Sentences with phrase «brilliant little film»

Other portfolio highlights include his Postr Club work created with Spin, which was on show as part of the group exhibition at Twenty Twenty Two in Manchester around this time last year and a brilliant little film publication which demonstrates a deft way with layout and using found imagery.

With echoes of Don McKellar's Last Night (a brilliant little film if you've never seen it) blending with a Steve Carell comedy and American indie sensibilities, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World promises two things: a road trip with Keira Knightley and a title that most cinemas will have trouble fitting on their marquees.

Not exact matches

Two films came out this year that had brilliant cinematography and very little dialogue, the difference is mad max didn't put me to sleep and it had action scenes that pushed the story forward rather than happen in the background and force the audience to squint to even make out what's happening.

«The Lobster» (2015) It's a little unfair to put a film on this list that most will not yet have seen, but frankly there are not going to be many opportunities to talk up Yorgos Lanthimos «brilliant «The Lobster» that we don't take.

Man in the Dark — Stephen Lang, who is absolutely brilliant in the film, talks a little bit about his character and how he thinks of the Blind Man almost like an urban legend.

When we meet him, he's having lunch with a film executive who thinks he's brilliant, but what we hear is Charlie's non-stop monologue wondering if he» s sweating too much, saying too little, weighing too much, looking too bald and so forth.

It's a little reactionary in a kind of «Forrest Gump» - y sort of way — the moral runs that it's better to be decent than brilliant, happy than successful — but the film is well - meaning and the performances from a stellar cast (Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley's accent, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, William H Macy all show up) mostly walk the right side of mawkishness.

It isn't perfect, but when it works, it's brilliant, and a definite recommendation for viewers looking for something a little more challenging than your typical adventure film.

Accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack and some hilarious film in - jokes Lord of the Rings to Terminator gets a little rimming, Wilderpeople barely misses a beat.

But those who have seen films like Vincente Minnelli's biopic Lust for Life (1956), Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo (1990)-- specifically about the tortured relationship between the two brothers — and Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh (1991), which focuses on the painter's last days, will find little here that adds to our understanding of this brilliant, suffering artist beyond, perhaps, the revelation that there is even any mystery surrounding his death at all.

The middle story has a brilliant introduction but the tension created therein is slightly dampened by the fact that it becomes the most overtly comic part of the film, which for me was a little disappointing, but in general these are compelling mini-arcs that successfully complement the wide whole.

Sure there was that little remake called All the King's Men that should have been brilliant, but as stated, Cannes wasn't scathing; I think the bad publicity might even help my perception of the film, as I won't be expecting it to be the greatest thing of the year.

Terrence Malick direction in this movie was pure brilliant, even when sometimes it dose get a little pretentious with some of the imagery, but all that aside, this is a beautiful film that's not going to be for everyone.

«Dream is destiny,» a little girl tells the young Wiley Wiggins at the start of the new Waking Life, a brilliant new animated film from Richard Linklater (Slacker).

This is partly thanks to the brilliant craft of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, who worked closely with director Carroll Ballard so that they could tell a story largely in images, especially in the first half of the film, which has little dialogue.

Capturing the «buddy cop» genre has been attempted before and after this brilliant little ditty (see Kevin Smith's COP OUT and Adam McKay's THE OTHER GUYS), but what makes HOT FUZZ such a contemporary classic is that it actually achieves it's own place alongside the films it's in love with: POiNT BREAK and BAD BOYS 2.

Rodney Graham: A Little Thought tracks the career of a brilliant, idiosyncratic artist whose work spans a range of media including photography, film, book works, installation and pop music.