Sentences with phrase «dream sequence at»

However, they do make great «wallpaper» cinema: films to turn on in the background during a cocktail party to entertain your guests (especially fun when Thunderbirds are Go casts aside narrative and indulges in a prolonged dream sequence at a night club in space — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey).

My only gripe really was some of the superhero dreams sequences at the beginning of the film were perhaps more in keeping with the type of slapstick airhead humour Stiller exercised in Zoolander and was perhaps a little ill fitting for Walter Mitty.

Not exact matches

In an epilogue that's part flashback, part dream sequence, Sebastian reimagines what might have happened had he prioritized Mia at several crucial points in their relationship.

These action scenes and dream / sim sequences can be thrilling at times, propelled by largely solid special effects.

Known for its expressionistic lighting and shadows, tight, claustrophobic urban settings, and frequent use of dream sequences and flashbacks, film noir and its dark, ambiguous look at life are routinely discussed from a visual perspective.

I was annoyed again at the egregious amount of time spent on the mopey Jean Grey dream sequences (which I suppose were necessary to justify bringing Famke Janssen into the cast).

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

Also, to Ms. Taymor's credit, she intelligently provides at times inspired touches such as — stop motion action shots, color tinting in brightly exotic desert shades, finely textured black - and - white sequences, shots of Diego in New York to do the Rockefeller commissioned mural against a lively Dadaist collage of the New York setting, Frida's dream of her hubby as King Kong, a puppet show in the hospital (with the help of the gifted Quay brothers animations of skeletons in the post-accident emergency room — the skeletons were copied from one of Frida's paintings).

there're also many sequences of dreams which would remind you of that famous french movie «amelie» which celebrates the magnitude of dreams as the poise of naivete is mighty enough to redeem misery and reverse catastrophes, at least within your mind.

It helps that the script (written by Showalter and Laura Terruso) is immediately hilarious, hitting the audience with a plethora of amusing bits of oddball character traits right away, peppering in hilarious day dream sequences where Doris explores her fantasies over John at the office in very awkward fashion.

Spider - Man fights bad guys; jumps around as an amazingly - poor - at - times CGI puppet; climbs the Washington Monument in a scene that reminds me of a dream Miles had on «Murphy Brown» about being a dolphin erupting from the tip; and tries to hold the Staten Island Ferry together in a scene that recalls - without - surpassing the runaway - train sequence from Spider - Man 2.

Special makeup effects sequences director Greg Cannom was at the top of his game with Dream Warriors, and his work is easily a series highlight.

At the same time, he must come to terms with the women in his life, and what they meant to him — the film's centerpiece is a dream sequence with all his women bathing and pampering him.

Like Popeye Doyle's daredevil car chase in The French Connection, Chazelle has dreamt up frenzied, dizzying sequences where Andrew's pursuit of perfection, seated at the drum kit, either grabs the audience by the throat or throws them for a loop, addled and always in awe.

A cheap dream sequence offers the ending we'd really like to see before giving us the ending your grandmother would approve of, leaving the drama, such as it is, for the behind - the - scenes struggle of real - life, foaming - at - the - mouth George Lutz to ride the crest of his stupid story, true or not, into a third decade.

A tender and beautiful sequence to be sure, we are hopeful for redemption, new dreams and kindness by anyone at this point.

The film attempts at being a meditation on growing old, and what it means to different people at different stages in their lives generally ring true.Various dream sequences, including a cameo part for a «Miss Universe» played amply by Madalina Ghenea, give us a sense of Fred's insecurities despite his outwardly confident manner.But it is in the relationships where the story doesn't feel so true - and Harvey Keitel's character feels particularly under - done.

The film is laced with dream sequences for both Batman and Superman that hint at dangers to come — including the possible appearance of DC's galactic ultra-villain Darkseid.

He's perfectly at home in the 50's melodrama trappings, and does some fiendishly clever things with the premise (including a wonderful dream sequence that has to be seen to be believed).

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

At points the movie feels like it's part of a dream / nightmare sequence.

And aside from the dream sequences — all of which enhance and are justified by the story — the authenticity, realism, and social relevance established by writer / director Geremy Jasper is such that, at times, you could almost think you were watching a documentary.

At first, the dream sequences let you drop this small flaw, as it feels logical, but eventually Craven goes too far.

At around six and a half minutes in length, it dramatically reshuffles the opening sequences and, weirdly, implies that the whole story is Brian's dream.

«LoveTrue,» which also premiered on Friday, is a documentary that feels like a troubled but lovely fever dream, a look at three different subjects that mixes verite footage with re-enactments, and then deconstructs those sequences by having the actors talk to the real subjects.

Interrogation scenes are intercut with elaborate dream sequences and vivid flashbacks as it becomes clear that Teddy's conflated his presence at the liberation of Dachau with the death of his wife and his mission on the island.

The opening dream sequence, with its giant airships and squid - like torpedoes, seems designed to make Miyazaki fans feel at home, but it's the most fantastical sequence in the film by some way.

Universal's budget permitted some beautiful sets and matte paintings by the great Albert Whitlock - all of which are fluidly combined in scenes at the New Orleans Zoo, and Irina's dream sequences

Since dogs» brains are more complex and show the same signs of electrical sequences, Stanley Coren a well - respected scientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia concludes that it is reasonable to assume that dogs also dream.

Emotionally poignant and philosophical, the true highlights come in sections with barely any gameplay at all: text - based dream sequences that represent memories awoken inside your amnesiac brain, touching on what it would be to live as an immortal, to outlive those who return your love, over and over again.

At first, you'll only have to deal with a few of them but by the end of the dream sequence, they are coming from everywhere.

His final film in the series, Cremaster 3 (2002), begins beneath New York City's Chrysler Building and includes scenes at the Saratoga race track, where apparently dead costumed horses race through a dream sequence, and at the Guggenheim Museum, where artist Richard Serra throws hot Vaseline down the Museum's famous spiral ramp.

His publications include Looking at Atget (2005); Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (co-authored with Katherine Ware, 2006); and «Charles Marville's Seriality,» in More Than One: Photographs in Sequence, edited by Joel Smith (Princeton University Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2008).

But the canvases vary wildly from one to the next — using her tried - and - true vehicles of action and comparison, Fiona Rae's recent paintings stretch from the pastoral «We go in search of our dream» (2007), featuring a bambi and butterfly peacefully grazing at the foot of a tree, to the nihilistic and menacing «My favorite puppy's Life» (2004), in which a now mutated bambi triskelion hurtles through the dark reaches of space, surrounded by rotating stencils, blobs, and brushstrokes (think of the opening sequence of Superman).

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