Sentences with phrase «feature film a piece»

Though primarily a star of Broadway musicals, Sheryl Lee Ralph actually launched her career in the Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby feature film A Piece of the Action (1977).

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Designed by legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath, the 19 - piece collection features quotes from the film that target a beauty audience that may have been there all along — just see Princess Leia's braids.

Considering it's not a «Christian» film, it may surprise you just how much Christian imagery is featured in the story and set pieces of The War for the Planet of the Apes.

Considering it's not a «Christian» film, it may surprise you just how much Christian imagery is featured in the story and set pieces of The War for the Planet of...

Viewers can click to view and purchase the pieces featured in the film — from labels like Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, La Perla and Maison Martin Margiela — though the YouTube version of the film is, sadly, not shoppable.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

In short, for his 30th feature film, Hollywood's most successful commercial filmmaker has crafted a zesty piece of agitprop — a call to resistance in the era of Donald Trump.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

It is the film's most bravura set piece and features Coogler's signature one - take (as seen in Creed), capturing a brawl from all levels and sides of the casino where the trio ambushes Klaue.

Avowedly intended to be the most disgusting film possible, Freddy featured such set pieces as Green swinging a baby by its umbilical cord, doing unmentionable things with horses, and many creative uses for meat.

Is it a real film, or a feature that uses the porn milieu to turn out a piece of softcore titillation that's halfway between porn and actual drama?

If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.

In one of the week's biggest pieces of film news to filter down through the regular internet channels, The King's Speech «s Colin Firth joined The Kids Are All Right «s Mia Wasikowska and Rabbit Hole «s Nicole Kidman in the mysterious feature (with the ladies replacing the earlier cast of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps «s Carey Mulligan and The Brave One «s Jodie Foster), which heralds from a script written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Michael Showalter's unassuming romantic comedy is one of the year's funniest films, featuring some truly jawdropping one - liners and set pieces, but it's also so completely naked - hearted and raw that you'll frequently be weeping even as you laugh.

It's not his fault, though, as this film would have been weak regardless of the star, with a predictable storyline and events that will have you recalling bits and pieces of plenty of other comedies of humiliation featuring a meek man finding the cojones to finally take on the bully in his life, only to make an utter ass of himself.

This piece of news confirms our post from March 2016, where we told you that one of the characters named Gaylen would be featured in the film, seeking revenge for her dead son, Kenny Brandon:

Featuring hand sewn fabric garments and real rooted hair, every detail of this piece has been carefully considered by the PCS team of artisans, themselves huge fans of the HALLOWEEN film.»

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

* Wrote music reviews, concert reviews, film reviews, feature pieces and local living articles for Bay Area newspapers including the Oakland Tribune, the Tri-Valley Herald, the Daily Review and The Argus, which boast a combined circulation of over 250,000.

Plus, the round - up of special features serves the film as a piece of cinema and a thematic reflection on the modern warrior.

In this second preview piece on next year's Animated Feature Oscar race, we turn our attention to the indie films that may stand a shot.

This is Grunberg's first feature film, but he has worked as an assistant director for the likes of Peter Weir, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and even Gibson himself, which equipped him with the experience to craft impressive set - pieces.

In film school they usually advise students making first features to avoid period pieces at all costs because they're difficult to make and hard to get financing for.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

Directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama), from a script by Chase Palmer, Gary Dauberman and Cary Fukunaga (True Detective: Season One — the good season) the film is based on King's 1986 novel which became a highly rated ABC miniseries in 1990 and featured Tim Curry as the nasty piece of business known as Pennywise.

This new feature by Japanese provocateur Nakashima Tetsuya (Confessions, Kamikaze Girls) is not only chalk - full of nods to Chan - Wook's seminal film about an emotionally crippled man assembling the scattered pieces of his past, but also references classic titles such as The Searchers in its Fordian regard to reckless patriarchal rage.

Backstage's Great Perforamnces issue, on newsstands Dec. 6, will feature a piece on her discussing her craft, Knightley also took the time to speak frankly on several other topics, including how she often dies on film; how Wright was resistant to casting her in «Pride and Prejudice,» their first film together; and how her Mr. Darcy in that movie, Matthew Macfadyen, almost played her abuser in a public service advertisement.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

A bizarre prologue to the piece, a nineteenth - century urban legend spoken in Yiddish, might encourage the main feature to be seen as a parable but returning to that end credit disclaimer, A Serious Man is the Coens» least serious film for a long time.

