Sentences with phrase «from midnight movie»

For his effort, Lynch received an Academy Award nomination for best director and quickly moved him from the midnight movie circuit to the mainstream.

The «Lord of the Rings» films turned Peter Jackson from midnight movie auteur to Oscar - winning superstar, but Tolkien wasn't the only influence on his style.

Not exact matches

«We began by discussing the old Times Square depicted in great movies like Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver from the 70's, a time when NYC was grittier, sassier, and creatively exploding.

From the movie Midnight Cowboy, Harry Nilsson's 1969 song still echoes in my mind: «Everybody's talking at me... I don't hear a word they're saying...» That's sometimes how I feel today when people talk about common trendy low - carb diets.

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

Then envision midnight - movie touches mixed into the filmmaking: flash cuts of predators and prey enhancing otherwise typical scenes of plans being hatched; monologues about brain capacity and the true meaning of time coupled with psychedelic visions and wormholes and explanatory objects materializing from thin air.

Nichols is a rising director with the fantastic indie Mud under his belt, and he also has a sci - fi movie called Midnight Special coming in 2015, so maybe executives have already seen some impressive work from that movie to give them confidence in his tackling of a big screen comic book adventure.

Meanwhile, Victor Frankenstein is moving from October 2 to November 25, where it'll face off against Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, the Rocky spinoff Creed, Jeff Nichols» Midnight Special, Jonathan Levine's still - untitled Christmas movie, and (perhaps most intimidating of all) the second weekend of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.

Coren Mitchell professes herself astonished that this movie gets top marks from me «right up there with Midnight Cowboy or Some Like It Hot».

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Two years in a row, The A.V. Club named a film from writer - director Richard Linklater the best movie of the year, with Before Midnight topping our 2013 list and Boyhood claiming the title in 2014.

In what will surely be pushing the limits of fair use (or create a rights - clearing nightmare for IFC Midnight who picked up the film), «Room 237» cuts together not only footage from «The Shining,» but from every Kubrick film along with countless other works (ranging from Mario Bava to Alfred Hitchock to classic Disney cartoons), strings it all together, and pairs it with audio from interviews with various obsessives who have formulated their own opinions on what the movie really means.

Director Becca Wolff keeps the comic pacing pretty crisp, adding some extra slasher satire to the smooth changes of James Faerron's clever set as the action shifts back and forth from the terrific roadster that Lexi's driving to a midnight movie, with Jess, in their Northern California hometown to the fast - food and kitsch - cluttered «U Conn» (pronounced «Yukon») dorm room she shares with Katharine Chin's digital - media - engulfed Yoonji.

It's after midnight on 4/24/18, and I'm sitting across from my 15 - year - old daughter, who claims not to like movies much but is an exuberant Marvel fan, and who rocked and laughed and gasped throughout the long running time of Avengers: Infinity War.

The thoroughly awful movie that resulted from their collaboration would go on to become a midnight cult classic, one of the most highly regarded so - bad - it's - good films ever made.

On the very different end of the scale, Asian cinema delivered two bonkers and blood - splattered midnight movies with Kim Ki - duk «s «Moebius» (a big step up from his Golden Lion - winning «Pieta «-RRB- and Sion Sono «s meta «Why Don't You Play In Hell.»

However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

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The estate of William Faulkner asserts that a 10 - word quote from Faulkner uttered by the character played by Owen Wilson in Woody Allen film «Midnight in Paris» made a «massive contribution'to the movie.

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Movies, best seen in a big dark room full of strangers, are uniquely suited for creating and sustaining a sense of captivating mystery, and few films have done it better this year than Midnight Special, the latest from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud).

The Hitman's Bodyguard, which bears the tagline «Get triggered» and is essentially a dumber, tackier Midnight Run, was destined to be one of those Neanderthalic, faux - merican EuropaCorp action movies, like The Transporter or From Paris With Love — except fate fumbled, and the film ended up as a coasting - on - star - power...

Somehow you've managed to stretch what could've been an impressive twenty - minute short into a bland full - length feature that only stands out because it could actually pass as a B - grade midnight movie from the 1980's.

Vertigo, who distributed «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» in Britain, were backing a low - budget monster movie from Gareth Edwards, who was looking for a real - life American couple to play the leads in his picture.

The movie steals several tropes from past on - the - road comedies, including, most blatantly, 1988's Midnight Run.

One of two midnight movies playing at the festival, this film from the writing team behind Airplane!

