Sentences with phrase «excellent film scene»

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The excellent blog China Film Insider (if you want to know what is happening in the film scene in China, this is the blog to read) reports that net box office revenue from China is still a «drop in the bucket» for the studios overall compared to revenues from North America and international markets ex China.

While the whole film is excellent, I return time and again to one scene - an unlikely Hollywood moment where we get to seeDanny Devito give us a lesson in evangelism.

You remember the decisive scene in The Social Network, the excellent film about Facebook.

The film looks excellent in every sense and every scene but clearly the main attraction is Downey Jr and his portrayal of Chaplin.

Antal's Hollywood films are yet to fully live up to the promise he displayed in his début film Kontroll but with Predators he nevertheless does an excellent job filming the various action scenes.

Everything about this film oozes class; the 60's setting is beautifully captured with it's attention to detail and strikingly rich photography by Eduard Grau; the slow motion scenes with overbearing sound effects; the subtle changes of colour saturation providing an excellent technique in developing the mood and feeling of Firth's character and a fitting soundtrack to accompany the lush imagery.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

It's a premise rife with thematic potential, which becomes impossible to miss once Binoche's character decamps for the Alps to rehearse with her assistant (an admittedly excellent Kristen Stewart) and the two begin spelling out every hint of meaning through conversation, effectively stripping the whole film of subtext, scene by overwritten scene.

It's a fine enough film — with some excellent scenes in it — but Anderson very obviously needs different co-writers.

The audio track is similarly excellent, especially considering the film's mixing of overlapping dialogue, raucous and noisy crowd scenes, and incidental music — much of which is provided by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

The only extras are animated menus, scene selection, the original trailer, and a stills gallery - but the film is presented in a restored and remastered widescreen print reviving its original Panavision 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and the DVD includes an excellent collectors booklet.

Highlighted by yet another excellent audio commentary by writer / director Craig Brewer, the single - disc effort also includes a making - of featurette («Conflicted»), a behind - the - scenes look at the filming of the «Black Snake Moan» musical sequence, and another on the film's musical influences («Rooted in the Blues»).

But there actually is no biopic being made; Greene and Sheil film intentionally cheesy - looking scenes from their bogus movie, which are intercut with Sheil's real conversations with Chubbuck's former coworkers and, in one particularly excellent scene, a local gun dealer.

While Brolin is as good as ever and Connelly is excellent, these scenes significantly dampen the flow of what should've been a much more action - packed action film.

Dustin Hoffman's scenes are all excellent, and his real life son Jake, plays his grandson in the film.

On the one hand, her timing was excellent, arriving on the scene just when American audiences were taking movies most seriously, thronging to the films of Bergman, Buñuel, Fellini, and Kurosawa, and hailing them as masterpieces.

As if she still needs to prove how consummately excellent she is, Cotillard tacks on some more buzz scenes to her flashy resume and gets away with claiming the film's most coherent (and therefore effective) monologues.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Blessed with excellent memories, Stiller and Childress — present for every day of principal photography at Stiller's behest (and sometimes her chagrin)-- recall the shoot in vivid detail, whether it be the order in which scenes were filmed or the mood of the set on a particular day.

Garcia's scenes with at home with his young grandson, teaching the youngster to make arancinis and instilling in him the importance of love and passion, are surprisingly touching moments of real emotion that add depth to an already excellent film.

«Welcome to Sherwood: The Story of The Adventures of Robin Hood» is an excellent making - of documentary that literally covers everything, using rare film clips from early Robin Hood versions, and fascinating outtake and 16 mm color / black & white behind - the - scenes footage (archived separately as well, with good commentary from Behlmer).

Excellent (4 stars) Rated G Running time: 83 minutes Studio: New Video Group 2 - Disc DVD Extras: California Quail Bonus Short; Urban Legends; Origins of the Flock; Special Homage to Connor; Mark Bittner's Home Movies; Please Don't Feed the Birds; Music Video: Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots; Behind the Scenes; Parrots Around the World; Flock Updates; Mark Bittner and Judy Irving Update; Original Theatrical Trailer; plus two new films by director Judy Irving «Christmas at the Bait Shop» and»19 Arrests, No Convictions»; and much more.

