Sentences with phrase «film these days without»

You can't make a British horror film these days without straining to articulate class anxieties, and Ciaran Foy's Citadel is no exception.

You can't watch an action film these days without Hong Kong cinema's influence.

Not exact matches

The marketing for the film is sickening: posited as «an incredible fairytale love story,» encouraged as a date - night movie, and set to release just in time for Valentine's Day, Fifty Shades barrels ahead without an ounce of self - awareness — or, perhaps, of conscience.

In the meantime, Ms Marsh, who played a starring role in Mr Smith's controversial Australia Day television advertisement which was filmed at the Cowra cannery, can now only join her former co-workers in looking to the first creditors meeting at the bowling club next Tuesday to provide them with some explanation as to why the company of one of the town's largest employers shut up shop without warning.

A 2005 film would focus on the fact that V, who - like Dredd, his opposite - is never seen without his mask, was a terrorist and used it to chime with the «war on terror» narrative of the day.

In the days of film photography, one long exposure would do, but a digital camera can not easily record long exposures without buildup of electronic noise, which degrades the image.

Well, they are right in that regard, which seems to be the real point of the film in the end, as these are people who live from day to day without much to look forward to except to go to work and drink all night, then do it all again the next day.

For though «Insurgent» can't quite do without its pro forma personal moments between characters (the film even includes a sex scene so chaste it wouldn't have disturbed Doris Day in her prime), its heart is not there but in its action sequences.

It's probably the best thing about Oscar season, when they run the great films on TCM without commercials for 31 Days of Oscar (you know, with the date change, it's no longer 31 days but it used to Days of Oscar (you know, with the date change, it's no longer 31 days but it used to days but it used to be).

Without the emotional gut punch that seemed to come in every frame of Mungiu's masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, this picture truly opens up on multiple viewings, and with its eyes set to the heavens, the film seems Hell bent on questioning their existence entirely.

Without the benefit of context that extends beyond the events of the day, the film's ability to address more general questions as to why such inexcusable violence could occur is limited.

It's a simple but extraordinarily effective trailer, selling the film's creeping sense of dread without revealing a single thing about where it comes from — other than the time of day, of course.

Disney's approach to restoration was witchcraft in those early days of the format: Regarding celluloid as a transitory delivery system for animation, Disney archivists (somehow) managed to leach the image of film grain without harming fine detail.

Most of his working - class ensemble pieces are set very much in the present day, but following the success of his Gilbert and Sullivan biopic «Topsy Turvy» (1999)-- which was inevitably set in the past — Leigh has once again turned to period drama with his latest work, «Vera Drake» — without ever abandoning the ideological concerns of his more contemporary films.

The core film lineup is not announced until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to the fest without knowing any of the movies that will definitely play.

After three and a half years without a directorial release, Spielberg ended up with two films scheduled to open within four days of each other and Christmas 2011.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

This could have been done on purpose, as there are deeper meanings with that idea, in itself, but at the end of the day, this is a horror film without the horror.

Seven Days Sunday is a necessarily bleak retelling of an horrific real - life occurrence, that like many films of its nature raises several possible explanations without ever being able to settle on one.

Every week, no, nearly every other day, does it seem like the news churns out for The Batman, and the latest is the possibility that the film's new course could sail without the villain -LSB-...]

After all the controversy over Jane Got a Gun — the Natalie Portman western that Ramsay was supposed to direct until she dropped out on the first day of filming — the mere fact of this movie making it to the finish line without any kind of drama would be a victory.

The film follows the gang as they attempt to return to the present day without causing too much upset in as they run into old flames, friends, and enemies...

It is the kind of film that can not be replicated in this day and age, without coming across as a B - Movie.

Robin Campillo himself was a participant in ACT UP - Paris in his younger days, and the easy jockeying between strategy and action in the film would likely have been near impossible without his insider perspective.

Again only one film... but no list would be complete without Terrence Malick - Nestor Almendros» work on «Days of Heaven».

Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the film's ephemeral style distances the action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.

Likewise, LaBute's direction never rises above «competent,» and the noticeable lack of art direction makes the movie look cheap (it was clearly filmed in ordinary locations around Albuquerque, and one imagines the city rues the day it gave LaBute whatever tax breaks convinced him to shoot there, since he depicts the locals, almost without exception, as rubes).

In her new film, My Life Without Me, acclaimed Canadian actress Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) plays Ann, a young mother secretly dying of cancer who decides to make the most of her remaining days.

One feels like this is how the film looked and sounded in opening day exhibitions, only without any perceivable technical flaws.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked about their longtime friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture movies of another era.

