Sentences with phrase «fashioned kind of film»

It's a very old - fashioned kind of film, a remake of a 1942 Italian film Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro Passi fra le Nuvole), and with the exception of some more modern themes and overall sexiness, this update probably could have been made without much alteration back then as well.

Not exact matches

At a press event for Perry's newest film Madea's Big Happy Family, which came out on Friday, Perry addressed Spike Lee's criticisms in a most unexpected fashion — by railing at me for a question I was making about a completely different kind of potential backlash.

I guess that's why i'm kind of indifferent about fashion books and fashion films, though i tend to watch films with notable fashionable outfits, i don't choose them just because they are termed as fashion films.

The film makes little sense and isn't explained in any fashion, it just happens cos it happens basically, director Cox manages to combine an Ed Wood level of sci - fi with a kind of urban punk ghetto gang theme running through it at the same time.

Directed by Lasse Hallstrom (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Casanova), who trod some similar food - tinged French romance in the Oscar - nominated Chocolat, and scripted by Steven Knight (Locke, Closed Circuit), it's a sumptuously presented, old - fashioned feel - good film, not too dissimilar to the kind of Miramax films Hallstrom and company would regularly churn out in its heyday.

Her MacGyver - like skills are somewhat questionable in their believability, given that she is an aspiring fashion designer who apparently doubles as some kind of warrior who has secretly been training her entire life for this exact situation, but it's best not to question too much of the mechanics of this story and to just have fun with what we're given, which the film certainly knows how to deliver.

Written and directed by co-stars Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark) and Jemaine Clement (Tongan Ninja), the film is chock - full of the kinds of deadpan reactions, awkward situations and off - the - wall humor that has been in fashion on such TV shows as «The Office» and Clement's own «Flight of the Conchords».

When Sudeikis came in and read, Hopkins felt he was an «old - fashioned, James Stewart kind of film star.

Part of the the first film's arc was a kind of makeover transformation of Katniss the dowdy District 12 girl into the Girl On Fire (as daft as those costumes were), and while the Capitol fashions were unbelievably over the top, there was a certain glamor to the flash and dazzle.

Movies that it beat that you should watch instead: Doctor Zhivago is the kind of old - fashioned epic that doesn't get made anymore, for reasons both good and bad, but you should really watch it to see that kind of film at its apex.

A kind of classy, old fashioned, quad - sheet that features the films star, James McAvoy, riding a pig.

But somewhere around the two - thirds mark, the wheels come off in such spectacular fashion that all memories of the time when the film was kind of okay are obliterated.

The helmer's not had that much praise, considering how well - received the film is, in part because he's an old - fashioned kind of director who gets out of the way and tries to serve the script and his story.

My best explanation for this is that the film ultimately found itself betwixt and between: too big to be the kind of arty film that critics love to champion, but not big enough (its domestic box office was almost exactly $ 100 million) to force its way into the conversation, à la Avatar, in a «the people have spoken» fashion.

Club Dread starts in typical fashion for a dumb comedy, with the usual foul - mouthed gags tinged with sex and alcohol references that should no doubt appeal to the college age crowd that is the target audience for this kind of film.

It's set in the Los Angeles fashion world, and it's the kind of movie in which models look like mannequins that look like slasher - film corpses, and corpses look like love objects.

What Crowley and Hornby achieve is not only a compelling love - story of the old - fashioned kind, but they choose, tellingly, to make the film's most pertinent points about Eilis» self - discovery and journey.

The equivalent in theatre is perhaps audience participation, in film the «werewolf break» in The Beast Must Die (1974) or the message «Based on a true story» occupy a similar meta - fictional space, as does a good ol' fashioned cliffhanger of the kind associated with classic serial films such as Flash Gordon (1936) and almost exhausted of its possibilities in classic Doctor Who (1963 - 1989).

This last year, the Abramovic incursion has reached some kind of critical mass — she's modelled for Givenchy, mentored Gaga, eyeballed Jay Z, made a movie with James Franco, filmed Norwegians screaming, hustled for the Marina Abramovic Institute on Kickstarter and designed a fashion collection.

It makes a kind of sense, since her redheads in photographs and video draw on film noir as well as fashion.

Sometimes only minimally altering her appearance, she has taken familiar representations of female sexuality from film, art, pornography, fashion, and fairy tales and created an impressive gallery of women of all shapes, sizes, classes, periods, and styles that together form a kind of pathology of womanhood.

Perhaps more so than any other contemporary painter of his kind, Phillips's imagery has achieved a level of pop recognition outside of the art world with fashion, media, and film collaborations.