Sentences with phrase «film damsels»

With almost fourteen years lapsed since Whit Stillman's previous film Last Days of Disco closed out the trio of films that established him as mid -»90s indie auteur, his new film Damsels in Distress understandably attracts a great deal of anticipation, expectation, and perhaps hesitation.

Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh met with Whit Stillman during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to discuss his new film Damsels in Distress.

Not exact matches

And if Marvel's bad, DC is worse, populating their films with distressed damsels.

Greta Gerwig has had a very successful acting career in independent films, several you haven't seen and one you may even like, Damsels in Distress.

Western films and songs often feature a rowdy bar scene involving outlaws, cowboys, and beautiful damsels.

He fell in love with damsel Fay Wray in that film and climbed the Empire State Building to show his love for her.

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Instructions and a demonstration accompany the final credits of his new film, Damsels in Distress.

The film may have raised her profile for U.S. audiences, but it relegates her character twice to damsel - in - distress status, first when she's strip - searched by Cloche and his men and later when, left alone as her boyfriend goes asea with Treece, her quivering, scantily - clad body is smeared with chicken blood by hotel - room invaders conducting voodoo booga - booga.

He writes, films, and stars in stories about tough guys and damsels in distress.

Whit Stillman on Damsels in Distress: «It was a little bit like a university project» - Toronto film festival video

Appearing in films as varied as Mistress America, Damsels In Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Frances Ha and last year's 20th Century Women, Gerwig is every bit a leading lady.

Gugino has built a career at the intersection of tough and sexy, and though the film takes it as given that Emma made a poor decision by separating from Our Hero, she ably resists being pigeonholed as a damsel in distress.

It opens on a mock - instructional film on «How to Take a Bath,» shifts to a submarine trapped at the bottom of the sea where a lumberjack (Roy Dupuis) inexplicably appears, shifts to his story of a feral forest adventure and a damsel in distress, who finds herself transported to an exotic nightclub out of an old Hollywood movie, and so on.

As it stands, closing film «Damsels in Distress» — despite the significant intrigue factor of being American maverick Whit Stillman's first film in 13 years, and starring rising indie princess Greta Gerwig — is unlikely to prove sufficient to lure them, though it's a tasty reward for the rest of us.

Pleasingly, Mann also manages to avoid his earlier films» damsel - in - distress trope, as Lien proves every bit as capable and adaptable as Nick.

Any hope Ferguson might produce some consolatory warmth or heat with her co-star gets extinguished early on, and while it's almost a relief when the film abandons its limp attempts to make Katrine interesting and instead generates another damsel - in - distress, it's also an admission of defeat, marking the point at which Alfredson abandons any pretension to serious drama.

Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.

In films like «Damsels in Distress» and the sublime «Frances Ha,» Gerwig the actress skillfully pivots between the wacky and the poignant, so it's no surprise that Gerwig the auteur so delicately balances hilarity and heartbreak.

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

Writer and star Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress) has absorbed the sensibilities of Whit Stillman and taken the direction of Noah Baumbach (Greenberg) to create a film both comfortably familiar and uniquely her own.

The fact that the dance the Sambola will please fans of Damsels in Distress, Stillman's latest film, as will the rest of it.

In many ways his latest film and first in thirteen years, Damsels in Distress (2001), breaks away from the preceding three films.

A miniature horse named Daisy, who appears in the film as a character named Butterscotch, poses at the premiere of Damsel dur...

A miniature horse named Daisy, who appears in the film as a character named Butterscotch, poses with poses as directors, screenwriters and actors David Zellner, left, and Nathan Zellner, right, at the premiere of Damsel during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Park City, Utah.

A miniature horse named Daisy, who appears in the film as a character named Butterscotch, poses at the premiere of Damsel during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Park City, Utah.

A miniature horse named Daisy, who appears in the film as a character named Butterscotch, poses as director, screenwriter and actor David Zellner, rear right, looks on at the premiere of Damsel during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Park City, Utah.

A miniature horse named Daisy, who appears in the film as a character named Butterscotch, poses with poses with directors, screenwriters and actors David Zellner, left, and Nathan Zellner, right, at the premiere of Damsel during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Park City, Utah.

Harper and Allie are indeed damsels in distress, and not just because they can't efficiently navigate the way from a Brooklyn loft to the Rockaways (a disastrous, distended day trip to hook up with some boys, which makes up the film's entire plot).

Denzel employs a very particular set of skills to save what would otherwise be a very forgettable film as he violently dispatches an army of Russian gangsters to save Moretz's damsel in distress.

Literally re-writing her story as the film progresses to provide the would - be damsel with an outcome she desires, Maddie is a final girl whose wit elevates her from trope to active participant, offing her foe with a well - placed picture of domesticity (that'd be a corkscrew to the neck), if only for a chance to relax on her patio with her cat, undisturbed.

This is the first film from Stillman since his 2011 release Damsels In Distress ($ 1 million, Sony Classics) and only his fifth feature film ever.

There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice - loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.

«Damsels In Distress «In a decent year for comedy, two femme - centric examples of the genre were battling it out of for this place, and while «Bridesmaids» is certainly the best of the Judd Apatow films to date and as consistently funny a mainstream film as has come along since «Anchorman,» nothing brought me greater joy than Whit Stillman «s return after 13 long years away — «Damsels in Distress.»

It was a shame that the film went on to give her the typical «damsel in distress» role for the climax.

Count The Last Kiss as a film that treats its women characters as the entire Greek pantheon of hysterical goddesses, from a flat - crazy mother (Blythe Danner in a series of ironed housecoats) pining after an old flame to our collegiate temptress (who, for no earthly reason, is mightily attracted to thirtysomething milquetoast Michael), to finally our damsel in distress Jenna, three months pregnant (her hormones blamed more than once for her behaviour — and she agrees!)

McDormand proves, not surprisingly, an incisive interview subject, as she discusses her role in the context of the «damsel in distress» and Raimi's own desire to improve his feminist credentials after the Evil Dead films.

Originally conceived for his Drive damsel Carey Mulligan, the film stars Elle Fanning as a young girl breaking into the modeling industry.

Some of this may be by design, but once some of the film's major revelations occur, you'd expect the molasses - like forward momentum might pick up a bit; it does not, and Damsel's biggest drawback is that it drags more often than not.

Amanda Seyfried, blessed with a fairy - tale face, plays Valerie and here talks with her director about the look of the film, its modern touches, and why Valerie is far from a damsel in distress.

The film admirably wants to expand Jane's role, but the plot expands it into a damsel in greater distress.

Damsel, the new film from brothers David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko the Treasurer Hunter), looks to build on that, as Pattinson plays a wealthy dude crossing the American frontier to marry his one true love (Mia Wasikowska).

Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman's first film in over a decade, is (in the words of Robert Horton) «a blissful movie - real place that sounds and looks not quite like the one we live in.

Plaza will also be seen in Sony Pictures Classics» Damsels in Distress, director Whit Stillman's first film since 1998's The Last Days of Disco.

Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska are starring in Damsel, the new film from David and Nathan Zellner, the brothers who directed the quirky, kooky Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

As the film and its trailer would suggest, Merida is not a traditional damsel in distress.

Sherman first shot onto the New York art scene in the 1970s with her «Untitled Film Stills,» a series of black - and - white film noire style portraits of Sherman herself, donning stereotypical female roles like damsel in distress or femme fatale.