Sentences with phrase «film alludes»

Given the now notorious threats to Rushdie's life, the film alludes to potential physical threat — and the viewer perhaps feels unease at watching Rushdie in a state of such vulnerability.

Through the natural spaces of the island, historical ruins and plantation houses, the film alludes to the complex narratives that have authored contemporary experience and questions of collective identity in the post-colony.

The latest look at «Drive» director Nicolas Winding Refn's film alludes to sexual undertones between onscreen mother and son

As the film alludes to in a very funny sequence involving Johnson's Maui and Cravalho's Moana meeting for the first time, there is the princess element, along with kooky sidekick HeiHei (played by Alan Tudyk, Moana's pet rooster, his look apparently modelled on Musker) and pet pig Pua, supposedly inspired by Clements, and there's also the mild peril which can be associated with most great Disney movies.

After that film, Phantom Thread sees Anderson reverting to even more of a classical register than before: while those other two films alluded to genre while not strictly being of any genre, his latest is a melodrama in a bygone mode, and could be taken as face value as just that.

His installations, photographs and films allude to a seemingly astonishing precision in the accidental; convey by transformation, manipulation or mirroring, a mystical aura to the putatively logical.

Not exact matches

The Marlborough moniker given to the soap above by D.R. Harris alludes to a dukedom and the very same noble house from which Winston Churchill was descended (google «Duke of Marlborough» and «Blenheim Palace» — the latter being only one of a couple non-royal estates in England to be called a palace and a mansion I'm sure most gents will say they've seen in film or on television more than once!).

But if there really are state rules (or union rules, which were also alluded to) that prevented Jamie from distributing his food, shouldn't an advance person in his production team have thought to investigate a little before filming?

Realtimepolitics.com, which likely is hoping to confuse people with the legitimate website realclearpolitics.com, alludes to remarks Giuliani made on May 2 and May 3 interviews, which PolitiFact looked into, exploring whether a $ 130,000 payoff to adult film star Stormy Daniels was a campaign expenditure.

For Beth, it's just gravy, getting Freeway back, since the film's title, as it turns out, alludes not to the dog she rescued alongside a busy interstate, but her husband, Joseph, who was more provider than partner, before the occasion of the animal's disappearance forces the busy professional to spend time with his neglected wife.

Roughly translated, those are the last words in Robert Bresson's «Pickpocket,» a movie that figures prominently in the work of Paul Schrader, who has alluded to its final scene in many of his films, including «American Gigolo,» «Light Sleeper» and his new one, «First Reformed.»

«Humanite» is not the only recent film to which «The Pledge» alludes.

Her anxiety about a prior «incident» she doesn't wish to repeat is never fully explained in the film but the desperation you sense when D alludes to it is enough to explain her unease.

Personal Shopper alludes to cinema's past — the ghost - film tradition, the eerie houses that are a constant in Jacques Rivette's work (Out 1, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Secret Defense).

The film also alludes to Potter's probable inspiration, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alluding the film is actually set in the 1980's following the events of Apocalypse.

Aside from their other guests that nobody else knows — the imposing and mildly threatening Pruitt (John Carroll Lynch) and the girl who seems to be an unhinged, recovering addict, Sadie (Lindsay Burdge)-- they seem too happy and too balanced for the tragedy Eden and Will shared that's alluded to but not explicitly shown until a flashback much later in the film.

Compared to, say, Taxi Driver, which the film unwisely alludes to, this is thin stuff.

Those who are into more conventional fare, the ones who are expecting Keaton to recreate Batman in a film that alludes to it, will have to strive to keep an open mind toward a film that approaches its subject matter in a wholly unconventional approach.

First off, as alluded to above, the film adheres very closely to its predecessor in terms of its story structure, so if you've seen the 1976 film, you'll likely be bored in seeing the same scenes play out in ways that are vastly inferior.

His words allude to the film's intriguing premise but unfortunately, they don't hint at how such a premise is wasted despite featuring a stellar cast of some the most interesting actors working today.

Surely this is not something you want to allude to when attempting to sell a small budgeted, independent film.

In the trailer that announced Monáe's new album, the singer alluded to a narrative film that might accompany Dirty Computer.

It's been alluded to that war was on the way no matter the outcome of the second film.

