Sentences with phrase «film came to your town»

Not exact matches

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

Early in his career he came to a small town in New Jersey to film a United Way commercial.

Your partner jumps at the opportunity to dine at that new restaurant in town, but isn't so keen to come over for a takeaway and film.

Now, I'm expecting to love RUN LOLA RUN this Friday (finally coming to town) but there have been a lot of films that I have just adored this summer.

Beautifully filmed and chock full of the wide ranging Western vistas the genre demands, the stranger (Jimmy Stewart) comes to town to find revenge for the death of his brother.

The Universal Pictures film about an old - school lawman (Richard Widmark) in a Texas town, trying to «modernize,» who comes into conflict with the elders after killing a man in self - defense, was originally directed by TV Westerns helmer Robert Totten, a veteran of «Gunsmoke» and «Bonanza.»

Director of the Week Vincent Minnelli is celebrated with a collection of 25 films, from his debut Cabin in the Sky (1943) and iconic Americana musicals Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and The Bandwagon (1953) to his later melodramas Some Came Running (1958) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)(reviewed on Stream On Demand here).

The video game coming soon to the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 is based on the upcoming film «Tron 2.0» by director Joseph Kosinski (Logan's Run) and starring Garrett Hedlund (Hectic, Eragon), Olivia Wilde (Year One), Jeff Bridges (Iron Man), Karl Urban (Star Trek), Bruce Boxleitner (Transmorphers 2), Beau Garrett (4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Turistas) and John Hurt (No One Gets Off in This Town, Hellboy II: The Golden Army).

The wardrobe, guns and town all come across as totally authentic and add to the richness of the film.

Even if the film feels like an extended setup, the final moments unharness a subtle power: This is a town that can not escape its past, and a dark cloud will hover over it for years to come.

Coming - of - age adventure follows 20 - year - old Lucy (Solo), a small - town girl from Ohio — who has never kissed a boy, never had a job and never really had friends — who discovers the delightfully bizarre films of the legendary Italian filmmaker and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

«Seven Samurai» (1956) Akira Kurosawa's classic movie about heroes coming together to defend a town inspired quite a few films after it.

A coming - of - age film about a California high school student who seeks to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

Ghost Town is, ultimately, a purely entertaining diversion that comes off as a refreshing change of pace from the gloomy, deliberately - paced fare that tends to dominate film festivals.

With this film, Guest nails down his command of the comedy mocumentary, a genre he helped to invent by co-writing and starring in «This Is Spinal Tap» (about a rock band coming apart at the seams) and by writing, directing and starring in «Waiting For Guffman» (about a small town hiring an allegedly hotshot Broadway director for its 150th anniversary pageant).

The palpable tension between Gary and his quartet of friends, which — despite sounding somber — achieves plenty of humor in a continuous string of passive - aggressive clashes that Gary never comprehends (He even forgets that his buddies have said he has a «selective memory,» and when they tell him he never accepts that he's wrong, he takes it as a compliment), comes to a head just as the film reveals the sinister workings of the sleepy little town.

Unbeknownst to me, and likely everyone, Nicolas Winding Refn, who is in town for his own film which is In Competition for the Palme d'Or (Only God Forgives), came on stage to introduce the filmmaker.

Seven outlaws come together to save a helpless town from a greedy tyrant in Antoine Fuqua's new version of The Magnificent Seven, a remake of the original 1960 film (directed by John Sturges) which in itself was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

Another of the Warner Archive «Remastered Editions,» Two Weeks in Another Town is one of my favorite Vincent Minnelli films of the 1960s, a movie melodrama (as in a melodrama about the movies) set in the Italy, where has - beens and struggling talents come to cash in on cut - rate productions and one washed - up actor (Kirk Douglas) tries to find his confidence after bottoming out in alcohol and self - pity.

The film challenges notions of right and wrong, what is just and what is legal, particularly when it comes to the motives of the town ambitious District Attorney, Danny Buck Davidson, as well as both celebrating and exploding stereotypes of small - town life.

Coming as it does from an expert parodist, the film is often funnier around its edges than most full - blown comedies are at center, even as Peele largely resists playing his scenario — a kind of town - with - a-secret spin on Guess Who's Coming To Dinner — strictly for laughs.

The film is very quiet, the small town atmosphere settling the nerves after an early act of violence that sets the tone for what is to come, but we are lulled into comfort as the story of this family man unfolds.

Indie film goddess Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with this «hella tight» noughties throwback coming of age comedy - a sweet and wistful ode to mothers and daughters, growing pains, and the ups and downs of small - town adolescence.

Allison Anders» coming - of - age tale, based on a novel by Richard Peck, occasionally veers into overt melodrama and silly plot turns, but the down - to - earth quality and the earnest performances by Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk as small town sisters ground the film.

The local community has been reticent in coming forward about the town's incredible historical and geological relevance (the mountains around the town are the oldest in the world, dating back 3.5 billion years) but that will all soon change with the imminent release of both the Disney version of Jock of the Bushveld, and the film about Cockney Liz (legendary «barmaid» who became known as Cockney Liz because of the accent in which she chose to sing, despite her obvious refinement and musical talent.

Ever since I was little girl, I loved watching musicals so it comes to no surprise that «On the Town» with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra would be one of my favorite films.

Sofitel is looking to pitch for high - end business from movie stars and production managers when film shoots come to town, with Sofitel Queenstown Hotel & Spa Sales & Marketing Director Tanya Dennis saying the hotel is just as keen to foster the film industry given its immense potential to directly influence tourism.