Sentences with phrase «film about obsession»

In the end, Zodiac is well acted, crafted, and actually about something (the obsessive Fincher makes an obsessive film about obsession that forces the viewer to realize his or her own obsessive desire for closure).

Rushmore is a film about obsession, and the relationship between Max and Bloom is the driving force behind the drama, going from love to hate, and back again.

Not exact matches

Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.

This is an intense, thoughtful film about family, obsession and man's search for grace in a world gone mad.

Avoid this by turning off as soon as the end credits start rolling, and you are in for an unusual and intelligent film about the outer limits of obsession.

But the truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can't work if it doesn't have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script, which ends with a tacked - on, emotionally manipulative paean to the wonders of cinem - ah that anyone who cares about film history will likely find insulting.

A solid film that intertwines four compelling stories loosed based on real events about the senselessness of violence, aggression and brutality, as well as people's obsession with it - which, as the film suggests, makes us not so different from animals, only perhaps worse.

MUG is a fine film that gets the drama right, the comedy right, and makes some pointed statements about religion and our collective obsession with the way we look.

Brooklyn artist Valleire Trachsler came on the show to talk about one of Isabelle Huppert's favorite films included in the Criterion Collection, Nicolas Roeg's BAD TIMING: A SENSUAL OBSESSION.

And while Sofia Coppola's frothy, teens - gone - bad flick doesn't look like a Palme d'Or winner, the film about celebrity and celebrity obsession will likely resonate.

The film could not be more perfectly conceived in its brutal portrayal of narcissism - and I'm talking about narcissism as an obsession with one's own body (being perfect).

Then, CJ and Christopher talk about the current state of film criticism, particularly journalists» current obsession with listicles and «buzz - worthy» festival darlings.

I, Tonya touches on many themes — including living in the media spotlight, competitive sport and class in American — but at its core it is film about abuse, resilience and obsession.

«I tried to eliminate some of my aesthetic habits and obsessions,» she says in a press notes interview, «and make it a film about the complexity of experience.»

Sliver was to be a film about the power of obsession, fetishism and the lust of watching.

He was so adamant about his aesthetic biases that he single - handedly succeeded in persuading De Palma to eliminate the entire third act from Schrader's script for Obsession — a radical abbreviation that was Herrmann's prerequisite for scoring the film.

Their obsession with looks and social status say much about the rest of the film's focus on adults trying to come to terms with their position in life.

Gunpowder & Sky has unveiled an official trailer for the film Tragedy Girls, a horror comedy about social media obsession.

That's not necessarily bad if the film's about a Tom Ripley sociopath (à la Match Point), of course, but it's pretty bad when it's a piece of fluff starring his favorite new obsession.

By its very nature — it's a Part 2, after all — Goon: Last of the Enforcers may lack some of the invigorating freshness of the first film, but it was clearly made by people who care about Doug Glatt and his weird gang of friends, who don't mind getting super dirty for a good laugh, and who clearly have a serious obsession with the sport of hockey.

The story here is focused on Ximei's son Robert and his obsession to get rich, as if this were another instalment in Money No Enough, director Jack Neo's other film series about money woes.

ShockYa: A good portion of the film really charts a sincere love story between Max and Evelyn, I take it — tell me about the level of her obsession.

The film is about a New York art curator whose quest to find out who killed her brother dovetails with an obsession for collecting the violent drawings of New Orleans outsider artist Roy Ferdinand.

Cameron's beef seems to be less with superhero films in general though and more about Hollywood's obsession with sequels, remakes and branding — which is strange coming from a filmmaker who is prepping a new series of «Terminator» movies (the sixth, seventh and eighth in that franchise), four new «Avatar» movies (sequels to a film many consider more a showreel for today's effects than a truly enjoyable bit of filmmaking), and a TV series based on his»90s film «True Lies».

There's this running joke among my friends about my obsession with the film The Room — that little ol' gem from confusingly accented writer / director / producer / star Tommy Wiseau.

«The Babadook,» about a mother struggling to handle her young son's obsession with a monster he sees in his dreams, marks Australia's Jennifer Kent's first feature film and at Sundance was acquired by IFC Midnight for the U.S. and Latin America.

And the narratively challenged film seems conflicted: It critiques our obsession with models and beauty and style, even as it obsesses about those very same things.

Finkel, the only «victim» we're really suppose to care about in this film, is painted all too clearly with his obsessions and insecurities.

At its core, it's a chamber drama about obsession and self - possession, but the film nevertheless finds two young women making big decisions with weighty consequences.

The 22 - year - old actress opened up about her film Outlaws and Angels premiering at Sundance, her first role alongside her dad Clint and her obsession with Kate Winslet.

It's not every television series that concludes its first season with references to a minor - key classic Francis Ford Coppola film, Randian economics, and the punk band Titus Andronicus, but Showtime's Billions is a breed apart — a complex drama about ego and obsession filtered through the world of New York high finance.

Ex Machina is a high concept film about genius, obsession, lust, love, and violence.

HBO said he «opens up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV «wunderkind,» his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he's cultivated through the years.»

His latest film, Crimson Peak, again combines his abiding obsessions, a story about a macabre clash between the past and the future, modernity and archaism, the realm of the living and that of the dearly departed.

Raised in a strict Calvinist family in Michigan — he saw his first movie in his late teens — Schrader's religious underpinnings and his obsession with film entwined when he critiqued Bresson's «Pickpocket,» about the misfortunes of a thief.

Learn about Kojima's film obsession, the original art style, and the ending that was cut last minute from the game!

As her Whitechapel Gallery review show throws open its doors, Gillian will be here every day telling Guardian readers what makes her tick, and letting you into her world of confessions and obsessions, from cross-dressing photographer Claude Cahun (the subject of a new work by Wearing) to a notorious 1960s Frederick Wiseman fly - on - the - wall film about a mental institution, Titicut Follies.

Despair, inspired by a 1948 film, The Red Shoes, is about a ballerina whose obsession with dance conflicts with her need for love, ultimately leading to her suicide.

A new documentary film, released May 29 and directed by Andrew Morgan, attempts to educate people about what our obsession with fast fashion is doing to the planet and to ourselves.

But what struck me about the film was not the obsession which motivates the protagonist for most of the film.