Sentences with phrase «especially after he saw films»

I liked Iron Man enough to be a little nervous about the sequel, especially after seeing the film's star, Robert Downey Jr., marooned in Sherlock Holmes, which reached for that same mix of cool special effects, kinetic camerawork, clever dialogue, and mildly kinky characters and missed by a mile.

The pile of limbs in Monument might also provoke thoughts of the Holocaust, an event of persistent interest to Guston (who was Jewish), especially after he saw films of Nazi concentration camps and their victims (Philip Guston, «Conversation with Morton Feldman», in Coolidge 2011, p. 80).

Not exact matches

I've had some really good conversations with my kids during or after a film we see together, especially if it has to do with identity or secrets or values.

Seeing Brolin work with this team, especially after his kooky work in Inherent Vice, could be a joy, and we're happy that McBride and Hill are doing a new film together in the wake of the conclusion of Eastbound and Down, which finished its HBO run in 2013.

No film in 2013 made me feel more than «Upstream Color,» and an early morning festival screening meant walking around in a haze for hours after, not quite sure what I'd just seen (though I think it's more narratively coherent than many give it credit for, especially after a rewatch), and almost wanting to shake it, but also not willing to trade the experience for anything.

How exactly he fits into the film remains to be seen, especially since the focus is on Natalie Portman's Jackie in the first four days after JFK's assassination in Texas in 1963.

Though Darren Aronofsky's latest film doesn't excite me as much as some of the projects he's departed over the past few years, it's encouraging to see a director of his quality being given the money required to do a big movie like this the right way, especially after the disaster of «The Fountain.»

I really enjoyed the film in French but after watching the trailer, I'm really curious to see how it sounds in English, especially when Page sounds like a perfect fit for her character.

Henson's visible discomfort holding and firing weapons isn't the film's biggest problem, but it was an early sign that Proud Mary might not achieve its full potential — especially after the excitement provoked by the movie's trailers, where we saw Henson inspecting vast closets full of guns, driving fast cars, and blowing things up.

Though the genre's invention (named after the yellow / giallo covers of Italian penny dreadfuls) is credited to compatriot Mario Bava (see, especially, his astonishing Blood and Black Lace), Argento's scary polish and cunning for film language bridged the cultural, mainstream / arthouse gap with agility and audacity.

After the peaks of «Inglourious Basterds» and «Django Unchained,» it's disappointing to see Tarantino return to pointlessly bloody form, especially given the film's promisingly fertile post-Civil War setting.

Needless to say, seeing Chicago up on the big screen like that, especially after seeing all the stuff in the news from when they were filming it, was an awesome experience and the film remains a favorite to this day.

It's interesting to see the film's original director, Patricio Valladares, returning to direct the English remake — especially coming so soon after the making the original flick.

It was also exciting to see female characters represented in such prominent roles, especially since the film is set less then a decade after women were granted the right to vote.

As we try to figure out how to reverse this defeat, films like Flow will help inform public consciousness of the need to do so.But as is the case after seeing many (perhaps too many, of late) environmental documentaries, I also wished that the film had had fewer talking heads (especially white male radically professorial ones — and I say that as a white male radical former professor), less of an impulse to be comprehensive (when you try for the universal all the time, you often lose the specific), and more of a narrative focus on particular responses (successful or not) to particular challenges.