Sentences with phrase «film keeps the focus»

The new film keeps the focus on his formative years, not the political battles he'd choose during the second half of his life.

No standard biopic, the film keeps its focus narrowly upon King George's crippling speech impediment, a major obstacle for this authority figure.

Not exact matches

What is so engaging about the film is the way its director, Ki - duk Kim, manages to keep our interest intensely focused on the couple.

In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995).

It's always my mission to remind everyone to keep their focus on the films - because that is what we're all really there for, right?

So we're trying to keep it focused in the area that our film was, which was a little bit more about characters and relationships and stuff like that, and see where that takes us.

Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.

Meanwhile, Finley's film debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently picked up by Focus Features for distribution, so one supposes that there actually are consequences — namely, that the unproven and overprivileged get to keep enjoying unfettered success.

I think one of the things this film does well is keep Rob's goals focused on getting to his wedding and marrying the woman of his dreams.

The darker emotions are here, but that's not the focus of this film, which instead playfully keeps the audience laughing as it cleverly weaves a tale that will resonate in unexpected ways.

Hoffman keeps his wintry film focused on those four earthy and very real characters.

8:00 pm — Sundance — A Town Called Panic One of the most delightful films I saw in 2009, a whacked out stop - motion film from Belgium that follows Horse, Cowboy, and Indian throughout a series of adventures, mostly focused on trying to rebuild their house which keeps getting stolen every night.

Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love) breathe life into the genre with Focus, a frisky con film with plenty of flashy diversion, compliments of leads Will Smith and Margot Robbie keeping you from seeing too far beneath the surface.

While filmmakers often are unhappy about cuts, she said Salles had requested to «shave off the minutes» to keep the film more focused.

Nonetheless, Chronicle of a Kidnap makes enough of Karnit Goldwasser's struggle to remain a moving film, and has the good sense to keep the focus at the personal level and avoid discussion of the greater Israeli - Arab conflict.

And with luck the film's visuals may be enough to keep audience attention focused on the screen even when the plot begins to feel a little familiar.

But Cameron kept it more about the characters and focused on creating a real good old fashion melodrama feeling film.

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

But del Toro's thematic focus on «the other» in society gives his film gravitas just benign enough to keep an awards campaign from feeling didactic.

Scenes of success blend with scenes of struggle, and while the relationship between Dewey and Greene and Greene's own discomfort with fame (capitulated to on his scheduled appearance on «The Tonight Show») keep things focused to a degree, the film becomes a string of events without as much connection to the characters.

In the years since his passing, however, there has been a gradual reappraisal of Demy's cinematic legacy, spurred on in no small part by the efforts of Varda, who has helped to keep the flame alive by supervising restorations and reissues of his films as well as directing both «Jacquot de Nantes,» a 1991 biopic focused on his early years, and the 1995 documentary «The World of Jacques Demy.»

It looks sleek, as does Chow, yet neither the film nor its star has a personality that keeps our attention focused on the screen.

It could be dull, routine, and expository stuff, but Liman keeps the film's focus on Barry's arc, while also offering some impressive aerial stunts and maneuvers in the process.

Romanowsky keeps the camera focused on the actor's every moment, blink and mannerism which the audience has memorized by now since Franco releases a new film every month.

I would not be surprised if James Dashner's novels have a bit more insight, but Ball and screenwriter T.S. Nowlin have done a fine job here of minimizing the grandness of a film like this and keeping the focus clear.

For the purposes of this list we skipped documentaries and animated films to keep the list more focused (and avoid arguments about dubbed versions or whatnot) but please to know that had we kept them in the wonderful Turkish street cat documentary Kedi would be in the top ten right here.

Even more, he does not reveal Jane's profession until about 45 minutes into the film — though he keeps sprinkling tiny cues from time to time — so we can focus, without preconceived ideas, on the development of this friendship.

A stripped back approach made the film work as the focus was kept tightly on Tony Stark as a person coping in a world where the unbelievable is becoming a reality.

I would say that this movie was edited for children who couldn't keep their attention span focused for more than five seconds, but based on some of the film's «humor» and language, I wouldn't recommend any kid seeing this movie.

Mann approaches this film almost like poetry, using fine camerawork and editing to focus on internal emotions and relationships while keeping things low - key and authentic.

It's Leo's film, every scene has her performing to the third degree and that keeps the viewers interest, even when the subject they choose to focus on does not.

Even as the film's far less effective fantasy characters enter the fray, Reid holds our attention and keeps our focus on the themes of faith, family, and self - worth.

Intelligent humour at the right moments kept my attention and focus through out the whole film.

The film follows Hader as Georg, who goes bonkers and starts wandering around Vienna trying to make sense of his life after losing the job that kept him focused for so long.

With the inciting incident involving a cancer diagnosis for Jones, the film focuses on the singer's perseverance and her unflinching desire to keep on doing what she loves.

Meanwhile, X-Force could keep the funny and loose tone from the Deadpool 2 while adding some of their own badass flare from the comics, maybe having the plot of the film focus on an X-Men-level threat while maintaining that Deadpool sense of humor.

The film uses the long outmoded 1.37:1 aspect ratio (with rounded edges) to keep a close and tight view of the protagonist, while the horrors around him remain largely out of focus and partially out of view.

If only he could deliver when the film needs that shot of adrenaline for the action scenes as he fails to connect us to the immediacy of the moment as characters get overrun by avalanches of poorly - animated CGI zombie hordes while keeping the focus on Gerry, the one character we're all but assured is safe.

The film is loosely based on a string of real French robberies from the early 1980s, but director Oliver Marchal doesn't bend over backwards trying to conform to some detailed procedural schematic, and the material benefits from a gritty, streamlined telling that keeps the focus first and foremost on the characters and not the ancillary mayhem that surrounds them and that they later cause.

After getting done with von Sydow and moving on to Blair, Burstyn, and Miller, the film keeps its character focus pretty well balanced.

In contrast to the Golden Globes, where whispers about problematic men dominated social media, the absence of some of these men kept the focus of the evening on a celebration of women, film, and the future of Hollywood.

«Hackman on Doyle» (10:49, HD) and «Friedkin and Grosso Remember the Real French Connection» (19:12, HD) are terrific interviews revealing details and impressions from the major players behind the finished film; in the latter, Friedkin interviews Grosso, keeping the focus on the retired detective.

The description makes it sound like this is a fantasy film more about the human experience than CGI — the boy has to tell stories to keep the monster happy — and distributor Focus Features surely seems confident in the project, recently moving it to an awards - friendly release date in December.

Some of the characters have various segments of the film named after them, and though these are quite loosely told, they do provide some semblance of structure to the film and keep viewers focused on the diverse personalities.

They must keep us, the audience, focused, even if they deliver us a film that doesn't appear overly original.

With commanding performances by the two leads, solid musical numbers that set the tone for the real - life drama well, and Mangold's excellent ability to keep focus on what's really important, Walk the Line becomes a film that nearly all viewers will be able to relate to and enjoy, and not just fans of Johnny Cash and his music.

Peter Berg goes all Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson like by making this an ensemble film as opposed to keeping it all focused on Wahlbeg's character.

There are few films focused on the women who kept things running behind the scenes during wartime and it undoubtedly makes for a refreshing change.

But the film's told in Hou's unique style: long deep focus shots with multiple planes of character and movement always keeping things interesting.

Even if the film took a page from No Country For Old Men and went scoreless, the film would still keep you as intensely focused on it's deeply human characters with deeply human flaws and tendencies.