Sentences with phrase «film works on terms»

But to consider it a failed experiment, or a quixotic folly, would be meaningless because the film works on terms that are entirely its own: if it resembles anything at all, it's the uncategorizable, uncanny extraterrestrial artifacts left behind on Earth by the alien visitors in the Strugatskys» Roadside Picnic.

Not exact matches

While working on a film set in 1987, a billboard prop collapsed and one of the beams struck her on the head, knocking her unconscious and causing long - term damage to her neck, shoulders, and memory.

As hard as it may be to trash a movie that looks so glorious, an unavoidable conflict has been created, because «The American» is clearly intended as an art film and it works perfectly fine as that, but it fails on so many levels in terms of telling an interesting story.

After substantial parts in two high - profile box - office disappointments, Terms of Endearment sequel The Evening Star (1996) and the Sandra Bullock - Chris O'Donnell historical romance In Love and War (1996), Astin focused on work in more idiosyncratic independent films.

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

While pithy, the term isn't quite right: In the 45 years since her first uncredited on - screen appearance, at age 6 in her mother's film White Lightning, Dern has amassed one of the most consistently interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.

He has done masterful work; the films are reverent without being precious - and play well on their own terms.

While I found it interesting to form my own rationale as to what the film is about, by the same token, I often am reluctant to actually recommend films that don't work on fundamental narrative terms without having to read personal philosophical theories into them.

Based on his childhood experiences, the film follows Bernard and Joan Berkman (Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney) as they come to terms with the fact their marriage is no longer working and well, it never will.

Because the writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.»

Some people were disappointed that the film doesn't capture much of the darkness of the Ragnarok comic, but I think the film works tremendously on its own terms.

With The Thing, it was the first major studio film he and Carpenter worked on which was «so full of interesting new things» for the duo in terms of the types of boundaries they were pushing with the film on top of having the backing and budget of a big studio.

«We're thrilled to be working with her and the team at Pretty Pictures on this wonderfully life affirming, funny and heartfelt film about coming to terms with your past to face your future.»

The bleak and confusing narrative vaguely touches on issues of grief for emotional impact, but it's the silly playfulness of the film and Cusack's dedication to it that make 1408 work on its own limited terms.

The feature film version of Just Mercy is being produced by Gil Netter (Water for Elephants, Life of Pi, The Blind Side, The Sea of Trees), to be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster) who is currently working on the script with Andrew Lanham.

Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant — and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful.

Ananda: Richard Linklater Because: Also a tough call in terms of my own affection for all of these director's work this past year, but Linklater spent 12 years on his film and that kind of perseverance deserves respect.

• Always eager for a «look, we said something about it first» story, Steve Weintraub calls an exclusive (seriously, we need to define this term already) on a story Eric Roth has been talking about here and there for a while now... his desire to pen a space film, among other scripts the writer is working on, all reported elsewhere long ago.

Reframing Frances Ha as a Greta Gerwig film allows us to flip this script and begin to think about how her sensibility, biography, and tangible screen presence work in a way that is undoubtedly amplified and complicated by Baumbach's contributions, but ultimately can be understood on their own terms.

When you set out to work on something with a big price tag on it in terms of production cost, I'm aware that it needs to do certain things that lower - budgeted films don't do.

Normally I try to weigh movies on their own terms, but director James Wan (Dead Silence, Death Sentence) and writer / co-star Leigh Whannell just steal too much of their style from the works of David Fincher (Se7en, The Game), and the constant reminders to the older, better films makes Saw feel like a b - list knock off.

The Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union is at its peak, and Richard Nixon (the make - up, especially on the aged Nixon is one of the film's weakest aspects) is the US President for a fifth term (after a repeal of the 22nd Amendment), able to secure the position through his utilization of costumed superheroes to do the government's dirty work in world affairs.

The most notable example of a depressing del Toro departure would be his exit from The Hobbit; after working on the film for two years, he left in 2010 order to attend to other existing long - term commitments.

Your needs will depend on the project at hand, but it is important to consider location both in terms of how you will work together and where the actual filming will take place.

Erik Van Lieshout works on long - term projects that primarily end up as films, but also as drawings and objects.

The final year of working on the film (a long - term, start - and - stop project) was devoted almost exclusively to expanding the role of color.

A diverse programme of public and family events accompanies the exhibition, including free exhibition tours, regular and February Half Term children's workshops, a Friday night film programme selected by the artist (to enrich the references to these works in the catalogue), and Daria Martin In Conversation with Catherine Wood, Curator, Contemporary Art / Performance Tate Modern, on Thursday 23 February at 6.30 pm.

From what I had time to preview, the film selections include at least two of the show's major works: Frederick Wiseman's 2010 excursion into unnarrated documentary, «Boxing Gym,» and Thom Andersen's three - hour «Los Angeles Plays Itself,» a meditation on the discrepancy between movies and real life in largely architectural terms that is as enthralling as it is dispiriting.

1I wonder if you've thought about the function of scale in terms of Robert Smithson's work, for example, in the distinct experiences of encountering the Spiral Jetty (1970), seeing the photographs or drawings, watching the film, walking on the actual artwork, reading the text, and thinking about the piece.

Later in the Autumn IMMA launches IMMA Collection: Freud Project, 2016 — 2021; a significant selection of 50 works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), regarded as one of the world's greatest realist painters, which are on long - term loan to the IMMA Collection; Europa, the first survey exhibition of Palestinian artist Emily Jacir's work in Ireland which brings together almost two decades of sculpture, film, drawings, large - scale installations and photography with a focus on Jacir's work in Europe, particularly Italy and the Mediterranean.