Sentences with phrase «fiction film genre»
In an age where the science fiction film genre has been dumbed down to a mere spectacle of loud explosions and special effects (like in Independence Day), Dark City stands out head and shoulders above the rest.
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I also find joy in reading and film, particularly in Sciene Fiction and Fantasy genres.
A «creepypasta» is a short piece of horror Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death
I have gravely mixed feelings about every movie on Marc Forster's résumé, from «Monster's Ball» to «Stranger Than Fiction» to «The Kite Runner» to the 2008 Bond film «Quantum of Solace,» but the guy is undeniably a stylistic virtuoso with a Michael Winterbottom - like ability to jump around from one genre to another.
The old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were not science fiction, the «alien invaders» flicks of the 50s were likewise fantasy, and it continues today with such non science fiction films as Independence Day, Red Planet and Event Horizon trying to claim a genre title of which they are not worthy.
But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.
French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.
From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.
With his debut feature, he never misses a beat while infusing the story with quirky insights and pulp - fiction antics that lift this genre film to a new level.
Like that film, Annihilation uses the science fiction genre to probe some of the deeper recesses of the human condition, although it is not quite so philosophically attuned or thematically rich.
Steven Spielberg's return to blockbuster genre fiction comes in Ready Player One, and it's definitely an enjoyable movie, albeit without the emotional development that one comes to expect from a Spielberg film.
Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.
«I would say that the science fiction of it is a big thing that sets it apart from most of the other superhero genre films,» Trank says.
Although the genre leans heavy in the science fiction category, and Ridley Scott's Alien historically leans toward horror, the film definitely stands on its own, balancing quite well both genres.
Del Toro is a firm genre favourite, from his horror debut Cronos (1994), to the superhero film Hellboy (2004), his gothic fairytale Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and the science fiction monster flick Pacific Rim (2013).
That said, while at times uneven, Grabham and Sharp's tone nevertheless creates something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science - fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction.
I believed this to be the way movies naturally were, unaware then that I was poised at the cusp of a decade of filmmaking that would redefine fantasy and science - fiction, setting precedents for the genre with films like Back to the Future and Predator, E.T., and Blade Runner, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile — the well was as deep for flights of fancy in the Eighties as it was for incomparable character - driven paranoia in the Seventies.
With Barker's status as one of the most prominent openly gay figures in genre fiction at the back of the mind, that Candyman is something of an elegiac lament for the outcasts and the sexually humiliated only augments its status as one of the best of the end - of - the - eighties / start - of - the - nineties body mortification films.
From the classic to the obscure, the Arrow Video collection encompasses all styles and genres: horror films and Westerns, science fiction and sex comedies, yakuza epics and neo-noirs, the subversive, the transgressive and the unclassifiable.
Writer - director Shane Black knows detective movies and pulp fiction inside out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.
The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.
With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell (Frost / Nixon, Iron Man 2) who pairs up with one of my favorites in Kevin Spacey to deliver a science fiction movie hell bent on breaking all the rules of genre - specific filmmaking.
I wrote in my review of the film: «With Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science fiction genre.
A superb pas - de-deux with American cinema, this ultra-violent futuristic film brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of Road Movie, Western and Science - Fiction elements.
Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.
Perhaps more notable, however, was a non-win: the mere nomination of Sigourney Weaver for Best Actress, an extreme rarity for a film that combined three genres often viewed as pariahs to major awards programs: horror, science fiction, and action.
In addition to the plethora of comic book - based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of «genre.»
For the third film running, Shyamalan has infused pulpy genre material with a fresh sense of austerity and weight, first with the somber ghost story The Sixth Sense and its wholly original comic - book follow - up Unbreakable, and now with a science - fiction premise ripped straight from the supermarket tabloids.
Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction films as well).
The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.
There's a particular kind of genre film that's always been able to transcend the boundaries around fantasy or science fiction to capture the hearts and minds of the Academy and this year was no exception.
The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.
Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.
Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre fiction with indie romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.
Spanish filmmaker Vigalondo has a talent for genre mash - ups, creating fresh takes on familiar science - fiction tropes, and this film (his English language debut) is his smartest, edgiest, and most accomplished to date.
This subtle blend of fact and fiction is part and parcel of Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderón's playful approach to the material, which shifts in and out of various genres, including chase thriller, film noir, road movie and even western.
The Ghost Writer comes from a template similar toPolanski's 1999 thriller, The Ninth Gate.Both films are based on best - selling genre fiction and involve a mercenary inthe world of books who finds himself on a journey into fear and darkness.
In fact, the film ultimately owes more to the action than the science fiction genre.
Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.
The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science - fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
Fantastic Fest — which celebrates genre films, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror — begins next week in Austin, Texas.
While it's true that Wise explored a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, noir, westerns, musicals and war dramas, his best films frequently share a gloomy nihilistic worldview and he possessed the extraordinary ability to elicit career - defining performances from many of the actors he worked with.
The latest film by the writer - director of In Bruges may be the sharpest subversion of the crime genre since Pulp Fiction.
In addition to Pulp Fiction, McDonagh's film carries echoes of such genre demolitions as Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz and the Robert - Downey - Jr.
As if defending the movies that made Stewart a star, her «Sils Maria» character asserts that there can be as much truth in genre films — science fiction and fantasy, for example — as there is in so - called serious movies.
Westerns and outer space science fiction are two genres of films that have barely ever been able to reside within the same story without being a complete mess of a movie.
A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.
It's a science - fiction film in J.G. Ballard's barest definition of the genre — an exploration of time, space, and identity set in the near future in a cloud of languages and ideas — that periodically soars like invention can when it's raised from a foundation of familiar catastrophe and intimate calamity.
And just last year his exploration went even further into the science fiction fantasy genre with DC Comics superhero film Suicide Squad.