Sentences with phrase «engaging piece of film»

A gorgeous and engaging piece of film making that exemplifies all that is right about cinema.

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But the film is remarkably engaging and, with close looks at so many important pieces of art, bursting with beauty.

Pieced together like a crime picture, but marked with the bloody thumbprint of the horror genre, the film tells of newly engaged couple Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows), who discover an abandoned tent and evidence of a multiple murder.

Even when the film gears up for one of its many tonal shifts, from its Old Boy-esque hallway action set - piece in a lavish upmarket Georgian town house, to its intense abandoned warehouse finale with The Businessman (William Houston)-- who seemed to be channelling the foreboding gunslinger in Westworld, ensures the film has a wonderfully rich and engaging backdrop throughout.

Adapted from the short film by director David F. Sandberg and adapted by horror - centric screenwriter Eric Heiserrer, Lights Out may be a quick, simple, and slightly familiar piece of PG -13-level horror, but it's also a well - made and unexpectedly engaging thriller as well — with an ending that's sure to generate at least a small amount of debate among horror fans.

The inclusion of several thoroughly wrenching sequences within the film's latter half - ie Becca and Howie engage in a screaming match - proves instrumental in cementing Rabbit Hole's place as an unexpectedly powerful piece of work, with the movie ultimately representing an almost astonishing improvement over Mitchell's previous effort (2006's amateurish and ill - conceived Shortbus).

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Ultimately, though, the strength of the performances and the witty, acerbic nature of the piece win out, and instead, the film remains a smart, engaging work, one that succeeds in being entertaining and genuinely intelligent in spite of itself.

He also makes the audience engage more with the film as we piece together the hows and whys of questions like when did Mr. Orange meet Mr. White, how does Vincent Vega know Mia Wallace, how did O - Ren gain power, etc..

Miss Julie is an actors» piece and it has moments of good actors engaging in good acting, but the sum total of the film is oddly graceless.

And a sequence in the middle of the film, in which a nude Alexandra Delli Colli, having engaged in bondage play with a stranger, begins to suspect that her partner is the Ripper and starts working to untie those knots as he slumbers next to her, is a terrific horror set - piece.

Although the film takes an awfully long time to get going, The Black Hole eventually establishes itself as an engaging (albeit distinctly uneven) piece of science fiction.

While the film has its dramatic and engaging moments, it leaves you with a sense of oddity that is rather difficult to piece together.

Again, when the main character isn't engaging enough to establish a connection, you're left with the story and, in this film's case, much of that story is deeply rooted in the piece's need to earn a laugh, something that it generally fails to do.

Though it received a fairly solid 68 percent on — please stop reading here if you're Martin Scorsese — Rotten Tomatoes, it was deeply polarizing, throttled by some critics as «the worst film of the century,» and hailed by others as a wholly unique, engaging piece of art.

The supplement package includes audio commentary by director Martin Brest and three fairly engaging featurettes (a half hour making - of effort and 8 - 10 minute pieces on the film's score and on the casting process - the latter delving into the replacement of Sylvester Stallone by Murphy).

It's woefully drawn out and uninteresting and it feels like the developers were trying to fit more of the film's set - pieces into the game instead of focusing on interesting gameplay features that would have kept the player engaged.

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 this engaging and visually stimulating presentation, California - based author Colleen Patrick - Goudreau shares a variety of film clips, pieces of literature, and works of visual art that will change the lens through which we view animals in the arts.

Engaging with the city's rich history of filmmaking, the piece turns the space into an abstract, three - dimensional film.