Sentences with phrase «film about the ego»

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About his ability to marshal big egos there can be little doubt, but his camera bobs all over the axis of action like a first - year film student, and he shows almost no command of tone, reducing the material's vaguely satirical detours into perversion (incest!

Robert took out some time to chat about the film and reflect on his career and his alter ego Freddy Krueger.

The film is all about power struggles and huge egos getting in the way of patriotism and morals.

007 spends about half of Goldfinger in helpless captivity, for example, but his battles of will and ego against the titular villain were enough to make that film an instant classic.

Dead Ringers is, unavoidably, a film about suicide, though it's about other things, too: brotherly devotion, ego, art, and misogyny.

Winstead recently wrapped on forthcoming film «All About Nina» and last year she starred in horror movie»10 Cloverfield Lane» opposite John Goodman, whose character Howard Stambler holds her alter - ego Michelle captive in an underground bunker.

Pity a historian wasn't contacted for a rundown of the film's genesis; Carol Reed's walking off the picture after losing patience with Brando's ego, and Lewis Milestone taking the directorial reigns as a hired gun; nor a separate featurette on the film's cinematographer and composer; but what has been assembled is a good smattering of contemporary and archival productions about the impressive Bounty replica built from the ground up for a major studio production.

And yet, the anonymity of that title points to perhaps the most remarkable aspect about this film: its maker's sheer selflessness, her devotion to her craft and her subjects, her seemingly complete lack of ego.

The film ultimately belongs to Riggan, who suffers repeated humiliations (learning a drunk Carver probably wrote a prized note, having to wander Times Square in his underwear after a mishap with a stage door, and getting a lambasting from Lindsay Duncan's cruel critic) while the voice of his movie alter - ego prattles in his head about the actor's failures, and Keaton, whose performance finds the right balance between longing determination and outright insanity.

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.

Combined, the two form an ego / shadow duality that of course has to merge for Wendy to find individuation in the film's gunmetal Wizard of Oz Kansas of rural America — though if Reichardt is trying to make a picture about how we tend to overlook or be unkind to the homeless and the broken - down, it's not anything that feels terribly compelling.

What the Lynchheads seemed to like about his films was an open - endedness that allowed them some control over what they could say the film was really about, and what it really meant, feeding their egos and making them feel smart and superior.

The answer to that last question is a resounding yes, but we don't get much time to enjoy their clash of egos, because this is a busy, dizzy film that frantically tries to marry about 10 different sub-stories and fails.

York and Zach are a quirky and charismatic crimefighting duo rolled into a single person, with the wacky investigator frequently talking to his analytical alter ego about the case, 80s film trivia, and everything under the sun.

Flamboyant Esssex - born Perry, 54, doesn't appear as his female alter ego Claire in the film in which he chats easily with loyalists about what he regards as their old fashioned, 1950s - style Britishness.