Sentences with phrase «impact of the film fall»

The power and impact of the film fall flat, as though there's a force field between the screen and the theater seats that stops any emotion dead in its tracks before it can reach the crowd.

Not exact matches

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Fierce Creatures (1997), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO telemovie Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

It's polished enough but the lack of a greater emotional impact makes the film fall short of its goal.

-- Matt P. [LIKED] I kinda liked the initial small story of the film localized to Mr. Six and his impact on his neighbourhood, but it lost me as it got bigger and fell into sentimentality.

Granted, there's repeated shots of Cal's ancestor, Aguilar of the crazy cool hoodie, doing the «leap of faith,» and it's thrilling, even if the film never bothers to explain how he survives it, always cutting away like a dream where you fall off a cliff and wake up right before the moment of impact.

Responsibility for helming the Wakandan king's first solo headline gig fell to Ryan Coogler, but as the hype builds and pre-sale ticket records are smashed ahead of the film's release, it's important to consider the wider cultural impact of this landmark event in the history of black cinema.

The second exhibition in the cycle, The End of the Night, will open at LACE in the fall (16 October — 15 December 2013) and will examine the impact of Clouzot's unfinished film L'Enfer on notions of visual and sound experimentation, the kinetic, and optical illusions in contemporary French art.