Sentences with phrase «electrifying film»

Four of the highlights of Prospect.3 are the electrifying film, The Living Need Light, And the Dead Need Music by The Propeller Group (Phunam and Tuan Andrew Nguyen from Saigon, Matt Lucero from Los Angeles) with New Yorker Christopher Myers at the UNO St Claude Art Gallery; Silent Parade... or The Soul Rebel's Band vs Robert E Lee, a video by Peruvian - born William Cordova in which a local band serenades — or challenges — a statue of Robert E Lee from a rooftop shown at Dillard University; the exuberant, immersive two - channel video at the CACNO by David Zink Yi, another Peruvian artist, that explores Afro - Cuban music and culture, remixing the visual and the aural; and Kwaku Ananse (2013), a film by Akosua Adoma Owusu, an American of Ghanian descent, presented with the compelling simplicity of a fable in which a young woman returns home to attend her father's funeral, then goes into the wild in search of existential meaning.

This electrifying film puts the tension, the fear, the courage, and the tragedy in perspective, and dramatizes it through the struggles of people, not rhetoric.

-- «West Side Story» (1961): There's nothing corny about this beautifully cinematic, electrifying film, which updates the «Romeo and Juliet» story into then - modern - day Manhattan and features the music of Leonard Bernstein (and the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim).

Honest and hilarious in equal measure, Baker's electrifying film gives a voice to a community that movies usually exploit for laughs, and his two nonprofessional leads deliver the best performances of the fest.

In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock - and - roll stardom.

My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers): Ross Lynch gives a haunted, sad, scary, and unforgettable performance as young (future serial killer) Jeffrey Dahmer in this electrifying film based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf.

It is not until well into the third act that the medley «One More Day» properly electrifies the film, followed swiftly by the show - stopping «Do You Hear the People Sing»; but it's too little too late.

A look back at some electrifying films that premiered at the festival, with an introduction by Amy Taubin

Fassbender's prowling energy electrifies the film.

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The electron beam then scans over the liquid film following a desired pattern, producing suitable energy electrons which solvate and reduce the cations, writing structures in precise formation from the precursor delivered by the electrified jet.

She also wanted to evoke the Technicolor of Old Hollywood films while giving the nostalgic look an electrifying update.

From references in literature, to television and film, to music, even if you've never stepped foot in Tennessee, you know Memphis is an electrifying city.

But even the film's most extreme line deliveries are electrified with kernels of un-ironic truth.

The emotional closing stretch, at the very least, ensures that the film ends on an admittedly affecting note, and yet it's ultimately impossible not to wish that the remainder of Deepwater Horizon had been similarly engrossing (particularly given the seemingly electrifying nature of the story's true - life origins).

James Cagney's portrayal of a bootlegging runt is truly electrifying (he'd made five films, but this one made him a star), and Jean Harlow makes the tartiest tart imaginable.

There's consequently little doubt that the film, while always watchable, suffers from an opening half hour that's simply not all that engrossing, with Eyes Wide Shut's transformation from decent to electrifying triggered by a fantastic sequence detailing William and Alice's stoned confessions to one another.

It's immediately clear that At Close Range's most potent weapon is its various performers, as filmmaker James Foley has elicited superb work from a uniformly strong cast that includes, among others, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, and David Strathairn - although there's little doubt that the film belongs to Penn and Walken from start to finish (ie both actors are, for the most part, absolutely electrifying throughout).

Though the runtime is a bit much, and the film starts to drag near the end, for the most part, Marly features electrifying concert footage, and great interviews.

Ultimately, it is mainly the electrifying performances that Kechiche presumably elicited from Seydoux and Exarchopoulos that make Blue Is the Warmest Color a memorable film, however flawed.

One thing the final act can not sully is the sublime score by Michael Patton, with its echoing keyboard effects conjuring a romantic melancholy that electrifies many of the film's key scenes.

Beyond all the archival material, the film benefits mightily from the many eloquent talking heads, whose words, incredibly, are always electrifying and revealing.

The film immerses us in the raucous rock stars» fast - paced world of electrifying music, wild debauchery, and epic fraternal feuding, weaving never - before - seen concert footage with candid interviews and an astonishing firsthand account of the backstage sibling rivalry that threatened to destroy the band.

Critic Consensus: Imaginatively shot and edited, Metallica Through the Never is an electrifying, immersive concert film, though its fictional sequences are slightly less assured.

The setup and geography are consistent with the original, though the film never makes the mistake of trying to rebottle the lightning that electrified Sam Raimi's movie.

But it didn't spoil my enjoyment of what eventually becomes a viscerally powerful film, or of Oldman's at times electrifying performance.

While I did like him, he's hardly a presence in the film compared to Cranston, who's simply electrifying.

