Sentences with phrase «fiction films made»
It features her work across a variety of disciplines, including science fiction films made with the actress Tilda Swinton and «Reach,» a print from her photograph series «Phantom Limbs,» which shows women merging with technology.
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As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.
He didn't want to make it look like just a mechanical mat... which is typically what happens with robots in science fiction films.
Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.
This year's books had something for everyone with mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction, books in a series and books that have been made into films.
In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.
Taking pictures / working in the darkroom, writing fiction / poetry / social commentary, architecture, and even making short films or designing websites - all these things are outlets that keep me...
Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?
The four fiction films that follow the documentaries were all made for politically motivated anthologies, and they focus on themes of social change and personal identity.
A LITTLE CHAOS is pure fiction and one wonders, why was this film made exactly?
Perhaps one of the reasons why it has taken a science fiction film to speak so directly and truly about South Africa — and South African reality to make SF seem so real.
PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.
She Demons is another triumph from director Richard Cunha, whose science - fiction quickies of the 1950s are among the worst films ever made.
Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.
Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.
He's made a science fiction film with verve, imagination and even a little wit.
This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in Director Joseph Kosinski's love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.
Pulp Fiction is certainly no different and is now widely considered one of the best films ever made.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»
In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux... My Scientology Movie is stranger than fiction.»
According to the press notes, «Reach Me» director John Herzfeld first wrote the script for this ensemble dramedy circa 2001, which makes sense given that the film bears more than a faint aroma of Herzfeld's «2 Days in the Valley» (1997), one of the least offensive of the era's many «Pulp Fiction» also - rans.
As a piece of fiction it does raise issues with real world repercussions, and the film certainly made me think.
, in which Espinosa says he wanted to make «science reality» rather than «science fiction,» filming a scenario that made some scientific sense and portraying the realistic reactions of characters living through a crisis.
At once epic and intimate, director Denis Villeneuve's film accomplishes what science fiction cinema often strives for but rarely achieves: It makes us think and feel in equal measure.
Lucas» only previous experience was TH 1138, a science fiction thriller, which he had developed from a student film he had made while at USC.
Spoof movies have made fun of action movies, adventure movies, horror films, and science - fiction movies, so romantic comedies were certainly ripe for lampooning.
Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).
What he's likely to say is that he wanted to make a think piece, a solid science fiction film.
Quentin Tarantino, whose Pulp Fiction is a great film, has made what is technically a terrific film.
How crazy is it to make a biographical film of someone and then go ahead and invent sections of it.The demonic Wilson doctor and the youthful Wilson are great in their parts, but Cusack is not quite so convincing nor is his girlfriend who is ridiculously beautiful and sentimental.However the film has many good points and is an interesting viewing.l am not a fan of Beach Boys silly group harmonies, style of music, but still enjoyed the film.Mixing fact with fiction, though, did make me suspicious of the whole thing.3 Stars
When a film director hires two screenwriters to make a gangster movie, a fiction feast starts: femmes fatales, mobs fighting for the same neighborhood and a limitless hero who defies every movie concept.
Some of the greatest science fiction films of all time were made in the 1970s — and we're not talking about Star Wars.
Tarantino has made better films (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds) but Kill Bill is easily his most entertaining.
Throughout the film Kaufman experiments with varying degrees of fiction (Cage also plays Charlie's made - up twin brother, Donald) and nonfiction (actual events from «The Orchid Thief» are acted - out by Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper and other supporting actors).
«Vanilla Sky» (2001) Crowe's reteaming with Cruise was a major departure for the director; a remake of the Spanish hit «Abre los ojos,» it's a dark film — far darker than anything the director's made before — with touches of science - fiction and horror.
This film would go on to inspire and influence how science fiction and action films are made today.
Chungking Express — This was actually a very tough call for me, whether to make this or Pulp Fiction the # film of the year.
Back on the first screen, «100 Years in the Making» (10:43) considers Edgar Rice Burroughs» entry into fiction writing (with an actor reading his autobiographical writings) as well as this film's journey to be made.
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...
All that time hanging out with Nolan has obviously rubbed off: Franklin's directorial debut, The Escape, is a handsomely filmed science - fiction short that wears its influences on its sleeve: it feels like something that Nolan might make over a few days while waiting for Hans Zimmer to finish scoring his latest blockbuster.
By way of its coolly detached and minimalist style, Funny Games was deliberately made as a nauseating antidote to films like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), which (too) eagerly depict graphic violence for the viewer's entertainment (13).
Signatures is a short film scheme for the making of live - action, fiction films that act as a proving - ground for Irish creative talents which aims to encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.
Being such a massive phenomenon has made The Hunger Games an easy target to tilt at but the truth is that, staying close to the Suzanne Collins novel, this film adaptation is a lean, smart science fiction thriller that there's much to like about.
That worked to the film's advantage because it ended up making its DVD debut in August 2002 (smack in the middle of Disney's few years of comprehensive DVD editions) as a robust 2 - disc Collector's Edition alongside one for Pulp Fiction.
Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.
While Wright was making «Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World,» Pegg and Frost enlisted the help of «Superbad» and «Adventureland» director Greg Mottola to help them make the science - fiction answer to the zombie film homage «Shaun of the Dead,» and the buddy cop love letter «Hot Fuzz.»
During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.
In his one - of - a-kind fiction / documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making.
But in terms of making both viewers and onscreen subjects hot under the collar, fiction has had nothing on non-fiction in 2016; you could practically program a whole film festival of the year's most awkward documentaries.
Aside from some extra deleted scenes, there's an entire version of the film that is filled with «fact or fiction» pop - ups... answering and asking the question «what is real and what did you guys make - up?»