Sentences with phrase «film in glances»

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In a film dominated by men, she does her best to include the revealing glances of the women around them.

At first glance I thought Mira Sorvino (Wisegirls) was not entirely well cast as Princess Leonide because of her clumsy image but by the end of the film she had grown on me in this regal part.

With that pallid skin tone and permanently pestered expression (the kind of face you hate to love), Buscemi has appeared in virtually every major independent film of the last 10 years (Parting Glances, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Living in Oblivion, and Fargo are just a few titles).

However, what's even more astonishing is that in spite of all the money spent, they still weren't able to get across the idea that Megamind is actually quite different from most other recent films it so closely resembles at first glance.

What's even more astonishing however, is that in spite of all the money spent, they still weren't able to get across the idea that Megamind is actually quite different from most of the other recent films it so closely resembles at first glance.

Considerably tamer than previous Nymphomaniac chapter previews, this tease for «Chapter 7: The Mirror» is described thusly on the film's website, «The image you see in a mirror will at first glance seem like an exact replica of the object you're looking at.

Certain images in the film are memorable, such as Will's lingering glance at an empty, leaf - strewn swimming pool, which may inspire your longing for an adaptation of John Cheever's The Swimmer with Hamm in the title role.

Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.

If you've paid attention to the film's marketing, or even glanced at the poster featured in this article, you can see that there is much more going on throughout «Disobedience» than what initially meets the eye.

At first glance a departure from director Oliver Stone's usual subjects, Alexander ends up unexpectedly close in spirit and tone to films like The Doors and Nixon.

Here they are at a glance: Michael Emerson (Lost) has joined the cast of Woody Allen's next film, an untitled picture that he plans to shoot in the US.

In the second part of film, requiring me to glance at him a few times to make sure, he becomes a clean - shaven white - collar agent in Langley, VirginiIn the second part of film, requiring me to glance at him a few times to make sure, he becomes a clean - shaven white - collar agent in Langley, Virginiin Langley, Virginia.

At first glance, in a movie industry riddled with remakes, some filmgoers might assume that Killer Elite, is actually a reimagining of the 1975 film, The Killer Elite, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall from director Sam Peckinpah (Straw Dogs).

At first glance, some might label the movie slight due to its complete lack of concern for plotting, but any film which allows the viewer to breathe in so deeply, to revel in its dark spaces and eclectic moods is anything but.

With the film's other characters casting yearning, middle - aged glances in her direction, Ms. Tyler carries a heavy dramatic burden here and acquits herself with grace.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

However, his latest film still does seem to mark a new chapter in the filmmaker's career, with its breezy, optimistic tone and fast - paced approach, and from an early glance at his next film, there are definitely some lingering elements.

Tokyo Sonata, at first glance, plays less like the work of Kurosawa than like that of Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao - hsien, but as the story of downsized executive Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) unfolds, following roughly the same blueprint as Laurent Cantet's Time Out as Ryuhei conceals his unemployment from his wife and two sons, it comes clear that Kurosawa's brilliant, refined take on mass hysteria in his horror films has been translated intact.

Kelly explored Donnie's pain and took in piercing glances at the more adult pain of the ensemble cast, but his film was really about seeing how great Katharine Ross looked at age sixty, and about laughing at the mere sight of Patrick Swayze.

At first glance, this film poster reminds me of PT Anderson's Punch Drunk Love film poster in basic structure and color.

by Bill Chambers Two Family House and Panic, a pair of overlooked films hopefully not destined to become overlooked DVDs, have more in common than a passing glance suggests, and their joint failure to earn even a pittance sounds the death knell for independent cinema as we knew it in the early -»90s.

The action of the romance is the film is reduced to slow - motion gestures, sidelong glances, and shared pauses, and, in turn, what we recall of the film is reduced to its essence: We may remember the impossibly rich red of a wall, the undulations of a pot of noodles, the patterns of Mrs. Chan's cheongsams, the smoke of Mr. Chow's cigarette.

While the action wastes no time in starting up, the story - beats do get a little repetitive and I glanced at my watch more than once during the final third — surprising as the film only runs for 90 minutes.

Last week I was complaining because there were hardly any releases worth glancing at; this week I opted to put in a second row of highlighted covers because there are a LOT of releases, including a bunch of last year's festival circuit films that I didn't want to get lost in the shuffle.

In the film criticism that I have come to practice over some twenty years, correct description is as necessary as hitting all the right notes... One is to ride an impulsive move toward whatever draws one to something in the object — a colour, a gesture, a phrase, an edit point, a glance, a rhythm, a whateveIn the film criticism that I have come to practice over some twenty years, correct description is as necessary as hitting all the right notes... One is to ride an impulsive move toward whatever draws one to something in the object — a colour, a gesture, a phrase, an edit point, a glance, a rhythm, a whatevein the object — a colour, a gesture, a phrase, an edit point, a glance, a rhythm, a whatever.

