Sentences with phrase «in film circles»

Look for Steven Boyer («Hand to God»), Hari Dhillon («Disgraced»), John Lithgow («A Delicate Balance»), Alex Sharp («Curious Incident») and / or Douglas Sills («Living on Love») to cause some disappointment in that film circle.

Not exact matches

It may be early in the show's run, but Colbert is already setting a precedent for booking guests beyond the traditional circle of Hollywood elite pitching their film and television projects.

In the film, trouble begins when joy seeks to shut out sadness and confine her to a small circle.

Though the books and film adaptations continue remain popular in certain circles, other evangelicals criticize the rapture mindset for fostering an escapist mentality toward the world rather than a desire for its redemption.

In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barIn short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barin racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barin a barn.

Dad Rodney decided to push his daughter on her ride - upon in circles around the house while filming the whole thing.

And it figures prominently in a new film make the rounds in homebirth and natural childbirth circles, Freedom for Birth.

It is said to have been the subject of tense discussions in the leader's inner circle, with some Corbynites fearing they could be ridiculed in the film and others apparently having asked not to feature.

She is one of a number of Corbyn's close aides to feature in a new BBC Daily Politics film about his inner circle.

The film by Vice News sensationally reveals that Corbyn's communications director Seumas Milne believes there is a mole in the Labour leader's inner circle who regularly leaks his attack lines at PMQs.

In industry circles, he is famed for being trusted by the Smithsonian Institute to handle one of the only remaining copies of the film documenting Kennedy's assassination.

In addition to taking home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at that year's Academy Awards, the film earned star Max von Sydow near universal praise from critics» circles.

Sadly, much of the film goes in circles as Jack floats between woman, his apartment, and the increasingly shallow conversations with Benedetto that don't even have the decency to pretend to be layered.

Then, alas, she goes on to provide a link to the «film structure in a circle» site that I wrote about in US # 76.

I once described Evil Dead 3 (a.k.a. Army of Darkness) as «the cinematic equivalent of wheelspin», and this film does clearly go in circles until its audience is exhausted.

The film has a seemingly unconnected opening chapter with masked men mixing meth in the desert, but it comes back to drive home the depressing feeling that everyone here, even the brave Mireles, is caught in an inescapable circle of hell.

But rather than get an answer to this riddle, you'll be even more dumbfounded, because the fictional billionaire in Miguel Arteta's film from Mike White's screenplay is your basic narcissist who might be on the wavelength of people in his 0.1 % circle of Americans but could hardly win the vote of the down - and - out.

Following the turbulent and troubled lives of a group of young Scottish heroin addicts, the film takes a sympathetic view of the problem of drug addiction - rather than chastising them for the situation they find themselves in, it is sympathetic to the addicts» struggle and the vicious circle that traps them and slowly destroys their lives.

One senses in World Traveler and in his earlier film that Freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers, and circles it obsessively, without making contact.

His fame and prestige did nothing to quench his personal combustibility; notorious in cinematic circles as the only prominent director who ever actually shot a film critic, he later served six months of a four - and - a-half year sentence for manslaughter after killing a farm laborer during an argument.

In the end, the film describes not so much an arc as a circle.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

In some circles, I suppose, a woman starring in a film as vicious, soulless, and off the mark as this one counts as progress, in the same way that a marker of true equality might be if there were as many female serial killers as male oneIn some circles, I suppose, a woman starring in a film as vicious, soulless, and off the mark as this one counts as progress, in the same way that a marker of true equality might be if there were as many female serial killers as male onein a film as vicious, soulless, and off the mark as this one counts as progress, in the same way that a marker of true equality might be if there were as many female serial killers as male onein the same way that a marker of true equality might be if there were as many female serial killers as male ones.

The police - procedural aspect of the film is pretty stock stuff, with the cops circling Pascal, closing in on him.

But in 1994, Burton again rode high in film - critic circles thanks to his long - awaited Ed Wood (1994), the biopic of another visionary filmmaker, Edward D. Wood Jr., widely celebrated as the worst director in movie history.