Hailed as «electrifying» by the Los Angeles Times and dubbed a «fire breathing debut» by IndieWire, the film was executive produced by Killer Films, purchased out of Sundance by Netflix, and enjoyed a theatrical release in select American cities through distributor FilmRise.

With her «electrifying» act of defiance at the end of Catching Fire's Quarter Quell, Katniss has stirred the beginnings of a revolution across Panem, and Coin is keen to channel that influence by filming a series of propaganda clips centred on Katniss delivering inspirational rhetoric.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

The score from Alexandre Desplat has a timeless feeling to it; it's endlessly charming when it needs to charm, electrifying when we're required on the edge of our seat; Paul D. Austerberry's production design is aces, the film drowns in this ocean blue, soaking wet aesthetic that emanates this sensual but creepy world; and the creature design is nothing short of righteous, a perfect throwback to the era of practical effects reigning supreme that uses just the right intermitted splashes of CGI.

Facts are great, but a thrill needs to be thrown in and with this film the entire story is electrifying.

The film obviously wants to ally us very closely with Katniss, so for the most part we don't know a huge amount more than she does, but in these two instances anyway, we kind of don't even know as much as she does, and it makes her decisions, and the motivations for her actions (shooting the electrified arrow into the dome; creating the Seneca Crane dummy) a little unclear.

The film has that kind of urgency, and it's electrifying.

On paper, it looks like a dream, and judging by the freshly premiered international trailer (courtesy of The Guardian), the film appears to be a tightly wound potboiler that might electrify this Oscar season.

John Carpenter's nod to Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo (in which John Wayne's sheriff relies on a drunk Dean Martin), Assault on Precinct 13 is a brilliantly tense action film, its most electrifying moment coming when Stoker and Joston join forces.

As much as I find a The Brahma Bull (as he would put it himself) electrifying, even the highest paid actor in the world can't scoop up the organs this film has spewed out.

But he's pulled it off: This is Scott's best film since Gladiator, while Weir's clunky prose is electrified by Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard's sparky script.

A riveting, frequently electrifying thriller, Point Blank follows male nurse Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) as he's blackmailed into helping a criminal (Roschdy Zem's Hugo Sartet) escape from police custody after thugs kidnap his pregnant wife (Elena Anaya's Nadia)- with the film subsequently detailing the various complications that ensue as crooked cops, deadly mobsters, and various other nefarious figures enter the picture.

I call my top choice double - bill Exciters because seeing both these films completely electrified me.

It's ultimately hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment at Reservation Road's decidedly less - than - compelling vibe, as the film features a premise that should've resulted in an electrifying, thoroughly compelling piece of work (somewhere along the lines of thematically - similar efforts 21 Grams and In the Bedroom).

In Howard Hawks» film noir staple, author Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe comes to electrifying life in the hands of Humphrey Bogart, whose gumshoe keeps busy flirting with the ladies when he isn't whipping off snappy comebacks (my fave: «I don't like your manners.»

There's little doubt, however, that Reiner's decidedly deliberate sensibilities, coupled with the episodic bent of Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans» script, ensures that the movie's first half isn't quite as electrifying as one might've hoped, as it's clear that certain sequences ultimately fare a whole lot better than others - with the boys» efforts at safely crossing a railroad bridge certainly standing as a highlight within the film's opening hour.

In a crowded sea of male - dominated Hollywood films and paper - thin female characters, little independent gems like «Landline» generate even more of an electrifying spark.

Stuart Beattie directs the film following the antihero Adam, thrust into a centuries - long battle in modern - day after surviving all these years due to a genetic quick in his electrifying creation.

Margot Robbie, «Suicide Squad» — Maybe the biggest «Scene Stealer» example of the year to date, Robbie electrifies the otherwise dull superhero action film as Harley Quinn.

And for those curious, yes indeed, the film does come complete with an electrifying phone conversation that will have you readjusting your jockeys.

A slow - building and unlikely blockbuster (the biggest film of 84 - year - old director Clint Eastwood's career), this electrifying PTSD war drama became a political football for its questionable handling of the real - life Chris Kyle.

This looks totally wild, but let the official synopsis relay the story for you: «From the raucous dual imaginations of fantasy laureate Neil Gaiman and glam - rock multi-hyphenate John Cameron Mitchell comes the electrifying and singular pop extravaganza film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

In an August Entertainment Weekly article previewing «Collateral Beauty», star Will Smith, coming - off his #OscarsSoWhite Best Actor nomination snub for his electrifying performance in «Concussion», is quoted as saying his latest film is «delicately framed in a way that's going to be tough to promote.»

Based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel, Wright's film is an electrifying visual feast in the KICK - ASS vein.