And this year's programming once again presents a hodge - podge of movies that run the gamut from marquee - name Hollywood movies (Paramount's spring thriller A Quiet Place starring Emily Blunt is the opening - night selection) to mash notes from the digital underground, music docs on Southern rockers and free - jazz legends and a Mississippi native named Elvis, the usual midnight - movie psychotronica and a whole lot of beautifully unclassifiable missives from the margins.

filmmaking tips IndieWire six life saving tips for cinematographers from the great Darius Khondji (Se7en, Evita, Midnight in Paris, and more...) Movie Line twenty - two pieces of storytelling advice from a Pixar artist LA Times offers up awards show tips for the Oscars (hey, that's sorta filmmaking tips) via the Tony Awards though I will continue to hate everyone and especially every writer who suggests very publicly that we don't need to see Costume Designers winning their prizes.

Cosmatos gives him plenty of opportunities in this hypnotic midnight movie, which veers from astonishing, expressionistic exchanges to gory mayhem without an iota of compromise.

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A road movie with a science fiction twist, Midnight Special follows Roy (Nicholas stalwart Michael Shannon) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton), estranged childhood friends reunited over the protection of Roy's son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a boy who appears to have supernatural powers that manifest as a spectral white light that emanates from his eyes.

But Team Frémaux obviously doesn't know either director's A material from their B material — To's phoned - in comedy thriller Blind Detective got a midnight slot, but it's not my idea of a midnight movie.

Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story are both available individually from The Criterion Collection, while The Transformers: The Movie hails from Shout!

Movie review of «Midnight Special»: A boy and two men go on the run from formidable forces in this well - crafted paranoid sci - fi thriller.

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Titled on screen as Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), it's a Frankenstein monster of a movie in that Welles, as scripter, pieced together bits from no less than five Shakespeare plays.

Though the movie The Room was released almost exactly 13 years ago, Tommy Wiseau's dark comedy of errors lives on in infamy, immortalized through midnight screenings worldwide during which spoons are thrown, footballs are tossed and lines from the movie are shouted in packed theaters.

From the get, director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) abandons all pretense of heightening his horror film with dramatic subtexts and characters with more than one dimension — this is midnight movie fare through and through.

Austin director Jeff Nichols, who drew critical acclaim for «Shotgun Stories,» «Take Shelter» and «Mud,» showed a clip from his upcoming movie «Midnight Special» on Saturday at South by Southwest.

Opening March 18, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is Midnight Special, the latest cerebral sci - fi thriller from young writer / director Jeff Nichols starring Kirsten Dunst and Michael Shannon.

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A couple of its more peripheral niche sections — Midnight Madness (genre movies from horror to martial arts, presented with plenty of showmanship) and Wavelengths (experimental film, meticulously presented with care and respect)-- have carved out strong identities and audience followings for themselves.

Pretty much everyone who loves movies is a fan of the Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight series from Richard Linklater.

Whatever the semantics, the movie's funniest scenes — like the one set during midnight Mass or a text - based conversation in which a happily married, straight man feels compelled to talk about a complete stranger's genitalia — follow a through line from one mistake to the next.

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Email in your questions: [email protected] This special bonus edition of the Flickering Myth Podcast contains the full - length audio from Scott Davis» interview with the director of Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols, where he talks about the movie, working with Michael Shannon, and Adam Drivers bright future.

Here's the first official movie still featuring the cast from the upcoming film «Sherlock Holmes 2» directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Rachel McAdams (Midnight in Paris, Morning Glory, The Time Traveler's Wife, Mean Girls), Robert Downey Jr. (The Avengers, Due Date, Love & District, Iron Man 2, The Soloist), Noomi Rapace, Jude Law (Repo Men, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Hugo Cabret), Stephen Fry, Jared Reilly and Geraldine James.

Yahoo! Movies got their hands on this really cool behind the scenes video from the upcoming film «Sherlock Holmes 2» directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Rachel McAdams (Midnight in Paris, Morning Glory, The Time Traveler's Wife, Mean Girls), Robert Downey Jr. (The Avengers, Due Date, Love & District, Iron Man 2, The Soloist), Noomi Rapace, Jude Law (Repo Men, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Hugo Cabret), Stephen Fry, Jared Reilly and Geraldine James.

Green Room is a rare gift from the genre gods: a nasty, punk - as - fuck midnight movie made by a genuine artist, a filmmaker with a great eye and a true understanding of the people and places he's splattering in viscera.