Sentences with phrase «important fall film»

Making the rounds of some important fall film festivals and then beginning its qualifying run in limited release four days before Christmas, Not Fade Away arrived with the unmistakable implication of awards prospects.

Not exact matches

All in all, though, we don't fall in love with any of these characters, we don't root for the film's one «couple» (who we think all along will unrealistically be granted a predictable Hollywood ending), we can't remember the jokes after the fact and, most important, we aren't consistently entertained.

A serious film about an important subject seems like an important film, even if the effort falls far short of the target.

In addition to succeeding on the most important measures of story and character, Coco also evokes marvel on a technical level, something even lesser Pixar films can fall back on.

The film has its virtues — principally the acting and the look, which is occasionally gorgeous — but it falls short in the most important department, the script.

It would seem the film fell victim to the twin vagaries of executive shifts at the studio and failing to gather enough momentum to nab that all - important greenlight.

Of course many makers of films noirs were authentically Germanic: Robert Siodmak (Phantom Lady, The Killers), Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd.), Otto Preminger (Laura, Fallen Angel, Where the Sidewalk Ends), not to mention other directors and — just as important — designers and cameramen.

While the film may touch upon important subjects such as body shaming, the jokes fall flat.

1969 was an extraordinary year for filmmakers and filmmaking, at least as important as the fabled thoughts and felling about 1939 (also a great year), but this film was subtly groundbreaking and with the rollback of rights, et al, seems as fresh as ever despite being set in the near past.

Fallen Angels Though Fallen Angels certainly has a dialogue in both narrative and production with Chungking Express, it's important to stress just how exaggerated, how forceful so much of this film feels in comparison to even the glorious excesses of its predecessor.

As a reviewer, it feels important to sum up what I feel a film is saying, even when it appears to fall flat on a number of fronts.

When I think back to, say, Boogie Nights (1997), the details of why its de facto family of porn stars disperses halfway through the film seem less vivid and important than the falling - through - the - floor desperation that the characters — and audience — collectively experience in that devastating 1980s downfall montage.

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 NFPF preservation grants target newsreels, silent - era films, documentaries, culturally important home movies, avant - garde films, and endangered independent productions that fall under the radar of commercial preservation programs.