Sentences with phrase «characters in old film»

The images are of gay couples, photographed and staged to look like characters in old film stills.

Not exact matches

The men set up camp in tents and at the old tennis pro shop at the shuttered resort, where Elvis Presley's character got married in the 1961 film «Blue Hawaii.»

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, for example, meant to be a chance - and - necessity answer to TENDER MERCIES (consider the Tess Harper character in both films etc.).

There's not much going on here that most audience members won't see coming miles away - ie the transformation of a crusty old blind character into someone distinctly more kindhearted, thanks to the presence of Quill - but the film nevertheless remains engaging, primarily thanks to director Yoichi Sai's patience in allowing things to play out naturally.

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.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Of course since this is a Michael Bay film, it probably will be lacking in character, story, and plain old logic.

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most developed character in the film.

Much of the film's emotional punch comes from the ever - optimistic Dug and his relationships with three key supporting characters: caveman tribe chief Chief (Timothy Spall), who admits he's old for... 32, Goona, a female football phenom who Dug digs (she's voiced by Maisie Williams of «Game of Thrones») and Hognob, Dug's pig pal, who's much more than a pet (he's got a little Gromit in him).

Unfortunately, the film sends the fragile characters on a far more traditional arc than does the book, culminating in a sentimental, «present - day» climax complete with tear - stained old - age latex makeup.

The makeup artists in Perfect People do such a remarkable job in turning the dazzling Lauren Hutton and Perry King into baggy old frumps that, once the characters return to their «normal» selves, interest in the story lags and the film loses its comic momentum.

It achieved success, despite being shown in 811 theaters worldwide and having a relatively low box office gross.The film's love scenes between Colin Farrell's character and the then 14 - year - old Kilcher caused some controversy, resulting in the film studio deleting several scenes with Farrell to avoid child pornography accusations.

This sense of dread stems partly from our assumption that something bad is always bound to happen in a Haneke film (Georges and Anne are favorite character names of his), but more because we know that sooner or later, whether it happens within the time frame of the film or not, there's only one way that a story of two very old people in poor health can end: these people are going to die.

Most famous for the clean cut character Jessie on «Saved by the Bell,» Berkley tried to shed that tired old exterior, and in the process also shed her clothes many, many times for this film.

The 44 - year - old actress talked about filming commercials as a kid, her five - year - old daughter Sadie «s fashion sense, and her awful character in her latest film Bad Moms — Watch the interview below!

One of the weirdest things about the Pitch Perfect movies is how many characters are shown to be in their senior year in one film, who nonetheless return to perform in a college a cappella group a year later (and looking a year older).

«Facing Windows» stars the late Massimo Girotti, an icon of the Italian cinema who starred in films by Visconti, Rossellini, De Sica and Bertolucci, as the old man whose presence compels characters — played by luminous Giovanna Mezzogiorno («The Last Kiss») and Raoul Bova («Under the Tuscan Sun»)-- into peering into the facing windows that symbolize unfulfilled longing.

The 31 year - old star of «Mad Men» (which wrapped its third season this week, though me and my fellow Brits haven't even got started) has essayed the best female character in American film or TV in two years, gives great interview and, -LSB-...]

Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).

Perhaps the most memorable reveal comes at the end of the trailer when we see Charles with his classic bald head, which Patrick Stewart's older version of the character is so well - known for having in previous X-Men films.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not just as a terrific genre film but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

I think that within the first five pages, I wanted to do the movie and it was because of my character... Richard [LaGravenese] has a really great understanding and a great knowledge of film in general and I felt a lot of the older films that I'd grown up with, I felt that Ethan was a character out of some of those older films.

Eventually, the storyline and characters of the new film may be merged with those in the older «Dead» films, a concept that would be more appealing if «Evil Dead» were any good.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

A marvel in itself when you consider it's a film that relies so intensely on audiences already having an in - built knowledge of what's come before: old characters resurface without a glimmer of reintroduction, plot strands descend from the heavens without any impulse for context.

Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an old television series as a film residing between homage and parody, or as in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.

It's an impressive piece of camerawork and seems to imply that the film will takes us into the lives of all the characters we see in passing, rich, poor, young, old alike.

