Sentences with phrase «film about nostalgia»

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Somewhat fittingly for a film that promises an adventure channeling a hefty chunk of nostalgia, the featurette allows author Ernie Cline — on whose novel the movie is based — to wax poetic about how Spielberg's work shaped his youth.

The Great Outdoors is a film about manufactured nostalgia, bordering on revisionism, bordering on delusion.

There's a poeticism to some of Cody's writing that may go unnoticed if you don't already know where the film is headed, thematically — which is maybe an accidental irony, that this movie partly about nostalgia should be that much more affecting in a revisiting.

In the interview, Boyle talks about the original Trainspotting, his hesitancy to make the sequel too early, and how nostalgia influenced the film's story.

Shot in 2007 but shelved until now, supposedly because of anxieties about all the coke - snorting, Michael Dowse's film would have beaten the craze for Eighties nostalgia in recent Hollywood comedies.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

While Jarmusch mostly described it as a romance during the NYFF Q&A, that feels like only one facet of a layered film that says so much about culture and its erosion, idols, nostalgia, civilization's decline, and art.

There are serious things at work here, the film is funny but it's also about how selfish addictive people are and how much of an illness is and how it's dangerous to rely too much on nostalgia, that it might indicate that there's something wrong with your present.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

On the contrary, Truffaut publicly defended both his on - screen character and the film he was making, «claiming a nostalgia for films that are not afraid to tell a story and that have no qualms about being melodramatic» (1).

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nostalgia, the 1985 comedy / horror film about a teenage boy who believes he is living next door to a vampire was a childhood favourite.

AV Club deep screen capture to reveal how well constructed shots in Divergent do nt make for a good film BuzzFeed great essay on the current relevancy of Before Sunrise (1995) and instant nostalgia Heat Vision Tyrese Gibson obsessed with playing Green Lantern in a film that's at least 5 years away based on a character already ruined by the movies Decider 10 essential movies about nuns from our beloved Black Narcissus to less impressive but famous offerings like Doubt

45 YEARS A beautifully quiet and restrained film about the pain of missed opportunities, the potency of memory and nostalgia, and the true nature of marriage.

Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's latest film about a man who loves Paris and nostalgia which Allen...

You could say the same thing about nostalgia, whether it's the kind of»80s name - checking that Spielberg and Cline are doing in «Ready Player One» or the kind that politicians and advertisers do when they encourage their audiences to remember the good ole days - comforting if you don't think too hard and, as corporations and film studios well know, monetizable.

In an exclusive interview with Collider, Pellington revealed how the project first emerged, what appealed to him about Stuart Ross Fink's script, how Fink created the main character with MacLaine in mind, what convinced her to sign on to star, his directing approach with a veteran actress who is superb at her craft, the importance of getting the tone right between MacLaine and Seyfried in their first big scene together, his collaboration with music supervisor Liza Richardson on a soundtrack packed with unusual and lesser known artists, and his upcoming film Nostalgia starring Ellen Burstyn, John Hamm and Catherine Keener.

She met all the times I worried in the first 30 minutes that the film would be little more than a nostalgia - dripping scrapbook with incisive observations about how difficult it can be to connect with the people closest to us.

I feel a little guilty about those movies not making my top ten, but they would have definitely been bumped down the list by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a film that managed to balance nostalgia with the excitement and quality of a new film franchise, and gave me that ultimate feeling of why we all go to the movies.

In many ways, the film is about that sort of nostalgia.

Between the majestic moose is a film about a bunch of older - type people (our thesaurus department has labeled them «adults») who return to their childhood summer camp for one last fling of nostalgia.

If you've been thinking about sallying forth with a companion, consider a train trip to discover Wes - Anderson - film - levels of nostalgia and beauty.

Those looking to reminisce about the famous Top Gun film may find themselves a little short - changed with the material that's provided, but there are few scenes that really sink you into a sense of nostalgia, albeit rather few and far between.

The featured works in the exhibition — ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film and installation — examine the passage of time by alluding to nostalgia or sentiments about aging, often depicting specific places in states of decay; these works can act as documentation, memorial or symbol.

What it's really about is film technology, the nature of storytelling, nostalgia, and the absurdity of life.

Her current show and recent films — about decay, beauty and nostalgia — mark her out as one of the best of her generation argues Brian Dillon