Sentences with phrase «eye on a film like»

It's hard to maintain an objective eye on a film like Surf's Up.

Not exact matches

Instead of catching light on film, digital cameras use an array of light - sensitive photodiodes that function much like the photoreceptors in an eye.

«People understand these relationships, because the situation flashes like a film on their inner eye.

I'm 5ft 8, dark hair, brown eyes, latino... I like films, not much on tv,... I travel, read, and love to have a good time...

There is also a nicely eerie special effect whenever the demon possesses someone in order to pose the film's titular question: their eyes darken and their mouth twitches ghoulishly upwards at the corners, like the face on the cover of an Aphex Twin album — or «a messed - up Snapchat filter,» as the group's coolest head Olivia (Lucy Hale) accurately describes it.

From this vantage point, though, the aforementioned films seem like the main ones to keep an eye on.

Sadly, Kubrick died prior to the release of «Eyes,» his last film, and «A.I.» seemed to be a lost cause much like Kubrick's other inevitably great unfinished work, a biopic based on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

If the film falls short, still keep an eye on Gosling and Penn for Supporting nods (especially if this turns into another year where Gosling has a few strong performances to choose from, like last year), but that could wind up being it.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

A scene early in the film, on a wave - swept beach, was so appalling that I covered my eyes, but when I uncovered them and kept watching I was forced, like everyone else in the audience, into an inhuman stance.

Chbosky achieves this by not falling to the temptation of focusing the film on Auggie's travails, but like author R J Palacio did, telling his story from his as well as the eyes of other youngsters around him.

Per the film's trailer, it appears this time returning auteur Adam McKay will be fearlessly tackling the period's race politics with a similarly incisive eye to that he previously brought to bear on gender perception in the 1970s, and with a laundry list of Hollywood power players lining up for cameo roles like this is goddamn Altman or something, suffice to say that it's going to be an effort to stay classy till Christmas, but we're going to have to try.

Despite Lady Bird's own teenage judgment of it as a place divorced from real culture — like New Hampshire — the city has embraced the film's affectionate eye on it.

Skeletal, eyes bulging and unstoppable, when the Mummy is not looking like Arnold Vosloo and more of a rotting creature from the depths of Egypt, he is a scary figure to lead the film with, especially as the first half of his plot sees him promise to kill four of the lead characters and brutally follow up on that promise.

In the film, we follow street puppeteer Craig (John Cusack, looking like a small, humming pile of hair) as he confronts the economic viability of his chosen occupation by getting an admin job on the 7 1/2 floor of a building that also happens to hide a tiny door which leads, if one crawls through cobwebs and puddles, to the inside of John Malkovich's head, wherein for 15 minutes the brain tourist can vicariously live through famous actor John Malkovich's eyes before getting spit up into a ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike.

For all of its superb, shock - and - awe - generating visuals — aided by oft - nominated master cinematographer Roger Deakin's (Sicario, Prisoners, Skyfall, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) singular eye for composition — Blade Runner 2049 often feels like Villeneuve, lured by the promise of revisiting a world created by a visionary filmmaker, not only wanted to put his own, auteurist stamp on said world, creating a continuation of a standalone, sequel - adverse film that «fits» on a narrative, thematic, and visual level, but found himself seduced like so many fans over the decades by the pure power of Scott's world - building and simply couldn't leave.

He's one of the greats, so for me, it's a privilege to have him on the movie and to give him sequences, and like Daniel says, you're making four movies and every section of the film feels so distinct from the other, feels so alive, it kind of regenerates in front of your eyes really, the film.

Like in the past, their work together has proven to be effective once again as we're handed a film that's marvelous to lay eyes on.

one of the best films i have seen for years, absolutely terrific and a joy to watch a proper film, i have a feeling that people who do nt like this film do nt understand exactly whats going on within the film, open your eyes people or go watch something else which takes a lot less brain power to watch.

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

On the other hand, the DD 1.0 mono audio is a major disappointment, given the musical nature of the second half of the film (and the acerbic sound - editing of the first, which recalls Walter Murch's early experiments in noise - as - wallpaper)-- it all sounds like a sausage forced through the eye of a needle, and as sharp - eared observers have pointed out elsewhere, the trademark line «Here's to Old England!»

The screenplay, by the suddenly - ubiquitous Simon Kinberg (also the scribe behind the upcoming X-Men 3, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — let me go on record first saying that this film does not bode well), is a foul compost of flaccid catchphrases and boggle - eyed declarations, squeezed like old cheese between action sequences so poorly conceptualized and executed that not only is it impossible to ever tell for a moment what the hell's going on, but the film also actually reminded me in its over-processed way of outtakes from Tron.

