Sentences with phrase «film of a long week»

-- Bob [LIKED] It is more a function of «end of festival» burn out, as this was the last film of a long week.

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He sure had a better vantage point and got to talk to guys who played against him and watch a ton of film... Yeah... I'm takin his opinion on a safety's skills over yours all week long and twice on Sundays... then there's Monday nights... and Thursdays... and Thanksgivings...

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

In 2007, he was the only non-US film critic to be invited by the Museum of the Moving Image and The New York Times to participate on a week - long seminar on Film Criticism.

One can salivate over the prospects of this, but there's little in the way of content to suggest this film will last longer than a week in the zeitgeist.

Vulture reports that Pitt has stopped speaking altogether to director Marc Forster, as the studio and film gear up to head into three weeks of reshoots (though previous reports have put the figure at as long as seven weeks — more on that in second).

In this week - long series of commentaries devoted to the Harry Potter films, I will home in on notable aspects of each individual movie while maintaining a sense of the larger mosaic.

Among longer running films, «All Is Lost» (Roadside Attractions) in week 7 lost most of its theaters (now at 51, down 285), but these sustained an OK return of $ 197,000, to reach $ 5,271,000 so far.

The rest of this weekend's top 10 is about what you'd expect: Diminishing returns for films like Game Night — which dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in its second week — Peter Rabbit, and Annihilation, hanging in there alongside the unexpectedly long - lived Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and The Greatest Showman, both of which are currently in their eleventh week.

After a week long of premiering some of the most anticipated horror films, the Toronto International Film Festival has finally drawn to a close and with that, the reviews are in.

The film waits only a few seconds longer to drop its own bombshell: The mystery man on the other side of the lattice vows to return, one week later, to murder Lavelle on the beach — not because he's a bad priest, like the one who abused him, but because he's a good one, and his death will turn heads.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

The film plays out quietly as the long days of summer stretch to weeks and even months, until eventually unexpected events prod out of her slump and force her to face the difficult search for a job and a career in a country struggling with two decades of a flatlining economy.

Following up on the Cinema City romantic comedy Seven Years Itch, To re-teamed with producer - writer - star (not necessarily in that order) Raymond Wong Bak - Ming for an ensemble film designed for release during the Lunar New Year holiday, a week - long (more or less) celebration that is the highlight of the Hong Kong film release calendar, when all of the big, star - studded blockbusters hit theatres.

The film was introduced by its producer, the director Barbet Schroeder, who said Rohmer has his ideas long in advance of filming, but doesn't write a word of the script until he has spent weeks talking with the actors, «so that they will never have to say anything they wouldn't really say.»

They announced last week that they would no longer distribute the film, following high - profile news of C.K.'s actions involving five women.

The second adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a populist - leaning stump - thumper modeled after Huey Long, the film garnered attention first for its sterling cast and Tiffany pedigree, then for its sudden disappearance from last year's Oscar slate, only to appear now, without fanfare (save a gala screening at last week's TIFF), in the middle of what's traditionally a dumping ground for dead weight.

I saw Proud Mary at the end of last week, long after the complaints about under - promotion gave way to complaints about the film's glaring flaws.

Thousands of film geeks, genre - film enthusiasts, and weirdoes have descended upon the Alamo Drafthouse's South Lamar location for a week - long celebration of the weirdest cinema in the world: Fantastic Fest 2011.

It's never too late to take a long gander at what we might see dominating the film awards landscape in 365 days, and with that in mind, I've been doing my usual mulling over the possibilities for a few weeks to put together the sadly thorough examination of the 2008 - 09 award season that follows.

A «documentary» filmed and edited by fifteen - year - old Becca (Olivia DeJonge, «The Sisterhood of Night»), The Visit chronicles a week - long visit by Becca and her thirteen - year - old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould, «Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day»).

Moving on, if there are pleasant surprises within the nominees, it would most certainly be films like «Beasts of Southern Wild ``, «Moonrise Kingdom» and even by a long shot «The Perks of Being a Wallflower ``,» The Dark Knight Rises ``, however, the race will be very tight and with all of the quality films being released in the upcoming weeks, it all comes down to how many films the Academy will select for Best Picture.

The idea that I was going to be able to watch eight films, most of them over 2 hours long and write about each of them individually in the space of a week is so ridiculously delusional that maybe I need to be locked up in Arkham Asylum?

June 2013 saw just eight new releases, but even then, a mega-budgeted film such as Man of Steel only managed to stay in theaters for seven weeks, so the likelihood of any August films sticking around for longer than a month becomes a near impossibility.

The idea of «platform releasing» — opening a film usually just in New York and L.A., then strategically hitting other markets over multiple weeks as buzz builds, instead of a blockbuster everywhere - at - once «wide release» — long predates the internet.

They talked about the challenge of making a movie when so much of it is spent on indoor conversations, the four - week rehearsal process, how Oldman prepared to play Churchill, how long the first cut of the film was, and we even talked about the Los Angeles premiere guests like David Fincher and Roger Deakins.

