Sentences with phrase «in earlier films»

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

As in her earlier films, Ramsay mixes actors with nonactors, notably using a convincing nonprofessional in the role of Lanna.

Like in his earlier films, Russell quickly establishes a distinctive and original world for his characters.

In earlier films, like Nobody Knows, heartbreak and tragedy are the centers of feeling; in more recent films, like I Wish, buoyant, infectious hope permeates.

Carrey's work is more controlled and fluid than in earlier films, with a noticeable pain and fury.

As in the earlier films, all the best sequences here are long, snaking duologues — the difference being that Celine and Jesse now know each other inside out, and exactly which buttons to push.

The production design is wonderful, and the CGI character animation — particularly of the house elves — shows just how many years have passed since the rather laughable attempts in the earlier films.

«Likewise, even though Hou has surrendered his very wide anamorphic frame, he finds ways to balance human action and tangible surroundings in the ways he did with city landscapes and village rooftops in the earlier films.

Stranger by the Lake is a significant departure because it's the film in which Guiraudie most entrusts his visuals — landscape, the actors» gestures, their naked or half - dressed bodies — with the communicative work that spoken language performs, sometimes to excess, in his earlier films.

He's surlier and less communicative than in the earlier films, swimming against an undertow of hidden sorrow.

But what I immediately responded to was that it was a film about sexuality and gay or lesbian themes — all of which I'd dealt with in earlier films, even within the Fifties — but this was a different take on those subjects, which is what I'd been looking for.

Apart from Hardy, it's Caine who is the real standout among the cast, offering a more melancholy turn on Alfred Pennyworth than in the earlier films.

The elements of torture — isolation, physical exhaustion, sleep deprivation, blindfolding — had been touched on in earlier films: Godard's Le petit soldat and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, as well as Costa - Gavras's own Z. However, The Confession was the first film that zeroed in on torture as a seemingly endless ordeal, a systematic and relentless process aimed at delivering a specific outcome.

They're too blissful to be back in Narnia, despite the hair - raising adventures they had in the earlier films.

It's packed with hidden gems, celebrity cameos, sly innuendos, inside jokes and character development that builds off relationships established in earlier films featuring the various Avengers working solo or as a team.

Jason Isaacs, who played the sinister Lucius Malfoy in the earlier films, said he was not surprised by their dedication.

But in the earlier films, those moments consisted of winks, jokes and gadgets.

Maybe the brothers would have handled the set pieces in the earlier films a little more deftly?

Smith and Brolin build up a nice rapport, neatly mirroring the Smith / Jones relationship in the earlier films.

Shyamalan has used this device in his earlier films.

With echoes of Euripides» Iphigenia in Aulis, the film's central dilemma is resolved with a flourish of Lanthimos» characteristic dark humour, but the rest of the film is largely bereft of the quizzical touches that served to leaven the mordancy in his earlier films.

By being constantly reminded of how each element worked so much better in earlier films, it doesn't bode in director David Slade's favor, as he does very little that doesn't regurgitate from the styles of others, and does it with little perceptible efficiency.

As in his earlier films, including the Palme d'Or winner «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,» Mungiu employs a patented style that involves long takes (many scenes entail only a single shot) and eye - level widescreen compositions.

This is achieved principally by revealing that Spectre was secretly (and rather murkily) behind all the evil plots that took place in the earlier films.

Overall, while the film is a cautionary tale about the dangers of biological manipulation, it offers nothing exceptional that one has not seen in earlier films of the same genre.

For the first time, the story supports and adds to the action rather than distract from it; it's almost as though Anderson was holding back in the earlier films because he wanted to save the best for last.

As you just said, you can see that's more prevalent in my earlier films, but to this day, that's how I'm naturally inclined.

While this score will be «darker» than in the earlier films, he said the most important goal was to capture «the innocence and curiosity of the kids» who get exposed to interstellar radiation and become superheroes.

We'd seen hints of it in earlier films: the heroes» general fecklessness in Shaun, for example, or their tendency to confuse fictional bombast for real life in Hot Fuzz.

What had simmered as a timeless stew of generation - gap disconnect in his earlier films became, with Late Spring, a thunderously specific social dynamic.

In the earlier films, particularly in Days of Heaven, the constant flow of images has very little spatial continuity, thereby making each image a discrete world existing on its own (or an emerging - abiding sway, one would say) rather than a small bit of perceptual information.

There is one niggle in the comedic banter, which is that Thor's dialogue has become far more vernacular than previously, the God of Thunder now sounding more like Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) than the Thor in earlier films.

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the movie, as in the earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.

That said, fans of the first Jurassic Park will find this latest installment stuffed to overflowing with references and callbacks: Park founder John Hammond (played by Richard Attenborough in the earlier films) is name - dropped constantly; a dilophosaurus rears its frilly head in a holographic display; and the boys stumble into the ruined lobby of the original park, where they find a tooth of that very first T. rex.

When the plot switches back to New York — Allen's once - favored stomping grounds before he moved things abroad for a while, starting with Match Point, in 2005 — we get a different setting and a different woman (Blake Lively, The Age of Adaline) with some passable moments and others that recall better scenes in earlier films.

(from full review) Katz's third feature disarmingly continues the shuffling sense of 20 - something statelessness examined in his earlier films, but makes some adventurous conceptual tweaks to the formula.

The movie is funny in a warm, fuzzy way, and it has a splendidly satisfactory ending, which is unusual for an Albert Brooks film (his inspiration in his earlier films is bright but seems to wear thin toward the third act).

Continuing on, we still have a lot of features including «Excerpts from Features Where Songs Originated», which focuses on the many of Singin» in the Rain's songs that originally debuted in earlier films.

I wondered how much of Jonze was in his earlier films or did he actually need Kaufman in order to construct something of substance?

Hugh Grant's absence is quite keenly felt — never mind no danger, there's not even a hint of the naughtiness that I loved about his character in the earlier films and it's really needed given that both Mark and love - rival Jack are about as square, solid and dependable as you can imagine.

And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where human mastery of fire and tools was presented in earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.

In his earlier films, such displacements are made to seem characteristic of Taiwan itself — a country in an existential crisis, not knowing how much its identity belongs to other countries that have occupied or otherwise dominated it, such as Japan, China, and the U.S. — but here they seem a more general condition of contemporary urban living.

As he showed in his earlier films, Cohen is willing to do nearly anything for a laugh and isn't afraid to offend his audience.

I've always stayed back from doing too much inflective camerawork in my earlier films.

In her earlier films, Rain and Sylvia, director Christine Jeffs showed great understanding of female inner conflict.

It's a near impenetrable «world view,» so impenetrable in the earlier films they were barely films at all.

7R: In your earlier films, you didn't seem to try to neutralise the horror: it was all there and in our faces.

In his earlier films, such as Monsieur Hire (1989) and The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), Leconte has often dealt with voyeurism and erotic desire.

I think that Farrell does his best to bring in his tough guy routine that you see in his earlier films and it works perfectly in this badass cops and robbers story frame.

But in these earlier films she was playing roles within roles, mocking the popular perception of feminine weakness as a knowing strategy by the character.