But while many people may think that the action scene has moved on to other parts (mostly Thailand and South Korea, plus a mini-boom of excellent American direct - to - video films like «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» and its ilk), there's still a lot to offer from the once reigning king of cinematic punches and gunshots.

As for the film's plot: the con man hijinks don't do anything new, and some of the film's twists aren't too hard to see coming, but the pace is quick and there are a few excellent scenes.

Toni Collette was also fantastic in her small scene in The Hours, John C. Reilly was in four films and excellent all around, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moor both doubled up as well, I also enjoyed Tom Hanks in Catch Me If You Can (not his best, but still very good) and Robin Williams also had Insomnia, a truly surprising performance (I really liked Al Pacino in that one too).

McAvoy and Fassbender are excellent in their respective roles and have awesome chemistry together; the most moving and interesting scenes in the film belong to them alone.

It's blessed with two excellent lead performances from the actors playing father and daughter (Hüller has a film - stealing scene in which she sings Whitney Houston's «Greatest Love of All» at a party).

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new project.

One such film is 1995's excellent Carl Franklin drama «Devil in a Blue Dress,» which not only contains one of Denzel Washington's best performances but was really the breakthrough for Don Cheadle, who steals the film in only a few scenes.

Also, the bonus features are excellent, providing one of the better behind - the - scenes documentaries I have seen for a film.

Returning director J. Lee Thompson manages to stage some exciting desert battle scenes, cutting on motion from one rapid horizontal tracking shot to another (reminiscent of his excellent 1958 WWII film ICE COLD IN ALEX, aka DESERT ATTACK), but the story is simply a routine

It's blessed with two excellent lead performances from the actors playing father and daughter (Hüller has a film - stealing scene in which she sings Whitney Houston's «The Greatest Love of All» at a party).

The ultimate dagger in Llewyn's heart, the audition is the best scene of this excellent film.

An excellent supporting cast include Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby, Greta Gerwig as Jackie's confidant Nancy (the first film I've seen Gerwig in where she wasn't annoyingly OTT in every scene) and John Hurt in a role made all the more touching by is recent departure from us.

Unfortunately, the film's insistent, convoluted plot constantly gets in the way of its aesthetically pleasing scenes and excellent action sequences so that it becomes a bit of a chore to get through.

The new film is an excellent companion piece, and includes scenes shot in the Presidio.

It's a very good film and an excellent anamorphic transfer, and features scene specific commentary by director Claude Chabrol and interviews with producer Marin Karmitz and writer Francis Szpiner among the supplements.

Excellent locale work, a brilliant adaptation by Egoyan of the book, great supporting characters and a disturbingly haunting accident scene all add up to one of 1997's best hidden gem films.

His film runs a little long, and its concluding boxing showdown can't live up to the remarkable high bar set by an earlier bout shot in a single jaw - dropping take, but in general Coogler turns out to be an excellent successor to Stallone's throne behind the scenes.

Excellent (4 stars) Unrated Running time: 74 minutes Studio: AS Pictures DVD Extras: Extended interviews, rare historical film footage, «Behind the Scenes» featurette, «Life at Wiley College» documentary, and much more.

The bonus features to «The Avengers» are the typical stuff - audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes, featurettes, gag reel - but every one of them is excellent, and they even threw in a great short film («Item 47,» starring Lizzy Caplan) to boot.

You can practically diagram every scene in the film: The ones that slip in the backstories of the characters (Affleck's wife is eight months pregnant; Sibide's work visa is about to expire), the ones that reveal important information in - between the laughs (Tea Leoni's excellent moment as an FBI agent who's had too much to drink), the ones intended to inject some emotion into the picture (an attempted suicide) and the ones where the actors were allowed to riff and improvise (practically any scene in which Murphy appears).

So when you say that we don't have a whole lot of information on Mario himself, I guess Mario - fans still don't like to talk about that most excellent of game - movies, the masterwork of adaptation, featuring prolific actor and lovechild of the independent film - scene Bob Hoskins, energetic superstar John Leguizamo and film - legend Dennis Hopper, featuring that most divine of soundtracks, which ended up being such a darling of the criticsphere that it just begged for a reboot?