Sentences with phrase «earlier films mythologize»

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating...

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.

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Her early descent down the Times Square stairs in Mistress America, the second film she co-wrote with Baumbach, felt like more than just the perfect introduction to her self - mythologizing character — it was also the coronation of indie royalty, like the star taking her place as the quick - witted queen of millennial New York neurosis.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.