Sentences with phrase «handmaidens from»

Abortion rights advocates dressed as handmaidens from the Margaret Atwood tale held a silent protest to call for passage of a reproductive rights bill in the New York State Senate.

Abortion rights advocates dressed as handmaidens from the Margaret Atwood tale hold a silent protest Monday to call for passage of a reproductive rights bill in the state Senate.

North America and Europe are the most represented continents (as is usual) with a single film to show for South America (Brazil's Aquarius from Kleber Mendoça Filho) and just two for Asia — Brilliante Mendoza with Ma» Rosa from the Philippines and Park Chan - Wook's The Handmaiden from South Korea.

Not exact matches

48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

But then, the New York Post comes along and validates and reports a position I have taken from DAY ONE — interracial dating isn't about exclusion, but inclusion; and choose character above color — and now it seems previous outlets who viewed me as hell's handmaiden for white supremacy are beginning to soften their position.

Also, the story is able to draw on both Christian and traditionally Korean shamanistic traditions and combine them with the history of Japanese colonialism to create its morbid atmosphere, which has the ability to chill even without a belief in any of its superstitions.4 That said, the bludgeoning nature of the approach kept the movie from achieving the masterpiece status many other critics have assigned it.5 By contrast, Park Chan - wook's latest, Agassi (The Handmaiden), has received a mixed reception, but I feel it is his best since 2003's Oldboy.6

FF2016 brings us new movies from renowned directors Denis Villeneuve (Arrival), Chan - Wook Park (The Handmaiden), Ana Lily Amirpour (The Bad Batch), Werner Herzog (Salt and Fire), Paul Schrader (Dog Eat Dog), and Paul Verhoeven (Elle).

No, The Handmaiden comes from the wicked, perverse South Korean director Park Chan - wook, who is best known in this country for the mad, twisted, criminal masterpiece Oldboy.

«The Handmaiden (Agassi)» (Park Chan - wook) Chan - Wool's first feature film since the polarizing «Stoker» was a crowd favorite at Cannes and has been crisscrossing the world from festival to festival since.

Who was snubbed: According to the data and love from critics, «The Handmaiden» deserved a place on this list.

THE HANDMAIDEN (Agassi, or Young Lady) Amazon Studios / Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B + Director: Park Chan - wook Written by: Chung Seo - kyung, Park Chan - wook, from Sarah Waters» novel «Fingersmith» Cast: Kim Min - hee, Kim Tae - ri, Ha Jung - woo, Cho Jin - woong, Kim Hae - sook, Moon So - ri Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8/10/16 Opens: October 21, 2016

They include The Handmaiden, from director Chan - wook Park.

Though «The Handmaiden» has just a few gory scenes, one involving the flow of blood from a woman who at least poses as a virgin, another being an extended scene of torture involving the cutting off of fingers and a hand.

Missing from my final five is Isabelle Huppert's Elle dexterity, Kate Beckinsale's cunning shade in Love and Friendship, Rebecca Hall's morphing intensity in Christine, the evasion of Krisha «s addict Krisha Fairchild, and the deception of Min - hee Kim in The Handmaiden.

IT: Chapter Two Filmmaker Andy Muschietti is making a key change for «IT: Chapter Two,» the filmmaker has enlisted Checco Varese («The 33,» «Replicas») to take over as cinematographer from the first film's Chung - hoon Chung («Oldboy,» «The Handmaiden»).

Loosely based on (or «inspired by,» per the credits) Sarah Waters» 2002 novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, The Handmaiden gets progressively trashier and more overheated as it goes along, serving up multiple plot twists and replaying earlier scenes from a radically different perspective.

Based on the novel Fingersmith, THE HANDMAIDEN tells the same story, from three different perspectives.

Slit into three chapters, The Handmaiden does feel a little overlong due to a slack second act but the impeccable production design and art direction from Ryu Seong - hie is immersive and imposing while the expert lensing from cinematographer Chung Chung - hoon ranks with the year's best, ensuring that there's always a lot to soak in when not being alternately aroused or repulsed.

Aside from Manchester and Love & Friendship, none of Amazon's films has been a big earner yet, although films like Chi - Raq, Paterson, and Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden got the kind of critical acclaim the studio was looking for.

The selection also includes a number of films that premiered at previous festivals, including «Loving,» Andrea Arnold «s raucous «American Honey,» Paul Verhoeven «s subversive «Elle,» Park Chan - wook «s kinky «The Handmaiden,» Jim Jarmusch «s quiet «Paterson,» Asghar Farhadi «s dramatic «The Salesman» and Maren Ade's funny and touching «Toni Erdmann,» all of which screened in Cannes, as well as the Sundance hits «The Birth of a Nation» (from Nate Parker) and «Manchester by the Sea» (Kenneth Lonergan).

