Sentences with phrase «film inferno»

To say that Yael Bartana's latest film Inferno opens in epic fashion would be a bit of an understatement.

See her at PAMM on March 1 for a conversation and screening of her film Inferno (2013).

Yael Bartana's recent film Inferno is to be screened on 14 and 16 May alongside live performances of Bernstein's Symphony No. 3; Kevin Beasley's performance will study the physicality of sound and take place during the Dallas Museum of Art Friday Late Nights, on 15 May; and Monte Laster's social sculpture Destination, in Five Movements will see its world premiere.

In Jones» case, however, potential scheduling conflicts with her upcoming film Inferno, a Da Vinci Code sequel directed by Ron Howard, could prevent her from being able to take the role if it were offered to her.

Not exact matches

In this disaster film, seven officer workers find themselves trapped in a towering inferno after a drunken janitor accidently torches the high - rise in which they work.

The Towering Inferno is one of the first of many disaster films that followed during the 1970's.

The Towering Inferno, though not a perfect film, is definitely an entertaining one, and definitely delivers the thrills it promises.

The basis of this film is the book the Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, (Robinson would later famously collaborate with gay rights activist Harvey Milk and write his speeches).

And his plot is the first step toward violence, which blazes up in a conflagration that may be the greatest inferno ever filmed.

The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.

Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?

Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot, the French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of Inferno

For this reason The Towering Inferno makes a better accounting of itself as a pure action film.

This is why, for all its unevenness, pretense, and occasional downright incompetence, The Towering Inferno is a viscerally affecting film, from which one needs a period of readjustment.

The A.V. Club: You have these two very different films coming out back - to - back as a result of the legal issues involved in The Green Inferno, but Knock Knock actually feels like an inverted companion piece.

Roth is a voice the genre hasn't heard in quite some time as The Green Inferno marks the director's return behind a feature film -LSB-...]

Back in January, Eli Roth teased the release of his long - delayed The Green Inferno, saying that he expected the film to release sometime this summer.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers The third Dario Argento title to get a Blu - ray upgrade from Blue Underground in as many months might just be the best of them from a transfer standpoint, though with its tack - sharp focus and hard, flat lighting schemes, the film probably lends itself to HiDef better than the more diffuse, more baroque Deep Red and Inferno.

Extras: «Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot»: The French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of «Inferno»; «They Saw Inferno,» a featurette including unseen material, providing further insight into the production of «Inferno»; filmed introduction by Serge Bromberg; interview with Serge Bromberg; stills gallery; original trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil; First Pressing Only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau.

While we're still here waiting patiently for the release of Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, his latest thriller Knock Knock has already been picked up by Lionsgate, who hopes to release the film sometime later this year — what are the chances we see Knock Knock before The Green Inferno?

Solo: A Star Wars Story is directed by Oscar - winning American actor - turned - filmmaker Ron Howard, of the films Grand Theft Auto, Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Backdraft, The Paper, Apollo 13, Ransom, Edtv, A Beautiful Mind, The Missing, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, Frost / Nixon, Angels & Demons, The Dilemma, Rush, In the Heart of the Sea, and Inferno previously.

The film, however, is a working - class melodrama with grand swathes of tragedy, intense scenes of destruction (the aftermath of a train wreck is an inferno suggested by bold silhouettes against burning orange tints), and devastating moments of loss and redemption directed with delicate grace.

Sometimes film and novel can be alike in half - heartedly following a template; perhaps the most glowing thing that can be said about «Inferno» is that reliable screenwriter David Koepp (returning from 2009's «Angels & Demons») has fully captured the essence of its source.

In that way, «Inferno» would be so much more enjoyable if the viewer were unaware it were an Eli Roth film.

«Inferno», the fourth book, the third film, offers little we haven't already seen from the series, but worse, it offers less than most mystery thrillers.

A teaser trailer for The Poseidon Adventure, theatrical trailers for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, an AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER interview with cinematographer Harold A. Stine, three photo galleries, and storyboard - to - film comparisons for three key sequences round out the set.

