Sentences with phrase «good romance films»
I've long admired the way Lone Scherfig makes feel - good romance films that have a strong subtext exploring darker and more serious themes.
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But no one has ever portrayed the magic of romance quite as, well, magically as co - writer / director Edgar Wright does in the new film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
Taylor begins a romance with Sullavan, who soon joins the three comrades, making the group a jovial, fun - seeking foursome (this plot element bears traces of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, as well as the 1931 film The Last Flight).
She also posed for a well - publicized layout in Playboy which, coinciding with the film's release, certainly didn't hurt her growing popularity.While Basinger's career took off after Never Say Never Again, and she appeared in several major hits (including The Natural, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Batman, the latter of which led to a brief romance with pop star Prince), quality roles tended to elude her.
The film mainly centers on the charismatic and arrogant character Tom Sterling [portrayed by Hartnett] trying to keep the Dotcom company he started with his genius brother afloat as it begins to fold, spending money frivolously to make it seem as though the company is doing well... all while trying to rekindle a romance with his ex-girlfriend Sarrah [portrayed by the beautiful Naomie Harris].
Gosling and Dunst's low - key chemistry in these early scenes hint at the film that All Good Things might have been had it bothered to ground itself in the specifics of the Marks» romance.
As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.
Its a perfect film, romance, action, courage, revenge, tears, its very much an emotional roller coaster, but well worth it, you must see this before you die, its an actual history lesson.
Taking place in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, and shot in Academy ratio black and white, the well - reviewed film follows two mismatched musicians, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) through their up - and - down romance.
Their budding romance and her part in Joe's maturation makes for some of the best cinema of 2017 (the film premiered at the Telluride Festival in September 2017).
One of the greatest films about dystopia / aspiring utopia as well as a classic romance.
A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.
Besides that, I thought the film was a good little sappy romance flick.
The film begins with Arash (Arash Marandi), a handsome gardener, leaning against a ’57 convertible in sunglasses, doing his best Martin Sheen in Badlands; like Malick's character, he will soon become entangled in a doomed romance.
Playing like some warped configuration of sci - fi, romance, and heist film, Upstream Color works best as a portrait of two people's embattled quest to heal after trauma.
This does sound more overtly plotty in a trivial comic book way than other recent Marvel films, and a more epic sweep is promised, but we hope that Taylor retains the better parts of the first film too; the humor, and the romance, which worked a little better than in most other Marvel pictures.
Of course, everything about «Pompeii» feels half - assed — from its bland romance, to its terrible dialogue, to the worthless addition of 3D — and though it's slightly better than last month's «The Legend of Hercules,» the film is still a pretty miserable viewing experience.
The twist in Sirk's comedies is that their emphasis is on the situation rather than the resolution, on the problems that divide the characters — all four films are romances of one kind or another — rather than on the contrivances that suggest that all will be well after the final credits have rolled.
John M. Stahl's stylish adaptation of Ben Ames Williams» best - selling novel of romance and suspense is one of the most unusual of all» 40's film noirs.
But Lee's real genius is taking what everyone expected to be one more summer superhero action film and turning it into the summer's best love story, the romance of Eric Bana, who plays Banner, and Betty Ross, portrayed by Oscar - winner Jennifer Connelly.
Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.
On the contrary: in adapting André Aciman's 2007 novel, Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory have produced a film that simultaneously analyzes and dramatizes issues of sexuality, religious identity, and, once again, privilege — with enough well - read bourgeois lazing about in the sun to give Michael Haneke hives — and yet without straining against its clearly marked narrative boundaries as a coming - of - age romance, or exploding its form as an accessible, fundamentally pleasing upper - middlebrow entertainment.
Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.
Meanwhile, most of the film's best moments come from the supporting players, who turn out to be more important to the story than Potente (whose character seems to be an addition simply so that the film can have some form of romance) or Damon.
I Origins is a movie with many sides: an existential romance, a story packed with with facts and figures but at the same time open to coincidence and, simply, a well - acted film.
Even leaving aside the fact that it's too long, Pirates of the Caribbean would probably have been a better film if it had focused more squarely on the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, rather than shoehorning in the clunky, conventional romance between Elizabeth and Will.
