Sentences with phrase «feature film down»

Sennett admired Fazenda's comic gifts and her willingness to do anything for a laugh, and accordingly starred her in his 1920 feature film Down on the Farm.

Not exact matches

The «60 Minutes» episode featuring a sit - down interview with the adult film star who says she had an affair with President Trump delivered a 16.3 rating and a 27 share, according to Nielsen meter markets.

Her 1970 version of the Band's «The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down» (her only Top 10 single) was recently featured in the film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Similar to film used in photography, photoresist, also just called resist, is used to lay down the patterns of ever - shrinking lines and features on a chip.

She selects a black Roland Mouret number (featuring a gold zipper down the back) that shows off her killer bod at party for her new film Rush in Toronto.

Many blockbuster films have featured a down - on - her - luck lady, from Julia Roberts in «Pretty Woman» to Jennifer Lopez in «Maid in Manhattan,» who meets a wealthy individual by chance, wins him over with her charms, and lives happily ever after.

You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who opens the film in 1992 in Oakland, a few stops down the BART line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Even if you're eager to appreciate the 48 fps highlights, the fact that a good portion of the film dips down into that strange video - like territory turns the feature into an even more disjointed experience than it already is.

One of the central characters is introduced from the waist down and to say that the film climaxes in violent, sexual oddity would be like saying «The Avengers» features a few superheroes.

A film review on Friday about the animated feature «Megamind» misidentified the character who tries to impress Roxanne by repeatedly dropping her from high in the air then swooping down to rescue her.

Rather, it's the first feature from the fledgling Studio Ponoc, which was founded in 2015 by several Ghibli alumni amid (happily premature) speculation that the company would be shutting down its feature - film production.

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.

Screenwriter James Vanderbilt's feature directorial debut recounts the scandal that led to Dan Rather stepping down from the CBS News desk in 2004, but while Vanderbilt's script has some good ideas in it, the film is ultimately far too hagiographic for its own good, undercutting its thematic impact at nearly every turn.

The American remake of the French Canadian film Starbuck features Vince Vaughn as affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.

If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

Other films that feature families reuniting are Evelyn and Down in the Delta.

With Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void, Michael Rowe's Camera d'Or winner Leap Year, UK indie apocalypse film Monsters, Aussie rom - com The Wedding Party and a four feature tribute to cinematographer Jack Cardiff (including Hitchcock goes Down Under in Under Capricorn), BIFF 2010 has, as Moore so eloquently put it, «snap, crackle, pop, kick, bite and relevance».

The film's concluding segment, featuring Zoe Saldana as a woman who tracks down and develops a twisted crush on the man (Nick Stahl) who has raped her, is far and away its strongest entry.

Between Mimic 3: Sentinel («Mimic: Sentinel» on its title card and hereafter «Sentinel») and his remarkable feature debut, the mostly silent NYU student film Soft for Digging, Petty betrays a genuine gift for cinematic storytelling, stripping down dialogue to a skeletal structure and relying on the force of his images for the bulk of the exposition.

Julie discusses Wayne's departure from the Western genre after the success of Dirty Harry (a film which he turned down), the mid-seventies London scene, and some iconic locations featured in the film.

Director Todd Louiso, screenwriter Gordy Hoffman, and star Philip Seymour Hoffman play nicely off each other in a feature - length commentary in which the film seems to reveal itself anew to the self - effacing trio, who revel in psychoanalyzing Love Liza's characters and, when you get down to it, defending them.

Blu - ray and DVD with hosted by Geek Nation film critic Scott Weinberg and featuring William Goss (Austin Chronicle), Drew Mcweeny (Hitfix.com), Jennifer Yamato (Deadline), Peter S. Hall (Movies.com), and my old colleague James Rocchi (who is identified as MSN Movies, despite the fact the site effectively shut down a year ago).

In fact, the line - up is so stellar that for the purposes of whittling down a manageable list of the films we're most anticipating, we made the decision to exclude anything that features in our Most Anticipated Toronto Internatioal Film Festival list just to narrow the field a little.

