Not exact matches
Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox's critically acclaimed
film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes
of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape
of Water and The Martian — and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many
more hit TV series to viewers across the globe.
Sitting through the
film on Friday, I saw that the Bears were growing into their identity on offense, where play calling was
more of an issue than execution, and the Cowboys were trying to tread
water on offense where the lack
of execution was dooming their reasonable, conservative play calling by Jason Garret.
Do you think the
film of soapy bubble
water is
more likely to break the bigger it is and
more it stretches?
That suggests thin
films of water have formed at the location in the past, so studying the chemical composition can reveal much
more about the martian past.
«In the fine liquid
film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover
more distance than in soil
water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author
of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department
of Environmental Microbiology.
In one
of the
film's
more distinctive flourishes, Akin's camera pirouettes up and over Katja's bathtub as she soaks, gradually revealing her slit wrists, as the
water becomes a lurid red.
The
more interesting aspects
of the previous
film, namely Dolph Lundgreen's blasé fish - out -
of -
water observations, are replaced with a rush to get to the finish line, resulting in one
of the most predictable, formulaic fantasy
films imaginable.
All
of these ingredients should come together in a mouth -
watering finale, but such is not the case; in fact, the
film becomes
more obvious and less psychological as it goes on.
EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by director Travis Knight, there's a series
of featurettes on making the
film (from animating the monsters and
water effects to composing the score), a closer look at the Japanese inspiration for the story and
more.
This is the first West
film that isn't the cinematic equivalent
of being placed in a pot
of water and not realizing that the
water is boiling until it's too late — it's broader,
more straightforward, and, on paper, a fairly typical revenge western.
But, again, the
film doesn't offer much
more than a
watered down version
of the original, and it doesn't have the poignancy
of that
film, and probably won't until a cast member either achieves fame or OD's.
And the
film serves as a fine primer for some
of the
more spectacular retro
watering holes to be found in the City
of Angels, particularly the semi-legendary fifties decor
of the Dresden (where Jack Nicholson also staged some
of the action in The Two Jakes).
This religious - fish - out -
of -
water narrative involving the Hasidic community has been well trod in
films before, but in the hands
of filmmaker Sebastain Leilo and his
more than capable cast, Disobedience doesn't treat it with anything less than striking intelligence and humane interactions.
10) The Shape
of Water — Guillermo Del Toro's latest fantasy
film is as stunning and bizarre as his previous
films, but
more restrained.
The leaning on archetypes, some
of them questionable, and stylisation across a whole range
of Japanese artforms, are manoeuvres certain to get Anderson in hot
water once the
film is
more widely seen, just as The Darjeeling Limited — a much
more vacuously touristy exercise — was accused
of mishandling race.
No cast yet (and good luck strying ot out Stockard / Olivia / John) but it's aiming for 2015 Serious
Film my friend Michael liked Match, the Tribeca
film starring Patrick Stewart I reviewed yesterday, a helluva lot
more than me so it's worth sharing an opposing opinion First Showing footage from Russell Crowe's directorial debut, The
Water Diviner Empire the WB triples down on director Zach Snyder giving in both the Man
of Steel sequel and the Justice League movie (but why?
Indeed, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape
of Water is nominated for
more Academy Awards (13) than any other
film released in the last 12 months.
And yet this
film feels considerably less a matter
of treading
water than 2006's somewhat weary Lights in the Dusk — and besides, Kaurismäki recycling himself with panache and conviction can be a hell
of a lot
more fruitful than many other directors» originality.
You'd think that The Shape
of Water remains too undeniably weird to have any shot at awards, and I think that the stuffy Academy that decided to go with The King's Speech over The Social Network or Black Swan (yep, still bitter) might not have given much
more than token nominations for an inter-species romance monster movie, but the Academy has gotten younger and
more diverse in the years since then, allowing for some
more left
of center
films to get a boost.
The
film creates its own,
more politically evolved version
of Kipling's literary ecosystem, with its ancient animal beliefs and practices, such as predators and prey declaring a «
water truce» during a drought so that they can all drink unmolested from a parched
watering hole.
