Haneke, with the help of director of photography Darius Khondji (Se7en, Panic Room) and production designer Kevin Thompson (Michael Clayton, Igby Goes Down), makes excellent use of white hues and natural lighting (
everything in this film seems to be WHITE!)
Not exact matches
Time travel has always been a thing of science fiction but the rules for time travel
in this
film, as well as from the book,
seem very reasonable and the whole idea of killing something off that shouldn't be, will kill
everything.
The young firecracker is
everything you could want
in a leading lady, and yet it
seems like the masses have deemed her «not pretty enough» to carry a
film.
everything seems rushed
in the
filming.
While most
films these days are about nothing, this
film seems to be about
everything that's plaguing the human spirit
in a relentlessly globalizing world.
Assayas brings us back to a time when
everything seemed possible and no
film in recent memory has presented such an authentic view of the immediacy of the period.
It was the very first
film of Venice, and the festival
seemed to open on such a high that the worry was that
everything else over the next ten days would end up paling
in comparison.
There's all kinds of complexities inherent
in the
film, and even if the movie turns out to be
everything we hope, it doesn't really
seem to be something that'll get a lot of awards play.
In fact, the
film has
everything going for it but somehow, strangely,
seems uneventful.
The problem, of course, with setting a story so firmly
in a specific moment of time is that,
in a year from now,
everything in this
film will
seem dated.
A mystery puzzle box thriller doused
in mood and dread, the
film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness
seems supernaturally linked to
everything going to hell
in a handbasket.
Though, for a short while, the
film has us fooled for the illusion of safety and sympathy between fellow humans
in time of disastrous incidents, along with the course, it
seems everything is not that comfortable.
I
seems as if they wanted to
film in black and white (it's likely that the money hungry producers wouldn't let them) because
everything is composed
in harsh blacks and whites.
Not
everything in Top Five works, and a couple of scenes involving sexual farce
seem to belong more to a Seth Rogen
film than something as intelligent and pointed as this.
While
everything seems to be
in place for a quality
film, ultimately it's the lack of emotion and mundane goings on that keep The Winslow Boy from making it to the level of memorability.
If the
film feels like
everything and nothing
in contemporary nonfiction, it
seems entirely a result of its uniquely open and spontaneous evolution.
At 162 minutes, German director Maren Ade's latest
film, Toni Erdmann — her first since the 2009
Everything Else —
seems like a lot to handle
in a single viewing.
Everything - the script, the cast, and especially the highly - anticipated performance of Heath Ledger -
seemed to work together to make that
film the classic that it became
in 2008.
Here,
everything appears subordinate to the mission of stamping Blanchett's acting supremacy on the
film: even her husband's name, Harge, despite originating
in the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt on which Carol is based,
seems specifically designed to accentuate her character's archly north - eastern upper - class enunciation.
It
seems Frances Ha delivers
everything I look for
in an indie
film.
In the hands of a better director (say maybe Nicholas Winding Refn who directed Bronson), Legend could have been organized into a fascinating crime film, all the ingredients are there but Brian Helgeland (Paycheck, A Knights Tale) can not seem to get everything in orde
In the hands of a better director (say maybe Nicholas Winding Refn who directed Bronson), Legend could have been organized into a fascinating crime
film, all the ingredients are there but Brian Helgeland (Paycheck, A Knights Tale) can not
seem to get
everything in orde
in order.
That's the big problem:
everything in the
film is so solid, so real -
seeming (partly as a result of Gondry's brilliant way with analog as well as digital illusion, and techniques like stop - motion), whereas the novel is by nature light, a construct of weightless, casually handled language from which images emerge as if by magic.
Tiffany Haddish's breakout role as wild card Dina
in the summer comedy smash Girls Trip is one of those supporting performances that often
seems to be operating on its own plane within the movie — it's of the
film, but it's so distinct from
everything else that it becomes a discrete element, too.
The only reason anyone has had to doubt its dominance came when it shockingly failed to earn a nod for the Best Director Oscar, but as we saw just five years ago, «Argo» didn't even need one to take the top prize, so
in terms of which
film has the least number of obstacles to overcome AND
everything else that a
film ultimately needs to win Best Picture, it would
seem that «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» is far and away the obvious choice.
Based on the fantastic Jeff VanderMeer novel of the same name, the
film stars Natalie Portman as a biologist and former soldier who joins a mission to uncover what exactly happened to her husband (Oscar Isaac) inside Area X, which is a mysterious — and growing — patch of land
in the United States that
seems to fundamentally alter
everything in its path.
7R: Was is difficult to introduce that romantic element
in the
film without making
everything else
seem heartless and cold?
The
film plays it coy with the details, until the various pieces of its puzzle come together
in the third act, as the brothers to explore even stranger things — a dead body and its living counterpart existing side by side, a grisly scene
in a tent that repeats itself every few seconds, even more visual hints left by an entity that
seems to see
everything.
Such things make the
film feel a little long by the end, and then
everything wraps up
in a way that
seems a bit too good to be true for the main character.
Nothing
seems kitsch or there for nostalgic purposes; much like
everything else
in the
film, it has a specific goal to achieve and it does so with elegance and style.
I also don't love the washed - out colour palette that paints
everything in a blue gloom — at least not as much as Yates
seems to, between this and the last four Harry Potter
films.
Everything seems perfectly
in place for Todd Haynes to deliver a great
film in Carol.
In everything from the score to the costumes and hairstyling, McGuigan
seems to think that there's no such thing as too much, a lavishness that just isn't supported by the
film's obviously modest budget.
Relying on hoary setups and speeches that might have
seemed fresh decades ago — before audiences had glimpsed the slimy realities of our political process
in everything from The War Room to The West Wing — the
film feels more tired than topical.
In fact,
everything shown
seems to indicate that the
film will look and feel unlike any live - action Star Wars
film before it, from the way it's shot to the story and writing.
It's quite possible that this
film meant to stand for something rebellious as it was written, but as the credits roll, the takeaway
seems to be that citizens, and even lower - level civil servants, should just stay
in their lane, do what they're told, let the big boys take care of
everything, and for God's sake do not ask questions.
Additionally, even with the gender roles reversed from the 1987 original, it
seems like an odd comedy to be remade, especially
in 2018; this has been a year of discussions around consent and rape culture and other weighty topics that it's hard not to notice this icky cloud hanging over
everything as the
film progresses.
But while there's greatness
in the nonsense and non sequiturs of soulful
films like Spirited Away and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, which touch on nearly
everything that really matters
in human existence, Sunada's goals
seem far more modest.
There are moments that
seem almost overwhelming
in their intensity; the first moments
in the outside world, the touch of a real dog, the understanding that everyone else carried on with a normal life, the shared bond over breakfast cereal but
everything feels so natural and unforced that the
film carries you gently through them.
Everything that makes Chan - wook's
films work so well
seem to be present here
in this very first look at the
film.
The
film is shot
in a high - contrast style that makes
everything seem a little more bleak and narrow than it must.
In this day and age when everyone seems to know everything way far in advance any amount of true surprise in the film world is, well, surprisin
In this day and age when everyone
seems to know
everything way far
in advance any amount of true surprise in the film world is, well, surprisin
in advance any amount of true surprise
in the film world is, well, surprisin
in the
film world is, well, surprising.
It's
everything that annoys me about modern trailers, namely that they
seem to insist of compacting the entire movie into a few minutes, giving away the general structure and numerous surprises
in the process, seemingly intent on destroying the anticipation of experiencing the
film's surprises for yourself.