Sentences with phrase «earlier film choices»

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But at least it provided a talking point, and I think if you book up early for the Summer Screens evenings you can benefit from over 2 weeks» worth of film choices as they play a different movie every night.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

If not for his weapons of choice, Somerset would probably find a great deal of common ground with him, as his talk of the sins of the world very directly recalls things that he had said to Mills earlier in the film.

PLATFORM This section of 12 films, which tends to focus on directors in early stages of their careers, is actually juried (though TIFF isn't known for awards really outside of «People's Choice» which tends to have a strong correlation to eventual Best Picture nominations at the Oscars).

Award winner: Margot Robbie has won the Critics» Choice Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie for her role in Suicide Squad - despite the film being slammed by critics earlier this year

Whit Stillman «s «The Last Days of Disco» attempted to be that film for the early»80s and the waning days of the»70s musical fad of choice; Michael Winterbottom «s «24 Hour Party People» captured the Factory records heyday of the late»80s; and now, behold, Mia Hansen - Love is bringing us «Eden,» a chronicle of the electronic music boom of the»90s.

The casting is key in any buddy movie and although Crowe and Gosling may not be the obvious choice for a team - up it is that off - kilter chemistry that keeps you watching in the face of a plot that gets bogged down way too early and spends the rest of the film playing catch - up.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

The Critics Choice Awards released their annual nominations earlier today (The Shape of Water continued its ascendance, leading all films with 14 nominations), the Golden Globe noms will be announced on December 11, and the Screen Actors Guild follows soon after, on December 13.

Unique in its presentation of fully rendered individuals who have gravitated by choice, chance, or necessity to this particular sector of the postindustrial subsistence economy, Foreign Parts, like many of the early SEL films, is a beautifully shot observational film.

I love the casting choice and appreciate that most of the early parts of the film focuses on her villain.

Details on the film are pretty scarce at this early stage, but a few other interesting casting choices are already in place and the tone should be consistent with Baumbach's previous films that place complicated personalities into difficult situations to watch them squirm and reveal who they truly are.

The LA Times confirms that Pixar removed Peterson from The Good Dinosaur earlier this summer, as the film's release date was fast approaching and «various creative choices» remained unmade.

There remains the fact that Dheepan was an inauspicious choice for Palme d'or, a relatively minor film from an unexceptional filmmaker, who would doubtless have been better served had his earlier Un prophète (A Prophet) received the prize back in 2009 (unfortunately, that film was up against Cannes juggernaut Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band [The White Ribbon]-RRB-.

Larson, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for Room earlier this year, is the first choice to play the role in the upcoming film Captain Marvel.

It's also great to see a nontraditional choice like Bill Hader cast as the love interest, while early reviews suggest that NBA superstar LeBron James is the film's secret weapon.

I've found him often riveting, all the way back to his early film for Spielberg, Empire of the Sun, where even as a tyke he managed to make interesting actorial choices.

The choice of football as a theme (this is the claymation equivalent of One Million Years B.C. meets Escape to Victory) was obviously designed to appeal to children and general audiences alike, although its European flavour perhaps explains the film's underperformance in North America, and does give Early Man a very odd balance of elements.

Whatever one may say about that film, it is a remarkable technical accomplishment, revealing a skill set that makes him an interesting choice for a CGI - heavy monster movie that sounds like a twisted cousin of Steven Spielberg's «The BFG» from earlier this year.

With nominations now from the Golden Globes, Critics» Choice, and the SAG awards, I, Tonya's Oscar chances are looking good, but it all started for the film early last month when stars Margot Robbie, Allison Janney and Sebastian Stan, along with director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers appeared in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild voters during Deadline's 7th Annual The Contenders awards season event at the DGA Theatre.

It's the best of Mann's early career, the best of the so - dubbed Hannibal Lecter Trilogy, and arguably one of the better films of the Eighties, despite the occasional discordant wardrobe and soundtrack choice dating it.

Like the director's earlier films, There Will Be Blood is visually stylized, with some lingering long shots and deliberately different framing choices.

The Square could easily be an Australian cousin to Blood Simple, only the new film's downward spiral of bad choices, worse reactions and overall subterfuge goes much deeper and affects more people than the early Coen brothers» noir.

Even though the 45 ″ single «Rock Around the Clock» was originally released to mediocre success a year earlier, it was director Richard Brooks» choice to frame the song front and center under the opening credits, repeat it throughout and end with it, that shook the country, nee the world (check out the film and song's effect on Britain's Teddy Boys here) to its core.

Celebrated cinematographer Winton Hoch was a natural choice to photograph Ireland's lush greens after his beautiful work on John Ford's The Quiet Man several years earlier, and it helps set the film's playful, yet sinister mood.

And my mother took advantage of it from an early age...» Profound monologues like this are the theme of choice in Prozac Nation, an ambiguous film with a colorful history starring Christina Ricci as the «anti-heroine» Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Warhol, indeed, has been Kass's Trojan horse of choice, as can be seen from her My Elvis series — now on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery along with three of the self - portraits — which she began in the early 1990s by replacing the Pop artist's iconic portraits of the swivel - hipped rocker with Yentl, Barbra Streisand's cross-dressing character from the 1983 film of the same name.

In the early part of the 20th century, European artists had also questioned accepted ideals of beauty, and the choice of Rossy de Palma, often referred to as «a Picasso portrait come to life» — her asymmetric features so impressed film director Pedro Almodóvar that he gave her a starring role in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)-- to model the latest Portable Art project collection is apposite.