Q: You got the idea for the story after seeing something like the billboards that are
featured in the film while traveling in the United States several years ago.
Immediately following the 5:00 pm screening, head to the Riverfront Promenade and party with the Master Sommeliers
featured in the film while enjoying gourmet bites from renowned Napa Valley restuarants and tasting some of the Valley's finest wines.
Not exact matches
Netflix was also shut out
in the award show's
film categories, with the streaming service's original
feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations,
while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short
in the foreign
film category.
Meanwhile, Netflix (nflx) is second to only Time Warner's HBO (twx)
in terms of TV category nods (nine to HBO's 12),
while the streaming giant also picked up three big nominations
in the
film categories, including two for its original
feature film Mudbound.
12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian
film distributor BIM Distribuzione
featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role
in the
film,
while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.
While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking
in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing
film, which
features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week,
in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.
That year, Stanley Kubrick's
film 2001: A Space Odyssey
featured a Pan Am spaceship,
while the airline's Asian fleet ferried soldiers on active duty
in Vietnam to Japan or to Hawaii for their R&R leave.
Musk and Riley were together for a year after they remarried, but they have lived apart the past five months
while Riley wrote and directed her first
feature film, «Scottish Mussel,»
in the United Kingdom.
Set mostly
in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the
film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman),
while the cast also
features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.
The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length
feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world
while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.
Another cool
features is the ability to snap photos
while filming with no break
in the action.
Some
feature characters from Disney
films,
while others tie
in with Disneyland.
Instead, you have to start up the Second Screen
feature — which plays supplemental material on your iPad or laptop
while you're watching the
film —
in order to access the commentary track, but once you do, it's definitely worth checking out.
2010 is supposed to bring both Shrek Goes Fourth and the
feature - length spin - off Puss
in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer,
while DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has claimed that a fifth and final
film is
in the works as well.
Knaggs» career reached a peak
in the mid -»40s, when he worked
in supporting roles
in ambitious major studio
films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made
features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday,
while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.
Based on Gregory Miller's book Public Enemy No. 1, G - Men was reissued
in 1949, with an added prologue
featuring David Brian as an FBI trainer who advises his students not to laugh at the old - fashioned costumes and slang
in the 1935
film; seen today, it is Brian's superfluous opening comments that seem hopelessly dated,
while the
film itself is as exciting and entertaining as ever.
In the former film, she appeared as the quiet, capable love interest of Tony Shalhoub's struggling Italian chef, while the latter featured the actress in the minor but poignant role of a painfully - awkward schoolteacher who is seduced by John Travolta's libidinous Presidential candidat
In the former
film, she appeared as the quiet, capable love interest of Tony Shalhoub's struggling Italian chef,
while the latter
featured the actress
in the minor but poignant role of a painfully - awkward schoolteacher who is seduced by John Travolta's libidinous Presidential candidat
in the minor but poignant role of a painfully - awkward schoolteacher who is seduced by John Travolta's libidinous Presidential candidate.
It should have been a no - brainer: The movie is based on a late -»80s arcade game spawned by the creature -
feature films of the»50s and»60s,
in which one to three players controlled giant monsters as they stomped the bejeezus out of one cityscape after another
while the tiny cartoon populace reacted accordingly.
While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs
in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening
film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever
features.
And,
while Al - Qaeda are the villains, the
film manages to be fairly sensible
in its portrayal of Arabs,
featuring some sensible and fairly realistic characters.
In the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length fil
In the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest,
while the lyrical camerawork, constantly
in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length fil
in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a
feature - length
film.
Add to it a soundtrack (
featuring The Cure, The Smiths, and Tears for Fears, among others) that is the English equivalent to an 80's John Hughes
film, and you have a
film that will have all post-punk, 80's nostalgic fans tapping their feet
while delighting
in the chemistry of this pleasant romantic - comedy.
As the
film jumps from location to location, chyron to chyron, picking up storylines listlessly
while letting others lay fallow for a
while, out of sight but without any sort of urgency at their displacement, the best moments emerge as those
featuring Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, conveying an ocean of regret
in the delivery of the word «Nat» to his lost love, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson)-- or those between Paul Bettany's «Vision» and Elizabeth Olsen's «Scarlet Witch,» who share a stolen moment together
in Scotland before what they believe will be their deaths.
A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and
while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been
in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned
in a slick - looking
feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better
films out there
in terms of quality,
while it's too straight - faced
in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.
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.
And
while 12 Years a Slave provides ample meat for its established actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt
feature memorably), it also helps shape a star
in Nyong» o (making her
film debut) who is heart - wrenchingly real as the terrorised Patsey.
While I can certainly agree with both
films not falling squarely
in line with the zombies, slashers, and extreme gore
features that proudly wave their horror flags, Get Out and The Shape of Water do exist
in the peripherals of genre, both
featuring monsters of very different ilk.