This is one of those films that puts most of its trust in longing looks and knowing glances rather than idle chitchat and big confessionals to carry a story.

At a superficial glance, Freeman is a plain sort of fellow who won his early acclaim playing a plainly charming office employee, so it's not entirely surprising that he found himself somewhat typecast in «everyman» roles once he made the jump to film.

Both films cradle the richest poetry of a longing glance or a well - told joke, with the camera itself acting as a kind of spiritual guide, closing in around the characters and placing them in new and revealing positions.

Golden Exits, the new film by Alex Ross Perry, a favorite of this festival for years, is an explosion of the director's aesthetic, a symphony of actors delivering alternately astonishing and overwrought dialogue and often framed in epic close - ups by cinematographer Sean Price Williams that appear to glance fleetingly into the chasms of the characters» souls.

Knowing riffs are scattered about liberally: on martinis (to be stirred for 10 seconds while glancing at an unopened bottle of vermouth); on vintage brandy and scotch (at $ 58,000 a bottle, the 1962 Dalmore featured in the film is among the most expensive in the world); on haberdashery; and, most of all, on bespoke suits.

When requested if the film was once in reality a Thanos film, they gave an overly detailed glance on how they informed the tale from the purpose of Thanos, AKA the villain, and the way that has no longer in reality been achieved.

But just as the narrations in Malick's earlier films create a certain poignant distance, here direct access to the inner lives of these men, however glancing and intermittent, creates a singular push - pull of intimacy and distance, and reinforces the sense of the GIs» isolation from one another: each is imprisoned in his subjecthood.

While on first glance, X-Men: First Class may seem like a prequel to the other films in the franchise (apart from the Wolverine film, of course, which just bounces all over the place), the new film really plays more like a reboot of the X-Men franchise.

At second glance, they appear to be nasty slasher films taking place in the very same room where Amy and David are staying.

The film is bookended by acts of physical aggression, but there's a lot of passive aggression at play in the middle, glances and comments elicit more unease than the more traditional horror elements, how did you thread that needle?

The film works as a backwards glance for those who lived in the era, certainly, but in similar fashion to Dazed and Confused — another movie very specifically rooted in time — one needn't have grown up back then to recognize the strivings and yearnings of the characters, which are examined sincerely and amusingly.

David Bowie's film work may seem at first glance to be an afterthought in comparison to his career as... well, is the term «rock god» too much or an...

(Suzy's glance - to - camera in the final shot — a shot with a completely different grammar and language than the rest of the film — suggests that our characters are headed for a very different world in the months and years to come; it also suggests Anderson might be looking for new worlds to conquer.)

Director Davis Guggenheim «s follow - up to the Oscar - winning An Inconvenient Truth, the film works as a sort of three - for - one biography, with just a handful of glancing, macro-analytical insights scattered and tossed in for good measure.

It is a film that speaks its words through glances both furtive and longing, through conversations in door frames, through toy trains and fedoras and santa hats.

The tagline on the film's poster is «Monsters come in many forms,» but does that just refer to Goodman's character being a psycho who seems normal at first glance, or is there something else out there?

But I, Tonya too often feels glib and glancing, holding the public responsible for many of the easy assumptions and narrative shortcuts the film itself indulges in while telling Harding's story.

Some of the World Premieres that jump out at first glance include Ondi Timoner's Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith as the famed photographer; actor Alex Pettyfer's directorial debut Backroads; Beatriz at Dinner director Miguel Arteta's new film Duck Butter; Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke in Stockholm; Black Panther's Martin Freeman in the midnight movie Cargo; and the Netflix documentary Bleeding Edge from Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick (The Hunting Ground) about the medical biz.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

After a furtive glance or two in «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» the superheroic couple may be inching closer to a love connection in the new film — while also being pitted against each other in the superhero civil war.

It's not about looks, though, as Mockingjay 1 takes a moment to remind when some old guy says they shouldn't put Katniss in makeup because it makes her «look 35,» handily identifying exactly the demographic assembled for this film: tweens and everyone else pretending they didn't glance at J - Law's naughty selfies.

Throughout the film the dialogue sparkles as brightly as the evening gowns, but the biggest laughs come from the couple's knowing glances to one another, a semaphore of smirks and raised eyebrows that escapes everyone else in the room.

However, those who are in tune with the film's off - beat, frequently dark sensibilities will find themselves howling as Day - Lewis shoots Krieps loaded glances as she loudly scrapes butter across a piece of toast.

At first glance this might not be that revealing as we've already had Morlocks appear in the films as the Omega Gang in X-Men 3: The Last Stand.

Set in a modern day world wherein a giant kaiju monster is currently terrorizing Seoul, South Korea, at first glance this film may appear as if it's just riding the giant lizard wave that's recently been revitalized with entries like Gareth Edwards» Godzilla, Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, and Shin Godzilla, but don't be fooled.