Sentences with phrase «film delirious»

The multimedia installation Spiderman (2015) incorporates tropes of Black American stand - up comedy, inspired in part by Eddie Murphy's searing commentary on sexuality in his controversial 1983 concert film Delirious.

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It's an action - adventure origin myth which plays less like a conventional superhero film and more like a radical Brigadoon or a delirious adventure by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Showgirls... is one of those delirious, hilarious botches that could be taught in film schools as a How Not To.

The film doesn't get as much love from Variety, whose Justin Chang sees «some modestly campy pleasures» without «the delirious trash - horror verve of De Palma's best work,» and the The Playlist agrees, noting, «What Passion is lacking is, ironically, some passion.»

Even and assured, Colors may not descend to the sloppy, indulgent depths of «Easy Rider» and «The Last Movie,» but neither does it rise to the delirious, dangerous heights of those films.

In dozens of films, and in the pages of countless magazines, Hunter's astonishing looks and golden - boy sex appeal drove his fans to screaming, delirious frenzy, solidifying him the prototype for all young matinee idols to come.

Often as the film plays out I found myself just wanting to shove the ungrateful, delirious woman in a home and hear more about supporting characters like Frances de la Tour's nosey neighbor Ursula Vaughan Williams.

Mojave Directed by and written by William Monahan (USA)-- World Premiere, Narrative William Monahan's second feature, starring Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund, is a delirious trip from the fringes of the desert to the center of the film industry.

Also new: the classic concert film Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983, not rated).

Maddin's most delirious film to date is practically a film festival unto itself.

As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.

Like the earlier film, Corpse Bride has a delirious, gothic sensibility, as if Charles Addams and Edward Gorey had risen from the grave to contribute to its spirit.

Hark's delirious sense of action staging and editing — along with the unusual blend of styles — make portions of this film quite arresting.

Joel and Ethan Coen's Intolerable Cruelty is also a film that could have been written and directed by anyone (save for one delirious scene where a mace - addled hitman takes a tragic puff off his aspirator), so bland and prosaic is its sensibility.

More than a few of the year's best films also took time to highlight the details of normal life, tethering their drama, comedy, or delirious fantasy to something mundanely relatable.

Starting with Sam Raimi «s iconic original film, through his increasingly comedic (and deranged) sequels, Fede Alvarez «s grisly remake, and the long - awaited return of Bruce Campbell «s chainsaw - wielding hero in the Starz original series Ash vs. Evil Dead, the horror franchise has proven as elastic as it is enduring, able to mold to the specific demands of each new iteration without losing that delirious double shot of zany personality that defines it.

The filmmaker's visual talents and Greenwood's eclectic score — which suggests a delirious hunk of 1980s detritus, like something by William Lustig — that keep things intriguing, and keep one hoping that the film will reach the greatness to which it aspires.

Black Swan is a delirious, practically giddy thriller that flirts with the metaphysical even while it relentlessly ratchets up its prime directive, which is to be a nonstop audience stress test,» wrote MSN critic Glenn Kenny when the film opened in 2010.

Despite his delirious feelings about Vonnie, Bobby is also hard and hasty to a significant degree, more than is usual for Allen's partly self - based protagonists, so when circumstances dictate, he has no trouble pulling up stakes and returning to New York to work for his big - shot gangster older brother Ben (Corey Stoll), who puts him in charge of a high - end nightclub (hence the film's title).

«Following The Black Dahlia and Redacted, Passion is a return to form for Brian De Palma, but to compare the film to Femme Fatale's heady and delirious fusion of h...

Our goal is to champion the cause of film literacy, foster public discussion of the place of movies in society, and promote the serious, sometimes delirious cause of film as art.

This is a film of delirious details, great and small, that layer in the complicated relations and complex emotional histories of siblings and parents and cousins and loved ones.

The film More than a decade before he made «Gravity» (which could have used a sex scene), Alfonso Cuarón broke out with this hit — one that also marked the arrival of actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as two friends on a delirious, sensual road trip.

