Sentences with phrase «films in his brief time»

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has made six near - perfect films in his brief time on this planet, the latest of which,... read more →

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has made six near - perfect films in his brief time on this planet, the latest of which, The Master, may be his most confident and ambitious.

Not exact matches

The film accurately delineates a 1950's midwestern family, and viscerally captures the everyday, unplanned, mundane life of the time: rough - housing, pre-adolescent boys playing in the grass with their dogs, wrestling in the tall grass pastures, mothers watching intently, arms - crossed to the discretion of their children outside a window, fathers kissing their children and wives on the cheek, brief - case in hand, before a long day's work at the plant, and the aestival sun browning the faces and arms of all under its path.

After a brief introduction of Bruce Wayne, the film jumps forward in time to the events depicted in the climax of Man of Steel, viewed this time through Wayne's eyes.

The Potter movies showed us their characters getting older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Potter was going to grow up like a normal person and never before has any film — or any book — brought home to me how terribly brief childhood is.

There have been few better British films than Brief Encounter even at a time when our studios are taking their place in the vanguard of this great contemporary art.

Through it all, actress Posey strikes attitudes and preens across the glib surface of the film, and though her campy excesses are tolerable for a brief time, the performance becomes an exercise in overkill.

As in every Bond film, the movie opens with a spectacular action sequence, but this time around, the brief encounter on a train doesn't end the way we expect.

After brief appearances in his father's films as a child, he made his first foray into helming with 1998's Zero Effect, before spending time in television on teen cult efforts Freaks And Geeks, Grosse Pointe and Undeclared.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

In the film, they are but cardboard cut - outs, with character development nonexistent - resulting possibly from the brief 95 minute run - time.

Supporting players get a brief time to shine, but sadly Shirley Henderson «s role as Gail is largely redundant, and Kelly MacDonald, who pops up as Diane in a very fleeting, extended cameo, are the only parts of the film which feel forced and unnecessary.

Loosely based on a graphic novel, the film spans a brief but tumultuous period in Adèle's life, from her last years of high school till some time later, when she is a twentysomething adult pursuing a career as a teacher.

The word «head» appears dozens of times in the film before homicidal maniac Charlie (John Goodman) leaves Barton the box that presumably contains that sole remaining part of his brief paramour Audrey.

Yet, for all of that, «The Wall» — penned by first - time screenwriter Dwain Worrell, whose script was well - regarded in Hollywood before it got turned into a film — feels longer than its brief 81 minutes.

As the film flies headlong through its jagged, jigsaw shards of broken narrative — time - skipping through the German invasion of France, a brief interlude in Dunkirk, and a dishonestly «clean» killing field strewn with the bodies of French schoolgirls — the two lovers try to reconnect, re-establish the crumbled social strata of antebellum England, and pretend that anybody besides them gives much of a shit.

«A Conversation with Errol Morris» is a brief intro for the film, giving a rundown of how the project got started and how difficult Morris found Rumsfeld, and a digital reproduction of his four - part op - ed in The New York Times about Rumsfeld also appears.

While brief, it was a tantalizing teaser of what's to come, and given that Gray's previous films, which include «The Yards,» «We Own The Night» and «Two Lovers» (all of which starred Phoenix), only seem to grow in power, and critical stature, over time, it's clearly one of the pictures we're mostly looking forward to in 2013.

Helms is pitch perfect here, with many great one - liners and displaying that same, spot - on comedic timing and delivery as Chase showcased in the «Vacation» franchise films (Chase and Beverly D'Angelo do make welcome, but brief appearances late in the movie.)

Tom Tykwer's second directorial effort after Run Lola Run has him keeping the running time brief (about 97 minutes), but the pace is similar to his more somber film in between, The Princess and the Warrior.

Hence the 91 - minute flight is shot in real time and, a few brief preliminary scenes aside, the film's scope is narrowed down to a handful of settings: five windowless control rooms and the inside of the passenger jet.

We meet the others as well but for insultingly brief periods, time enough I guess to prove the film's disinterest in the «Squad» part of its title.

Time travel plays a key role in the movie's distended wormhole of a narrative, which takes inspiration from textbooks both real (Stephen Hawking's «A Brief History of Time») and fictional («The Philosophy of Time Travel,» written by Roberta Sparrow, who is played in the film by Patience Cleveland).

But if Haynes is referring less directly to Sirk and Wyler here, his love of the films of that era slips through in other ways, both overt («Sunset Boulevard» plays within the film at one point) and inferred, like how Blanchett gets a truly Greta Garbo moment with a phone receiver, or how an insensitively timed interruption by an old friend is played exactly like a similar moment from «Brief Encounter.»

This film marks the second time that McCarthy has starred in a film that was directed by her real - life husband Ben Falcone (who has a brief cameo in the movie).

The supplements are far less lavish that the previous Columbia noir collection, limited to brief interview featurettes with Martin Scorsese (on The Brothers Rico), director Christopher Nolan and actress Emily Mortimer, but the star attractions are the five films making their DVD debuts in superb transfers, all of them in their correct aspect ratio for the first time on home video.

This delicate, not - so - brief encounter, probably long forgotten by both Chow and Li - zhen (there's a strong sense that all the action is being remembered — it has something to do with the film's breathless movement forward), deserves to be sifted from the ashes of time, in the same way that the story itself was sifted from the myriad possibilities Wong threw down during the epic shoot.

I know the film industry takes flak for being romantically inclined to paint everyday life in nearly every subject they choose to characterize in motion picture,... but personally, one of the reasons I appreciate films so very much, is the brief escape of the woes that might greet you in life to parlay for a few moments into someone else's shoes and to learn about someone else's life if only for that brief period of time.

Though the individual drawings, which make up the film sequences, exist for only a brief second in real time, their digital record provided the artist with references for a set of 7 intaglio prints, collectively called The Music of Things, presented in a box set by Stoney Road Press.

MD: I had my own record label, Tweet, for a brief time during the early 80s, and Lauri ran an independent film company and a small theater troupe in the late 80s, early 90s.