THE HANDMAIDEN The latest from Park Chan - wook embraces his penchant for double crosses threefold in this erotic dramatic thriller.

-- B + (Review) The Handmaiden — A -(Review) Hell or High Water — C Hello, My Name is Doris — C + (Review) Henry Gamble's Birthday Party — C + Hidden Figures — B High - Rise — C - How to Be Single — C Hunt for the Wilderpeople — B - I Am Not Your Negro — A - Indignation — B + The Intervention — B - The Invitation — B (Review — The Film Experience) Jackie — A The Jungle Book — C + Kate Plays Christine — B (Review) Keanu — C + Knight of Cups — B - Krisha — A (Review) La La Land — A -(Review) The Light Between Oceans — B Lion — B - Little Men — A (Review) The Lobster — A - Lolo — C Love & Friendship — B + Loving — B -(Review) Maggie's Plan — B - The Magnificent Seven — C -(Review — The Film Experience) A Man Called Ove — D + Manchester By The Sea — B + (Review) Me Before You — D + (Review — The Film Experience) The Meddler — B + (Review — The Film Experience) Midnight Special — B -(Review) Miles Ahead — C - Miss Sloane — B (Review) Miss Stevens — B Moana — B + Money Monster — C A Monster Calls — C Moonlight — A (Review) Morris From America — B My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 — B - Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising — B (Review) The Neon Demon — B -(Review) The Nice Guys — C Nocturnal Animals — D (Review) Other People — B (Review — The Film Experience) Paris 05:59 — C (Review — The Film Experience) Pete's Dragon — B (Review — The Film Experience) Queen of Katwe — A -(Review) Race — D Rogue One — A Star Wars Story — B (Review — The Film Experience) Rules Don't Apply — D -(Review) The Salesman — A - The Sea of Trees — D The Shallows — C Silence — A - Sing Street — A -(Review) Southside With You — B Spa Night — B - Star Trek Beyond — B Sully — D -(Review) Swiss Army Man — B + (Review) Tanna — B - Things to Come — A - Toni Erdmann — B + Triple 9 — C - Under the Shadow — B Viva — C Weiner — B + Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — C The Witch — A -(Review) Women Who Kill — B + Zoolander 2 — D + Zootopia — B

Right from when it premiered at Sundance, the film has garnered comparison to films such as «Heathers» and «Cruel Intentions» for its unsettling depiction of teenage life, along with the work of Korean filmmaker Park Chan - wook («Oldboy,» «The Handmaiden») for its air of chilly stylization.

With great characters, excellent performances, and stunning cinematography from Chung - hoon Chung (The Handmaiden, Oldboy), It is big, epic horror mythmaking at its best.

This bold erotic thriller from Park Chan - wook (Oldboy, Stoker) tells the story of a con man who hires a handmaiden to help him steal an heiress» fortune — but things get pretty twisted up along the way.

The Handmaiden is certainly not Park's best, but in all honesty, it's not hugely far away from it either.

Adapted from the British novel Fingersmith, The Handmaiden is a visually lush, thematically audacious and riotously camp thriller set almost entirely within the vast estate of an eccentric Japanese aristocrat.

The Handmaiden — Park Chan - wook's exquisitely - crafted masterpiece tells the story of a con artist and a lady pickpocket who conspire to separate a beautiful heiress from her fortune.

The Handmaiden is the story of a lady pickpocket pretending to be a maid in order to get close to an heiress and separate her from her fortune.

Weiner, Amanda Knox, Gleason, Jim: The James Folly Story, One More Time With Feeling, Supersonic, Certain Women, Team Foxcatcher, The Handmaiden, Krisha, Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown To Off The Wall, Toni Erdmann, Moonlight, Paterson, Westworld, Reggie Watts: Spatial, The Get Down, The Night Of, Vinyl, Under The Shadow, The Wailing

This arose for relatively transparent reasons: among the unusually crowded field vying for the award were a plentitude of truly astonishing performances from the likes of Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Sonia Braga (Aquarius), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann), Adele Haenel (The Unknown Girl), and Kim Tae - ri and Kim Min - hee (The Handmaiden), all of which were films that ultimately went home empty - handed.

As Americans flock to the movie, Zero Dark Thirty, by the brilliant and gifted director, Kathryn Bigelow (whom Naomi Wolf appositely named the new Leni Riefenstahl, «torture's handmaiden» and «apologist for evil») to rejoice in the apparent success of the U.S. government's plan for sodomizing and water boarding suspected Muslim terrorists, no U.S. citizen, whether living within or outside the U.S., is safe from drone surveillance or assassination.

One example of a lack of the same, i.e., judicial arrogation of divine - like power over mortality — and talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous — is this report from Paul Levy of Public Citizen's Consumer Law & Policy Blog about a favorite topic of mine, too: the reduction of trademark law to the role of handmaiden to Big College Pro Football's money grab over, well, everything: