Not exact matches
Although today it is still possible to distinguish computer manufacturers, telephone service companies, publishing
houses, broadcasters, and
film producers as separate industrial actors, they are rapidly converging
into one industrial activity.
James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned
into a
film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random
House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.
Plans to reform Britain's arcane libel laws have been thrown
into doubt after the
House of Lords last night approved amendments introduced to the Defamation Bill by the
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House of Sand and Fog is a ponderous, slow moving
film which, if you allow yourself to take the time and let yourself fall
into the excellent characterizations by Connelly and Kingsley, becomes a ponderous
film with a killer ending that, even if you see it coming a mile away, is still a killer ending worth sitting for.
The Escobar
house appears to be lit by candlelight for most of the
film, and the encoding doesn't let the blacks clump up or turn
into rough pixillated squares.
Despite snatches of songs here and there, it is not until the end that the
film bursts
into a flood of music with a symphonic performance by Mr. Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Sydney Opera
House: a grandiloquent finale in which his agonized introspection finds transcendent release.
The Weinstein Co. has rushed this unfinished
film into holiday release without the extra cred and preparation that a festival like Cannes could provide; both smart
house and black audiences will flock to it.
Though the
film's offbeat tone veers a little too far
into absurdity at times, particularly the scenes involving
House's cartoonish social worker, it helps to freshen up an otherwise familiar story.
In Agnieszka Holland's wrenching new
film, «In Darkness,» based on a true story, a Polish Catholic sewer worker named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) and his younger sidekick, Szczepek (Krzysztof Skonieczny), discover a way of supplementing their income: they loot abandoned
houses and sort through possessions dumped
into the street; they store the goods in the city's sewers.
Married three times, Bloom's first husband was actor Rod Steiger, with whom she co-starred in 3
Into 2 Won't Go (1969) and The Illustrated Man (1969); her second was producer Hillard Elkins, who packaged Bloom's 1973
film version of The Doll's
House; and her third was novelist Philip Roth.
[the
house's] structure reflects that of the
film - a creaky accumulation of tropes from all manner of haunted
house movies, stitched together
into an impressive if ungainly edifice.
There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's
film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the
film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the
film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out
into what seems to be — what should be — an empty
house.
Fargeat follows both sides — Jen and the men — of the
film's encounters, including a standoff on a rocky, hillside road and grisly game of cat - and - mouse in the
house, which subversively turns the man
into the naked, vulnerable party.
When the skeleteon jumped out of the fireplace, this should have turned
into a roller coaster ride of a haunted
house film and instead turned
into psychobabble bull shit that didn't hold people's attention let alone frighten them.
There is an undercurrent of the difficult
housing and job market of its era, playing on fears of couples being driven from their homes, but this tidbit is never really developed sufficiently that one could easily read social commentary
into the
film beyond just this notion.
Her latest — exactly what an avant - midnight
film ought to be — turns a spooky
house into a site of atmospheric abuse.
Dark and Stormy Night is a conglomeration of decades of «old dark
house» clichés
into a single
film, where the greedy relatives of an eccentric millionaire (joined by two hardboiled reporters, a couple of odd servants, a madwoman in the attic and a frustrated cabbie who just wants his 37 cents) gather for the reading of the will.
If the opening intertitle didn't reveal the fact that The
House of the Devil was going to be dealing with the occult / Satanism the
film could just as well stand on its own as a psychological thriller about a girl working herself up
into a paranoid frenzy over creaks on the floorboards.
The
film's Exorcist - themed pre-title sequence is probably the funniest stretch of the whole series, but the main plot — with the gang from the first
film tricked
into staying at a haunted
house — lacks whatever inspiration there was in the first one.
The wife inadvertently invites a group of thieves
into their
house (don't want to spoil the
film's only surprise.
In a Valley of Violence may not be West's best
film (that honor would still go to The
House of the Devil), but it is a noble effort
into non-genre territory that is probably his most accessible
film to date.
Titled «La Creatrice,» the
film is based on the true account of the sculptor Camille Claudel who was injected
into a mental asylum by her family, spending her last thirty years in the nut
house without ever touching her art again.
When the
film's villains broke
into the
house, they tripped its security system, which automatically dispatched a police car.
Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled
into an art -
house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.
Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions
into the highly populated art
house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art
film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).
The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the
film is that of an art -
house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes
into focus and one is subsequently drawn
into the proceedings.
and other mythological creatures and then confronting a very pissed off Ares — before the heroes finally have to find their way
into the Underworld through a very odd, three - dimensionally moving labyrinth — a kind of Greek - Deco - Escher construct that
houses the
film's best practical effect — a completely physical, GC - unenhanced minotaur.
While the malleable allegory of the
film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country
house that spirals
into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping
film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.
Following intrepid young rookie Mae Holland (Emma Watson) as she finds herself inducted
into the hive headquarters of Apple - like tech conglomerate The Circle (with a Google-esque dual
housing / work facility that its workers, known as Circlers, never seem to leave), Ponsoldt's
film begins by charting an incredibly familiar and shallow trajectory that we've seen in plenty of tales of tech terror like 1984 and Eagle Eye.
