Not exact matches
If this is the penultimate
ending of the Marvel universe and the characters we
love, then I can't (maybe don't) want to see what the final Avengers
film will bring.
Hence at the
end of the Asda
film we see mum finally get to sit down with a glass
of wine after 2 months» graft, as dad delivers the final, inevitable punchline: «What's for tea,
love?».
And
of course all the couples in the
film reboot their
love and deepen their connection by the
film's
end.
If you haven't seen the
film, in brief, the 20 - something Vicky and Cristina are friends spending the summer in Barcelona with Vicky's parent's friends, Judy and Mark, and
end up in a complicated
love triangle
of sorts with a seductive artist, Juan Antonio, complicated even further when his former wife, Maria Elena — a talented and tempestuous artist whose passion excites and destroys — reappears.
However, Mr Barnbrook, a former teacher, denied the suggestion that HMS Discovery: A
Love Story had a specifically gay focus, saying: «It's an art
film,
end of story.
However, his
film - star status and
love of humans were to bring to an
end his stint in the wild.
The
film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in
love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited,
ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming
of age story, the likes
of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.
All in all, though, we don't fall in
love with any
of these characters, we don't root for the
film's one «couple» (who we think all along will unrealistically be granted a predictable Hollywood
ending), we can't remember the jokes after the fact and, most important, we aren't consistently entertained.
This is beautiful
film, and a terrible one: devastating to stick out, and yet one
of the most remarkable romances ever made, for it takes The Movies» pursuit
of love straight through to the very
end, through its most profound expression
of adoration.
It is the
love scenes, played beneath shimmering apple blossoms in lyrical soft focus, that stick in the memory, ironically turning what is now the
film's
ending into one
of the director's most bitterly pessimistic scenes.
In particular, Chaplin's impassioned speech at the
end of the
film about war,
love and peace.
Set at the
end of the 19th century, the
film stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as Jay Cavendish, a 16 - year - old boy on a journey across the American frontier in search
of the woman he
loves (Caren Pistorius).
To the extent that the Fifty Shades movies have been about the redemption
of Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) by his
love of Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), the transformation was completed at the
end of the second
film, Fifty Shades Darker.
Sure, this
film's subtlety lapses are limited in quantity, and even when they're at their very worst, a descent into just plain corny is never made, or at least very rarely made («I thought I was gonna die from your
love»...), but this drama can only go on for so long before slipping out
of relative consistency in bonafide resonance, which isn't to say that unevenness
ends there.
I
love the concept
of an
end of the world
film that doesn't involve a rescue mission to try and save the planet.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a genuine and beautiful
film about the enduring power
of love, proving how circumstances lead us to places we never thought we would
end up.
Margot Robbie, aka Suicide Squad's Harley Quinn, reveals that she joined the DC Comics
film because
of her love of David Ayer's End Of Watc
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love of David Ayer's End Of Watc
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I
loved a lot
of films at Sundance this year, but almost none
of them
ended up winning an award.
One
of the greatest
films of the last 15 years, Jane Campion's Bright Star is a nearly understated tragedy about a couple so physically chaste by emotionally vulnerability and pulsing with
love that the
ending nearly bowls the viewer over.
The Face
of an Angel centers on a director (Bruhl), who is hired to make a
film about a murder trial in Italy, but
ends up finding
love with a young bartender in the process.
I don't know if I truly want to hold the
ending against the
film because prior to this scene I was always invested and
loved every moment
of my time with Nancy.
In the
end, I would agree with the Russo brothers, the
love that both Steve and Bucky have for each other is the primary focus
of this
film.
Made at the
end of the»70s, it is a
film about that transition between the era
of support and
love and the Me Generation
of the»80s.
Michael Haneke's stunning requiem
of love and death made its mark on a packed cinema at the IFI to such an extent that there was a palpable feeing
of raw emotion as the
film's credits rose in silence at the
end.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the
end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever
loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
What I'm not so fond
of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme
of obsessive
love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the
film, in the
end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.
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of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the
End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's
End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf
of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's
End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language
film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act
of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary
Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
The latest case in point is «
Love Actually,» which is returning as a short
film as part
of Red Nose Day, a charity event aimed at
ending child poverty.
