Emerging from the Sundance Film Festival, the US independent
film scene grew into a distinctive and original creative movement.
Not exact matches
So we were watching the newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia
film series — Prince Caspian — the other night, and I found myself
growing increasingly uncomfortable with the use of a Christ - figure (Aslan) in battle
scenes.
Everyone I know who has
grown up here or lived here for more than five years has a story, wants to tell you where this show was
filmed, where that actor ate or where the
scene where he finally kisses her was
filmed.
The
film wasn't great, but I had a really lovely night, and would recommend some of the other outdoor movies the British
Film Institute are screening this summer, especially if, like me, you
grew up watching the
film Grease with the iconic Drive - Thru movie date
scene... something it's otherwise very hard to recreate, living in the UK in this day and age.
The
film's subtler truths seep through in
scenes where one of the adults spends time with their children, who are more aware of what's going on than any of the
grown - ups.
I can't even describe what happens in the
scenes he has with the mystery - baby in a non-profane way, but when that kid
grows up he's going to be either really embarrassed or totally popular for having been in this
film.
By the time we get to the bar
scene, we're willing them to get with things so much that we don't really mind whether they
grow as people or not, and at the end of the
film everything goes (more or less) back to the way things were.
It's a tremendously engrossing
scene that ultimately stands as the
film's high point, with Weaver's sitcom - like sensibilities ensuring that Weather Girl suffers from a pervasively uneven vibe that only
grows more and more problematic as time progresses.
Long after British - born actor Herbert Rawlinson had passed from the
scene,
film fans who'd
grown up in the teens and twenties retained vivid memories of his virile good looks and the solid reliability of his characterizations.
In between those two
scenes comes a wonderfully crude
film (we're talking Superbad levels of raunchiness), but one in which the overall vibe is sweet: kids patiently waiting for their parents to
grow up already.
Something many teens might enjoy about the
film is the idealized portrayal of the «way cool» (for adults, they will be «way too cool to believe») parents, Kat (Enos, Sabotage) and Denny (Leonard, The Shaggy Dog), who
grew up in the punk rock
scene, only to settle down and live a straight - laced life, though still instilling a sense of individuality and fun in their own children.
The fantastic Bruno Ganz (best known in the US for «Wingsof Desire») plays Hitler with a broken kind of humanity that makeshis evil subtler than expected, but by extension all the more chilling.His senior staff is accounted for nearly every moment of the detailed
film, but none of them stands out except Ulrich Matthes as psychotically loyalpropaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and Corinna Harfouch as his wife.She has the
film's most disturbing
scene, poisoning her children to «save «them from
growing up in a world without National Socialism.
Every
scene, every shot and every character helps build this driving energy, which manages to keep
growing throughout the
film.
Ratner
grew no less shy this weekend, according to Twitter and several Vulture sources: After a screening of his
film Tower Heist at L.A.'s Arclight Cinemas, the director came out for a Q&A, and when asked by the moderator whether he prepares and rehearses with his actors before shooting a
scene, Ratner waved his hand dismissively and said, «Rehearsing is for fags.»
One of the key
scenes in «Nebraska» comes fairly late in the
film, when Woody and his wife and two sons (Forte and «Breaking Bad's» Bob Odenkirk) wander through the abandoned house in which he
grew up.
Stiller's Josh goes ballistic way too early in the
film, and after his big meltdown
scene in the crooked banker's apartment, the character has no room left to
grow.
She remembers Gortner as the high - energy den leader of the cast, on a shoot that ran far too long, and discloses that co-star Ida Lupino — herself a budget filmmaker of some renown —
grew so fed up with the schedule that she wrote a death
scene for her character, browbeat Gordon into
filming it that very day, and went home.
If the ecologic message could have been more rooted into the plot of the
film, and especially not treated with such harshness, this also would make the
film a bit more palatable, as young children might feel a bit distressed during the later
scenes of imminent danger to all of the characters they have
grown to love.
One
scene involving a certain early - 90s
film is absolutely gut - busting, but even that smart joke
grows a bit tired as it keeps getting mentioned.