David Mamet ---- «
House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked
into direction having written a
film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre
film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).
• Tue 5 June: The Greatest Showman (PG) • Tue 12 June: Live Stream of Swan Lake by Royal Opera
House • Tue 19 June: La La Land (12A) • Tue 26 June: Live Screening of La Bohème from Royal Opera
House • Tue 3 July: Wimbledon (no
film) • Tue 10 July: Wimbledon (no
film) • Tue 17 July: Grease (40th Anniversary)(PG) • Tue 24 July: Moana (PG) • Tue 31 July: Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 (12) • Tue 7 Aug: Beauty and the Beast 2017 (PG) • Tue 14 Aug: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (12A) • Tue 21 Aug: The BFG 2016 (PG) • Tue 28 Aug:
Into the Woods (PG)
While the actor has yet to comment on his potential involvement with The Joker, the
film is expected to go
into production in May, the first project under a new banner that will
house a range of properties outside of the DC Extended Universe, with different actors playing iconic roles.
After a number of archival
film elements were scanned at 4K resolution at Warner Bros.» in -
house Motion Picture Imaging lab in Burbank, the original camera negative of the
film came to light, providing the basis for the majority of the restoration — that is, until the negative's inferior final reel necessitated dipping
into another archive altogether.
The opposing force in this
film is not a type of personal conflict, but an embodiment of a past way of life, dealing with the calamity in one's past before they started employment at a boring job, and put themselves
into a situation where sneaking in sexual intercourse becomes an event because of a baby that is in the
house.
The new Fright Night, which remakes and updates Tom Holland's enduring and entertaining 1985
film about a high school kid who finds that a vampire has moved
into the
house next door, is about vampires and feelings, but not vampires with feelings.
The set visit lasted only a few hours, but we saw how the filmmakers transformed an older building
into a haunted
house and how they
filmed a dance scene under the hot sun.
Netflix has already completely rewritten the movie and TV - viewing rulebook by pouring a hundred million dollar budget
into a
film without a theatrical release, and creating their now ubiquitous «binge - watch» format that the service rolled out for the first season of
House of Cards.
Wan displays ample restraint in the first half of the
film easing audiences
into the possessed
house along with the lovable and unsuspecting family parented by the excellent Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor.
That Song to Song moves past figurative framing in its immersion
into a female character's life suggests an evolution that may not readily announce itself among the
film's more expected retreads of the Malick
house style.
Juxtaposing the exploits of Martha (Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the Full
House tots turned international entrepreneurs) in her initiation and entrenchment in, and then escape from, an cult - like commune led by the calculating Patrick (John Hawkes, Winter's Bone), the
film delves
into her attempts to reconcile — and discern the difference between — her memories and dreams.
I'd recommend this
film wholeheartedly to the art -
house film crowd, fans of Anderson, and also fans of Adam Sandler who maintain that he could be a fine actor if he weren't pigeonholed
into making dumb comedies.
The
film gets interesting when Charlie ventures
into the security room of the
house and sees a man running down the street crying out for help.
The
film moves back and forth between the survivors in the present and their younger selves (Annalise Basso and Garrett Ryan) 11 years ago, as they and their parents (Katee Sackhoff and Rory Cochrane) move
into a new
house and start to drift
into madness (Never, ever attempt to cut a bandage with a staple remover; that device's purpose is in its name).
Consider the art
house credentials behind this
film: besides Vitti: director Joseph Losey, known for his collaborations with Harold Pinter («The Servant,» «Accident»); Terence Stamp, fresh off his disturbing turn in William Wyler's «The Collector,» which won him a best actor award at Cannes; and Dirk Bogarde, the onetime matinee idol who had grown
into an adventurous, risk - taking actor.
She exists (like nearly everyone in the
film exists) to make Jennifer Lawrence's life a living hell, so bold and forceful in the way she walks
into a
house that isn't hers and immediately takes it over and treats it like her own.
Five
films into the «Ice Age» series, the franchise feels like the last 45 minutes of a
house party that has gotten out of control.
This release offers commentary by
film historian Lem Dobbs with in -
house historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman (who also founded the label), a trio that has done more than a few commentary tracks together, and their ease gives the track an easy - going quality as they dig
into the
film and offer historical and critical perspective.
But the production behind the haunted
house film worked diligently to recreate the real house for the film, and in the exclusive clip below, you can see just how much work went into recreating large portions of the real Winchester Mystery H
house film worked diligently to recreate the real
house for the film, and in the exclusive clip below, you can see just how much work went into recreating large portions of the real Winchester Mystery H
house for the
film, and in the exclusive clip below, you can see just how much work went
into recreating large portions of the real Winchester Mystery
HouseHouse.
by Walter Chaw Billed as being
filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent
House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick
into a richer thematic tapestry.