Sentences with phrase «early film piece»

Not exact matches

In the 80s and early 90s the BBC used a piece of music from the film The Neverending Story to overlay the starting grid.

From the poster and an early first glimpse of the film, it looks to be another piece of brutal, bloody, stylized mayhem from the man who brought us the Pusher Trilogy, Bronson, and Valhalla Rising, and won best director at Cannes (where he could be returning this year) for Drive.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is irrevocably linked to three pieces of music: «Zarustrutha», Strauss» «Blue Danube Waltz», which is played over the docking sequence which takes place early in the film, and «Daisy».

An early scene that sees Toni skipping rope and contemplating the world around her (her defining characteristic) is exemplary: all of a sudden, the soundtrack becomes possessed with what sounds like a piece of music originally recorded for a 1940s swamp - monster horror film.

If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.

In one of the week's biggest pieces of film news to filter down through the regular internet channels, The King's Speech «s Colin Firth joined The Kids Are All Right «s Mia Wasikowska and Rabbit Hole «s Nicole Kidman in the mysterious feature (with the ladies replacing the earlier cast of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps «s Carey Mulligan and The Brave One «s Jodie Foster), which heralds from a script written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.

Despite the film not seeming to be a period piece, the merits of Xbox's Kinect are spoken about early on and the Nintendo Wii is offered as an alternative.

Set in 1981 and executed in a style recalling both European and U.S. indie supernatural chillers of the late»70s and early»80s, the new film is a creepy mood piece that falters only by telegraphing some of its jump scares.

In «Ratcatcher,» «Morvern Callar» and «We Need To Talk About Kevin» her characters are forced to try and to pick up the pieces following one tragic, life - altering event that happens early in he film.

The trailer indicates that Ridley's film is as much a work of Impressionism about Hendrix's experience performing as part of the 1960s London music scene as anything else - a sentiment backed up by the early reviews, with the Seattle Times» Moira Macdonald calling the movie «a mood piece, not a biopic» in her overall positive critique.

This early test edit of the real match would help Martin work with directors to create the perfect climactic set piece for their film.

The film is said to be a period piece for Marvel Studios and will take place in the early 1990's with the Skrulls as the primary villains.

Ramsay would send Greenwood, who had read the script early on, five to fifteen minute pieces of the film while she was editing with the hope of luring the busy musician.

It's a visually lush, dizzyingly paced recreation of the early days of both film and flight and one man's overarching desire to own a piece of both.

It's surprisingly fleet - footed, with the Edinburgh sequence somewhat typical of the film's early action set - pieces.

HollywoodNews.com: Johnny Depp's upcoming film, «Rango,» released an «announcement piece» for the film earlier this month that left viewers puzzled.

An admirable companion piece, To the Wonder should appeal to those who liked his earlier films.

In today's second piece of potential Aquaman casting news, Nicole Kidman is in early talks to join the cast of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The sexuality might be a little less subtextual (though there's nothing explicit here), but the testy, shifting power plays in the relationship between Tom and Frances, which serves as the heart of the film, bring to mind a contemporary update of Highsmith's work, albeit seen through Dolan's lens, making it of a piece with his earlier films, particularly once Sarah (Evelyne Brochu), the co-worker posing as the late Guillaume's girlfriend, arrives on the scene to complicate things further.

Certainly when dealing with a subject who is not only alive but still serving in office (unlike Stone's earlier films about Nixon and Kennedy), it would be impossible to create a political piece that passes everyone's test of objectivity.

From his early films like Velvet Goldmine (a 1998 film that explores the»80s and»70s) and Far from Heaven (a 2002 film set in the 50s) to his most recent work, Carol (also set in the 50s), Haynes is a master at crafting gorgeous period pieces.

Over the past week or so, I had the following film pieces posted at Hammer to Nail: reviews of Criterion Blu - rays of Multiple Maniacs and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; reviews of new theatrical releases Lucky and We're Still Together; and a two - part interview with director Peter Bratt and subject Dolores Huerta, of the new documentary Dolores (reviewed earlier).

However, this is anything but a period piece, as the film retains an early»90s American pop culture feel more than anything else, replete with contemporary references and postmodern sensibilities.

Davies» comments are somewhat more abundant and insightful in the disc's most substantial supplement, a longer alternate version of a four - scene stretch that occurs early in the film; needless to say, he prefers this extended piece, which was truncated in various ways only for run time considerations.

