Sentences with phrase «first half of the film»

That happens in the first of the film's three chapters, and Akin's portrait of the immediate aftermath of the tragedy is strong as he films Katja in the shadows of her family home, broken and suffering.

After the first of the film's many, many devastating events, Charley figures out what happens to racehorses when they no longer win, and he takes dramatic action to save his «friend.»

but with supernatural elements, the first of his films to do so.

Modeled after Toshiro Mifune's towering performance in Akira Kurosawa's «High and Low» (the first of the film's many nods to Japan's most famous director), the villainous bureaucrat suggests relocating every single one of the dogs in Uni Prefecture to a place called Trash Island, starting with his own Short - Haired Oceanic Speckle - Eared Sport Hound, Spots.

Glenn Ford is the bland family man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the placid poise of normalcy).

But, Sweet and Lowdown is the first of his films to deal specifically with his passion for jazz.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

I have a soft spot for 2001's Lovely & Amazing (the first of her films that I really fell in love with), but eventually voted for 2010's Please Give, a subtle, heartbreaking wonder that stars Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt as New York antique brokers who want to buy their dying neighbor's apartment, and Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet as the neighbor's stubborn granddaughters.

An early sequence demonstrates this well, as the first of the film's three protagonists, teenage boy Lucho (Henry Rivera), spies on his stepsister Sara (Yulianna Padilla) having sex with her boyfriend Bryan (Marcos Carlos Cintrón).

Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).

Millennium Mambo isn't generally considered one of Hou's best, but it was the first of his films that I saw and it remains my favorite many years and rewatches later.

Clearly influenced by extensive exposure to Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman describes her initial viewing of Woo's The Killer in such endearingly geeky terms («It was the first of his films I watched projected!»)

Now the trailer for the first of those films is available, which already seems to be more solid footing than Sandler's first couple of Netflix outings.

«Danny» is the first of the film's five chapters, and is immediately intriguing by virtue of having Sandler adopting his little - seen sensitive actor mode.

Swanberg is an indie idol, but Drinking Buddies is the first of his films to look like a «Sundance movie,» which is to say that a true independent voice is lost to convention.

The trailer for the first of these films, Antoine Fuqua's «Olympus Has Fallen,» has arrived.

Perhaps non-coincidentally, Baghead is the first of these films to receive a national roll - out of sorts (in a weird strategy, it's opened in college towns first — I saw it in Austin a little over a month ago — and proceeded back to the big cities, presumably on a storm of buzz.

Certainly Ian McKellan was deserving for the first of the films, but these two actors dominated the final film with astounding work.

Wes Anderson films are a genre unto themselves, and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» might be the first of his films to take that distinction for itself.

So I gave There's Something About Mary the benefit of the doubt at about 15 minutes in, when the first of the film's brazen money shots hit the screen.

The first of his films to be shot in Hawaii, Blue Hawaii was a bigger financial hit than G.I. Blues, though it was hampered by a rather dull narrative and surprisingly mediocre songs.

In the first of the film's four acts, he tracks down Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), a charismatic and photogenic Israeli politician whom he's just seen make a public appearance in New York.

Now, we finally have the first teaser trailer for the first of those films, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

Here, we witness skydiving cars, and that's just the starting point of the first of the film's extended action sequences.

There have been other uninspiring films in the Marvel canon (Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World and so on), but this is the first of these films that feels like it is aimlessly jumping from point A to B to C to D, following the exact same origin / redemption storyline that has been seen a billion times before.

and so on), but this is the first of these films that feels like it is aimlessly jumping from point A to B to C to D, following the exact same origin / redemption storyline that has been seen a billion times before.

Lassie Come Home is the first of a film series about a lovable, heroic border collie.

The first of these films was Love» s Presentation (1967), featuring David Hockney, which shows the artist in the midst of creating a series of etchings based on the erotic poems of C.P. Cavafy.

During GI, there is also a programme of six screenings of Ottinger's feature - length films beginning on Monday 23 April with Ticket of No Return (1979), the first of her films set in Berlin.