Credit goes to Quaid and Grace for never playing any
scene in a vacuum, allowing their characters the complexity to express without having to explain verbally, and to
grow in their experiences before the
film ends.
There are only a few action
scenes in this drama but the first two
films were often too graphic in their depiction of children being killed (something that often
grew tiresome) so this
film feels like a nice departure.
Pinocchio tries to escape, is locked in a cage by Stromboli, is visited by the Blue Fairy, and then (in one of the best movie
scenes ever
filmed) tells her lies and finds that his nose
grows and
grows and
grows.
But lest this make BPM sound like a dry procedural manual for would - be change - makers, let me note that the movie also throbs with ecstatically
filmed nightclub dance sequences and one of the hottest sex
scenes of the year, between Pérez Biscayart's Sean and Arnaud Valois as a newcomer to the group who becomes his lover and, as he
grows sicker, his caregiver.
The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the
film bumbles from one confusingly mounted
scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to
grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.
It's a rare
film that makes you think deeply about the world around you while also making you laugh hard at
scenes of nudity or a
grown man walking down the street wearing a hairy monster costume.
The rare Woody Allen
film that's sold as an ensemble piece but is in fact a star vehicle, Blue Jasmine essentially acts as its own Best Actress campaign, with Blanchett appearing in virtually every
scene and
growing more deliciously unhinged as each minute passes.
The
film's final
scenes, showing the actual figures themselves as
grown adults, gesture at healing, closure and forgiveness.
It's a spellbinding
film that manages to
grow creepier as it progresses, and flows seamlessly from
scene to
scene.
With a trailer for his unreleased 2007 sex comedy «Oliviero Rising «hitting the web a few weeks back, the rare presence of Vincent Gallo on the
film scene recently
grew just a bit more noticeable.
Where the
film eventually goes astray is when the screenplay by Carol Black («
Growing Pains», «The Wonder Years») starts spewing forth
scene after
scene of well - intentioned, but completely patronizing material on how Mark shouldn't be punished for pretending to be Black because he learned that it isn't as fun as he thinks it is.
The «Peter Pan» Diamond Edition Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack (Blu - ray ™ + DVD + Digital Copy & Storybook App) is a «must - own» addition to everyone's home entertainment collection, filled with high - flying bonus features for all ages that includes — the groundbreaking feature Disney Intermission,
Growing up with Nine Old Men short
film, never - before - seen Deleted
Scenes and a never - before - heard Deleted Song.
«
grown - ish» star Trevor Jackson stars in an update of the»70s blaxploitation
film about a young Harlem drug - dealer, this time set in Atlanta among the thriving hip - hop
scene.
Thirty years on, the Austin
Film Society has become the cornerstone of Austin's thriving
film scene — the organization has
grown to include more than 1,900 members and founded the offshoot production facility Austin Studios — supporting a community of filmmakers and cinema lovers devoted to AFS's mission of
film appreciation.
It's not an exaggeration to say that, from this point on, almost every
scene in the
film feels pivotal, momentous, in much the way that the characters in this two - hander experience their
growing attraction.
From the close - ups of the actor to his delicate
scenes opposite Cynthia Nixon (who plays his cancer - stricken mother), the
film is an intimate look at the main character as he struggles with his own demons and his mother's
growing illness.
The
film had a great story, intrigue, fun characters, good humor, fantastic fight
scenes and most importantly,
grew the Marvel Universe by adding so much to
She
grew up on the sets of Francis Ford's
films and even appeared as a baby boy in the christening
scene of The Godfather.
Presented as part of the Club 57 exhibition, this survey celebrates
film and video created during New York's post-punk period, including landmark examples of No Wave, Cinema of Transgression, and independent
films that
grew out of the East Village
scene and were first exhibited in area venues like Club 57, New Cinema, Millennium, and others.
Home to more than 2.3 million residents, Metro Vancouver has
grown in recent decades to reflect a more diversified economy — incorporating a vibrant
film, television and video game production
scene within an established high - tech sector — along with a strong service economy comprising engineering, construction, financial services and legal firms.