For this third
film, the trio
ended up in Greece, where they crafted a story about the stage
of a romantic relationship that has moved far past the first blooms
of love.
In the vein
of Haggis» Oscar - winning 2004 drama Crash, the
film follows three intersecting stories set in Paris, New York, and Rome, «with each storyline following a different stage
of a
love relationship from the beginning, middle, and the
end.»
Refn clearly has a
love for the likes
of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a
film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the
end of his works.
The one redeeming moment
of Down with
Love is a monologue by Zellweger near the
end of the
film where everything comes out into the open.
Terence Nance's semi-autobiographical
film is amusing and heartfelt as well as a visually and narratively imaginative exploration
of the vagaries
of love in all its angst and pleasure — especially during the uncertainty when flirtation has no clear
end.
He even calls it a rape the next day, but has fallen in
love with her by the
end of the
film.
The original
film told the story
of a city kid who
loves dancing that
ends living in a place where dancing and rock & roll have been outlawed.
The division, part
of billionaire Haim Saban's media empire, racked up five total by the
end of the festival: the Gerard Butler psychological thriller «Keepers,» Keanu Reeves» romantic thriller «Siberia,» «Berlin, I
Love You» with Kiera Knightley and Helen Mirren, Nicolas Cage's «Between Worlds» and the historical action
film «Viking Destiny.»
The original
film told the story
of a city kid who
loves dancing that
ends living in a place where dancing and rock &...
And there were two
films, Barrier and Le Départ, from the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, whose Deep
End has become a much -
loved repertory pick (and whose Four Nights with Anna screened in the 2008 edition
of NYFF).
Unless
of course you read some sort
of rave review or
end -
of - year
love letter and expected a different type
of film, like perhaps, erm, Slumdog Millionaire?
While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere
of Happy
End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in
love with cinema and the
films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.
(For the record I actually
LOVE Cameron's The Terminator...) Also, that time travel movie argument at the
end of the
film was actually improvised by Ian and David, I can't claim credit for how funny that moment is at all.
Richard Curtis»
Love Actually, which strikes me as the British counterpart to this
film, played out as an ongoing series
of happy
endings, the kind every romantic comedy eventually provides.
Detailing the remarkable true story
of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), born to an aristocratic father and slave mother in 19th century England, and telling a Jane Austen - ish
love story against the backdrop
of a legal case that was crucial in
ending slavery in Britain, it might not be the most formally adventurous
film of any director on this list (though it is undeniably Well Made in a classical sense), but that almost feels deliberate.
«Endless
Love» is a serviceable enough romantic drama which largely follows the path
of Franco Zeffirelli's 1981
film of the same name, though the some aspects have been changed for a more Hollywood
ending.
The
film that follows, however, is a flawless exploration
of male identity (one
of the novitiates is gay, and so are two
of the camp's allotted «caregivers»), featuring some standout performances, a tense
love - triangle and a brutal, if horribly inevitable,
ending.
Way back in January, plenty
of laughs and joy arrived in the form
of Ass Backwards, a wacky comedy from writers Casey Wilson («Happy
Endings») and June Diane Raphael («Burning
Love»), who also star in the
film as a ditzy, clueless duo reminiscent
of Dumb & Dumber and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
Also according to this featurette, the
film's original
ending had Mrs. Reno and Cathy sadly sitting at the dinner table after returning from Clint's grave, which depressed the test audiences so much that they changed it to the more gimmicky
ending of Elvis singing «
Love Me Tender.»
While there is that element
of teenagers meeting due to cancer or leukemia, the comparisons between the two
films end there, as there is no
love story here.
Certainly it isn't because it's a fitting
ending to the journey
of Bilbo, as he's not even involved in the majority
of this
film, instead taking a back seat to a host
of characters that are either greatly beefed up from their small supporting roles in the original Tolkien work, or, as in the case
of lovelorn wood elf Tauriel (Lilly, The Long Weekend) and handsome dwarf Kili (Turner, The Mortal Instruments), complete fabrications injected to put in a
love story for, presumably, the young female set.
Both threads entwine in a mutual affection for the life
of the cinema, which, by
film's
end, serves as the
ends and the means by which their respective
love stories are resolved.