Sentences with phrase «fiction film after»

Believe Me marks director Will Bakke's first foray into fiction film after two documentaries, One Nation Under God and Beware of the Christians.

Not exact matches

Previous owner Kenneth Schacter bought the German artwork for Fritz Lang's 1927 science - fiction film in 2005 for a record $ 690,000, but had to give it up after filling for bankruptcy.

Events will include a film festival of science fiction films «before and after the discovery of DNA», in Italy, an overnight camp at the Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near Geneva.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on A gangster's ex-wife has been spared jail after she told a court she had no idea her luxury life was funded by his drug money.

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

In the previous film, Jack was the old fiction editor at the publishing house, the one let go after he got handsy with Anastasia.

Her most recent short film, Lucia, Before and After, won the Jury Prize for US Fiction at Sundance Film Festival.

The decade after provided us with several entries in this vein of high concept romance — Stranger Than Fiction, Lars and the Real Girl, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks, 2013's About Time — all films I enjoy and admire.

After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.

Like a pulp riff on Luigi Pirandello's play «Six Characters In Search Of An Author,» the film adds layer upon layer of meta - fiction to the hilariously slight premise of a gangster chasing after the three petty dognappers who swiped his Shih Tzu.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.

After all, here is a truly visionary film - maker who has been behind some of science fiction cinema's most bona fide classics.

Artwork by its various members is installed throughout the space, which has been modelled after the fictional spacecraft from 1963 Czech science - fiction film Ikarie XB - 1.

Sean Baker's The Florida Project was a revelatory experience, both in and of itself and because of the fact that it so fully realized the promise of American place - specific reality - based fiction cinema after so many years of films with intriguing passages and situations that never quite add up to an entire satisfying movie.

In that thirty minutes we are subjected to montage after montage, which makes it hard to submerge oneself in the fiction that early in the film.

And perhaps most impressive is that Stallone fused reality with fiction to create a miraculous comeback that only seems to happen in the realm of movies — resurrecting Rocky Balboa thirty years after our first introduction to him, followed by a return of John Rambo twenty years after last seen on film.

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.

Though Disney flirted with science fiction in the years before and after, The Black Hole is their most sincere effort, and one which seems out of place alongside films like Freaky Friday and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

Unless you're tired of science fiction after films like Oblivion and Elysium — and this is much better — I can recommend Ender's Game.

«Cloud Atlas», a science fiction film directed by Tom Tykwer and The Wachowskis, follows six different timelines that change after every scene.

«A Walk Among the Tombstones» is the fifth feature - length film made from Lawrence Block's fiction and the fifth time Liam Neeson goes after psychos who take people hostage.

His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the neo-noir superhero drama thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004), the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006), the natural horror thriller The Happening (2008), the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender (2010), the sci - fi action - adventure film After Earth (2013) and the horror comedy film The Visit (2015).

Thirty years after the events of the first science fiction film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long - buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

After viewing a double feature of Pulp Fiction and Scarface in his early teens, film became his biggest passion.

After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm «Hoot» Hooten in Black Hawk Down (2001), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk (2003), Prince Hector in the movie Troy (2004), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005), and the villain Nero in the science - fiction film Star Trek (2009).

It breaks stride with Cusack's past vehicles in that it displays him frequently in athletic motion (the kickboxing of Say Anything... notwithstanding) and rides something of a zeitgeist: It's a post-Pulp Fiction artifact, from that cascade of films after 1994 (The Big Hit, The Boondock Saints, The Way of the Gun) that depict professional thugs as humanized and humorous.

Following her self - funded fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere.

After its first screening, Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans, the Documentary Grand Prize winner, became as hot a ticket as any fiction film, the result of its sensational subject (a middle - class, Long Island, Jewish family is destroyed when the father and one of the sons are arrested, tried, and imprisoned for multiple counts of child sexual molestation).

However, it seems to have also taken a backseat to another project, the Cuban spy thriller Wasp Network, a French - Brazilian co-pro set in 1990s Florida, which has been confirmed as filming after Non Fiction wraps.

After Return of the King, which won Best Picture in 2003, The Shape of Water is the second «fantasy» genre film to win for Best Picture (leave your debate as to if The Shape of Water is fantasy or science fiction in the comments — we're curious!).

After years of amateur film - making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976 where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice, as well as numerous series pilots and Movies - of - the - Week for the major networks.

The spectacle is so otherworldly that after it appeared in 2012 science fiction film Prometheus, Dettifoss is just as often referred to as the Prometheus waterfall in name.

It was popularized in other countries after a little known film called Pulp Fiction (1994) explained a quarter pounder with cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in France (it's actually listed as Royal cheese on menus in France) Jump back to more modern times and Battle Royal has been around in wrestling a long time.

A further three new shows open shortly after this, beginning with the first exhibition in Ireland by the French artist Pierre Huyghe (23 February - 15 May), whose film works explore themes of reality and fiction, history and memory.