Sentences with phrase «films mythologize»

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating...

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.

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A critic risks mythologizing a newcomer or a film with such descriptions.

This makes him the obvious but worst choice for a film about the single most mythologized figure in our short history.

Her early descent down the Times Square stairs in Mistress America, the second film she co-wrote with Baumbach, felt like more than just the perfect introduction to her self - mythologizing character — it was also the coronation of indie royalty, like the star taking her place as the quick - witted queen of millennial New York neurosis.

Its idyll comes to an end shortly after the film opens, however, uprooting a young girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father (Dwight Henry) and kicking off a lyrical journey through a mythologized 21st - century South.

While the film never makes us doubt that Neruda is a great poet and a politician of true conviction, nevertheless he also emerges as a self - serving, self - mythologizing, perpetually randy buffoon.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.

Jared Moshe, the writer - director of the throwback Western programmer Dead Man's Burden, returns with another straightforward take on film's most mythologized genre.

Chopper is an interesting reference point when starting to analyze... Jesse James..., as both films look at legendary outlaw personas and treat them and their violence without condoning it, even mythologizing their compulsively violent disposition.