telling you, in most film criticism, certainly before the invention of VHS, everybody would get everything wrong all the time because they couldn't go back to check it before publication, and one of the real whoppers is Raymond Durgnat describing «Under Capricorn» in his writing, and then Francois Truffaut taking Raymond Durgnat's description in the «Hitchcock / Truffaut» book and getting everything all wrong.

Even before its late detour into action movie silliness (including a ridiculous badass set piece that belongs in a James Bond movie) Sicario feels like a film whose immaculate craft disguises its hollow center.

Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the film is that Rad (listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

He is involved with some dangerous characters who at first seem like important plot factors; later, we suspect Wenders was just throwing in some film noir elements to keep up the interest before getting to his real story, which comes toward the end of this very long film.

But I kept telling the studio, and I kept telling Ryan, I'm like, «No, the director's cut going to come in at like 2:12,»» Leitch explained about his rough cut of the film before elaborating that the extended version contains a montage of Deadpool attempting suicide, some extra material with Domino and alternate takes of existing scenes with different dialogue.

As such, like another second - tier Marvel title before it, Guardians of the Galaxy, that allows for some deviation from the core Avengers films in terms of how things will look and sound, giving us a movie that feels organically different in visual design than most we've seen before, even if it still retains the same formula structure of the rest of the MCU features.

The climactic showdown is a special - effects blowout we've seen many times before, but the film works like gangbusters in spite of that.

A remake of the 2010 French film Crime d'amour, the movie stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace — their faces so porcelain and blemish - free it looks like they dipped them in buttermilk before every scene — as women in a Berlin ad agency, engaging in twisted office warfare.

The end result is, like In Bruges, an entertainingly erratic effort that receives plenty of mileage out of the actors» stellar efforts and McDonagh's crisp dialogue, and it does seem like it's just a matter of time before McDonagh crafts a film that's more than just the sum of its parts.

Like his most acclaimed contemporary, Daniel Day - Lewis, Gary Oldman got his start in British theater before taking smaller roles in films and television.

Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts like «Gattaca», «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead», «Boyhood», and the «Before Sunrise»...... Read more «New Review from Jeff York of Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke stun with «First Reformed» ``

Long before Michael Douglas cornered the market on cinematic infidelity in films like Disclosure and Fatal Attraction, his father Kirk starred in an entirely unmemorable little melodrama called Strangers When We Meet.

The director — who died of cancer last year — won the Palme d'Or for Taste of Cherry in 1997, premiered his last Competition film Like Someone in Love at Cannes five years ago, and finished work on this new project just shortly before his death in July last year.