The Men in Black reboot, directed by Straight Outta Compton, Friday and Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray, will feature brand new Agents as opposed to series protagonists J and K. Unlike the first three films, which were set in and around New York, the spinoff will be much more global, and more of an ensemble piece.

Extras: «Night of Anubis,» a never - before - presented work - print edit of the film; new program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez; never - before - seen 16 mm dailies reel; new piece featuring Russo about the commercial and industrial - film production company where key «Night of the Living Dead» filmmakers got their start; audio commentaries from 1994, featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and more; archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley; new programs about the editing, the score, and directing ghouls; new interviews with Gary R. Streiner and Russel W. Streiner; trailer, radio spots, and TV spots; an essay by critic Stuart Klawans.

Extras: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul; interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka; interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview from 2008 with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; «The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima,» a 55 - minute documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets.

But as strong and central as Portman is to the film, Annihilation is an ensemble piece featuring several solid supporting turns.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

The theatrical version and the Director's Cut are included, along with the previously released bonus features, a new documentary, a 1996 short film by director Richard Kelly, a hardcover book, and some pieces of art printed on cardstock, found inside an envelope marked «Roberta Sparrow.»

I recently spoke to cinematographer Roger Deakins, production designer Kristi Zea, costume designer Albert Wolsky and film editor Tariq Anwar about their work on the film, a 1950s period piece featuring the on - screen reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

Speaking of which - with Civil War, directors Anthony and Joe Russo (who also helmed The Winter Soldier) deliver some of the most impressive superhero - based fight scenes and set pieces featured in any Marvel Studios film yet, in terms of both the sheer scale and creativity of the Avenger vs. Avenger battles.

Many reviews have stated that the The Mummy is simply a series of mind - numbing action set - pieces strung together into a feature - length film.

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic B. Ruby Rich, a tribute by Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film's restoration by UCLA's Ross Lipman

Making things even more astounding is that it is Cretton's second feature film, a terrific start to his career but also an excellent piece of work one could retire on.

(1965), The Perils of Priscilla (1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems Like Only Yesterday (1971), and Crystallization (1974)- New conversation between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas - New interview with Deschanel - New piece featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her images from the film's set - Trailer - An essay by film critic Michael Sragow

Based on the highly praised novel ’48 Shades of Brown» by Nick Earls, 48 Shades attempts the difficult task of delivering the depth of character possible in a piece of writing, in the limited time allowed for a feature film, Continue reading 48 Shades →

Hayes» feature film credits include the Bobby and Peter Farrelly comedy «The Three Stooges,» «The Bucket List,» opposite Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, and the independent drama «Pieces of April,» opposite Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson and Oliver Platt.

Tellingly, Signs also features bookend title cards touting it as «An M. Night Shyamalan Film» in thirty - foot letters — it's a total ego trip (note Shyamalan's extended «cameo» and exactly how crucial it is to the film: the man makes himself the most important character in the piece), and no matter how beautiful it looks, how expertly its sound is mixed, how funny it can be, and how effective a few tense scenes are, the picture is a first - class disappointment.

As the postscript to a successful year for the Australian film industry — 2007 has seen the release of Clubland, Noise, The Home Song Stories and IF Best Feature Film award winner The Jammed — and hot on the heels of horror film Rogue comes Gabriel, a moody and visually impressive genre piece about the battle for the souls of those committed to purgatory.

The short film is a component of a larger multimedia piece — a milieu that Athina has worked within alongside her feature films — that was commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.

The film features an impressive young cast (all male, of course) who immerse themselves completely in this harrowing piece of history, and are backed up by recognisable faces such as Shane Bourne and William McInnes (Look Both Ways).

The release includes most of the same extras from the deluxe DVD, as well as a new interview with composer Jon Brion, a new piece featuring behind - the - scenes footage of a recording session for the film's soundtrack, and a new conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film.

There is also a fully illustrated insert booklet that features an essay by film critic James Oliver, who once again provides a very insightful essay that serves as a terrific companion piece to the picture.