RIFF OF SCANDAL Can't recognize the players in Scandal, the new film about the granddaddy of modern - day sexploits, the 1963 Profumo Affair, without our team giving you their numbers Graham Fuller on the deep threat Gavin Smith grills John Hurt Marlaine Glicksman unwraps Roland Gift

The film begins as A wakes up in the body of bullish jock Justin (Justice Smith) and attempts to live that day for him, without leaving a trace.

Yet after filming was completed, Day - Lewis, 60, shocked the movie world in June by announcing, without explanation, that he was retiring as an actor.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 5, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hangover (R for sexuality, nudity, drug and alcohol abuse and pervasive profanity) «What Happens in Vegas» comedy about three friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis) of the groom - to - be (Justin Bartha) who throw a wild bachelor party in a suite at Caesar's Palace only to have their pal disappear without a trace the day before the wedding.

Even without taking under account the evident, constant battle between both characters» «little angels and demons,» there are indeed several religious images throughout «Changing Lanes» and my guess is that Michell tried to make a not so subtle parallel between both characters escalating wrong - doings and Christ's dying for our transgressions, not unlike the ones depicted here, only for them to end the film by actually achieving a redemption of sorts similar to Christ's resurrection, which for both characters in the film seemed so elusive throughout this day, even in moments such as the one when the movie manages to casually place the character played by Affleck (a non-Catholic, I think) inside a confessional with a priest, no less.

Headlined by Kiss Me Deadly, Ordet, Mr. Arkadin, All That Heaven Allows and Lola Montes, there are at least 17 films from this year I really liked (Street Of Shame, Rebel Without A Cause, Bad Day At Black Rock, The Big Combo, Smile's Of A Summer Night, The Seven - Year Itch, It's Always Fair Weather, etc etc) leaving out at least one wherein I'm of the minority opinion that it's not all that good (Guys And Dolls).

One day, we'll be able to watch the film without associating it with voter identification laws, a Supreme Court decision that put an arbitrary expiration date on racial discrimination, and a string of highly publicized and questionable police killings.

The film revolves around Copley's character who wakes up one day in a pit of dead bodies without any memory of how he got there.

Tod Browning's controversial revenge thriller is a horror film that could never be made, remade, or even replicated these days without all sorts of people getting really angry.

Somewhat reminiscent of Emmerich's biggest hit - 1996's Independence Day - this film stands as Emmerich's first movie without long - time partner producer Dean Devlin.

Nim's Island isn't without a few moments of over-familiarity, and in some ways it's actually demure when compared to a lot of other movies aimed these days chiefly at kids — which may be a bit of a strike for those raised on the Harry Potter films and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Everyone is still peeved at the way Liam ditched high school sweetheart Josie (Jessica Rothe, from Happy Death Day) on their wedding day — without explanation (an ambiguity that turns out to be preferable to the soapy, here's - why - I - drink monologue we get from Liam in the closing moments of the filDay) on their wedding day — without explanation (an ambiguity that turns out to be preferable to the soapy, here's - why - I - drink monologue we get from Liam in the closing moments of the filday — without explanation (an ambiguity that turns out to be preferable to the soapy, here's - why - I - drink monologue we get from Liam in the closing moments of the film).

Roland - François Lack hunts down the locations for Holy Motors, incidentally revealing without comment what's likely another of the film's intertextual links: The home Lavant emerges from to start his day is the Villa Paul Poiret, built for the early 20th - century fashion designer who, Wikipedia informs, required guests at his parties to dress in costume and himself went from riches to an impoverished street artist.

A biopic about the last days of the actor Sal Mineo, the onetime teen idol who appeared in such films as «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Exodus.»

It appears that it might be a stunt double under the armor instead of Robert Downey Jr., who was spotted on set the day before filming a similar scene, though without his superhero character's famous costume.

The fine veteran actor Christopher Plummer would take on the role, complete ten days» new filming at breakneck speed, the film would be re-edited... all without changing its release date.

And in sidestepping many of the pitfalls that come with continuing a beloved franchise, the film invites viewers to revel in the old glory days without simply trying to recreate them.

Escape From Tomorrow (D +)-- «Employing guerrilla - style filmmaking (filming on location without permission), Randy Moore's audacious debut film chronicles the last day of the White's vacation at the serene Disney World.

There is no more fitting film to end on, no more fitting Easter viewing, than without question the most powerful, all be it controversial, depiction of Jesus» final days in The Passion of the Christ.

Eerie and understated in equal measure, the film follows a party of girls from a strict boarding school, who go on an outing to nearby landmark Hanging Rock on a St. Valentine's Day — only for part of the group vanish without explanation.