Sentences with phrase «hostage films»

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Additional special features include audio commentary with Ben Affleck and writer Chris Terrio, interviews with the key players in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis including President Jimmy Carter, former CIA agent Tony Mendez, and the houseguests, a featurette on recreating the era for film, a peek inside the Canadian government, a bit about how Istanbul was chosen for shooting the film, and a look back at how the CIA made Hollywood believe in a fictional film.

For anyone not familiar with the events in Entebbe, the film is engaging enough as a historical account of a watershed moment in how the world chose to deal with terrorism — the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces prompted governments around the world to reassess the way they responded to acts of hostage taking.

Ironically, it comes with a few moments of documentary footage of the real - life hostages returning home — the most human and touching point in the film.

And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.

The film jumps between the terrorist - hostage standoff and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's (Lior Ashkenazi) cabinet deliberations, and nearly every exchange of dialogue sounds like sparring blocks of Wikipedia - like information, with career Israeli politicians summarizing the past few years» worth of events to each other for a presumptively ignorant audience.

Their plan to rescue the hostages, as Rabin points out, relies on the element of surprise, something which is necessarily lacking in a film about an event where the outcome is so well - known.

Told over the seven days of the hostage crisis, the film focuses on several parallel arcs.

Combining newsreel footage with re-enactment's, the film captures the horror of the hostages — Americans Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Reed; British citizens John McCarthy, Terry Waite; and Irish teacher Brian Keenan — as they are held by the Muslim fundamentalist group, the Hezbollah.

A convict (Richard Harris) manages to escape from prison and takes a young hostage (Justin Henry) for security and a ransom in this 1985 Canadian film.

Hostage is his first really mainstream movie and, to that end, it's quite surprising that he would do it - it was difficult to imagine how his elegant, distinctly classical voice might work with a film like this.

Both movies are being shot entirely in IMAX, and according to Chris Evans, he and the rest of the main cast will be held hostage by Marvel for nine months as the films shoot back - to - back.

The film, based on true events, chronicles the covert mission to rescue six Americans involved in a hostage crisis over in Iran.

One of the year's best films, Argo offers a thrilling portrait of the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 - 80 and the rescue of six Americans.

Ben Affleck produced, directed, and stars in the film based on the incredible true story of CIA operatives who pretend to be filmmakers in order to extract six Americans from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.

Ben Affleck's third feature film as director is based on what has become known as the Canadian Caper, an incident which occurred during the 444 day long hostage situation after the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1979.

Hostage is nothing but a film that twists and turns its way into a circle, and which travels the worst route possible in the process.

The film almost becomes a hostage movie, which is far more interesting and different from the normal horror movie plot.

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

According to Deadline, who reported Campbell's casting, the film sees Johnson play a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

Looks like Hollywood's gone endangered - president crazy this year, as two films that follow the storyline of a presidential hostage situation are currently in the works.

You grow attached to these four men, the film never cutting to the cave - dwellers or the horrors befalling their hostages.

Though the film begins with a snappy history lesson about the circumstances that led to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, this thumbnail history just provides the context for an audacious, stranger - than - fiction CIA mission to extract six American hostages from their tenuous hidey - hole in the Canadian ambassador's home.

And then the film gets downright brutal when Mature, taken hostage along with an Amish family (with Ernest Borgnine as the moral patriarch), takes a stand against the robbers, who have already left a couple of victims in their wake.

His assertion that Escape from New York holds contemporaneous relevance to the Iran hostage crisis that climaxed with Reagan's ascent to power is convenient in that most pop is incidentally socio - politically resonant; and the analogy doesn't really hold up to any scrutiny, particularly if you factor in the film's nihilistic conclusion.

The film follows Bello, as a single mother, who is taken hostage along with her child by a relentless bank robber.

Extras: Eight deleted scenes, «Ridley Scott: Crafting a Historical Thriller» featurette, «Hostages to Fortune: The Cast»; «Recast, Reshot, Reclaimed» featurette that follows the unprecedented recasting of the character J. Paul Getty a little over a month before the film's theatrical release.

