Sentences with phrase «genres of the road movie»

Technically, Alice in the Cities is Wim Wenders's fourth film, but he often refers to it as his first, because it was during this film that he discovered the genre of the road movie.

Mississippi Grind has a distinct seventies feel; blurs the genre of road movie with addiction drama.

Thelma & Louise updates the classic rite of finding oneself on the open road and the typically masculine genre of the road movie.

Not exact matches

Similarly, the road movie genre has mined family discomfort in National Lampoon's Vacation and Little Miss Sunshine, and without the bonds of blood in Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Due Date.

A smash hit on the drive - in circuit, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was a key film in the post-Easy Rider road movie genre, for although it retained the explosive fatalism of the others within the movement, it did away with their taciturn, enigmatic protagonists.

Another impressive aspect of this year's numbers is that the billion was reached via a wide array of genres — war movies (American Sniper), Fantasy (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), disaster movie (San Andreas), post-apocalypitic thriller (Mad Max: Fury Road, and R - rated comedy (Get Hard) among them.

Shot in color, but being theatrically distributed in black and white, the film was also something of a slow - burn passion project for Payne, as he originally shelved it back in 2003 to take a break from the road movie genre after «Sideways.»

Extremely ambitious in scope — the movie takes on several genres at once, including fantasy, romantic comedy, action, adventure and more — «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» does have good intentions, but the road here is often paved with cloying misdirection.

A superb pas - de-deux with American cinema, this ultra-violent futuristic film brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of Road Movie, Western and Science - Fiction elements.

MNPP puckers up for Tom Sturridge - On the Road is now on DVD and Olivier Assayas Sils Maria is next Empire Beautiful cast lining up for the adaptation of the best - seller Dark Places, a drama about a woman who survived a Satanic massacre, with Charlize Theron headlining and Nicholas Hoult, Corey Stoll and Christina Hendricks supporting i09 has a Fall Movie Guide for 20 upcoming genre films.

Kerouac's serial crisscrossing of the American continent overlaps with one of the great cinematic genres, the road movie

The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.

For fans of the actors and hardcore enthusiasts of the «road movie» genre — of which there are enough entrants to program its own festival — $ 5 a Day has enough charm to warrant a rental; others, however, may mostly shrug.

This subtle blend of fact and fiction is part and parcel of Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderón's playful approach to the material, which shifts in and out of various genres, including chase thriller, film noir, road movie and even western.

But just as older genre film fans might look back in wonder at the summer of ’82 (featuring E.T., Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof ’82 (featuring E.T., Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf Khan, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, and Blade Runner) or the summer of ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof ’84 (Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf Doom), there have been some contemporary summers with robust, varied lineups of very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain Americaof very good movies, like 2008 (Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wall - E, Step Brothers, and cult favorite Speed Racer) and even the otherwise sequel - saturated 2011 (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf The Planet Of The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain AmericaOf The Apes, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, the first Captain America).

A genre adventurer of sorts, filmmaker John Hillcoat has made a western (The Proposition), a post-apocalyptic drama (The Road) and a period gangster movie (Lawless) in his career thus far.

David Mackenzie's feature Hell or High Water played in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and is a wonderful mix of different genres such as the Western, a heist movie and a road movie with comedic elements.

Interactive Entertainment Genre: Single - Player, Third - Person Open World I don't think I'm being controversial when I say that Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the most impressive movies of the last hundred years (a.k.a. ever).

A vintage road movie that's considered one of the masterpieces of the genre, Vanishing Point is a symbolically...