Sentences with phrase «ghost dog»

I kept my eyes focused on the point where I had seen the little ghost dog leave the road.

The key texts in Ghost Dog are Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (an 18th - century warrior text), Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories (an early - 20th - century collection), Mary Shelley's 19th - century Frankenstein, and an undated French book about bears.

Chapter 3, «Film noir style and the arts of dying», charts the development of noir «style» and the cross-pollination between cultures and cinemas with particular emphasis on the relationship between key hitman noir films such as Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967), Le samouraï (Jean - Pierre Melville, 1967) and The Killer (John Woo, 1989) before concluding with an analysis of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999).

Native Americans referred to them as ghost dogs.

You watch Ghost Dog or Shogun Assassin [80] and you see that.

Other highlights include Ghost Dog, The Road Home, Three Kings, Existenz, Office Space, The Iron Giant, Topsy - Turvy and 6ixtynin9.

Did you see Samurai / Jedi / Ghost Dog Forest Whitaker.

Chris Chang (alphabetical) American Psycho Before Night Falls Brother Faithless George Washington Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai In the Mood for Love Nest of Tens (Miranda July) Toy Story 2 The Way of the Gun

Nicole Armour (alphabetical) Beau travail Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin) The House of Mirth Lost Motion (Janie Geiser) Not Resting (Nicky Hamlin) Shanghai Noon Time Regained Voyages Yi Yi

Mark Olsen (alphabetical) Almost Famous American Psycho Dancer in the Dark Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai The House of Mirth Jesus» Son O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Polterpup Mode requires one to four players to search mansions and collect hidden polterpups, i.e. ghost dogs.

I owe it to channels like the Korean mukbang / amateur chef streamer SOF and a Japanese ghost dog chef for teaching me how to make my favorite dishes whenever I missed my mom's cooking.

It's cutesy, the kind of thing Jim Jarmusch pulls off with irony and smarts in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, falling flat here as a paternalistic burlesque.

Jim Jarmusch's characters have always been ineffably cool, whether the slackers of Stranger than Paradise, the accountant lost in the Wild West of Dead Man, or the hit man with samurai pretensions of Ghost Dog.

Judy: The Unbelievable Truth, Ghost Dog, Requiem for a Dream, Frida, House of Sand and Fog, Broken Flowers, The Fountain, Blood Diamond, Across the Universe, Synecdoche New York, All Good Things, The Wrestler, Sex and The City: The Movie, Sex and The City 2, Dream House and The Tempest.

The actor subsequently teamed with some of the world's hottest contemporary directors, including Jarmusch, with Night on Earth (1991, as a put - upon Parisian cab driver), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003); Nicolas Roeg, with the telemovie Heart of Darkness (1994); Marc Forster, with Stay (2005); and Michael Mann, with a small role in Miami Vice (2006).

And while you'd be wise to chase that with any Jim Jarmusch film, if we have to pick a favorite, it would be 1999's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

We're thrilled that your latest film, starring Adam Driver as a poetic New Jersey bus driver, has rocked its first audiences and triggered comparisons to Ghost Dog.

Nicely directed by quirky filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes, Ghost Dog), and just as nicely performed in the comic subtlety department by veteran Bill Murray, Broken Flowers may lose more mainstream audiences expecting an obvious laugh riot, but those looking for something different than the norm should be pleased.

Forrest Whitaker, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 3.

We've got another badass female in the lead, Ben Mendelsohn as the film's big bad and Forest Whitaker doing his Ghost Dog things.

With its eclectic range of influences, Ghost Dog is shown to be symptomatic of noir's self - referential nature, but also its broad ranging international manifestations.

Jim Jarmusch, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 2.

It's an exceptionally strange film, somewhere between a yakuza thriller and a ponderous reflection on the violent childishness of the criminal mind — only finally getting its due when Quentin Tarantino stepped in to offer U.S. distribution and certain themes began to show up in weirdo crime flicks like Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (which itself culled themes from Branded to Kill and Le Samouraï, the latter of which Beat cited as a particular influence).

From the old — Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog, The Last King of Scotland, Rogue One)-- to the new — breakout star and Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)-- Black Panther celebrates its blackness by filling every nook and cranny of the film with African symbolism, mythology, and memorabilia, in addition to its host of talent with their multitude of African roots.

Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which I've seen three times, may be a failure, if only because most of its characters are never developed far enough beyond their mythic profiles to live independently of them.

Indeed, Hagakure serves as Ghost Dog's Bible and is quoted in the film in extended intertitles no less than 13 times; the first 12 passages are read aloud by Ghost Dog, who's offscreen, and the final passage is read aloud by Pearline, a little girl he meets in a park.

There were brief references in some of the earlier films, such as those to Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales in Mystery Train, but the references in Dead Man and Ghost Dog are crucial.

From the sights (AT - ATS in action, a semi-complete Death Star, new Stormtroopers), sounds (that iconic dark side score, that blaring alarm, that sweet zap of blaster fire) and new characters (Felicity Jones «already amazing rebel protagonist, Ben Mendelssohn as an evil Empirial commandeer, Forest Whitaker going all Ghost Dog (is he a Jedi?

His scribbled verse fills Jarmusch's frame in onscreen text, an elegant gesture the director employed in this film's spiritual cousin, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

Redbelt, at times, reminded me of Ghost Dog, but told straight.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 5.

Jim Jarmusch's late - phase experiments in genre continued this year: having previously played with the Western (Dead Man) and hit men (Ghost Dog, The Limits Of Control), he finally turned his attention to horror.

Just as he did with the Samurai genre in 1999's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, writer / director Jim Jarmusch now gives us an entirely different perspective on the vampire movie.

QUICKIES End of the Affair by David Steritt, Ghost Dog by Chuck Stephens, RKO 281 by J. Hoberman, The Green Mile by Dave Kehr, Judy Berlin by Harlan Jacobson

Dead Man sees Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Night on Earth) enter the world of the Western, with a sometimes psychedelic delivery (filmed in Black & White) that evokes some of the same surreal tones as Apocalypse Now, although not nearly as profound.

The plot of Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog could easily be ripped from a standard urban crime film: a hitman (Forest Whitaker, superbly subtle) working for the mob has his employer turn on him when a hit goes awry.

His filmography going strong with two more upcoming performances in 2013, his list of films already features a strong highlight reel of appearances, in movies like Platoon, Panic Room, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Crying Game, and Bird.

One - time «Ghost Dog» Forest Whitaker is set to join Johnny Depp in «LAbyrinth» (no, it's a not a redo of the David...

Dogs are more than welcome to join the fun and you may even hear a tale about a ghost dog that roams those same streets!

And I loved that bringing my dog into the spooky Halloween - themed world (how appropriate) turned him into a ghost dog.

Many of the ghosts are more mischievous than evil, but the ghost dog isn't even that; he just wants someone to play with, and his boisterous good nature is infectious, if at cross purpose with Luigi's goals.

The ghost dog in Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon comes to mind.

Is that a ghost dog?