We are still well over a year away from that release date, but Blumhouse is wasting no time in working on the marketing and official product tie - ins that will come with the new movie, attending the annual Licensing Expo on Las Vegas in May 2017, where a very early piece of promo art was on display in the form of a teaser poster that recalls Carpenter's minimalist approach to the original film and echoes the team's comments about taking the franchise back to basics.

As the film draws towards its finale, so Howard finally really releases the shackles and allows the music to go full - pelt - «It's God» with a soaring trumpet theme; «The Final Climb» reprises a couple of earlier themes, Howard once again combining conflicting emotions with real class; and finally, a lovely end credits piece which is very recognisably from this composer, and one of the album's certain highlights.

As interesting as it all is at this early stage, it doesn't take a genius to piece together the entire plot of the film as those opening credits start to play.

It would be great to see Snowpiercer became as big an international hit as that earlier film, which also blended cutting social commentary, blockbuster set pieces and the sort of thrills you rarely get out of contemporary marketed - to - death multiplex fare.

Again, this kind of film is easy to write off based on a simple description, but it's a genuinely touching, human piece of work that will also speak to anyone who fell in love with film at an early age.

In this feature piece Chris Neill looks at the original film in each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood reboots.

The film does seem to peak a little too early, as its strong set - up gives way to decent but unextraordinary set pieces, like a county highway car chase.

However, as with several early Haneke films, 71 «s closest companion piece in the director's oeuvre is a later film for which it is demonstrably the progenitor, Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000).

This new version of the story is itself a Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together with bits and pieces taken from the earlier films and series.

The film's final act (in which Louis and Rick opt to follow the at - large suspects of a multiple shooting Louis captures earlier in the film) is a tremendously tense series of strained negotiations and last - second strategies, chess pieces shifting and moving into place in the finest De Palma tradition.

Maybe the brothers would have handled the set pieces in the earlier films a little more deftly?

I would feel nervous about merely being reeled in by classy marketing, but early word out of the UK around the film is that it's a masterful piece of work.

«Betty Boop's Rise to Fame,» a fascinatingly self - reflective 1934 piece in which a journalist interviews «Uncle Max» about the career of his most famous creation, pays homage to those early films by having Max summon up Betty from an inkwell on his desk, and dropping her down into background sketches from three previous shorts.

His best - known films of this realist sort include those in the series Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons, although Rohmer was also a fascinating formalist when it came to period pieces, whether in his intentionally artificial interpretation of an Arthurian legend, Perceval (1978), or in his technically progressive take on the French Revolution, The Lady and the Duke (2001), an early film to utilize computer - generated imagery for its backdrops.

Although music plays a large role in The Deep Blue Sea (as it does in Davies» earlier films), it is used selectively and features only six pieces.

A period piece set in 17th Century colonial America, early word on the film raved about the eerie sense of dread that permeated the work, the beautiful attention to detail regarding the period setting and Eggers» refusal to pull any punches with what promises to be one of the more disturbing films of 2016.

A period piece set in 17th Century colonial America, early word on the film raved about the eerie sense of dread that permeated the work, the beautiful attention to...

Covenant labours in the shadow of earlier films and has been crudely bolted together by screenwriters John Logan and Dante Harper with derivative action set pieces that give birth to a new hybrid of extra-terrestrial nasty — the neomorph — with translucent milky skin and a gait more akin to humans.

For the latter shows, Greenwood will play the ondes Martenot (an early 20th century amplified keyboard) alongside Wordless Music Orchestra, a 50 - piece New York band, as Paul Thomas Anderson's brooding film plays on a 50 - foot movie screen in the United Palace Theater; those performances will take place September 19th and 20th.

Lois Smith is a veteran performer whose movie credits include «East of Eden,» «Five Easy Pieces,» «Dead Man Walking» and «Minority Report,» as well as a couple of earlier Almereyda films.

The opening sequences of Solo are visually ugly, which is one of the weaker parts of the films experience, but early missteps begin to fade, with a collection of well - paced, high - action set pieces.

Early Man's setting is also of a piece with Aardman's form of painstakingly hand - crafted stop - motion animation, which is positively prehistoric compared to the flashier, computer - made family films that now dominate the box office.

The show includes a screening of his early Fluxus film Tree Movie (1961/1971), but what I'm most looking forward to is the presentation of the drawings that served as scores for his performance pieces.

From her early conceptual pieces to her current solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Ono's performance, film, musical, and written works engage the active participation of the audience.

In the last room of Regen Projects is a sculptural theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.