He worked in the beginning
of the picture, but as the
film grew
more suspenseful, his comic relief felt out
of water.
The Good Dinosaur has over 200 shots
of water in the
film, and it's a long river so there is
more than 125 shots
of the river alone.
First, the «Invisible Art, Visible Artists» seminar features a conversation with Oscar - nominated editors from
films like «Baby Driver,» «Dunkirk,» «The Shape
of Water,» and
more.
The
film, directed by Bruce Beresford, was inspired by the ongoing Flint
water crisis and bases itself
more immediately on a February 2016 Time magazine report, «The Poisoning
of an American City.»
The
film starts with an ominous, enigmatic touch: a close - up
of boiling
water in a pan, into which a hand throws what could be coffee and sugar but looks
more like earth and salt.
Ideally, this romance would have been the centerpiece
of Water: it's the
film that would have been stronger and, ultimately,
more satisfying.
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In addition to The Shape
of Water, genre titles like Blade Runner 2049, The Last Jedi, Get Out, and Logan are all up for an impressive spread
of categories that include
more than the traditional collection
of technical awards that
more FX - heavy
films that tend to be nominated for those awards.
No picture took home
more than four prizes, and The Shape
of Water was the only
film to manage that.
Routinely dipping its hand into
more dangerous
waters only to retract it immediately afterward, it is a
film with its artistic and monetary interests at war with one another just as fiercely as the two monolithic alpha - dragons in one
of its numerous third - act set pieces.
But I'm sure it will be able to keep its head above
water in this summer's deluge
of films and maybe «Speed 3» will be
more to my liking.
Two celebrated
films, Darkest Hour and The Shape
of Water, expanded to hundreds
more screens this weekend.
Over at Forbes, Mark Hughes's handicapping
of the best picture race suggests that four
films are locks for nominations («Call Me by Your Name,» «Dunkirk,» «The Post» and «The Shape
of Water»), and two
more titles are «highly likely» to join them («Lady Bird» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»).
Much
more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher
film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out
of water story.
Admittedly the bar has been greatly lowered when approaching any new
film from M. Night Shyamalan, quondam wunderkind
of cinema, whose SIXTH SENSE left us breathless with delight, and whose subsequent work left us
more and
more dismayed as the work deteriorated from the thoughtfully disturbing SIGNS, through the kitsch
of THE VILLAGE, the silliness
of THE HAPPENING, the self - indulgence
of THE LADY IN THE
WATER, THE LAST AIRBENDER, which left us gasping in shocked disbelief at its grandiose ineptitude, and finally the legendary disaster that was AFTER.EARTH, a
film rumored to have been directed
more by star Will Smith than by director - for - hire Shyamalan.
Blood is thicker than
water in Only God Forgives, the new
film by Nicolas Winding Refn, in which the Drive filmmaker colloborates again with Ryan Gosling — and spills far
more of the red stuff.
Even
more, Fassy is clearly a loyal guy, forging relationships with a handful
of directors, which has in turn resulted in some incredible
films (12 Years a Slave being the high
water mark
of his collaborations with Steve McQueen).
While the world - class director will often do «a
film for them, a
film for me», meaning that they'll do a slick Hollywood movie and then a smaller,
more creative work — The Shape
of Water feels like a mesh
of both.
Interestingly, while NaNo is
more of a writing exercise and a motivational tool, there have been a number
of books that at least began life as NaNo novels, but through massive editing and polishing did go on to become bestsellers; Sara Gruen's Like
Water for Elephants is perhaps the most well - known, having been also adapted for
film.
Matt Parker's
film of The Cloud is
More than Air and
Water (2014) explores the physical, auditory and visual environments generated by man to house the internet and can be watched on a monitor in the gallery.
Filmed from a single vantage point, like a painting set in motion, Richardson has digitally enhanced the nearly monochromatic setting with strange yellow tendrils
of light, undulating and twisting beneath the
water, hinting at an undiscovered or mutated bioluminant life - form, or perhaps the aftermath
of something altogether
more disturbing.
Driving at high speeds in heavy rain could lead to your car aquaplaning (rise up on a thin
film of water between the tires and road so that there is no
more contact with the road).