Douglas herself provides a link to the old world the film idealizes: her grandfather Melvyn, in a different Lubitsch film, told Greta Garbo an even better joke than the one from Cluny Brown that serves as a key line for Owen Wilson's character.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

This time, the focus is on teenage Pio (Pio Amato), a minor character in the previous film, who becomes the man of the house after his father and older brother are both jailed for stealing electricity.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

«And there was Max von Sydow doing that character that he did, so in a way, it's attracting certain people who do film, and, of course, I've got friends like Clive Russell and Liam Cunningham and Charlie Dance is an old pal, being in it, and they had a great time in it.»

Everyone's favourite characters, much of the surreal narration (delivered with perfect dryness by Stephen Fry), and the original's distinctive theme music, are all present and accounted for — and in an age where CGI has become the slick new medium for special visual effects, an inordinate amount of physical modelling and creature puppetry have been used to give the film a refreshingly organic retro look, as though the crew from the original TV series had been lured back to their old tools by a much bigger budget.

The 34 - year - old actor stars as Thomas McGregor in the new live action / CGI comedy directed by Will Gluck, but Gleeson has admitted filming the adaptation of the beloved Beatrix Potter character was more painful than he anticipated.

Over 3,000 actors auditioned to play Han Solo in Disney's upcoming Star Wars spin - off film focusing on the iconic character's younger years, but it was 26 - year - old Alden Ehrenreich — a rising star, but not a household name yet — who bagged the massive role in July 2016.

It's not just a hall of mirrors where you're just referencing old times like the characters in the film?

The film often goes too far in its ridiculous characterizations of the older mothers, to the point that its final act is essentially crippled by the sudden, emotional jumps that all the characters have to make.

And while the camera swings with lively verve and the lush, picturesque setting lends a dreamy quality to the film, the many colorful characters are still stuck in a story that feels like it's over 100 years old.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

After all their on - screen chemistry as the wise - cracking old master and young, inexperienced apprentice worked so incredibly well in Spider - Man Homecoming it's hard not to get hyped about seeing where Marvel Studios will take the characters in the third Avengers film.

Despite annoying characters, the film does retain a modicum of mystery as we watch a lot of improbable sleuthing on the part of these teenagers, following a string of clues that even Dan Brown would deem too ludicrous to inject into his stories and expect us to swallow, such as highlighted poetry quotes, thirty - year - old road maps in secret locations, and edits to Wikipedia - style entries to towns that don't really exist.

Honestly, when one of the debates in the film turns into an all - out brawl because one candidate brings up a story the other wrote when the opponent was 8 years old and calls it his «Communist manifesto» (See, one character in the story gives a pot of gold to a leprechaun, and that, according to the first candidate, is an example of his foe's innate belief in the redistribution of wealth), we're laughing in part because we've heard arguments of this variety before and with seemingly more frequency in the past few years.

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Alice Eve Trekkies might have been on edge back in 2009 when J.J.Abrams was going to reboot the beloved Star Trek films with a younger cast playing all the old familiar characters from the original series.

Although he is the first - billed actor in the cast, it is the character of Zero, played by Revolori as a teenager and F. Murray Abraham as an older man, who narrates most of the film and whose character technically has more screentime.

However, just as it's a predictable response that the majority of people who saw Up were viscerally impacted by the first 10 minutes, the reaction to the film as a whole has also become slightly stereotypical, summed up as follows: the so - called «Married Life» montage, in which we watch the lead character, Carl Fredricksen, and his wife, Ellie, as they live their lives over multiple decades, culminating in her death at an old age, is excellent.

It is tempting to see the title characters in Husbands (1970) as older versions of the trio in John Cassavetes» breakthrough film, Shadows (1959)-- aimless New Yorkers indulging in noisy horseplay,...

The 21 - year - old actress starred as Casey Cooke in the thriller «Split» and she admitted she had no idea her movie was linked to Shyamalan's 2000 movie «Unbreakable», and couldn't believe it when he asked her to return for the third film because she loves her character.

Thankfully, a large portion of the film feels fresh thanks to the filmmakers having faith and trust in both the actors and new characters to guide the story, without reverting to an over-reliance on old, aged warriors to hog the spotlight.