Sentences with phrase «earlier films reached»

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.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 After seven earlier films reaching back a decade, the Harry Potter saga comes to a solid and satisfying conclusion in «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.»

Not exact matches

The international, uproarious, ferocious clamor for a reboot to the 2002 Scooby - Doo film based on the early»70s TV show has finally reached a fever pitch, and Hollywood can't ignore...

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

The earlier Walker began his screen career with pioneering film companies such as Kalem and Thanhouser and reached stardom as Viola Dana's leading man in Blue Jeans (1917), a charming bit of Americana directed by the much - neglected John D. Collins.

It's clearly early days — there's as yet no word if the film will be a straight - up biography of Ebert or something more wide - reaching about cinema, but either way it's exciting news.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

Achieving moments of lyrical beauty seldom before attempted, much less reached, in his earlier films, Rosi here appears to be moving beyond a politically - inspired cinema and more towards an investigation of private spheres of experience.

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.

The subjective tendencies of Bertolucci's films have always been evident, but Luna provides a perspective from which we can more fully grasp the dynamics of the earlier films that groped so eloquently for a vision that somehow always ended up out of reach.

In the Good Dinosaur, she attempts to reach the same emotional depth as her earlier film while mixing in spiritual elements like The Lion King.

As intense as the film is for the duration, the implausibility factor creeps in early, and becomes increasingly difficult to swallow as the tension reaches fever - pitch.

Other great films including Under the Skin, Blue Ruin, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Oculus reached audiences as early as April.

Still, the movie doesn't seem to explore any new territory for Anderson, and it ever really reaches the poignancy or oblique emotional power of his earlier films.

Gertz went on to do other iconic»80s films Less Than Zero and The Lost Boys, but didn't really become a household face until the CBS» early 2000s series «Still Standing», one of those sitcoms that reaches syndication without you ever knowing anyone who's ever deliberately watched it.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

As Rolling Stone reported earlier this week, the film was hitting high marks even before it opened, selling out more than 2,000 showtimes before Friday's premiere to reach the highest advance ticket sales of any non-sequel movie.

The film reaches its peak fairly early on, during a musical sequence, featuring a song entitled «The Final Derriere,» performed by the band Sparks.

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.

The film reaches back to the early 1990s and Harding's triumphs and traumas in the rink while skipping ahead to a weary older Tonya telling her tale to us from a nondescript kitchen.

Furthermore, the site indicates the film is lined up to reach theaters around October 2013 — as production is on track to begin early next year, once Ferrell and his co - writer / director Adam McKay finish revising the script (which catches up with the Anchorman crew at the birth of the 24 - hours news cycle).

The film spins its wheels in standard action - movie form until it reaches an end that feels, in retrospect, entirely unlike the one the story, with its early anger, was surely heading toward.

At the MTV Movie Awards in April, stars Anna Camp and Brittany Snow told ET that they were unsure about the threequel amid earlier reports that Wilson had reached a deal on the film.

Their latest film Early Man maintains its distinct British charm and unique stop - motion models though it can't quite reach the heights of classics such as Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit and Chicken Run though it does possess something special of its own.

Sure, his earlier films like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.

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.

The earlier reaches of «Topsy - Turvy» resemble in broad outline other films about theater: a flop, a crisis, a vow to never work again, a sudden inspiration, a new start.

«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.

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.

To be fair, her films always had a cloying or whimsical tinge to them and her last few movies didn't reach the heights of her earlier work like A League of Their Own and Big but she always showed promise as a director — with Awakenings, arguably, being her most accomplished work.

Two of Assayas's recent films, Late August, Early September (1998) and Les Destinées (2001), while appearing to be diametric narrative opposites, reach similar conclusions about the nature of work and humanity.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.