Verdict: The second directorial feature from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight after so - so Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird,» «Locke» was both more stripped down and more ambitious: a film set entirely within a moving car, shot in real time, with only one actor on screen (the rest of the cast are heard over the phone, but never seen).

Projected on the same blank wall, Hoberman presented a double feature of «The Butler» and «White House Down,» two films set in the White House, and concerned with President Obama's presidency.

While light on story, this trailer features a better look at the action in the film, showing just how effective Ben Affleck's Batman is at taking down thugs as well as a bit more of the showdown between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel.

After blowing it to hell in INDEPENDENCE DAY, Emmerich's next film WHITE HOUSE DOWN features a...

Even in feature film form, Peanuts stays pretty down to Earth and relaxed.

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Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

The multi-narrative film features several interconnected characters, played a wide range of interesting performers, all of whom interact with objects and artifacts passed down through generations.

The driving force behind the new adaptation from Kenneth Branagh seems to be nothing more than replicating the success of Lumet's film, and to that end the 2017 Murder on the Orient Express features a stacked cast, lavish artistic design, and a comfortingly familiar plot that goes down like comfort food.

We wanted it to feel Grindhouse in that way, not Grindhouse in a comedic way but Grindhouse in the down and dirty simple, narrative, you appreciate it, you could pair it with an A film and see it as a double feature.

Susann also inspired «Scandalous Me,» a down - and - dirty cable TV movie starring Michele Lee, and is now the subject of «Isn't She Great,» a feature film opening Friday that stars Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as her husband and manager, Irving Mansfield.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Coen brothers» debut, Blood Simple, I'm re-watching their 16 feature films and attempting to jot down observations about one per day, in order of their release.

In 2004, NYU film grad Debra Granik spun a student short into a ragged but confident debut feature, «Down to the Bone,» that landed her a Sundance award and kick - started the career of a sensational actress named Vera Farmiga.

Having received many international awards for her previous short films, writer - director Kristen Tan brings to the screen her heartwarming and down - to - earth debut feature.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Coen brothers» debut, Blood Simple, I'm re-watching their 16 feature films and attempting to jot down observations on one per day, in order of their release.

After surviving a night in the woods for an experiential screening (event recap, review) of Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at Night, we sat down with him to discuss the very personal nature of the film, his approach to making such an atypical horror film, the very interesting backstory behind the house featured in the film, and much more.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

She recalls enduring 35 takes of a brief shot, relating to David Thewlis in Naked, the lack of derivation, heavily trimming down the Sacramento portion that features her real parents, and how what's sad on page doesn't play as such in the film.

He's sitting down in a single location for much of the film, but he still displays an unerring sense of subtlety for the quieter moments — something that always features strongly in Shyamalan's films.

But this LFF screening means you have no excuse to miss this grotesque picaresque about parental responsibility which features perhaps the funniest assisted death sequence ever laid down on film.

Produced by Eddie Alcazar, and featuring Hannibal Buress (Broad City), Anders Holm (The Mindy Project), Tim Heidecker (Eastbound and Down), and iconic Funk musician George Clinton, the film also includes an original score and musical collaborations with Aphex Twin and Akira Yamaoka.

Solondz agreed to an interview upon the release of his fifth feature, Palindromes (he asks folks not to track down his directorial debut, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, which my editor, Bill, describes as something like a satire of Solondz films), another picture garnering an extreme amount of political fallout following the similarly - tumultuous receptions to his Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, and Storytelling.

Styled after 1980's gangster / action films, the top - down game is viciously brutal, outrageously violent, and also features some incredible music!

This film features two wonderful performances from Megan Boone and David Nordstrom, and down - to - earth cinematography of massive sequoias.

After the film's Fantastic Fest debut, we sat down with Pesce to discuss the influences behind his first feature, the surprising personal history that was woven into the film's narrative, and more.