Sentences with phrase «film spirits of the dead»

Not exact matches

The latter film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (the real - life couple who looked into the Amityville Horror case), who get called to a remote Rhode Island farmhouse to help a family terrorized by the spirit of a long - dead witch.

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

In the Dead Sea of Hollywood formula, their film is a distinct delight, brimming over with spirit and surprise.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Strangely reminiscent of the 1945 film «Blithe Spirit» (albeit with a slight twist), «Over Her Dead Body» doesn't have a single original idea throughout its mercifully short 93 - minute runtime.

The film introduces a parent who Po the orphaned panda presumed was dead, a litter of baby pandas and a beast from another dimension - released from his spirit kingdom and threatening to destroy all of the above.

Sitting with the creative team behind new indie «The One I Love,» genial actor - producer - writer - director - cool - guy Mark Duplass says of his breakthrough film, «My first movie [«The Puffy Chair»] was shot on VHS - C with a dead pixel in the middle of it, and it looked and sounded like shit, but it went to Sundance because of the spirit.

The developers have long been fans of the 1994 independent film, and Randal seems to invoke the laid - back and free - spirited Randal Graves, considered to be «master of his own destiny» as well as a «danger to the dead and the living.»