Sentences with phrase «from earlier films»

For the former Turner prize nominee now based in Berlin, it also marks a departure from earlier films that included portraits of artists such as Mario Merz and Cy Twombly, not only because it involves a live performance, but also because she is accustomed to being invisible.

The emotional component of this plot turn doesn't really land until Creed, which engages with Rocky history so skillfully that several cheesy touches from the earlier films come out of the new one looking better, smarter, and more satisfying than they ought to be.

The Unknown Girl (Belgium) revisits themes from earlier films — poverty in poor communities, families going paycheck to paycheck, immigrants at the bottom of the social food chain — but views them through the eyes of a young doctor (Adèle Haenel).

And when your actors are playing the same basic characters from earlier films, you know things are beginning to get stale.

The setpieces, in addition to mostly rehashing better scenes from earlier films, feel thrown together to serve the effects, and the effects look far less astonishing than anything in Cameron's first two films.

Peltz and Reynor at least have the advantage that they're not Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox from the earlier films.

On one hand, it's trying to keep the flippant charm from the earlier films, but this doesn't quite work in the modern gritty set - up.

This new version of the story is itself a Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together with bits and pieces taken from the earlier films and series.

In the hands of a more accomplished scriptwriter and an appropriation of style and tone from his earlier films, a subversive Lannoo could have made a refreshing mark on the romantic, comedy fantasy genre.

Akerman's Nuit et jour (Night and Day, 1991) departs significantly in style from these earlier films in that it is much more playful, light and commercially oriented.

Testament pits the insane master criminal Mabuse (or his proxy) against Löhmann, the master detective introduced in M. Rudolph Klein - Rogge and Otto Wernicke reprise their roles from the earlier films.

The swoony atmosphere is familiar from his earlier films, particularly «I Am Love» (2009), in which Tilda Swinton communed with the Italian countryside, a young lover and every sensory pleasure known to Swintonhood.

While he borrowed some elements from earlier films, Romero created certain behaviors and rules that would render his living dead the model for zombie films for the next three decades.

If you recall the lore from the earlier films, you'll know that marriage to Edward means Bella must become a vampire herself, which any groupie who has slept with Gene Simmons will understand.

To get the competitive edge, Lassard brings back plenty of ringers from earlier films to help train new recruits for the big competition, including Sgt. Carey Mahoney, a glib, wisecracking lady's man played by Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith's towering Moses Hightower and Eugene Tackleberry (David Graff), the franchise's Rambo figure.

The film focuses on the Cajun Latour family, in particular Alexander Napoleon Ulysses Latour, whose youth and innocence personifies the virgin wetlands, recalling the figures of Nanook and Moana from the earlier films.

It's a little rough in places, and there are repeated character animations throughout the film, as well as certain sequences traced from earlier films, such as Snow White and the then still recent Jungle Book.

Like Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky, this Miyazaki epic puts ecological concerns at the center of a human power struggle — but a decade on from those earlier films, the director's worldview had become much more complex.

Wholly different from the earlier films by MUrray, Ramis and Ackroyd.

Though the opening tracking shot of Jackie moving forward suggests the sort of independent toughness one associates with Grier from her earlier films, here she is actually a struggling working woman rushing to get to her job.

This film features scenes with other people, offering a distinct diversion from the earlier films, which both only focused on conversations between the couple.

Setting aside actors from earlier films who have passed away (Richard Harris) or are no longer needed (Emma Thompson), let me just cite a list for those who know their actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Jason Isaacs, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Peter Mullan and Julie Walters.

It follows Katie and Kristi, the sisters from the earlier films, as young girls.

He also saved money by recycling footage from earlier films, which resulted in shorts that ultimately began to blur the line between remakes and rereleases.

Mancini is described by actors as «serious» and «gentle» as a lead - in to a quick montage of violent kills from the earlier films.

Curtis know - it - alls will have fun ticking off the characters and flourishes that re-emerge from earlier films.

Attuned to the formalism inherent in Japanese life — the rules of school, playground and workplace; the frequency of group singing and parades; the use of communal and folk song as receptacle of social values and agent of social pressure — Ballad of Narayama simply takes these elements familiar from his earlier films and pushes them to their aesthetic limit.

The film demonstrates how Marvel, following the overall architecture overseen by studio head Kevin Feige, ties together moments, personalities and themes from earlier films in ways beyond reheated nostalgia.

He's marvelous, as are all the British character actors — Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, David Thewlis — who pop up to reprise characters from earlier films, sometimes without speaking more than a line or two.

seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on.

Noah Taylor repeats his «Danny» characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school.

Perhaps it's something lost in translation, but I always feel a certain distance from her early films and «Sweetie» is no exception.

«All is Lost», writer - director J. C. Chandor's sophomore effort following 2011's «Margin Call», is a tremendous achievement, and as far removed from the earlier film as possible.

But I thought a lot about the 1979 film while watching Ready Player One, and not only because Alan Silvestri's score deliberately quotes John Williams's bombastic military march from the earlier film (one of hundreds of hidden nuggets in a film that is quite literally an Easter egg hunt).

So if you've already seen The Untouchables and you're a stickler for originality, you'll likely be irritated at how much Gangster Squad cribs from the earlier film.

From his early films like Velvet Goldmine (a 1998 film that explores the»80s and»70s) and Far from Heaven (a 2002 film set in the 50s) to his most recent work, Carol (also set in the 50s), Haynes is a master at crafting gorgeous period pieces.

Join producer James Tucker, producer / director Brandon Vietti, WAC Podcast hosts Matthew Patterson and DW Ferranti and surprise guests, as they examine Batman iterations and oddities throughout history, from early films like «Public Defender» and the Batman cartoons, to new versions of the character, the off - kilter takes and new media.

From his early films Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to his Palm D'Or and Academy Award winning Amour (2012), he has used cinema to paint a portrait of humankind alienated in modern society, lacking in compassion at best and utterly amoral at worst.

We find decent notes about the characters; I especially like Koepp's remarks about how he wanted to update Cruise's parts from his earliest films.

In look, in tone, and in character, we find a lot of echoes from the earlier film.

It replaces the satiric TV ads with the darkly satiric newscast, although OmniCorp robot wrangler Rick Mattox (Jamie Earl Haley) does get to quote one of the signature lines from the earlier film.

It's quite different from the earlier film, both in length (much longer), tone (much funnier), and style (much more freewheeling, especially in the performances).

Like stills from the early films of Antonioni, his paintings often present the intensely stylish surface of a single moment.

at Martin Gropius Bau presents a broad spectrum of Genzken's extraordinary and exceptionally diverse oeuvre, from her early films, drawings, and concrete sculptures to complex collages and everyday items integrated into montages.

However, the samples do, in fact, show the evolution of her practice, from the early films — which tended to shy away from montage as a form of spectator manipulation — to her last offerings, which fully embrace special effects and, in extension, a disorienting sense of poly - focality.

Barney replaced the human body with the body of the 1967 Chrysler Imperial that was the central motif from his earlier film Cremaster 3.

This series, ranging from his earliest films to his final digital undertakings, reaffirms Conner's stature as a continuously innovative filmmaker of transformative influence.

Not exact matches

Revenue from Viacom «s film business increased 24 % to $ 758 million in the quarter from a year earlier.

The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set of the film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.