Sentences with phrase «brooding film»

Mirren, who was so good as Detective Superintendant Jane Tennison in the BBS procedural, seems to be constitutionally incapable of turning in a poor performance, and she shines again in this dark, brooding film.

For the latter shows, Greenwood will play the ondes Martenot (an early 20th century amplified keyboard) alongside Wordless Music Orchestra, a 50 - piece New York band, as Paul Thomas Anderson's brooding film plays on a 50 - foot movie screen in the United Palace Theater; those performances will take place September 19th and 20th.

That cycle was started when Italian actress Monica Vitti, known for her brooding films with Michelangelo Antonioni («L'Aventurra,» «L'Eclisse»), exquisitely took up the mantle of popular British comic strip heroine «Modesty Blaise» (1966), a pop art masterpiece (or train wreck, take your pick), which makes up a double feature with Jane Fonda's turn as «Barbarella» (1968), based on a French comic strip, on Thursday, May 17, at the Castro Theatre.

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With his shirt unbuttoned perhaps one button lower than necessary in his unsmiling photos, willy came off as a brooding hip film guy.

An imposing and highly memorable presence on the Broadway stage, actor Frank Langella has won only a fraction of the acclaim he's received in the theater for his film career; still, his brooding good looks and his ability to play both villains and comic foils with a touch of menace has made him a welcome (and increasingly familiar) fare to film buffs.

There's a sexy, brooding, thrilling film to be made out of Michel Faber's compelling novel of lust and death.

The character is, textually, struggling with the weight of his responsibility to the world, but the film doesn't dramatize it much and it doesn't give Cavill many scenes in which to portray it beyond brooding.

The record of his visit to the nearby Klan stronghold of Cottonwood, for instance, consists mostly of brooding shots of trees — their past use was much on his mind, and he didn't expect the people would want to be filmed — followed by a view of the two - lane blacktop along which he fled after two boys approached him, called him by name, and instructed him to wait because some people were coming to see him.

An actor of brooding charisma who intones his lines in a deep, milky baritone, Rickman began his career on - stage, building up a sizable résumé before embarking on a film career.Of Irish and Welsh parentage, Rickman was born in London's Hammersmith district on February 21, 1946.

The film's mood is brooding, but its stars do share a pair of lively scenes of bonding: On a stakeout, they sing together, and when their investigation points to a nightclub, the pleasures of doing themselves up buoys both them and the film.

Death Metal Angola starts as a brooding national crisis doc and ends as a concert film.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

Everything about this film is subtle and understated but all the more brooding and effective for it.

After appearing in about a half a dozen or so critically - acclaimed films in 2015, including «Far from the Madding Crowd» and «A Little Chaos,» brooding Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts...

With its combination of psychological and body horror, The Brood laid the groundwork for many of the director's films to come, but it stands on its own as a personal, singularly scary vision.

Now they're back at it, minus the campy sexual fireworks, for «Everybody Knows», a brooding, talky family saga by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, twice winner of the foreign - film Oscar for «A Separation» and «The Salesman».

In 1979, Cronenberg, himself recovering from a difficult divorce and custody contest, noted of his most personal film, «The Brood is my version of Kramer vs. Kramer, but more realistic.»

Instead, the film is a slow burner and Elliot Goldenthal's grim score broods with melancholy.

As in Melville's brooding gangster classic, Mamet's film focuses on a lonely, figurative samurai devoted to a governing code, in this case a jiu - jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

Though I was thinking of such things as The Brood began, revisiting the film was truly as if seeing it for the first time.

Affleck, in particular, says very little throughout the entire film and is only required to stand around with his hands in pockets and brood.

There's a brooding tonal growth that Pesce is able to establish, as he unravels a film that becomes more horrific with each passing second.

The absurd pair's bowler hats give the film a whiff of Dadaism and René Magritte's Surrealist paintings, while the in - bred Van Peteghems, including Aude and André's idiot brother Christian (Jean - Luc Vincent), invoke Monty Python's «upper - class twits» — Pythonesque, too, is the severed foot La Loute's mother offers her hungry brood — or even the self - indulgent gentry of Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (1939).

The drawback is that Kunis never seems to actually buy into the mythos and world that were supposed to come out of all the green screen and CGI work; Tatum, by comparison, seems to be deep into a drama that feels out of place in a big popcorn film, and his character has little humor or charm underneath the brooding, gruff attitude, campy facial prosthetics and drag - style makeup work.

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After appearing in about a half a dozen or so critically - acclaimed films in 2015, including «Far from the Madding Crowd» and «A Little Chaos,» brooding Belgian actor

And now, after years in development and at one point moving forward without Wan at the helm (thankfully that didn't last long), we finally have the first trailer and it's unmistakably a James Wan film, brooding with a creeping atmosphere and turning even the most subtle imagery into pure nightmare fuel.

This weekend, as part of its annual all - night horror movie marathon, the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York, will screen David Cronenberg's 1979 film The Brood.

Yet their muscular performances are ultimately undermined by the film's preoccupation with Hardy, who relishes another opportunity to demonstrate the brooding intensity that's made him Hollywood's go - to guy when it comes to playing deeply troubled protagonists.

So it's not surprising to find him at the center of this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing X-Men film set in a future world where bad things not only might happen, they're pretty much guaranteed.

When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.

-- and decided to create a film around their feline brood.

Based on a cult favorite 2010 Mexican film of the same name, We Are What We Are is a brooding genre film from co - writer / director Jim Mickle about family traditions.

The last time we saw the Lego rendering of Batman (Will Arnett), he was a hilariously pompous, brooding, and gravelly - voiced blowhard, so it makes sense that his film's title theme is appropriately self - congratulating.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

What made the film so amazing was the portrayal by film legend Kurt Russell as the brooding anti-hero.

Treatment of iconic villain: No one could accuse Colin Farrell of not being able to play a brooding bad boy, though you end up wishing that the film took advantage of the actor more and really let him sink his, um, teeth into the part.

The film even offers a depressive wrestler / strong man who (some time after he pulls a big rig in front of a small but cheering crowd) is seen brooding at home while his wife and child trying to cheer him up.

The film is punctuated with lingering images of a brooding Rahman, and the camera, recalling the camera vis - à - vis Ryan Gosling in Drive, seems to fall in love with Rahman's face.

Isaac plays Nathan with incredible physicality and brooding threat, the latest in a string of great performances that have quickly propelled him to coveted roles in upcoming Star Wars films.

He plays a jazz pianist in the upcoming musical «La La Land» and a brooding indie rocker in Terrence Malick's new film «Weightless».

In the film, Sestero plays Mark, best friend and romantic foil to Wiseau's brooding Johnny.

The film begins with a series of shoot - outs, killings, and barroom fights that establish him as emotionally tortured before prolonged bouts of sulking and brooding.

-- «Rebecca» (1940): Alfred Hitchcock's film about a brooding widower (Laurence Olivier) and his timid second wife (Joan Fontaine) is given a gorgeous transfer, but the movie takes a backseat to the wealth of extras.

When a group of young punks resembling the leather - jacket wearing, pulp - talking thugs from a 1950s anti-drug film and their floozy girlfriends swing by the establishment, Peggy meets cute with brooding, mascara - wearing Jak (Jonathan Tucker, one of the victims from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake).

As for the film, it's a modest little charmer about a middle - aged housewife re-connecting with her brooding teenage son through their shared love of music.

The resulting film is more mature, more thoughtful, more brooding, but also more dull.

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.