Not exact matches
The
film enters difficult
territory when we realise our two white protagonists are trying to throw
out the only black member
of the city council.
Some employees
of an international arms dealer go
out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group
of militants who don't like having them around their
territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror
film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).
The one - liners tossed
out during the heat
of battle are mild enough to keep the
film in PG
territory, which means they're so neutered as to be uninteresting.
But if the construction is awkward, the
film's balancing
of tones is surprisingly deft; what begins as a raucously funny rom - com for the «Sideways» set gradually segues into a more melancholy study
of what it takes to make relationships work, in or
out of marriage, before the third act slides effectively into unisex weepie
territory.
The sales art
out of AFM positions the
film, tonally, in Ocean's Eleven
territory, while the synopsis clarifies a few roles for some
of the actors.
It's actually kind
of astonishing that this is Simien's first
film — that he'd try to tackle such tricky
territory so sharply and with such honesty right
out of the gate.
He treads comfortable
territory but, notwithstanding Izzard's best efforts, the
film falls far short
of ever being laugh -
out - loud funny.
A 1971 documentary on the construction
of the
film's inhabitable mise - en - scène (which includes rather condescending voice - over regarding Julie Christie's place in the «man's
territory»
of British Columbia), cast and filmmaker filmographies, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller's theatrical trailer round
out the disc.
Retreading «Prisoners»
territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts
of some sort
of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any
of the Villeneuve
film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other textures blasted
out to snowy blankness.
Retreading «Prisoners»
territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts
of some sort
of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any
of the Villeneuve
film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other texture blasted
out to snowy blankness.
Animated
film Animal Crackers is taking a bite
out of Cannes, with Arclight Films bringing the
film to the market and making sales in key
territories.
Instead, after a memorable street fight with Michelle over cookie - selling
territory, Helen pretty much vanishes, and the
film veers off into a hostile takeover
of the brownie enterprise, followed by a ham - fisted office stunt in which Michelle duels it
out with Renault.
From her early staged images with vaguely intimated story lines to her recent, structuralist - influenced
films, Sharon Lockhart's work has consistently staked
out an ambiguous
territory between the photographic and the cinematic - a location where the flow
of narrative and the stasis
of repetition intersect.
This
film below and the feature image at the top
of this post have been sourced via the NT Frack - free Alliance, a diverse group
of community members, Traditional Owners, environment groups and landholders established in response to NT government plans for a roll -
out of the shale gas industry across the
Territory.