Sentences with phrase «celluloid life»

The Counselor (2013) Bardem went back to the hairstylist's chair to play fun - loving drug lord Reiner in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, his second run at bringing celluloid life to a Cormac McCarthy character (the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist wrote the screenplay).

And with a bank account overflowing with money from unknown, possibly illicit, sources, Wiseau's ignorance of the filmmaking process proves to be less a barrier than an opportunity for an equipment rental company to sell him a package deal, including a staff of filmmaking professionals less interested in making Wiseau's vision come to celluloid life than collecting a regular paycheck.

For anyone looking for something as real or engaging as Biggie's music — or a good introduction to it — will be disappointed by this mediocre celluloid life - after - death.

Not exact matches

Like other plastics that would follow, celluloid offered a means for Americans to buy their way into new stations in life.

Lifeless frames of celluloid passed in front of a bright bulb 24 times a second yield moving images convincing enough to make us believe there are living people up there on a screen, moving about with purpose.

A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.

While happiness seems eternally out of reach for the Phantom, this celluloid adaptation at least makes his story more accessible to those of us living off Broadway.

This focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that just happened to choose celluloid as the medium in which to express himself.

But this is different from being a matinee idol or a living legend or an icon or Jennifer Lawrence or any of those other words used to describe our celluloid heroes.

Paul Reubens's signature comedy creation, mischief - making bow - tied big kid Pee - wee Herman, was already a big live draw before Tim Burton's movie preserved this unique persona for celluloid immortality.

During one of her regular outings to see the film «The Purple Rose of Cairo,» Tom (a dashingly young Jeff Daniels), one of the film's leads, breaks through the celluloid fourth wall to enter Cecilia's life.

Determined to make a documentary of Chiyoku's life, Genya brings her an old brass key that serves as a catalyst for a flood of memories that drown the both of them in a deluge of recollections celluloid and otherwise.

It's that organic quality — something living and breathing in that celluloid and the way it captures the light and images on that silver.

Now, 30 years later, the film holds up not only as an insightful look into teenage life in the»80s, but also as one of the most honest and perceptive depictions of the teenage experience to be captured on celluloid.

Other than the announcement that the ending would change, the other changes from this stage to celluloid transition was casting; French Bob (played by Inglourious Basterds» Denis Menochet on the theatre stage) became Mexican Bob (Demian Bichir), James Remar «s part was re-cast with a bonafide movie star (who we won't discuss until after posting our spoiler warning), and Amber Tamblyn «s Daisy was recast with Jennifer Jason Leigh (whom, I will say I spotted in the audience of the live - read talking to Harvey Weinstein and I astutely wrote that she should be in a Tarantino film; hey readers, sometimes armchair casting actually happens!).

But there's so much more wrong with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the truism that for as boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.

As with Pixar's other DVD titles, A Bug's Life has been brought to the disc with no celluloid middle man, resulting in an incredibly clear and colorful display of the movie.

Adapted from Greg Sestero's best - selling tell - all of the same name, «The Disaster Artist» chronicles the real - life friendship between Sestero and Wiseau and the calamitous roller - coaster ride they went on to create their 2003 stinker - of - epic - proportions, «The Room,» widely considered one of the worst films ever committed to celluloid.

(Dean is a celluloid holdout, and it was screened in an ad - hoc movie theater with a real live projectionist.)

And Tacita Dean was joining photography and painting in a celluloid elm with a life of its own.