While it is certainly okay for a bit - player like Kevin Durand (Gabriel) to
feature in a
film like this, it is somewhat disappointing that Bettany's promising career has taken him to this unfortunate mishmash of ideas and images, even
in the «whoa dude, angels killing angels!»
On a more negative note, the
film is designed and crafted
in such a way that you take one side, with a certain perspective more prominently presented than the other,
while the fact we're dealing with an ensemble
feature does mean there's a lack of emotionality attached, as with so many characters to explore, we drift between them without ever feeling as though we've truly got to the bottom of their respective character developments.
The movie also
features appearances by Rebecca Henderson (from «Appropriate Behavior «-RRB-, Heather Lind («Boardwalk Empire») and Michael Chemus («Captain Phillips «-RRB- Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (from the band Luna) composed the movie's score (they wrote some music for previous Baumbach
films and Wareham has a hilarious cameo
in «
While We're Young»).
Love, which reunites Haneke with Piano Teacher star Isabelle Huppert, is about a retired music teacher who has a stroke,
while Rust and Bone, Audiard's first
film since A Prophet,
features Marion Cotillard as an aqua park employee who loses her legs
in an accident involving an orca.
In comparison to recent
films based on the life and work of the Beats, like Howl and On the Road, Kill Your Darlings is presented less abstractedly, with Krokidas choosing a highly stylized aesthetic
while employing the bold juxtaposition of the period setting and a contemporary soundtrack
featuring the likes of TV on the Radio.
Gerwig herself has been open about the many
films that inspired «Lady Bird» — she even programmed an entire series at NYC's Quad Cinema
featuring a dozen
films that she says helped fuel her creativity — and it
while the list is peppered with some surprises, there's at least one coming - of - age classic that seems obvious: Howard Deutch's «Pretty
in Pink.»
While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role
in his
feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]
Additionally,
in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology
film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example
in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares
in «Carnival of Souls ``; and
while we've
featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final
film «Shock.»
While the supporting cast,
featuring James Franco, Sharon Stone, Chris Noth, and Chloë Sevigny (the list literally goes on and on), is amusing simply for the novelty of seeing them dressed
in kitschy»70s getups playing the likes of Hugh Hefner and Harry Reems, the revolving door of familiar faces is just one example of the
film's lack of focus.
While the
films marks Olsen's screen debut and is certainly the most anticipated of her upcoming
features, it's hardly the only place she'll appear: The 22 - year - old has already shot four other
films, including the dramatic comedy «Peace, Love and Misunderstanding» opposite Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, and she plays Josh Radnor's younger friend and love interest
in the college - set «Liberal Arts.»
While Dippold unfortunately gave into stereotypes and cliches
in her
feature film writing debut, the characters» free - spirited nature did garner genuine laughs.
While Hudlin's directorial history
in feature films is questionable (his TV work is great), the subject matter of a young Thurgood Marshall before his time as a Supreme Court Justice seems very Academy - friendly.
The actress additionally took a moment to reflect on the once -
in - a-lifetime opportunity of being able to originate a role on stage,
while deepening one's relationship with a character through a
feature film adaptation.
CHICAGO — The funniest movie
in a long
while features no human beings, just animated bland faces among interlocking plastic bricks, the toys which inspired the
film.
Director Fabien Constant,
in his narrative
feature debut, finds a momentum
in that knowledge that propels the
film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (
while never disclosing it)
in encounters with friends, family and strangers.
This Paramount release offers an outstanding A / V presentation and a batch of special
features that help answer the question a lot of people probably asked themselves
while watching this
film: «how
in the world did they do that?!»
Often
featuring quiet men who commit savage acts
while drifting through their respective worlds, his
films are as hyper - violent as they are hyper - stylish — from the Viking - era brutality of Valhalla Rising to Bronson's dark corners of the modern penal system to the postmodern urban underworlds
in Drive and Only God Forgives.
While that
film felt like a seamless fusion of the middle - aged malaise seen
in Greenberg with the youthful energy and aimless freedom of Frances Ha, his newest
feature, Mistress America, is very much back
in the realm of the latter.
While both films feature the farming of sheep and two men who, while camping in the hinterland, share an intense sexual and romantic bond, the similarities end t
While both
films feature the farming of sheep and two men who,
while camping in the hinterland, share an intense sexual and romantic bond, the similarities end t
while camping
in the hinterland, share an intense sexual and romantic bond, the similarities end there.
Unroken
features one of the more incredible true stories to come around
in a
film for a
while.
While both
films were produced at the Pendleton Correctional Facility
in Indiana, Sackler sees them as complimentary
films which can be viewed on their own or as an enlightening double
feature.
While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the
film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that
featured heightened reality
in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.
So
while the Nazis would be the obvious villains
in pretty much any other World War II
film (at least any set
in the European theater, I guess), only Captain America could
feature a bad guy like the Red Skull.