Sentences with phrase «earlier films such»

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

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.

Although Europa Europa's blackly comic tone might seem to set it apart from Diamonds of the Night or Come and See, it does share several formal traits with these earlier films such as the puncturing of linear narrative progression with dream / fantasy sequences.

Stephen Cone is a master of small, carefully realized filmmaking; his earlier films such as The Wise Kids and Henry Gamble's Birthday Party combine an unusual level of empathy for his characters with an unusual combination of interests: love, desire, sexual awakenings, and religion.

The polemical political comment in earlier films such as Komsomol, Borinage and New Earth is not comfortably integrated into other aspects of the films, and for viewers today limits these films impact.

Truffaut protégé Claude Miller sadly died shortly after filming but his directorial reputation will rest safer on earlier films such as La Petite Voleuse.

Not exact matches

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

Fans will wonder what happened to a lot of things in the final book, and this movie fan wishes more time had been set aside for quiet, inventive moments, such as the shocking murder of a key character early in the film.

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

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.

Continuing to dutifully pursue his craft throughout the early»90s, Walsh again returned to a higher profile with appearances in such films as A Time to Kill (1996), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).

From the late»70s to the early»80s, the Dardennes made such films as Le Chant du Rossignol (1978), about the Nazi Resistance in Belgium's southern Walloon region, and Leçons d'une Université Volante (1981), about emigration from Poland, for Belgian television.

It was back to dramatic roles in the early 1940s, and as age crept up on Dunne, she made a seamless transition to starring character roles in such films as Anna and the King of Siam (1946) and Life with Father (1947).

A leading man for such early silent stars as Norma Talmadge and Bessie Barriscale, Welch also starred in The Gulf Between (1918), billed as the first feature film produced in two - strip Technicolor.

Peaking early, Swift never quite matched his earlier accomplishments in later years, although glimmers of his low - key social commentary could be seen in such films as Candleshoe (1977) and the short - lived TV series Grindl (1963).

Firmly established as a Broadway leading man in the early 1960, Lockhart found that worthwhile opportunities for black performers were severely limited in Hollywood; as a result, he moved to England, where he appeared with regularity in BBC television productions and in such films as A Dandy in Aspic (1966) and Joanna (1968).

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

Unfortunately, a series of such mediocre films as Johnny Dangerously (1984) and Gung Ho (1985) followed, and by the time Tim Burton cast him as the titular Beetlejuice in 1988, Keaton's career seemed to have betrayed its early promise.

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.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

This early success was quickly followed by more awards for films such as THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) and MONA LISA (1986).

This new set from Image packages together three films previously released on DVD by Home Vision early in the decade, including two such early, unambitious vehicles that offer the girlish sex symbol in her prime.

Filming for the new Han Solo movie will not start filming until early 2017, but sources close to Variety say the reason for such a early decision has to do with the upcoming Star Wars movie, which is currently fFilming for the new Han Solo movie will not start filming until early 2017, but sources close to Variety say the reason for such a early decision has to do with the upcoming Star Wars movie, which is currently ffilming until early 2017, but sources close to Variety say the reason for such a early decision has to do with the upcoming Star Wars movie, which is currently filmingfilming.

His latest film, «While We're Young,» is an extension, temperamentally if not altogether thematically, of such earlier films of his as «The Squid and the Whale,» «Greenberg,» and «Frances Ha.»

From his early days as a fresh and creative music video director for artists such as Fatboy Slim, The Beastie Boys, and Björk, Spike Jonze has continued his unique style and original approach with his feature length films, effectively carving out niche in the film industry for himself.

Other lesser known works, such as 1928's The White Stadium, are marvels of late - silent era filmmaking, employing elliptical editing rather than the newsreel style more common to several of the earlier compilation films in this collection.

Ulu Grosbard, a Tony - nominated stage director who also worked in film, directing such movies as «True Confessions» and «The Deep End of the Ocean,» died late Sunday or early Monday in New York City, according to his family.

Just as Bill Murray did with his early work in such films as Meatballs, the roguish Rockwell effortlessly works well as a role model for a young troupe of misfit kids, and his warm and affecting performance ranks as one of his most appealing character portrayals to date.

david j. moore chats with filmmaker Jonathan Mostow... Filmmaker Jonathan Mostow has been making some incredibly entertaining films since his early days, directing such made - for TV movies as Flight of Black Eagle, but it was his film Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh that really put him on the map.

And it's typical of the sort of early deal - making (and passing) that happens when a big film such as this is being put together.

Produced midway through a fast decade of bad drugs and badder romances, during which Fassbinder was also tossing off a string of masterpieces, Fox may have been reiterating the idea that power imbalances are inherent to romantic relationships that the filmmaker had been working out in such earlier films as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and Martha (1974).

Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

And that's not all that's arriving from the set of the film, as earlier today Alexa Vega (who has featured in Rodriguez's «Spy Kids» films) hit Instagram (via ComingSoon) to showcase her costume (such as it is) as KillJoy in the film.

Years of slugging away in secondary film roles paid off when, in the early 1960s, Bouquet was «rediscovered» by such New Wave filmmakers as Francois Truffault.

This seemingly innocuous film is socializing young children into violence as a way to solve problems from a very early age, much like other animated films, such as «Wreck - It - Ralph» in 2012.

I felt that the early 90's showed the studio delivering some of their strongest animated films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King since their heyday.

Offered a job as assistant director by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's Bambule (1979), Soavi continued to act in such films as Alien 2 and City of the Living Dead (1980) while serving in multiple capacities including assistant director to filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi in the early»80s.

In the early 1960s he began directing but still occasionally shot films for such directors as Reisz and David Lynch.

While watching the bourgeoisie cavort in Bernardo Bertolucci's indulgent new «Stealing Beauty,» there's reason to recall the early, politically impassioned stage of the film maker's career, during which he might have preferred to see such characters lined up against the side of their villa and shot.

Amazing, then, that after such early missteps, the film takes a sweet, lighthearted turn once the nostalgic Gil — whose novel is about a man dreaming of the past — finds himself transported to his beloved 1920s Paris every night when the clock strikes twelve.

There are lots of early storyboards and designs which illustrate just how dramatically the film was retooled to such shockingly agreeable results.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.