Sentences with phrase «early film stills»

The carefully - executed compositions also draw both on Cindy Sherman's early film stills series and on the fellow photographer's later use of color.

Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams» desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung - out dopers in Tulsa several pages later.

Not exact matches

And many of these early films reflected the values that I cared deeply about, and I still do.

Nothing's certain yet — the film is still in the early stages of development, with Elizabeth Banks set to direct — but Stewart and Nyong» o are both being eyed for the new team.

Now, talks are still early (and we'e heard rumors like this before), so this whole thing is far from certain, but Deadline is confidently reporting that talks are definitely happening and filming could start after Pratt wraps his work on Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

so filming schedules will undoubtedly be changed to fast - track new episodes while Washington is still in the early stages of her pregnancy.

The side splits which many people still associate with Van Dam because of his insistence in showing it in all his early films is an iconic demonstration of flexibility and the one stretch that everybody associates with martial arts and the ability to kick high.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Farhadi's latest pivots on a disappearance (in this case a kidnapping) much like his 2009 film About Elly, but CineVue's Joe Walsh believes it «lacks the subtlety of his early work, yet he still shows he has the ability to deliver devastating blows that leave you stunned.»

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.

Still, I don't recall the novel being so screechingly histrionic, and certainly Julie Harris» earlier take on the character of Eleanor remains the most affecting of the two films.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high... Read More

While the plot stands apart from the earlier two films, you still should watch each film in this trilogy in turn to properly understand what's happening.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

My favorite film of the year (so far) is still Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, which I saw at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals earlier in the year.

The rivalry in the film actually first begins in the early 70s when both men were still in Formula Three.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

If the film is a shade too long — and goes off on an unfulfilling tangent about a secret from her early life — it still rises on the crooked back of the marvelous Sally Hawkins, in her most fulfilling role since Mike Leigh's «Happy Go Lucky.»

The film is clearly shot in the early 2000's, but like all great movies still feels timeless despite the passing of time.

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

The satire comes in the early post-war period when Americans were still not that aware of how they were being manipulated by hucksters to hawk their products on the radio and films were just getting ready to deal with that subject after a number of books and magazine articles were written tearing into advertisers.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high school and his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), was still breathing.

Still, we do definitely know that Reynolds will be slipping back into the red spandex, that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will be writing the screenplay again, and that filming is due to start early next year, looking at a probable 2018 release date.

There's a scene early in the film (chapter 8) in which Patricia Clarkson's character is standing well into the background and we can still make out the individual dots on her clown costume; many of Tim Orr's images are postcard - perfect to begin with, but this is the sort of rendering that drives you to buy a video printer and fulfill that promise.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

If for some reason the drawn - out and incoherent battle scenes are what you liked about the earlier films, the climactic one here is still both of those things.

Still, for all that, the strength of the early scenes — particularly between newcomer Ferdia Walsh - Peelo, as Conor / Cosmo, and Jack Reynor (Malcolm in the most recent Macbeth) as Brendan, and Walsh - Peelo and Lucy Boynton (The Blackcoat's Daughter) as Raphina, the object of his affection — propel the film along until the energy finally dissipates.

Cameras have been rolling for a good while on Marvel's still - untitled Avengers 4, with reports and leaked set photos seeming to confirm the film will travel back to the early days of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

The One - Armed Swordsman — A bit less successful, though still very fine, is this earlier Shaw Brothers film about the eponymous maimed hero who overcomes his handicap to save his master and defeat the evildoers.

Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were all good films, but they all felt just a bit restrained in comparison to the early works, as if they were unfinished, or still searching for something.

However, his latest film still does seem to mark a new chapter in the filmmaker's career, with its breezy, optimistic tone and fast - paced approach, and from an early glance at his next film, there are definitely some lingering elements.

The film takes pains early on to get the viewer up - to - date on the extent of the plague with maps illustrating which parts of Regency - era England are overrun and which parts are still peopled with living humans.

Still without a U.S. release date, the film is believed to be a true contender in the Animated Feature race, at least based on early word.

A surprise late - film cameo from a member of the usual gang (hint: not Ben Stiller, but the other one) livens things up a little, but it also raises a troubling question: Vaughn, Wilson, and their pals have emerged in the past few years as the most reliable big - budget comic collective since the first batch of Saturday Night Live vets started making movies in the late»70s and early»80s.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

Liman is finishing a drug film called Mena with Tom Cruise and has several other projects, including the Marvel adaptation Gambit, also on his plate; there's also a planned Edge of Tomorrow sequel, though that's still very early in development.

Recommendation: In the vein of a sci fi thriller classic (still too early to say for sure but I already feel pretty comfortable saying it), 10 Cloverfield Lane is a film for adrenaline junkies.

I'm a big fan of The Beatles and was interested in learning more about their formation and early days, and while Nowhere Boy isn't as much about the band as it is Lennon's younger years, it's still an incredibly well - directed film that most Beatles fans will enjoy.

We got our first official still from Guy Ritchie's big screen take on the classic spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this week [see here], and now we have another image from the film featuring the two leads Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop of -LSB-...]

We still have Suicide Squad in August (the classic untested film adaption to anchor the summer) and November's Doctor Strange, but the big blockbusters came shockingly early this year.

The first film stills of Dylan's new movie American Assassin were released earlier today!

Even if you know what's coming in I, Tonya (teased from early on in the film as «the incident») this energetic biopic on disgraced Olympian figure skater Tonya Harding still packs surprises.

While the film is still in pre-production, we landed some early art for Sebastian Silva's Magic, Magic, which features the impressive...

The film has a pretty big scale and still looks great for a early 90's film.

Stiller's Josh goes ballistic way too early in the film, and after his big meltdown scene in the crooked banker's apartment, the character has no room left to grow.

Still, part of the reason why The Big Heat looms large even in the incomparably rich spectrum of cinema that is film noir is its recognizability as a studio re-creation (specifically, mid-Fifties Columbia, as Man Hunt represents early - Forties Fox craftsmanship at its highest).

It is by no means perfect; regardless of the insignificance of the characters, wooden acting is still wooden acting, and some of the early nods to the Fukushima disaster and 2011's tsunami seem a touch tacked on, but once the story gets going and the monsters come out, the film settles into a refreshing and thoroughly entertaining romp.

Still, the film seldom pushes beyond the bare - minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence, as in an early scene in which Logan's struggling with an armed assassin in a moving car continues after the vehicle falls off an overpass and crashes.

Rightly sensing more award prospects in The King's Speech and Blue Valentine, seemingly always cash - strapped The Weinstein Company delayed the film's scheduled early December opening until late January, while supposedly still mounting a largely fruitless one - week 2010 - qualifying run.

In the early days of the internet back in ’96 I used to watch this trailer over and over and yet there are funny parts still in the film, which is rare these days.