Yet, I sit here at my keyboard
hours after seeing the film, and I'm in a state of shock.
Not exact matches
You can't really call them professional, but there is a unity among the employees, most of whom have bonded by partying together
after hours or playing silly games with each other (in this
film, the game involves trying to get fellow employees to unwittingly
see the participants genitalia).
No
film in 2013 made me feel more than «Upstream Color,» and an early morning festival screening meant walking around in a haze for
hours after, not quite sure what I'd just
seen (though I think it's more narratively coherent than many give it credit for, especially
after a rewatch), and almost wanting to shake it, but also not willing to trade the experience for anything.
Frantic horse - trading in recent years has
seen scuffles over one title
after another, with
films often premiering within 24
hours of each other in different events and — most seriously of all — both festivals being scooped by the boutique Telluride event that screened
films that had been booked as world premieres.
Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island
after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an
hour into the
film) and in - command pieces of work that
sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.
If you have ever
seen Neil LaBute «s first few
films (In the Company of Men, Yours Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty and The Shape of Things), you will have learned to expect certain things from him — tons of flashy, quick dialogue, despicable characters and at least one crushing gut punch to set you spinning for
hours after the
film concludes.
The one you're probably able to remember most readily an
hour, a day, a week
after seeing a great
film?
Mandy sat down with Eric to talk exorcisms, remaking buddy cop
film «48
Hours» with Joel McHale (a wishlist), and how listening to The Doors will not be the same
after seeing this
film.
After seeing all three
films now, I understand the frustration with having this short story dragged out over eight
hours.
While all three stories in Girls
Hour are compelling and important, it's Chastity's story that has stayed with me weeks
after seeing the
film.