Sentences with phrase «dystopic film»

With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us less character touches but more emphasis on action (thankfully, with less of the shaky - cam effects of Gary Ross), which may please those looking for the dystopic film to just keep moving, even if it seems to skip some narrative steps along the way.

If Ridley Scott's dark, dystopic film Blade Runner is the popular image of the future American city, here seemed to be a city evolving in a different direction.

Not exact matches

It's not exactly a beloved film, and its reputation is that of a total disaster, but the same dystopic 1970s feel that drove Easy Rider drives The Last Movie.

There's no other film quite like it: an unsettling vision of a dystopic future, something like 1984 but with wildly funny touches, including one of Robert De Niro's most unforgettable roles.

A dystopic vision of the present, a philosophical examination of justice and punishment, and perhaps the bleakest vision of optimism ever filmed.

Also screening in Headliners is Ben Wheatley's High Rise, a dystopic psyhological thriller starring Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons; Kurt saw the film and called it «triple distilled satire, to be served cold with a garnish of mania in his review.

This week, the critics discuss Ready Player One, a new Spielberg film about a dystopic future where people escape into a virtual world called the OASIS.

Now the thing about Nicoll's previous sci - fi films is that they weren't as interested in showing us how the dystopic futures they portrayed fall or change, they were more interested in simply showing us how people would live in these realities as a reflection of our own.

But throwing it into a wider arena of dystopic cinema, the film does bear comparable similarities to plenty of other films, including a number of recent YA forays into the realm.

Now the film's aggressive female empowerment, unapologetic feminism, and general dystopic vibes look like a precursor to, well, 2018.

«These books were alive; they spoke to me,» is a quote from François Truffaut's 1966 dystopic cult film Fahrenheit 451 (based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name).

The program of films looks, in an associative way, at the dystopic potential of the present day inherent in current developments in the fields of ecology, society and politics.

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.