Sentences with phrase «earlier films of this genre»

Not exact matches

Shoplifters is a return to the family - centered drama of those earlier films after a dip into genre with The Third Murder.

Whereas across earlier films Haneke's predilection for deceit served a high - minded, if still somewhat suspect, intellectual purpose (an interrogation of privilege and meaning in Caché, the deconstruction of genre in both versions of Funny Games, and so on), here his disingenuous approach is not only unwarranted, but is actually at odds with the tone and tenor of the drama.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

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The film plays atmospherically on genre tropes, too: a close - up of a gun in darkness (which ends up playing no role whatsoever), the moody chiaroscuro interior of Jo's apartment, which a bulky early -»80s answering machine makes look like a whole recording studio.

Early in the film, we are taken through every crevice of the gay comedy genre clichés, the Ethel Merman remarks, the exercise regimes, the Judy Garland show tunes.

While the more critically esteemed New Wave cinema of Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) and My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979) presented a refined image of Australia, early genre films like Stork (Tim Burstall, 1971), The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Bruce Beresford, 1972) and The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Richard Franklin, 1975) were seen as portraying a more crude side of Australian society.

The movie may peak there and too early and [insert any complaints about visual flexibility here] but I don't require perfection in film and especially not in any of the theatrical high - wire genres.

While the film quality isn't the greatest due to the use of digital film, the lack of stars and its classic throwback to the early zombie movies creates a great genre film for both horror fans and those looking for something different.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Sanada appeared in many action films in the 70s and early 80s, but as it became clear he was actually a talented and well - rounded actor, he was able to branch out into all different types of roles in every genre.

If the early moments of the film evoke memories of similarly cerebral sci - fi Arrival, as soon as they're inside Area X, Garland starts to bring in other genres and influences — mutated beasts roam the swamps, twisted human remains hide in the shadows and the squad members» trust for each other is stretched to its limits.

Factory's «Roger Corman's Cult Classics» line of drive - in classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film artists.

Since his first feature, Wo kou de zong ji (Sword Identity, 2011), Xu Haofeng has strived to produce a different kind of wuxia pian (martial arts film), a genre that, from 1949 until the early 2000s, couldn't be made in the PRC.

Had this been made ten years earlier when film noir was still popular, it would have most likely done well and been considered an effective example of the noir genre.

Earlier today we brought you the first promotional images and artwork from the genre - bending small - screen remake of 1996 cult classic action horror film FROM...

Horror and Western seem like two genres that would rarely, if ever, mix, but in fact, cinematic horror - Western hybrids date back to the early silent era of film.

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the movie, as in the earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.

By comparison, Diana's efforts to stop the Great War provide a sense of hope not present in films like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman, while also taking the superhero genre out of an urban environment and contrasting Diana's supernatural powers against early 20th century firepower and chemical weapons.

Viewed today, Tim Burton's Batman, the runaway # 1 film of 1989, is silly at times (particularly when utilizing original songs by Prince), but it unquestionably kept the superhero movie alive, bridging the genre's gap between the diminishing returns of the Christopher Reeve Superman series» good - natured fun and the Spider - Man - led revival of the early 21st century.

Very much like a film released earlier this year, Side Effects, Trance looks to capitalize on the fun elements of the «taut thriller» genre that a lot of other films try their best not to pander to.

While earlier Kaurismäki films like Shadows In Paradise and The Man Without A Past were deadpan, blue - collar subversions of melodramatic plot points and classic film genres, this is pure self - commentary, best appreciated by fans.

Written and directed by the godfather of «mumblecore» cinema - a genre known for nonprofessional actors and naturalistic dialogue - Andrew Bujalski's latest film is practically a Hollywood blockbuster compared with his no - budget early films.

The scrappy appeal of Ritchie's early films is swallowed among the solemn expectations of this genre.

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.

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.

They play focal parents in this generically - titled genre film, about the height of exposure for actors in their late 30s and early 40s who aren't quite movie stars.

Although John Carpenter's 1978 film, Halloween, is widely called by many people the first of the true modern slasher films, many genre enthusiasts point to this little Canadian shocker, released four years earlier, as the one that set the blueprint.

In the hands of a more accomplished scriptwriter and an appropriation of style and tone from his earlier films, a subversive Lannoo could have made a refreshing mark on the romantic, comedy fantasy genre.

A mash - up of more than 250 films from the late»90s and early 2000s, this crowdfunded doc is a giddy celebration of the genre directed by first - timer Charlie Lyne.

The artist called the most «Japanese» of Japanese directors, famous for the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his sound films, was a voracious film buff more interested in Hollywood movies than his own national cinema early in his career and he thrived in a great variety of genres.

Though this overstates the offering substantially, it does give a sense of the pressure that was on any widely - distributed genre film in the early 1980s to deliver mind - blowing scares way out of proportion to what could be accomplished on a low budget.

Tarzan harkened back to the type of films Disney made in the early»90s which mixed a variety of genres and story elements to create something distinctly Disney.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

But instead it manages to be a shot in the arm for the often stale sports genre (look no further than the often stale Southpaw from earlier this year, a film that is forgotten within twenty minutes of its credits rolling), and a hell of a calling card for Coogler moving forward.

Friday Foster was the last film she made for American International Pictures, and in some ways is the apotheosis of the entire early 1970s «blaxploitation» genre.

Unless you're willing to make a case for his nunsploitation flick The Other Hell, or maybe one of the early Nazi sexploitation pictures, these two films seem to form the cornerstone of Mattei's reputation, such as it is, among genre buffs.

The early live action films made by the Disney studio during the 1940s and early»50s always - even when being of the adventure genre - remained rather quaint pictures.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night may find itself most in common with the Jarmusch vampire film from earlier this year, but its stark Iranian setting (as Iranian as shooting in California can be, of course) and how that culture impacts classic interpretations of vampires makes sure that Amirpour's take on the genre always feels original.

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016), which reached America in early 2017; one of Kristen Stewart's strongest performances, and an audacious mix of Dardenne Brothers style realism — as Stewart rushes from one assignment to another for her narcissistic, demanding boss — and an intelligent, restrained use of CGI for the supernatural part of the film, to create a really one - of - a-kind genre mashup.

Now that the first wave of Ready Player One reviews have confirmed what the earliest trailers for the film suggested — that it's over-reliant on genre culture nostalgia because its story is sorely lacking — the newest trailer is trying something bold: explaining the plot, instead.

They're early Sirk films, working in a noir genre that he largely abandoned when he started his string of melodrama masterpieces in the 1950s.

Vaughn co-wrote and directed «Kick - Ass,» and perhaps the looseness and outrageousness of that earlier film — the way it satisfied genre conventions, even while tweaking and satirizing them — is what Vaughn was trying to do here.

Danny Trejo is a genre icon who has been in hundreds of films in his career, having faced Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's Halloween and killed as one of the few to go against The Devil's Rejects among many others, but he reached a new level earlier this year with that hilarious Brady Bunch inspired Snickers commercial that everyone can't stop talking about.

«If you look at genres of films, they're all divided by emotions,» said Jenova Chen during his talk at the DICE summit, from which the above early concept art is also taken.

His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

A pivotal figure in contemporary art from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2013, Sekula continuously questioned the function of the documentary genre and the consequences of global capitalism through his critical writings, photographic installations, videos, and films.

The work mines the genre of the chase film, popular during the early part of the twentieth century.

So it wasn't a big step to go from using the look of earlier film genres to actually using earlier films themselves.