Sentences with phrase «earlier films involved»

James Gray himself has made two earlier films involving Russian crime syndicate members in New York: «Little Odessa» (1994) and «The Yards» (2000, which also starred Phoenix and Wahlberg).

Not exact matches

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has dispensed with the amusing whimsy involving its eccentric staff that lightened the earlier films, and it takes its sense of mission very seriously.

Given that Spielberg only committed to «The Post» in March while already involved in the effects - laden «Ready Player One,» due out early next year, this film had to be made with remarkable speed to meet the 2017 deadline.

A belated sequel to 2011's bizarrely successful Gnomeo & Juliette, Sherlock Gnomes continues the pun - based gnome gags of the first film by dropping garden variety versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters (we get Sherlock, Watson and Moriarty) into a mirth - free adventure involving characters from the earlier movie.

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma involving members of two Paris film clubs — Objectif 49 (Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Alexandre Astruc, among others) and Ciné - Club du Quartier Latin.

In early 2017, the Oscar nominee bought out a Hidden Figures screening in Los Angeles and invited families who couldn't afford to purchase tickets for the film about the pioneering black female mathematicians involved in NASA's earliest efforts.

Exhibiting signs of drug - fueled brain damage, Galifianakis confidently treats the film's first half as a personal showcase, nailing so many weirdly uncomfortable one - liners — including a priceless gag involving an infant and simulated masturbation — that despite the predictable homophobic barbs marring the early mood, he single - handedly inspires confidence in the zaniness promised by the subsequently established premise.

Putting aside the early negative reviews out of last year's Cannes Film Festival, the cast and talent involved in The Sea of Trees is reason enough to see the film.

The earlier films often played fast and loose with plausibility at crucial stages, and in «Midnight Special» the finale hinges on a silly bit of business involving access through country roads supposedly sealed off by the military.

«While we couldn't help fund the movie at the time, we got involved as early as we could and came on board having only seen a few minutes of the film,» noted The Orchard's Paul Davidson.

You could see similar elements in Lodge Kerrigan's chilly «Claire Dolan» (with a dash of Polanski in there — an unsettling manicure scene followed by a startling shot involving a mirror on an armoire)-- and, sure enough, it turns out that the young, unknown Bahrani so admired Kerrigan's work that he sent him an early cut of the film and asked for Kerrigan's advice.

One scene involving a certain early - 90s film is absolutely gut - busting, but even that smart joke grows a bit tired as it keeps getting mentioned.

The list of films Bruckheimer was involved with before beginning his relationship with Disney in the early»90s remains an impressive body of work, including «American Gigolo,» «Thief,» «Beverly Hills Cop,» «Flashdance» and «Top Gun.»

Spielberg has seemingly done the impossible: balancing sugar - rush nostalgia with an involving story to create a pure, uncynical, cinematic ride that recaptures the magic of his early films.

Its influences are the hard - boiled 1950s noirs of Robert Aldrich, Raoul Walsh and André de Toth, plus the grindhouse thrillers of the 1970s and»80s, which involved a nasty ratcheting - up of those earlier films» lurid pleasures.

The violent film - which is based on a true story - focuses on three troubled brothers who are involved in the alcohol bootlegging business in the early 1900s.

Always the maverick, Lynch personally supervised the remastering of his earliest films on DVD and released them on his own private label, so no surprise that he was intimately involved preparing the film for its Blu - ray debut on Criterion.

It's the kind of formula that either wins you over early and you ride the wave of good cheer, suspending disbelief for the sake of the entertainment value, or it doesn't catch you and you suffer through ham - handed contrivances and saccharine sentimentality, and you end up feeling that the people involved in the film were having so much fun together that they forgot they had a story to tell.

The film's framing device involves Shields» attempt to launch a new project with three estranged players from his early career: director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), actress Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell).

As in his earlier films, including the Palme d'Or winner «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,» Mungiu employs a patented style that involves long takes (many scenes entail only a single shot) and eye - level widescreen compositions.

During the interview, Boyega talked about producing his first big budget Hollywood movie, what surprised him about the process, how involved he was in the editing room and if he ever wanted to use a different take than what the director had, what they learned from early test screenings that impacted the finished film, and more.

If you aren't familiar with Darkest Hour, the film chronicles the early days of Winston Churchill's (Gary Oldman) reign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, which involved deciding how to approach the encroaching Nazi threat.

Meanwhile, periodic cuts back to Earth draw half - assed connections to the two earlier films, Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane, both of which involved unseen monsters wrecking the planet.

Like the film's story, the film itself proves early on that there is no salvation to be had for anyone involved or watching this film.

Early Man, written by Mark Burton and directed by Burton and Richard Starzak, is being made by the many of the same production team who worked on Shaun The Sheep Movie, but also sees Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park involved, making this his first animated film since the Academy Award winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were - Rabbit in 2005.

Charlotte: You have now done three films in a row that have either involved imaginary creatures and green screens or, in the case of Early Man, voice acting.

They shared some funny memorable moments from filming (Jack Black share a great story about ripping a bit of improv from Joaquin Phoenix), the challenges of trying to make Don't Worry in 25 days, what it was about the material that got Gus Van Sant and the cast involved, what it was like shooting the group scenes, what Van Sant learned from early screenings, and a lot more.

While I may have originally overlooked the forthcoming horror film The Lazarus Effect as just another retread of an earlier and, in some cases, superior movie (say Pet Semetary or Flatliners), the pedigree of the people involved with The Lazarus Effect and the film's first trailer makes me think this film can rise above my fanboy concerns.

Paul Andrew Williams) Cast: Terrence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arteton Though The Weinstein Company picked up the Brit film last fall and it has all the trappings of serious Oscar bait (grumpy old man becomes involved with his wife's choir after she gets stricken with cancer) we'd be surprised if they rolled it out this early.

«Although he completed shooting the picture earlier this year, [Director Pete] Travis has not been involved in the current editing phase of the movie, after creative disagreements with producers and executives in charge of the film reached a boiling point,» write Steve Zeitchik and Ben Fritz of the Times.

Having come up through the American independent film movement of the early - mid» 00s commonly known as «mumblecore», Greta Gerwig began her career as an actor in a number of low budget films that would typically revolve around the complicated love lives of self - involved, twentysomething hipsters living in New York City.

The Functional Skills Game Show was filmed in front of a live audience of teachers who were involved in the Functional Skills pilot at Nottinghamshire LA in early July 2009.

Well, Jesus walks in Chelsea this month at Gladstone, where an early pair of videos that Barney filmed of 1991 performances at the gallery — which involved such «Cremaster» - era motifs as petroleum jelly, Houdini, and palindromic footballer Jim Otto — will be on view alongside other related pieces, bringing the work together for the first time in a quarter century.

Cecilia Biagini (Buenos Aires, Argentina) started her artistic practice in the early 1980's, and has been involved as painter, photographer and sculptor alongside as an actress in films, theater productions and performance pieces.

Lund's early career as a stop - motion animator often involved the process of creating unique characters for animated short films.

Babette Mangolte, well known as a filmmaker and as the cinematographer on a number of key films by Yvonne Rainer and Chantal Akerman (including Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles), was included in the Whitney exhibition The American Century; her Biennial contribution is a mixed media installation involving photography and a video that recreates an earlier installation from 1978.

For the former Turner prize nominee now based in Berlin, it also marks a departure from earlier films that included portraits of artists such as Mario Merz and Cy Twombly, not only because it involves a live performance, but also because she is accustomed to being invisible.