Sentences with phrase «essence of the film as»

It's a fun device that forms the essence of this film as a playful but unflinching statement on the Financial Crisis.

Beneath all the shenanigans, the moms» moms provide the real essence of the film as an ongoing conflict between mothers and their daughters.

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The film represents a 27 - year filmmaking journey as well as a search for the essence of his own faith.

The extremely complex equilibrium at display in this film is pleasantly surprising as it balances the critique of certain aspects of Holy Week with presenting a respectful view at its religious and cultural essence.

But watching it is, distilled into a pure essence, watching the film debut of one of our national treasures, Willem Dafoe, in a film directed by the woman who would next helm Near Dark, and of the man who would play the Cowboy in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and serve as producer on Lynch's «Twin Peaks» and Wild at Heart, which reunited him with Dafoe.

A film that touches on the essence of love by throwing us into the abyss of loss, The Sweet Hereafter marks the apex of the English - Canadian film tradition as it navigates the empty space left in the wake of tragedy with a gentle, but unsentimental eye.

This movie is, in - essence, a 123 - minute trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two as it spends a great deal of time getting us up to speed with our protagonists and accustomed to new characters whilst building toward the film's only true reveal which is certain to have fans lining up to see the final instalment.

Sadly, it still wouldn't amount to much, as the film barely broke even at the box office, and the only reason fans wanted to see another sequel would be to restore some semblance of the vital essence of the first two films, and a happier conclusion to the Ripley saga.

For a film mainly guided, stylistically, by feeling more than by thought, Wong Kar - wai's In the Mood for Love opens rather pragmatically: A simple exchange in an apartment hallway between a landlord and her two prospective tenants, Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), introduces the principal elements of what is, in essence, a straightforward story of star - crossed lovers and their unconsummated relationship — a romance thwarted as much by tragic circumstance as by the story's central cinematic contrivance.

Starring Ayame Misaki as a young woman working in the audio description of films for the visually impaired and Masatoshi Nagase as a photographer who's losing his sight, the film touches on the essence of communication and the subjective nature of art I find captivating.

I would gather that the producers were equally at a loss as to what made the first film a phenomenal success, so to make sure this second film captured the essence of the first, no box was left unchecked in trying to recapture the «magic».

Luckily, this remake of the 1943 film My Friend Flicka (that starred a very young Roddy McDowell as the main character) has stayed true to the essence of Mary O'Hara's story, even if the lead role was given to a girl instead of a boy.

That it succeeds in capturing the essence of the hokey adventure and horror films of the 1930s, I'll grant you, so long as you grant me the fact that its source material isn't exactly quality filmmaking either.

Though the film, with the strong assistance of cinematographer Dick Pope, succeeds in capturing the look and feel of the time as well as the essence of Turner's beautiful landscapes and...

In essence, the makers of this film don't concern themselves so much with the characters or plot, except to provide ample time for its superstar, Jim Carrey, to chew up as much scenery as possible.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Someone, probably Christopher Plummer, announces the winner in this category and the award goes to Sally Field, for illuminating through her two excellent meltdowns in Lincoln, one opposite Tommy Lee Jones, the other opposite Daniel Day - Lewis, the essence of the Steven Spielberg film as a study of the conflict between public and private modes of behavior in the arena of American politics.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

1984 is certainly an interesting take on Orwell's novel, and while it can be enjoyed (if you can enjoy a film this dour) completely as its own entity, it is still just the essence of the book.

The film's first half is essentially a send - up of the first Paranormal Activity film (for those who can recall it), with Wayans as Malcolm Jones, a new homeowner welcoming his long - time girlfriend, Kisha (Essence Atkins) into his man - world.

The transformation of Penn's character as he slowly opens up during the course of the film is astonishing and thus showing us the essence of a person uncloaked.

The biggest distinction between the two makes the new film feel like some kind of unintended treatise on the indescribable essence of movie stardom, as Cavill and Hammer are no Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

The producer added that a sequel would not be as dark in tone as the 2015 film, and would instead «try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four» which is «brighter, funner, more optimistic.»

The disappointing level of production in Cuban cinema was mitigated by the award - winning director Carlos Lechuga's Santa y Andrés (Santa and Andrés, Carlos Lechuga, 2016); a low budget production (as most current independent Cuban films are), which came to fill a gap in Cuba Cinema, a return to our essence and roots through a commitment to the cultural soul of the nation.

Kristen Stewart is both too old to convince as a virginal vision of purity and too small to be an armour - clad leader of misfit revolutionaries, but she makes it work; there's a lean mid-section to the film that belies its meagre fairy tale origins, but the padding - out of these scenes is expertly done; and, as the evil witch - queen Raveena, who yearns to consume the essence of her fairer foe, Charlize Theron chews the scenery like a termite plague — and is all the more awesome for it.

«Grainy and rough» is how I would characterize the photographs themselves, as well as the films and videos made in these early years — it's almost the essence of their style.

In 1973 he created the first of his Yellow Movies by painting screens on paper with white houseplant, which would grow yellow over the course of years — a film that, in essence, will continue playing for all time, or at least as long as the works continue to exist.