Sentences with phrase «earlier films»

What an important contribution to our understanding of early film history.

And when your actors are playing the same basic characters from earlier films, you know things are beginning to get stale.

With so many movies based on earlier films being released these days, that's something that's clearly difficult to do.

What distinguishes it are the simple variations to the plot and characters, which only seem original if viewers haven't already seen earlier films sharing the same type of plot and characters.

Four of the great Japanese director's lesser - known, early films show the coming into being of a political artist.

Unlike those other earlier films which often featured good men making some bad decisions, for sale the main character here is one of the most monstrous men of the past three decades.

That may be as much of a product of its timing and impact; there's no doubt those four earlier films reached and touched more people than any others of this era.

«Early films probably had a strong attraction because of their novelty,» he says.

This could just be a rumor, or even a really clever bit of early film publicity, but there's no way of knowing just yet.

It wasn't until I took a film course in college that I started to appreciate earlier films.

Early film studios had a reason for their secrecy.

But as I reported earlier the film is rumored to have a completely different ending then the books, so will be be forever?

Sometimes we pick up on earlier films that we missed, or are seeing again, and find something new in them.

Overall, while the film is a cautionary tale about the dangers of biological manipulation, it offers nothing exceptional that one has not seen in earlier films of the same genre.

Disappointingly, Breckin Meyer adds to his collection of supporting roles in flops, in spite of the charm he showed in earlier films like Road Trip and Clueless.

And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where human mastery of fire and tools was presented in earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.

It may remind you of earlier films by austere Austrian Michael Haneke, in particular Funny Games (2007): rigorous in form, shocking in execution.

As in earlier films such as The Nine Muses and his work with BAFC these formal considerations are inseparable from thematic concerns.

Continuing through the mid -»90s with numerous television roles (including a stint on the popular series Picket Fences), Moss» early film roles range from both lightly comical (Suburban Commando [1991]-RRB- to increasingly dramatic (Imaginary Crimes [1994]-RRB-.

Meatballs Part II is only notable for early film appearances from future stars Paul Reubens (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and John Larroquette (Richie Rich, «Night Court»), and look quick for comedienne Elayne Boosler playing mother to a young Nancy Glass («Inside Edition», «American Journal») in one scene.

Juice marked the writing and directing debut of Ernest R. Dickerson, who had spent the previous nine years as a cinematographer, most notably on all of Spike Lee's earliest films including Do the Right Thing

Compared to the fantastical worlds that were created for earlier films such as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, which were all inspired by elements of our world, The Incredibles took place entirely in locales where humans were the key characters, and the scenes were shot from the perspective of humans.

But Eddie Coyle works as Yates's earlier films do not.

Earlier film works include Leviathan (with Paravel), a film about humanity and the sea; and Sweetgrass (with Ilisa Barbash), an unsentimental elegy to both the American West and the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals.

While earlier films bristle with the promise of future success, and classics merely reaffirm those initial inklings, later films can offer a chance to evaluate a performer's career trajectory.

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A film may also have an artistic edge that qualifies it as a DocDays, such as Bill Morrison's experimental Dawson City: Frozen Time, which told the story of this remote gold rush town made using early film stock that was discovered there, buried underneath an ice rink for over 50 years.

The characters are sad, sad human beings (not the outlandish caricatures that made Guest's earlier films so compelling), the script feels hurried and unfinished, and the cast appear to have been given carte blanche over what they think is funny.

Early film credits include Layer Cake (2004,) Alfie (2004,) and Factory Girl (2006.)

The most viable solution on the market has proven to be electronic paper displays that show color by combining a black and white screen with a color filter, not unlike early film's Technicolor process.

Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in early film adaptations of stories about the detective, but today's fans have eagerly embraced Holmes in incarnations both classic and more contemporary.

Probably named after film director James Cameron, a lot of whose early films were partially horror.

There's an odd sense of deja vu to Bruce LaBruce's latest provocation, recalling not just some of his own prior joints (notably 2004's «The Raspberry Reich») but tongue - in - cheek fantasies of much earlier films featuring the overthrow of patriarchy — the nearly half - century - old likes of John Waters» «Desperate Living» and the Warhol - Morrissey «Women in Revolt,» in -LSB-...]

Ordinary and nearly abstract objects are carefully arranged in spaces filled with light and super bright colors in a «70's Povera» aesthetics that recalls Pedro Almodovar's early film sets.

Presenting early film footage together with souvenirs created by the artist and workshop participants from Ousedale School and Milton Keynes Arts Centre, the exhibition serves as a make - shift souvenir shop, designed to encourage a nostalgic look back at the early development of The Point entertainment complex.

Though earlier films like Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, and The Squid and the Whale may be more upfront about this running theme of disappointment and a kind of anxiety about the world and one's decisions, that Baumbach, and sometime co - writer / star / muse Gerwig have opted for a deliberately funnier brand of comedy only makes the Trilogy of Disappointment that much more filled with disillusionment.

What's impressive is that, where earlier films revolved around solving a mystery, this one shifts to a war footing without losing its emphasis on character and emotion.

Early filmed projects included the features Rowing Through (1996) and Night Sins (1997) and the television miniseries More Tales of the City, as well as prominent roles in the celebrity - themed telemovie biopics Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story (2000) and Inside the Osmonds (2001).

Wes Anderson's early films Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) took place in more or less the real world, but concerned fantasists who tried to make their imaginings concrete (or at least papier - mâché) reality.

The exhibition surveys the scope of Jonas Mekas oeuvre from the 1950s to the present, and will include the celebrated earlier films Diaries, Notes & Sketches a.k.a. Walden 1964 - 1968, Lost, Lost, Lost 1949 - 1963, He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life 1969 - 1963 edited 1976, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1971 - 1972, As I Was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000, Biographical Quartet 1992 and one of the most recent films A Letter From Greenpoint 2004.

Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams» desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung - out dopers in Tulsa several pages later.

Once a local music festival that soon propelled some hopeful tech startups (namely Twitter and Foursquare) to super stardom, Hollywood has increasingly looked to SXSW as an outlet for news, whether it be teasing new releases, offering early film screenings, and hosting panels with filmmakers.

What makes After Midnight more than just another ménage à trois (in homage to Truffaut) is the way Ferrario, who also writes about movies, weaves the allure of early film into a contemporary story, shot with the latest high - definition technology.

Varda's ideas for photo work bring her to places she visited long ago, and her own earlier films.

McClane's superheroism in earlier films involved tremendous tests of his wits, bodily limits, and character.

Constructed in 1926, the Wallace Neff - designed house was commissioned by early film director and silent film actor Fred Niblo.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.