The breakneck pace and scuzzy desperation of Connie's quest gives the film — which takes place entirely over the course of one night — a certain fun - house quality, enhanced by the delirious close - up cinematography, aggressively stylized lighting, and synthesizer score.

The film's delirious, sideways, play - within - a-play view of Hollywood nods a little to the warped likes of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive or Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups.

The Caveman's Valentine is a fine and a courageous film, crazy enough to suggest that the delirious yammering of an idiot savant is the best and truest paladin of order in the chaos of Eliot's rat's alley wasteland.

Deepening and amplifying their super-fetishistic remix of Italian giallo and horror tropes in Amer (ND / NF 2010), Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani here create a delirious and increasingly baroque pastiche of the trance film and cinema fantastique — and then push it to breaking point.

, Anderson has crafted a delirious, lush, hypnotic, pitch - black comedy; a film that serves as a rebuttal for the prototypical «miserable artist who gets away with treating others like crap because he's so talented» trope.

Channeling «La femme Nikita,» «Kill Bill,» Nikkatsu's»70s female exploitation films and a gazillion Hong Kong martial arts heroines, «The Villainess» nonetheless succeeds in being one - of - a-kind for its delirious action choreography and overall narrative dementia.

But in the midst of these monochrome movies one oddity came along: Desert Fury, a film noir in glorious Technicolor, directed by Lewis Allen, perhaps the only other previous example being John Stahl's equally delirious 1945 film Leave Her to Heaven.

These included the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and Walt Disney, as well surrealist painting, the macabre literary works of Edgar Allen Poe and the delirious writings of Thomas De Quincy.

«A Bigger Splash,» which approaches the pursuit of pleasure from a more jaundiced angle, doesn't have that earlier film's neo-Viscontian sweep or its delirious formal ecstasy.

It's anti-climax in the redux, I fear, as is the entire third act of a film that already suffered a little from a lack of inspiration — the delirious insouciant peril of the original is substituted for the peculiar clockwork of most modern actioners.

The film baffled American critics — but François Truffaut adored it, calling it «dream - like, magical, unreal to a degree, delirious».

In 2002, a group of Seattle film professionals, enthusiasts, teachers, and critics formed Parallax View, a small film society whose goal was to champion the cause of film literacy, foster public discussion of the place of movies in society, and promote the serious, sometimes delirious cause of film as art.

The film is also embedded with a feminist psychology — EXPORT's longstanding interests in confronting misogyny reaches delirious heights as Anna is psychically tortured by a patriarchal society, whose connection to Nazism is only thinly veiled.

Shred includes the «Drawings I Did Around The Time I Became A Porn Star» — a sprawling autobiographical series of sketches recording Smith's days and nights working as «male talent» in the adult film industry in the city with an absorbing visual energy — along with recent paintings and drawings charged with the same intricate, delirious, shameless precision.

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«Jennet Thomas «s films conjure delirious parallel universes in everyday Britain's most mundane corners.

Though avant - garde films were apparently not that popular with Russian audiences, who preferred ordinary melodramas, Vertov's delirious ode to the hustle and bustle of the modern city, with its cuts marked by shots of trams passing rapidly within a few feet of each other, remains a revelation.

Unfortunately these sounds are confined to a head set, but nearly all the remaining films and videos, by Gary Hill, Anna Maria Maiolino, and Carolee Schneemann are audible — and provide the show's real spine and a suitably delirious soundtrack.

Monster noises and silhouettes also dominate Stan VanDerBeek's 1961 film of Mr. Oldenburg and Patty Mucha (his first wife) in performance, ending Ms. Baum's restless, daring show on an especially delirious note.

I remember seeing the Eddie Murphy [film] Delirious -LSB-...] and I remember sitting in the audience and thinking, «Oh, gay - bashing has entered into the public domain as being acceptable.»

The show's film and video pieces are uniformly strong: two short and characteristically hypnotic Mark Leckey works involving, respectively, a Jeff Koons bunny sculpture and a snare drum have a disembodied vision that aligns nicely with that of helicopter that Ei Arakawa employs in his new collaborative video with Henning Bohl, a delirious sci - fi romp through Japanese postwar playgrounds that involves, yes, helicopter parenting.