Mab Graves» work has never come at a better time after the release of Tim Burton's
film Big Eyes, a biography of the troubled life of artist Margaret Keane.
With his new
film Big Eyes, Tim Burton and collaborators suffer from what I like to call bad history teacher syndrome.
Tim Burton has been talking a lot about Beetlejuice 2 lately, stating that it's «probably closer than ever» and confirming Winona Ryder will return to the cast alongside Michael Keaton, and now the director has shared a few more words during a promotional interview for his new
film Big Eyes, revealing that he «wouldn't call -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Since then, he's bounced back and forth between good
films (
Big Eyes) and bad (Dark Shadows).
Feeling more spontaneous and improvised than ever, this tale of chance encounters at a
big film festival is easy on the
eye and strewn with humorous gems, as it wryly reflects on the festival business and its denizens.
And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet -
eyed sincerity — the thing the
film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the
biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.
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film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
Here's two new TV trailers for the upcoming
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
Warner Bros Pictures just released this brand new TV spot for the upcoming
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
Warner Bros Pictures released this very cool international poster for the upcoming
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
But although Joel and Ethan Coen's The
Big Lebowski and Robert Benton's Twilight differ in tone, style, milieu, and generational perspective, both
films arrive at their private -
eye stories through the unorthodox detour of the western.
Warner Bros Pictures just released these new movie trailers for the upcoming
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
So, NYC actors, keep an
eye out; it looks like
filming is supposed to kick off in the
Big Apple next month.
The director's last
film,
Big Eyes, was refreshing in that it felt like a departure from the formulaic productions it succeeded.
Okay, whatever outcome will be
bigger than that when the
film arrives, you know there will be a villain to beat but this might be to keep an
eye out for youngsters and older folk a-like.
It's a dark, funny, lightning - quick pivot that not only sets the tone for the
film to come, but encapsulates the gamut of Farrell's abilities in a couple of minutes and embodies the very epicenter of his appeal: he can be handsome, charming and softly appealing with those
big brown
eyes beneath those expressive brows, but simultaneously he has a thread of volatility and nervous energy that could very well manifest in thuggish violence.
Tim Burton's
Big Eyes only just released a trailer for its December release, but already it's created a resurgence of interest in Margaret Keane, the»60s and»70s artist played by Amy Adams in the
film.
Here's the first official Russian movie poster for the upcoming
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
Here's the latest set of movie stills from the
film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy
Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (
Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).
The
film delights in answering very few of the
big questions, and features more than its share of ambiguities, which in retrospect is brilliantly at odds with its coldly clinical
eye.
There are two decent Amityville Horror movies: the 1979 original starring Margot Kidder and James Brolin, released when some still believed the book it was based on was a true story; and 2016's The Conjuring 2, which features a
big scene in the infamous
eye - window house, and is technically not part of the 18 -
film...
«A
big part of this
film is being inside our characters» heads — experiencing life through their
eyes and ears — and Dolby Atmos is helping us take the audience on that journey.»
There are so many
films coming out in 2018, but we've got our
eyes on some of the
biggest, most interesting, and peculiar ones that keep us checking for release dates and ticket pre-sales.
Burton, as a director, has been on an upswing (critically - speaking) with his last two
films, Frankenweenie and
Big Eyes, so hopefully, his latest kooky project will keep that trend going, too.
The filmmaker is also coming off one of his better - received
films in recent years in
Big Eyes, so his X-Men-esque tale of super-powered outsiders might yet prove to be another fine addition to his larger body of work - not to mention, another memorably weird, yet heartfelt Burton movie about the experience of being an «unusual» outcast in our world.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also reunites Burton behind the camera with his Dark Shadows and
Big Eyes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, whose knack for creating glossy visuals through his
film work (by utilizing soft shadows / focus shooting techniques) looks to serve Burton's upcoming
film well - in particular, during those scenes that take place in the fantastical setting where Miss Peregrine and the «Peculiars» live.
Amy Schumer charmingly tripped her way through 2014's
biggest films in her opening montage for this year's MTV Movie Awards, scoring some hosting advice along the way from Boyhood's bright -
eyed Ellar Coltrane, The Hunger Games» Elizabeth Banks and Whiplash's always - inspiring J.K. Simmons.
Horses get to me in general, with their soulful faces and
big eyes, so going into the
film I thought I was going to be in trouble, with the possibility of major sobbing.
Following a string of fantastical
films with hefty budgets (and less - than - desirable critical responses), Tim Burton takes a deep breath and a long step back with
Big Eyes, his smallest, most reigned - in production since Ed Wood.
BIG EYES Director: Tim Burton Starring: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp I may get blasted for this comment, but I was relieved to hear that Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were nowhere to be found in the latest Tim Burton
film.
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He adds: «I think a
film like
Big Eyes would be more out of place in competition than most of the titles here.
Aiding immeasurably is Cameron's resounding success where Zemeckis has failed repeatedly: in giving the
eyes warmth and life, which — for all the incredible FX work on display in crafting the world of Pandora — is perhaps the
biggest technological breakthrough in a
film full of them.
From a black -
eyed shot of two - and - a-half rounds and two corner breaks with no cuts to Adonis Creed's tender, late - stage ring - side admission, Creed is a
big - hearted hulk of a
film; a true (black and) blue champion.
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My
biggest complaint about motion capture
films had been that no matter how «natural» the characters appeared their
eyes always looked creepy.
With Keaton now getting some serious attention for his amazing performance as Riggan Thomson in Birdman (one of the best
films of the year), and Burton receiving great praise for his upcoming biographical drama
Big Eyes, it's an ideal time for an update on the status of the highly anticipated return of Beetlejuice.
I was lucky enough to attend the press junket for Tim Burton «s new
film,
BIG EYES (review coming soon!).
All three of these
films lost the night's
big award, but had Warren Beatty read the names of any of them when the time came, no one would have batted an
eye, given they all had successful nights on the whole.
Rabbit's the
biggest victim of this: he's still the
film's «rookie,» but he's a gormless innocent who, despite his visible middle age, gets a sexy subplot with French - Canadian ingenue Genevieve Aubois (Emmanuelle Chriqui), whose character mostly exists as
eye candy and a half - hearted conduit for more jokes about French accents.
A
Bigger Splash is directed with a fetishistic
eye for the human form and exotic locales by Luca Guadagnino, following up after six long years from his highly regarded 2009
film, I Am Love (which also features Swinton, as does his 1999 debut feature, The Protagonists).
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The compositions and lighting are more thoughtful than you tend to get in a 3 - D animated
film starring
big -
eyed animals who speak with the voices of celebrities.
The
film was made by Electric City Entertainment, who previously produced «Half Nelson,» «Blue Valentine,» «The Place Beyond the Pines,» and have Tim Burton's «
Big Eyes» due in theaters this Christmas.
Cooke is perhaps the best thing in the
film, and one can see, given her
big eyes and pale skin, that it's just a matter of time before Tim Burton casts her in something down the road.
If Smith believed, after reading the script for «Focus», that this could be his
big comeback
film, then he needs to get his
eyes checked.
The
film ends with the shimmer apparently disappearing, and Kane thing and Lena sharing a
big old hug, but their glimmering
eyes let us know that they're busting at the seams with shimmer germs.
Tim Burton buttons down his kooky expressiveness with
Big Eyes, but the resulting
film is one of his better (and more self - reflective) in recent memory.
His newest
film,
Big Eyes, looks to perhaps recapture some of that former magic.