Romance is the prism through which identity and normalcy are redefined — a certain celluloid co-dependency that made 2002 (and 2001) the best years for film, and American film in particular, since the heyday of American cinema in the 1970s.
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Casanova), who trod some similar food - tinged French romance in the Oscar - nominated Chocolat, and scripted by Steven Knight (Locke, Closed Circuit), it's a sumptuously presented, old - fashioned feel - good film, not too dissimilar to the kind of Miramax films Hallstrom and company would regularly churn out in its heyday.
Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll: Alex Heeney The Seventh Row FULL RESULTS: Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll Best New Climate film: Chasing Coral Best Ensemble: Mudbound, Their Finest So many great queer romances!
Not content to merely work out the submerged marital issues between Max and Annie, the film sets up arcs for its other party guests: There's a potential romance between dimwitted lothario Ryan (Billy Magnussen) and the British coworker (Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan) he's platonically brought along to help him win, as well as a lovers» quarrel between Kevin (New Girl's Lamorne Morris) and Michelle (Kylie Bunbury) concerning a celebrity hookup.
Actress Scarlett Johansson plays another character that engages in ill - advised romance in the film In Good Company and Hugh Jackman plays a wealthy gentleman who discovers there is almost a century between himself and the love of his life in the movie Kate and Leopold.
It's absolutely one of the best films of the year; a sensual, moving summer romance coming - of - age tale that is impeccably acted, impeccably shot, and basically just impeccably crafted from head to toe.
It's also worth noting how infrequently people their age are allowed to play roles as leads in a romance; so considering the demographic for this film, it certainly would have been a smart move as well.
The film is partly inspired by the 1974 French sex comedy Les Valseuses, and will see three small time crooks «inadvertently performing good deeds», with smidgens of surprising romance thrown in.
He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).
The romance that buds between her and Thomas Sharpe is likely the most stupefying element of the film in that it works as well as it does.
Despite a very brief resolution of this romance at the end of the film, the film does what I can imagine Howard Hughes did best in his life.
That film co-starred Spike Jonze who won Best Original Screenplay for his wonderful sci - fi romance, «Her», beating out his «Three Kings» director, David O. Russell for co-writing «American Hustle».
«Hampstead» is ultimately a rather handsome film that captures the gorgeous, great outdoors of the heath as well as a lovely romance for an older couple.
Best Director recipient Guillermo del Toro, whose amphibious romance fantasy The Shape of Water won Best Picture, marveled at how the film industry has the ability to break down borders and «erase lines in the sand.»
Cinematically, a surefire way to stir emotions in the viewer is through a well - curated visual medley, and this one ranks right up there with the training sequences in the Rocky movies or the highlight reel of Alvy Singer and Annie Hall's romance in Woody Allen's Oscar - winning film.
Ronan is good at pluck and resolve, and the film creates a suitably horrifying future — but making Armageddon the backdrop for a teen romance is awfully jarring and not terribly satisfying.
The film is probably hardest on Abe, who encounters romance for the first time in his life, but the Hellboy / Liz relationship takes some interesting and powerful turns as well.
The Vow bests plenty of modern romance films unfunny and mushy, but not enough to qualify as an enjoyable time.
The Shape of Water is one of the most romantic films in the race this year, but it's romance comes from its subversiveness — both in how it depicts the well of desire within most women, how unquenchable it can sometimes be, and how it depicts an America that did not allow for different kinds of people.
Todd Haynes» return to film, the 1950s romance Carol, landed an impressive 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Haynes), Best Adapted Screenplay, technical nods for Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design, Original Score, and two Lead Actress nominations for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
As Julie Kirgo points out in her liner notes essay for the recent Twilight Time Blu - ray release of the film, The Crimson Kimono can perhaps be best understood as a romance between its two male leads: detectives Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) and Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett).
His two follow - up films, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower are as well, but where the former luxuriates in the irrational melodrama of tragic romance and the latter is consumed by the emptiness at the heart of its own baroque decadence, there's a reticence to Hero, a by - product of its episodic structure, narrative instability and potentially repellent politics.
Guillermo del Toro's best film in a decade, The Shape of Water is wonderful fantasy - horror - romance film that provides a new variation on one of my favourite tropes: the misunderstood monster.