Two other films are currently growing in RHP's greenhouse, including Hill's L.A.P.I. and a biopic on modern teen outlaw, Colton Harris Moore, with Green circling to direct.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

In development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous versionIn development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous versionin, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous version).

It makes you wonder why film as pure experience is often frowned upon in critical circles, as if «visceral» is synonymous to «cheap thrills.»

The filmmaker said that Richard Turner had a couple of other production companies circling the magician to make a film, but Korem's ace in the hole was having a background in magic.

Several directors circled it before Mr. Golin landed it with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, with whom he first worked in 2001 on an online film for BMW, and later on the film «Babel.»

If all this weren't enough, Mannix also has to contend with twin gossip columnists (played by Tilda Swinton) who are circling the studio in search of scandal; a near - fatal accident involving a film editor (Frances McDormand); an accountant (Jonah Hill) enlisted to see whether the pregnant ingénue can legally adopt her own child; and a song - and - dance star (Channing Tatum) harboring more than one Big Secret.

In further news, IMDB is reporting that Patrick Stewart is circling the role of the villain for the film but nothing has been confirmed yet.

But now that Schrader has embraced the spiritual, he has delivered a film worthy of Scorsese, worthy of Taxi Driver, and has perhaps even completed some kind of full circle in his career.

They circle each other singing «Rewrite the Stars,» the closest to a romantic moment in a film that ignores the subject of exploitation — the practice Barnum developed into show business, our combined religion and political party.

It's a wry in - joke to have a villain worried about the hazards of overpopulation in a film that features nineteen movie stars billed above the title, and I've seen Infinity War lauded in certain circles for «unprecedented ambition» simply because it's so damn crowded.

The first internationally released German production to feature Hitler as a central figure, Oliver Hirschbiegel's film has been criticized in some circles as presenting a portrait of the Fuhrer that is «too sympathetic.»

After running around in circles — literally — Corbucci gets Silence into the second act and the film starts to get a lot different.

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For example, Garrel casts his own father and son in his movies; in his lovely Summer Hours, Assayas traces the fortunes of a family at the point of dispersal; and Desplechin focuses relentlessly on family dynamics, from his first film, La vie des morts, up through The Sentinel, My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (where the collegial circle becomes a second, substitute family), Esther Kahn, Kings and Queen, and now A Christmas Tale.

Oliver Stone's excellent 1995 film Nixon brought depth and empathy to a controversial U.S. president, which in a way made it easier for Dick to circle back around to mockery.

Should the film gather any steam in the coming months, Hawkins's presence could remind voters of her pointed 2008 snub for (funny how these names circle round) Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky.»

The film bravely opens with an event for which Brown is arguably better known (certainly in lower brow circles) than for his entire discography combined, that being the drug - addled police - chase he embarked on in the days following his son's death in 1988.

Hostage is nothing but a film that twists and turns its way into a circle, and which travels the worst route possible in the process.

They already have one film in the works about that subject, and now it looks like they're circling Steven Soderbergh «s Panama Papers movie The Laundromat.

Still, I enjoyed the dark bourbon tone and ambience of its ambling, as drifter Oscar Isaac and fizzled film - maker Garrett Hedlund circle each other in sexy, shifty style.

No matter his displacement, James would be better off without the circle of folks the film drops him in the middle of.

A rumor has been circling Lucasfilm's Rogue One for over a year and that is a cameo of Han Solo, actor Alden Ehrenreich was recently cast in the role for his own anthology film directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

More broadly, he's been involved in various stuff (including playing a Zombie in Shaun of the Dead, which is documented by him in one of the DVD extras), and as far as I can tell, him and Adam are part of a loose circle of friends that includes Edgar Wright, Louis Theroux (interesting TV documentary film maker), Garth Jennings (director of Son of Rambow & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and a few others that slip my mind — you tend to get some cross over in the work of all these guys.

ROSSUM: Martin Mull sings a song at the end of the movie, and they actually filmed us sitting in a big circle around him, while he was singing it.