An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up.

I didn't like the idea of flashing back to the rest of the Olympics after that stage was perfectly set in the opening scenes of the film, in fact they could have edited the film to have the entire hostage - drama portion before the credits, the flip over to Avner and company and not keep coming back to it.

Shot on location in the West London area near the actual embassy, the film follows three perspectives — that of hostage negotiatior Max Vernon (Mark Strong), BBC news reporter Kate Adie (Abbie Cornish), and SAS assault team leader Rusty Firmin (Bell).

But the trouble with the film's structure is that it reduces Lovelace's complicated story into two boxes (good - time girl or victim / hostage) and stuffs the entire story into one or the other.

The film is a bizarre blend of genres when a romantic love story unfolds during a life threatening hostage situation.

Next fall brings his Tom Hanks - starring hostage drama «Captain Phillips» to the big screen, and just a couple of weeks ago it was reported that his Martin Luther King Jr. film is back on, with the wheels turning to make it his next effort.

There is only one scene of real tension in the film, and that is when a wall of the hall where the hostages are in is hammered to make a large hole, and the Israelis are told to walk through it.

Affleck, 41, who won multiple awards as the director of Iran hostage crisis film Argo earlier in 2013, will appear alongside British actor Henry Cavill, star of Superman reboot Man Of Steel.

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

Though the film suffers from a bloated runtime and is a tad one - sided in its depiction of the antagonists, «Captain Phillips» is nonetheless a gripping hostage thriller that boasts some of the year's finest performances, not only by Hanks, but his amateur co-stars as well.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

Argo, the latest from one - time Hollywood poster boy / laughing stock Ben Affleck, now a respected director of punchy, entertaining, if until now slight films, tells the so - improbable - it - must - be-true tale of a CIA operation to evacuate six American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis of» 79 - ’81 by pretending they are members of a science fiction film crew.

Hansen - Løve also penned the film's script, which tells the story of a French war reporter who returns to his home in western India after being held hostage in Syria.

There are two things that viewers of HOSTAGE, the latest film starring and co-starring Bruce Willis, can be grateful for.

Twee sequences where Jack narrates things from his perspective make the film suddenly turn into «The Littlest Hostage,» and the final sequence is laughably bad, with a scene that feels like watching a PTSD version of Goodnight Moon.

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series picks up the thread from the 1996 original film, following the Gecko brothers, Richie and Seth, as they evade law enforcement and battle vampires with a family of hostages in tow.

The international hostage crisis (and spectacular rescue operation) that followed captivated the public, and within months it had been turned into an Oscar - nominated film by B - movie king Menahem Golan and a competing pair of TV movies that boasted some of the era's craziest all - star casts.

The film will tell the true story of the 1973 Stockholm bank heist and hostage crisis, which gave rise to the psychological phenomenon Stockholm -LSB-...]

In short order they are run off the highway by some cartoon banditos led by John Goodman, and Doug (poor Justin Bartha, who in the course of these films has spent more screentime with a bag on his head than anyone since John Hurt in The Elephant Man) is taken hostage until such time as the guys can locate the whereabouts of... wait for it... yes, Lesley Chow (Ken Jeong)-- who has made off with a goodly pile of Goodman's loot.

One film starts with a kidnapping and ends with kidnapper and hostage in love.

These movies all write checks to be paid off by future movies, which means that a final verdict on any film is always hostage to the next film, and the one after that.

The film follows the obese title character (Sam Coleman) through an upbringing supervised by his abusive mother (Lili Taylor) and his eventual escape from a mental hospital with three other inmates, who become his hostages as a deranged sheriff (Stephen Dorff) pursues them to the bloody end.

«A Walk Among the Tombstones» is the fifth feature - length film made from Lawrence Block's fiction and the fifth time Liam Neeson goes after psychos who take people hostage.

The film introduces us to Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson), a cop who deals with hostage situations.