While the odds of seeing two truly extraordinary, brutal but brilliant British films in as many weeks are fairly long, the chances of both films starring the same relative unknown, in two similarly impressive yet fundamentally different performances, must be exponentially smaller.

Released just before the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia signaled the end of the country's cinematic revolution, Jaromil Jires's 1970 film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders has long been more known than seen.

With less than two weeks to go until the release of Jigsaw, IGN has revealed a new clip from the eighth instalment in the Saw franchise which you can check out below... SEE ALSO: Horror sequel Jigsaw gets two new TV spots Watch this exclusive clip #Jigsaw, the long - awaited eighth film in the #Saw franchise!

The saga of Terry Gilliam's «The Man Who Killed Don Quixote» continues with the long - gestating film scoring some wins and losses this week.

The longer and considerably more troubling answer is that, as of this writing, The Weeping Meadow will never see any kind of theatrical exhibition in L.A.; Good Morning, Night will play one time only, at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in February; and The Intruder — my pick for the best film of 2005 — will receive a one - week engagement at a single area theater in March.

All week long at Movie Mezzanine, our writers and editors will be bidding a fond farewell of the year of film that was 2016.

The scene we watch them film today, as they enter the last week of principle photography, involves Lin Shaye, reprising her role of Elise, as she and Quinn (played by Stefanie Scott) race down a long, Gothic hallway as they try to escape the film's demon.

Our Oscar Podcast for this week (with a lot of long film clips) is two hours.

All week long at Movie Mezzanine, our writers and editors have been bidding a fond farewell of the year of film that was 2016.

Gloriously filmed in 16 mm by cinematographer Sean Price Williams and set to a bare, haunting score by Keegan DeWitt, Queen of Earth channels the psychological dramas of the»60s and»70s, right down to spot - on title cards in soft pink cursive that mark each day that passes in the week - long story.

«Boyhood» A candidate for the longest duration between the start of a production and its eventual completion in the history of cinema (the film shot a few weeks every year for the last 12 years), the arrival of Richard Linklater «s intimate epic «Boyhood» proved to be very much worth the wait.

As mentioned above, my sleepiness is not a slight on Joe Lynch's film - which appeared to be a violent good time - but a result of a week's worth of long days and late nights fueled by Live Oak Hefeweizen.

A Single Man Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: An official selection of the Toronto, Tokyo and London film festivals, former fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, about a homosexual English professor contemplating suicide after the death of his lover, gives Colin Firth (BBC's Pride and Prejudice) what he has long deserved: a richly conceived starring role worthy of his talents.

The sixth annual edition of the only week - long film festival curated by working film critics starts this Friday, and you simply have to be there.

Writing for film is a lot of fun, and most scripts are only one hundred pages long, so some scripts can be written over a few days or weeks.

As I sit here writing this, less than 24 hrs after arriving home from our incredible 2 week adventure being a part of Team Super Tramp, I find myself already missing the long filming days, late night meals and antics we shared while we were a part of Devin's team...

Arguably I make too many movie industry comparisons in this column, but permit me this one more: if a major distributor announced a film, then weeks later confirmed that its director, screenplay writer, director of photography and one of its supporting cast were no longer associated with the project, would you assume the final movie would be exactly as it was intended at its inception?

Art Basel's week - long program of films by and about artists is curated by Maxa Zoller.

The Chinati Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and Ballroom Marfa are pleased to present a week - long program celebrating the work of acclaimed theater director André Gregory, featuring open rehearsal performances of Endgame by Samuel Beckett and other special events and film screenings.

March 24 — 28, 2008: A week - long series of artist talks, film screenings, and discussions with Peggy Ahwesh, Petra Bauer, Matthew Buckingham, Carles Guerra, Maria Lind, Hito Steyerl, and Walid Raad.

ART AND CHINA AFTER 1989: THEATER OF THE WORLD This rotunda - filling, 75 - artist survey of post-Tiananmen art, accompanied by a 10 - week documentary film series, is long overduOF THE WORLD This rotunda - filling, 75 - artist survey of post-Tiananmen art, accompanied by a 10 - week documentary film series, is long overduof post-Tiananmen art, accompanied by a 10 - week documentary film series, is long overdue.

Mekas also recently celebrated his 90th birthday and Anthology Film Archives, the New York film establishment which he co-founded in 1970, hosted a week - long program of rare screenings to mark the occasion.

Other highlights include a week - long residency of public performances and workshops by Brazil's Companhia Urbana de Dança, presented in collaboration with the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, and a rare presentation of Matthew Barney's latest film, River of Fundament, co-presented by the Clyfford Still Museum and Denver Art Museum.

«Urban Exposure» was a week - long film programme exploring the complexities of contemporary experience presented in association with the Lux Centre, Hoxton from June — September 1999.