The film's constant reference to time, via repeated shots of ticking clocks, alludes to the 1997 issue as well as the sheer intangibility and fleetingness of time.

This is something that's repeatedly alluded to in Melissa Mathison's screenplay (based on the novel by Roald Dahl), but it's pretty easy to forget about that detail as the film moves from one non-child-devouring plot point to the next.

This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form of that film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.

Again, in the book, it's Peeta who has drawn Rue (using the same artistic skill that had him so amusingly camouflage himself in the first film), which affects the judges deeply so they mark him high, but none of this is alluded to in the film and so it's really not clear how or why the Rue painting is there and why it's significant.

After a few comments from the actors — Lilly knows almost nothing about her character as she's not yet seen a script, Stoll alludes to his character being the scientist bad - guy, and Rudd prepares for superhero stardom — they played a video made just for Comic - Con, as the film hasn't started any filming.

In describing the film Into The Woods, the comedian drew cheers and gasps by alluding to allegations that Cosby drugged and raped women: «Cinderella ran away from her prince, Rapunzel was thrown from a tower... and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.»

Alluding to those nominations, as well as those for films featuring prominent gay characters such as «The Shape of Water,» «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird,» GLAAD applauded the Oscar field.

The makers of Meatballs Part II don't bother trying to allude to the first film except in title, which is a good thing, since we don't have to bother making comparisons that won't bode in its favor.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

The film also alluded to the possibility that the character did not die, but was rather lost in a subatomic universe.

So, not only did this post-credit scene allude to Infinity War, but it also alluded to Bucky's potential presence in future Black Panther films!

But Spielberg's film — which alludes to the coming of Nixon's presidency - ending scandal in a coda — triumphs as an energizing call to arms against any political tyrant who'd deny journalists the right to speak truth to power.

As the film proceeds, the favoring of mainstream movie references extends to Bertolucci's own oeuvre: the Paris flat reminds me of settings in The Conformist, the incest evokes Before the Revolution and Luna, Theo's Maoist baggage takes us back to The Last Emperor, a desert tent in the siblings» flat alludes to The Sheltering Sky, and Matthew's espousal of nonviolence suggests Little Buddha.

, it comes out that Con Air screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, who just might be worse than George Lucas at making up names (one of the two main cops in Gone in Sixty Seconds is christened Detective Drycoff), begged onto the project after getting wind of the premise, though no one so much as alludes to the Halicki film.

(Hong Kong film critic Stephen Teo has noted that the film's original title, A Fei Zhengxhuan, alludes to the Chinese title of Rebel Without a Cause:» «A Fei» is local Cantonese slang for unsavory youths and the full title may be interpreted as the life story of one.»)

The title, and this curse, refers to a Greek myth that's alluded to, but not explained, in the film itself.

He is also alluding to the exploration of representation and the nature of filmic images with which his film will hereafter be concerned.

It more closely alludes to another great Hitchcock film, Suspicion, in which it appears that Cary Grant is slowly poisoning his wife.

What I meant by the trailer failing to show anything new I meant — as you yourself allude to — it did nothing but show tiresome big «epic» battle sequences that are derivative of so many films we have seen since «The Lord of the Rings».

Ironic that all three of those inspirational films are alluded to when Elizabeth shows those movies to her class, and more ironic that she is the only one in the class who could learn something from them, but doesn't.

Di Nunzio's crime film influences are obvious — with lines and situations alluding to «The Godfather Part 2» and «Reservoir Dogs,» among others — yet they are organically integrated into his story.

It was funny to hear Schrader allude to «awards season» at the screening, when explaining why the film will be held back to next spring because Hawke would've given this year's crop of best actor hopefuls a run for their money.

«The Sea Hawk» was reissued years later at a much shorter 103 version - an unthinkable length, given the film's finely crafted screenplay - but it was restored to its original 127 minute length in the Eighties, including Elizabeth's «mobilization» speech to wartime British audiences, which alludes to Hitler's global domination scheme.

Immediately noticeably is the evolved Aston Martin design language, first alluded to by the DB10, a concept car that appeared in the James Bond film Spectre but sold to the public.

Titles allude to subcultures, discoveries, and failures in modern literature and film.

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.