Sentences with phrase «genre than the first film»

Not exact matches

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

«Schrader works in a stately, dark - toned style that's far more compelling than the frenetic genre hash of his last two films, «Dying of the Light» (2014) and «Dog Eat Dog (2016),» Variety opined in a review, coming into «First Reformed» as a summation of Schrader's work: «Paul Schrader pours all his obsessions, from Robert Bresson to pulp violence, into a grindhouse art film you can't stop watching.»

Even more than the first film, «Deadpool 2» mocks itself and its genre while flaunting a taste for the grotesque.

The film is a change of pace for Olivier, his first time directing someone other than Shakespeare and in a genre other than classical drama.

Wolfen (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- The werewolf movie was revived and reworked with a vengeance in 1981 andWolfen, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel and directed by Michael Wadleigh (his first feature since the epic concert film Woodstock), was a far more radical take on the genre than either An American Werewolf in Londonor The Howling, though not as popular as either.

It had more pizzazz than anything else that seems like a Best Film of the season, it managed to be explicitly about movies without violating its trajectories as a first - rate genre film (thriller), it was rife with the best, least slavish sort of hommages, and it tapped into the moods and mannerisms of other cinéastes like Nick Ray, Hitchcock, and Hopper without for a moment ceasing to be Ein Film von Wim Wenders.

Last night at a trailer Q&A Wan mentioned that this film is almost in a different genre than the first, where the subtext here is domestic drama rather than a haunted house.

Set up as a separate entity in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward II.

What You Need to Know: «Labor Day» will be Jason Reitman's fifth film, and for the first time, seems to mark a move away from the comedy genre, calling for a more sincere tone than «Up in the Air» or «Young Adult ``.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

A mash - up of more than 250 films from the late»90s and early 2000s, this crowdfunded doc is a giddy celebration of the genre directed by first - timer Charlie Lyne.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

T'Challa's first feature dominated more than the superhero genre, however, as the film outperformed even Star Wars: The Last Jedi domestically in its debut.

Curated by William Kaizen, and comprising more than 20 films, Pop Cinema was the first exhibition to present its subject as a distinct film genre.