Stan is likely best known for his role in the Marvel movies as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, but his career has spanned from Gossip Girl to underrated TV gems like NBC's ill - fated Kings and USA's Political Animals to films like Ricki and the Flash, The Martian, and The Bronze, where he played a hyper - competitive gymnastics coach with his eyes on the Olympics.

Unfolding more like a play than a film, Cheap Thrills will not only make you keep your eye on debut director E.L. Katz and actors Pat Healy and Ethan Embrey in 2014, it might also end of being your favorite movie of the year.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Blike this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

His later films, like the 1988 non-musical «Hairspray» (the 2007 musical was shot in Canada), incorporated sweet, clean - cut kids and clear - eyed commentary on racial and class prejudices.

And in another, it's a film theorist's essay on the nature of conscience, which wills itself into being here in the form of the unblinking eye of a camera operated by nobody in particular — or, if you feel like getting all Bergman on Haneke's ass, perhaps by God himself.

He looked like Seann William Scott crossed with a refrigerator, but the pensive atheist read Emerson and Chomsky, refused all media interviews during his service, and seems to have been a Democrat, a possibility greeted with pop - eyed disbelief by Ann Coulter on one of the wretched shows excerpted for the film.

Austrian director Michael Haneke has often been accused of casting a cold, even sadistic, eye on the characters who suffer through cruelly uncompromising films like Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Caché, and The White Ribbon.

And here's a trailer for a fresh new take on the found - footage genre — a man accidentally films an alien invasion of Pumpkinhead - like monsters with a camera installed in his prosthetic eye.

The film lingers on the consequences of celebrity and fame, and the cruelty of the public eye — but does so in its own voyeuristic way that feels like watching a train wreck for a second time, in slow motion, and with commentary.

Like that film, also directed by Rob Marshall, it's heavy on pizazz and eye candy.

George Clooney comes on like a goofball Clark Gable as the fast - talking but slow - witted convict Everett, a greasy con - man who escapes from a chain gang, dragging along a couple of dim bulbs (a tetchy John Turturro and a sweetly stupid Tim Blake Nelson, both of whom spend much of the film with mouths agape and eyes glazed over).

What made Craven interesting initially, with stuff like Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, wasn't the lo - fi, kitchen sink aspect of his films (the lousiness of them, truth be told), but that they understood essential horror.

Roman Polanski recently wrapped filming on his upcoming, surefire Oscar - bait «Carnage» — which has already been snatched up by Sony Pictures Classics — and it looks like he's already eyeing his next project and it may find the director switching gears and heading back into the crime genre, with a project based on a fascinating true story.

The Mission: Impossible movies have consistently delivered sleek action, eye - popping practical effects, and compelling characters, and the sixth film looks like it will more than deliver on all three.

«It's me and Brian Smrz, our second unit director, and we're on set and we're shooting this big sequence in the third act of the film, and he's like, «I just need to see more, you know, anger in your eyes,»» Tye laughed.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Known best for her roles on films like «The Hills Have Eyes», «The Howling», «E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial» and «Cujo».

This takes the form of Michael B Jordan's Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, a vengeful Wakandan exile with his own eye on the throne, and Ulysses Klaue — pronounced claw — a brawny arms dealer played by Andy Serkis who speaks in a spicy Afrikaner bark, and whose attentions are turned on the country's vast deposits of vibranium, an indestructible metal that often comes in useful in films like this.

While this movie seems like more of an after - school special than a theatrically released film from Disney and DreamWorks, this well - written and extremely well - acted family drama turns out to be a nice little gem of a film that will make you think, put a smile on your face and a tear in your eye.

While both of them liked the film, they disagreed on a few points, including Ryan Gosling's alleged lazy eye.

Looking at it is like watching a film from the front row: your eyes have to focus on the area of interest, and that just isn't very helpful in a passenger car.

Ever since Universal picked up the rights to develop a full - length film based on Asteroids, I've kept an eye out for examples of anyone attaching a plot to the simple, vector - based game, like the hilarious Asteroids radio drama that Kid Stuff recorded in the early 80s.

It's like a checklist of traditional Chinese action film locations that you fight through and aside from a hand full of duds, they're very easy on the eye.

People go extra mile to make their resumes «eye catching» by designing them in 3D, like a film reel, a board game and even on t - shirts!