Sentences with phrase «control over the films»

During this period, the team of Arad and Feige could observe and offer notes on various Marvel - licensed films, such as Elektra, X-Men: The Last Stand, Spider - Man 3, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, but, ultimately, had no control over those films made by 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and other studios.

Reynolds is clearly having the time of his life with complete control over a film even more cathartic for his career missteps than the original.

More recently, Trumbull worked with Terrence Malick (another maverick director who commands complete control over this films) to create the birth of life sequences for The Tree of Life.

The current president of Nintendo, Tatsumi Kimishima, discussed in an interview with Asahi that Nintendo certainly is going to go into the movie business but expresses that he wishes Nintendo will have as much control over films as they can.

Even when they say, «oh no, you will have total control,» well, I don't know anybody who actually has total control over the film adaptation of their video game.

Not exact matches

China's ruling Communist Party recently announced it would take direct control of major broadcasters and assume regulatory power over everything from film and TV to books and news.

However, just as you can manage the actual playing of the film, you can exert control over your subsequent actions.

Think of your emotions as a film you're watching on Netflix: Just as you don't have control over the characters or the plot in the film, you can't control the way you feel in reaction to an event or situation.

Though its main protagonist is a man (Chadwick Boseman), the movie introduces us to something that had yet to be reflected in film: a political system wherein men and women have joint control over political institutions.

In the sixth film in the 1960 - 80s, the NFL rises to power towering over football seeking to control all aspects of the game.

Those who believe News International is ultimately a criminal organization, the sort of multi-billion pound empire that exists in a James Bond film, see these meetings as proof of the pernicious control that Rupert Murdoch seeks to exercise over British politicians of every party.

For example, when a normal tire travels over water at a high speed, pressure builds until a film forms to lubricate the interface; this is called hydroplaning, and results in a complete loss of frictional control.

A study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A shows that the technique produces high - quality crystalline films with precise control over thickness across large areas, and could point the way toward mass production methods for perovskite cells.

Synthesized from a combination of modified versions of the amino acid glycine, the new film is flexible, allows greater control over desired interactions through introduction of specific side chains, and is far more thermally and chemically stable than those assembled from natural polypeptides or lipids.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

Aside from the essential short prologue Hotel Chevalier, the star of the disc is Matt Zoller Seitz's 11 - minute video essay entitled «Chaos and Control,» in which the film critic discusses key ideas, motifs, and patterns in The Darjeeling Limited over edited footage of the film.

The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain control over all of Russia.

After that hour, though, the scheme goes into action, and with Zemeckis» consummate control of tone and pacing and visual effects, the film, especially once Philippe prepares to take his first steps across and over the void, becomes something altogether astonishing.

This is an angry film as well as a hugely entertaining one, and Lee has complete control over its shifting tone, minute by minute.

The sad thing about this film is that Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair are all fantastic actors, but unfortunately the director has exercised no control over them whatsoever.

A non-comprehensive list of the powers Lucy acquires over the course of the film: perfect marksmanship, extreme agility, and instantaneous reflexes; the ability to control TVs and cell phones from thousands of miles away; immunity to pain and fear; telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance; expertise in driving a car really fast into oncoming traffic; teleportation across time and space; and the capacity to alter her existing body parts or grow new ones.

The fact that it's Polanski directing this movie that derives much of its horror from the notion of a woman who does not have control over her body and the dark things being done to it certainly don't make the film un-problematic by modern standards.

In the film's funniest scene, Bruce takes over the new anchor's body and speech control on his first day of the job, causing him to spasm and spout out unintelligible blabber.

The film details the battle between the two for control over their relationship.

Because she exerts such control over her image — from advertisements to films, politics to pop songs — should we think of her differently?

The way Day - Lewis directs his eyes in «Phantom Thread» shows the journey of a man whose self - identity shifts over the course of the film, and whose enigmatic, controlled exterior belies volatile emotions.

Psycho was made in the Moviola era, but Hitchcock had worked with the editor, George Tomasini, on a half - dozen earlier films and had total control over the editing process.

Like those films, The Congress embodies the anxiety that we are losing control of the world, and are being forced to bear witness to the triumph of the machine over humanity.

