Sentences with phrase «film trance»

Boyle, still doing press for his new film Trance, decried the lack of «adult films» in the modern movie marketplace and has a few places to lay the blame, with Pixar Animation Studios as well as with the Star Wars franchise.

But an argument could be made that Danny Boyle, whose new film Trance opens this weekend, is the true jack of all genres.

Not exact matches

The film could have been good, but DePalma's directing is unfocused and doesn't know where he wants to take the audience, therefore we're left in a boring trance trying to figure out really what is going on.

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The film almost goes into a Nightmare on Elm Street sort of trance, with Heather's reality blending into Silent Hill's without a rhyme or reason.

Like most of Mr. Ferrara's films, The Blackout takes place in a trance state — events are fuzzy, line readings even fuzzier.

Sound was added during production, but the film's trance - like images could stand on their own as a visual poem in which the action seems to take place on the cusp of dreams and reality.

To call the film a slow burn would be putting it lightly, but it's entirely compelling in the way that it patiently seduces the audience into an almost dreamlike trance.

But as Theresa's guilt and self - medication mount, along with the film's profoundly muddled ideas about assisted suicide, the curated trance grows mind - numbing.

Boyle's new film, Trance, starring James McAvoy and the sublime Vincent Cassel, appears to be a worthy addition to the Boyle canon and I can't wait to see it.

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

And while the film was roundly ignored, Rosario Dawson completely held court in the daffy heist film «Trance,» reminding Hollywood that we've been ignoring this generation's most over-qualified on - screen Alpha Female.

The movie is ultimately saved by Boyle's ingenuity and some strong performances, but for a film with such a unique premise, «Trance» should have left a more lasting impression.

Multi-layered and beautifully - filmed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle, prescription Trance lets viewers into the world of art and hypnosis in a tale that deserves to be talked about long after the credits roll.

Miscellania 4:44: Last Day On Earth, directed by Abel Ferrara, bills itself as an «apocalypse trance film».

But the director of the Pusher trilogy and a movie about Vikings has never been at a loss for movie - movie swagger, even if the success of his films leans heavily on the sustaining of trance - like states more than moviemaking chops.

A seemingly unapologetic genre vehicle, Trance looks like Danny Boyle's first film since Sunshine that won't become awards bait.

One of the year's most amateurish films, Powder is an incoherent Britflick featuring a morose indie singer who stands around in an almost catatonic trance while irritating hangers - on declare that he's a genius.

Featuring what is arguably the bravest female performance ever put on film - namely, Isabelle Adjani's Cannes - winning turn of shamanistic intensity - the film dares its viewer to enter a trance - like state, in which genres blur and mate to yield a new level of cinematic expression.

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The film is Trance, and as the slice of art above suggests, it leaves the psyche of a man, played by James McAvoy, in less than perfect shape.

Danny Boyle «s latest film, Trance, is a victim of its own ingenuity.

Once in a while, the film breaks out of its refined trance, when it takes us to the days of Bobby Short, who held court in the hotel's cabaret room and whose rendition of «I'm in Love Again» was made famous in Woody Allen's «Hannah and Her Sisters.»

Plenty of us enjoyed the thrillers «Trance» and «Side Effects» but they are admittedly thin, inessential films with little long - term sustain.

«Trance» reunites Boyle with screenwriter John Hodge, who has written four of his films, including «Shallow Grave» and «Trainspotting,» and it also marks a first for the filmmaker: the story centers on a female protagonist.

Very much like a film released earlier this year, Side Effects, Trance looks to capitalize on the fun elements of the «taut thriller» genre that a lot of other films try their best not to pander to.

He's got Danny Boyle «s «Trance» in the pipeline (though it won't arrive until 2013 as the director is busy with his London Olympics duties), he's currently filming the adaptation of Irvine Welsh «s «Filth» and in the can is «Welcome to the Punch.»

Danny Boyle keeps the film bouncing along at a great pace, and the now legendary two volume soundtrack album is a fantastic blend of punk, rock and trance.

Alex Garland's film career began when his debut novel, The Beach, caught the eye of director Danny Boyle (Trance) in 2000.

A chat with the stars of «Trance» - James McAvoy, director Danny Boyle and Rosario Dawson; about hypnotism, film, and positive affirmations...

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.

The film also has the most hypnotic closing I can remember seeing in years — a long, trance - like tracking shot supported by utterly haunting music.

Amnesia, long lost lovers, slimy villains; sounds like a soap opera but it's all packed into «Trance», the new film from filmmaker Danny Boyle.

For his 12 × 12 exhibition, Russell presents a site - specific installation of the most recent installment of Trypps, a series of seven films that the artist describes as «an ongoing study in trance, travel, and psychedelic ethnography.»

Beginning with Aleister Crowley's trance portraiture and Austin Osman Spare's automatic drawing of the early 20th century, the exhibition traces over 100 years of occult art, including Leonora Carrington and Kurt Seligmann's surrealist explorations, Kenneth Anger and Ira Cohen's ritualistic experiments in film and photography, and the mystical probings of contemporary visionaries such as Francesco Clemente, Kiki Smith, Paul Laffoley, BREYER P - ORRIDGE, and Carol Bove.

The film wanders in a circular narrative, getting lost within the trance - like soundtrack that creates a surreal and dream - like vibe.

Her works often resemble film stills, offering a snapshot of the protagonist during a moment of a deep, ominous trance.

Filmed in the same room of the installation, dreadlocked men sit in trance and conversation with smoke filling and moving from the screen.

Emily Wardill exhibits her film When you fall into a Trance at the Rugby Art Gallery, UK April 16 — June 11

Deren's interest in trance, dance and Haitian voodoo, led her to develop a specific body of work defined as «ethnographic surrealism,» aiming at blurring the boundaries between performance, ritual and the real world, and incorporating the primitive and magic worldview within the very film process.