But the film puts you right inside an everyday inferno and, to its credit, doesn't turn down the heat.

The film advertises its lack of pretense with the title: it ain't fancy like The Towering Inferno or The Poseidon Adventure.

The result is a film that merely rip - offs Hellraiser (down to the reconstituted corpse), A Nightmare on Elm Street (down to the floppy - hat - wearing vengeful ghoul), and, most peculiarly of all, Dario Argento's Inferno and Suspiria (burning hellmouth, rain of maggots, man - eating dog).

On the heels of Suspiria and Inferno, Argento released one such gem, Tenebrae (or Tenebre, if you prefer) in 1982, an Italian Giallo film that most consider to be one of his best.

They don't appear to have seen the Towering Inferno either, considering that that film calls these buildings «deathtraps.»

Several theories about the film's origins of myth are thrown out: it follows Joseph Campbell's hero cycle (not really) and it follows Dante's Inferno (sort of, in that they start out at a party and move up to the bowels of Hell — alas, the argument that they are almost separated into those who deserve to die and those who do not doesn't support the data) before professor of religion (at Pepperdine University, a fact unmentioned in this featurette) Christopher Heard throws out that it's an adaptation of the Christ myth.

Combining facets of Dark Water and Rosemary's Baby with Dante's Inferno, the Orpheus legend, and the Old and New Testament (via scripture - quoting signs and Rose and Sharon's symbolic names), the film is detrimentally overstuffed with backstory, unbelievable protagonist behavior, and video game - worthy dialogue that doesn't improve even when spoken by a wraithlike Deborah Kara Unger or a psychotic Alice Krige.

Immediately after our opening inferno we get to meet our cast of stock horror film students — the bookish best friend, the boozy party girl, the selfish jerk, and the sex pest etc..

But where the Hostel films and Aftershock - to a lesser extent, given Roth's writer / producer credit - differ from The Green Inferno are their conceits.

Actor Tom Hanks said the real draw for him to reprise his role as fictional symbologist Robert Langdon in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's thriller «Inferno» was the chance to be «the smartest guy in the room.»

Sleepless lacks the savant - level spark of invention that elevates Argento's best films (Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebre) and the flashes of brilliance that indicate his second - tier of work (Phenomena, Opera, Inferno).

«Hotshots,» the film explains upfront, are an elite group of forest firefighters who are specially trained and certified to go into on - fire areas and establish a controlled fire line that the approaching inferno can not cross.

But The Green Inferno, a dopey tribute to the Italian cannibal films of his youth, takes the isolationist slant of his oeuvre to condescending new depths: Here, the college kids get munched for having the nerve to... give a shit about something and try to make a difference!

Writer - director Eli Roth and actor Lorenza Izzo had such a great time making cannibalism gore fest The Green Inferno together, they decided to make another film, the new psychosexual tension - generator Knock Knock.

Responsible for adult - only horrors like Hostel and The Green Inferno, this is director Eli Roth's first film appropriate for youngsters.Hide

Hell, The Towering Inferno came about as a result of Fox and Warner cooperating in order to avoid making identical films.

Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the 1990s (Armageddon, Deep Impact).

Critics have offered up some highly flammable reviews for «Inferno,» giving the film a cumulative score of 20 percent on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Dante's Inferno film script snapped up by The WB!

Her only explanation was to cite a single shot that occurs quite early in the film: Linda (Linda Manz), the narrator, is fleeing the industrial inferno of 1916 Chicago with her older brother and his girlfriend (Richard Gere and Brooke Adams).

In fact, Cooper argues that aesthetics, especially beginning with Deep Red (1975), become a replacement for both psychoanalysis and narrative in Argento's films, leading him toward an interest in visual excess, which would culminate in Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980), films that «in their combinations of wild visuals and storylines that challenge storytelling itself, were unlike anything the world had ever seen.»