Strikingly filmed in a multi-national production by cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska over three changing seasons in the Klodzko Valley's towns, forests, meadows, into the night and in the snows on the mountainous Czech - Polish border, maybe Janina can control supernatural forces too so surprisingly, and even romantically, prevail.

Directed by Quentin Lawrence and based on a television film he had directed earlier, the entire film is kept to a couple of sets and a small, contained cast, and the controlled microcosm is part of what makes it work, as the threats are all outside the walls, unseen and only heard over a phone line or described by the charmingly commanding Morell.

One of the more consistently underlined truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of suspense as a director with full control over every effect in his films.

In a conversation that touched on censorship, the Puritans, artistic control, and the real reason the film's release was delayed for over a year, Requa and Ficarra were sharp, witty, and boundlessly delighted with having made their film the way they wanted to.

The rest of the film is essentially these different factions fighting against Thanos and his forces for the Infinity Stones, which he seeks to have control over life and death.

In his early work Wyler already showed a tendency to hop from genre to genre, presiding over John Barrymore's most controlled film performance, in the taut legal drama Counsellor at Law (1933), and an early comedy script from Preston Sturges, The Good Fairy (1935).

I know how ridiculous that sounds, but I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the first film, which Sam Taylor - Johnson, Kelly Marcel, and Dakota Johnson (in a sly, genuinely funny performance) conspired to turn into a coming - of - sexual - age story in which a young woman took control over her body and her sexual desires in the face of men who would have be something other than what she is.

The film starts with Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the late 1920s, after he took over control of his late father's Houston tool company at the age of nineteen.

He begins the film pursued and eventually captured by the War Boys, a band of hairless psychopaths with powder - bleached white skin, fleshy skeletons under the thrall of Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays - Byrne), a warlord who has seized control over his corner of the wasteland through tyrannical control of the water supply.

Any movie like this made for the most part since the 1980s would talk the talk about showing the changes, but not show it, show it badly and / or be more sexually oppressed than not, but Russell has zero trouble from this first film he had control over himself dealing with all kinds of human sexuality, yet that freedom is incidental to character study, capturing the story and bringing it to life as he does so well here.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] The pacing is slower than it needed to be, but the film raises some great questions regarding the death penalty and who ultimately has control over a person's life.

I've got a brief preview of some of the films we're looking forward to over this first week, including Paul Schrader's First Reformed, documentaries on Freaks & Geeks, MIA, and John McEnroe (that's three separate films, though now I'm imagining a Fast, Cheap & Out of Control - style doc about the three of them all together and that would be really cool), and archival presentations of classics by Derek Jarman (Edward II) and Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff).

The film brings together nearly every Marvel Cinematic Universe hero to battle Thanos, the villain played by Josh Brolin who schemes to control the mystical infinity stones and gain power over life and death.

Director Steven Soderbergh recently drew attention because he had sole control (no movie studio was involved) over his August film «Logan Lucky.»

At one point in the film, Nixon's former chief of staff, Jeff Brennan (Kevin Bacon), even comes over to the former president during a break in taping to offer advice («Long answers, control the space, don't let him in») like a corner man in an important match.

It seems like Roger had a similar love - hate relationship with Jarmusch over his career, giving him plenty of positive reviews, including four stars for «Mystery Train» and «Broken Flowers,» while also hating «The Limits of Control» and this film, which he gave only a star and a half.

His 2009 film Dogtooth, which earned him international acclaim, contained a dizzying array of absurdist humor and uncomfortable family dynamics watching three children confined to their wealthy home by over controlling parents.

Although the cinemas are unlikely to be segregated by gender, the country is expected to maintain strict control over which films are screened.

It's an impressive control over mood and atmosphere that heightens the intensity, especially in the latter half when the film closes on a terrific, wordless epilogue, a mini-narrative that drops just enough information for viewers to piece everything together.

What the Lynchheads seemed to like about his films was an open - endedness that allowed them some control over what they could say the film was really about, and what it really meant, feeding their egos and making them feel smart and superior.

I agree, the tone of the film is all over the place, but it's still somehow in control.

The classic Hollywood war film establishes one side's mastery over the other, a process often represented as gaining control of terrain.