Sentences with phrase «films as memento»

Not exact matches

The film Memento has a more accurate portrayal of amnesia, or at least the variant known as «anterograde amnesia».

In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento.

In this way, Wendigo joins last year's crop of reality - and identity - testing films — such modern existentialist masterpieces as Memento and Mulholland Drive.

To make his argument, Bordwell must, of course, ignore those aspects of the films he studies that do not fit the classical narrative structure, like the non-classical nature of a character such as Memento's Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce).

In fact, I'm in great haste to write what I can, like Guy Pierce in MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finished.

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiencfilm (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiencFILM transfixed audiences).

Check out these sexy new promo posters featuring Anne Hathaway as Catwoman from the upcoming film «The Dark Knight Rises» by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown).

Nolan's admirers, who have risked dizziness and delirium trying to unpick the knotted twists and time structures of films such as Memento and The Prestige, would surely be disappointed if he didn't.

It's also a brilliant template for a thriller, as films such as Christopher Nolan's Memento have proven.

Nolan, who was born in London and holds both British and American citizenship, made his debut as a director 20 years ago, with Following, but his follow - up to that film, 2000's Memento, is what made people sit up and take notice.

There's no doubt that her performance could have been nominated, but the film falls into the same category as Memento — a real independent with a real independent budget.

As Following's nonlinear design isn't as dramatic as Memento's reverse, this version isn't terribly different, though it does lack some of the film's artfulness and kicAs Following's nonlinear design isn't as dramatic as Memento's reverse, this version isn't terribly different, though it does lack some of the film's artfulness and kicas dramatic as Memento's reverse, this version isn't terribly different, though it does lack some of the film's artfulness and kicas Memento's reverse, this version isn't terribly different, though it does lack some of the film's artfulness and kick.

I'm not sure why Norton should complain, as The Italian Job is easily one of the most entertaining films of 2003, and much of the credit should go to director Gray as well as cinematographer Wally Pfister (Insomnia, Memento) for the truly sumptuous visual look of the film.

I have it as a memento of the film.»

In Patrick Hough's proposal, on the other hand, forgotten artefacts from the Hollywood Dream Factory — props and décor from abandoned film sets — take on a new life as precious mementoes of cinema history: replicas and fakes that have acquired a strange kind of authenticity.