Sentences with phrase «fiction film i watched»

The Mohave backdropped a science - fiction film I watched from my couch, the familiar recast as alien.

Not exact matches

First of all, it's not apparent when watching Suburbicon that fact and fiction are being blended, either from the marketing of the film or in the movie itself.

Counselors in rehab often warned me of watching films like Pulp Fiction or Requiem for a Dream, which have a reputation for glorifying drug use and could have led me to a relapse.

But I grew up in the 1950's and it was so hard to find a good science fiction film worth watching.

If a science - fiction historical epic starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Justin Kurzel isn't something worth watching, then everyone had better just give up trying to adapt games into films in the first place.

Resnais constantly blurs the line between fantasy and reality shifting the actors from the couch where they watch the filmed play so that they take an active role within stylized dreamlike scenes, where the fiction of the play becomes their reality.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

I would say he was the Russian equivalent of Stanley Kubrick, because he is simply an artist, his vision and ideas and one of a kind, and though this is my second film of Tarkovsky's that I have watched, the first being Solaris, which for me is his masterwork, and a masterpiece of Science Fiction.

What science fiction films do best is warp our deepest concerns and immediate dangers, so that we can watch them bloom into larger than life stories on the big screen.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction: What's better than watching octogenarian and acting legend Harry Dean Stanton reluctantly relate his prolific experiences in the film and television industry?

Portions of this presentation were used in the earlier Blu - ray releases of «Pulp Fiction» and «Jackie Brown» but this disc presents an extended cut of the conversation, which you can watch straight through or access film by film.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

First off, I have to say that if you aren't prepared to see a pure science fiction film, with all of the maturity and complexity that the term implies, you probably are better off not bothering to watch Steven Soderbergh's (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic) latest gem, Solaris.

Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.

The influences are many, from Flash Gordon, to Buck Rogers, to King Kong, to Forbidden Planet, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to Star Wars, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and many other films that captivated the minds of young boys growing up watching science fiction and adventure films.

But we decided not to do what we did with HOT FUZZ, which was to watch a lot of films, because we decided we didn't need to learn any kind of language of cinema — we weren't going to make any comments about science fiction or make any references to other films.

One can not help but notice odd similarities between fiction and real life when watching Wonder Boys, the new film based on Michael Chabon's novel.

It sometimes tricks you into believing you are watching a docudrama instead of a fiction film.

We broke down the 50 must - watch science fiction films.

Watching Like a Writer is a movie review series that looks at films from the perspective of a fiction writer, complete with one writing takeaway, and an exercise that will help better your fiction!

During her research for the project, Laing also watched science - fiction films of aliens or mutants infesting the human race, noting similarities in the way in which man - made suburbia infests and spreads across the natural landscape.

Sarah was writing it as she was reading and watching a lot of science - fiction films and literature, and she was interested in this whole community of commenting and reviewing.

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