Sentences with phrase «in films like wild»

Unlike before in films like Wild Reeds or The Witnesses (and perhaps the six other collaborations between Deneuve and Téchiné, none of which I have seen) his characters are horrifically hard to care about.

She appeared in films like Wild and Obvious Child and did a multi-season arc on Girls, but the most prominent role she took in the past few decades has been on Transparent for the past three years.

Not exact matches

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

Embrace the Wild West theme too much and risk looking like an extra in a Western film.

The company's ambitious approach has since become the wildest success in the film business, something that every other studio has quickly tried to imitate with ideas like Warner Brothers» DC Extended Universe, Universal's «Dark Universe,» and Fox's stalling X-Men universe.

In a scene where the town's men torture Ben to suss out Tom's whereabouts, I was reminded of Elia Kazan's Wild River and that film's establishment of a hero who, towards the end, moans that he'd like to win just one fight.

Jason Schwartzman is ridiculously funny in Bob Byington «s 7 Chinese Brothers, a film created in the Wild West indie landscape that panders to no one (mainstream audiences will likely balk at the quaint, offbeat humor), but will please crackpot - comedy weirdos (like yours truly) to no end.

Even Kevin Corrigan — who's been having a great year with roles in films like Results and Wild Canaries — shows up at one point, in what amounts to a glorified cameo.

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with character - driven films like «Nightcrawler,» «Enemy» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems natural that he would want to collaborate with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director who led Matthew McConaughey to Oscar gold in «Dallas Buyers Club» and helped revive Reese Witherspoon's career with «Wild.»

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).

Noted Marchetti: «As we get closer to the home video / digital release, we'll be releasing new trailers and new materials to make sure the genre fans, who love to collect films like this, know what kind of wild ride they're in store for.»

So it's a surprise — and a shame — to report that his new film «Crimson Peak», while often entertaining, feels like a mish - mash of overfamiliar elements, falling way short in the wild, weird, what - the - fuck - was - that department.

Perhaps because this is a film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles of vodka and Jell - O shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.

What's seldom observed is that films like Taxi Driver and The Godfather don't look the way they do without pioneering pictures like The Wild Bunch first understanding how colour could be used in noir to glorious, nasty effect.4 The Wild Bunch does it well enough that it was threatened with an NC - 17 rating upon its re-release twenty - five years later in 1994.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

Final Victory was written by Wong Kar - wai, one of the last screenplays he wrote before his 1988 directorial debut As Tears Go By, and in this intersection of genre film and full - blown romance, it is consistent with his later works, where the primal DNA of films like Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and even Chungking Express can be found in Hong Kong cop / gangster sagas (As Tears Go By is explicitly a Triad film).

Stewart, as we've seen in other films like Into the Wild and Panic Room, is a fine young actress, and Pattinson does fit the part of a handsome, troubled and tortured vampire suitor (even though it seems they start to run out of pale pancake makeup toward the end of the movie).

Today parts of the film might fall under the classification of camp, as in Judy's wild performance of «Mack the Black» (in the film, she's under the power of hypnosis and revealing her innermost passions), while others are simply fantastically silly, like Gene Kelly being outdanced by the Nicholas Brothers in Cole Porter's «Be a Clown.»

Rather than being set in wild or agricultural areas, films like «Winter's Bone,» «Frozen River» and...

However, his wickedly funny, acerbic, well - shot anthology film «Wild Tales,» made up of six unconnected segments, each playing as a sort of dark - hearted riff on the absurdities of modern life (a little like a present - day take on Roald Dahl «s «Tales of the Unexpected «-RRB-, was his biggest hit to date, becoming the highest grossing film of all time in Argentina.

Rather like an extremely damped - down There Will Be Blood, Reichardt's film — based on historical events — depicts one group's journey through the Oregon Trail in 1845 as a trek through a hauntingly empty and alien landscape, with cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt exquisitely taking in the natural beauties of the settings while framing the increasingly desperate wanderers in wide shots to emphasize, in part, their ultimate smallness within the wild west.

Moving on, if there are pleasant surprises within the nominees, it would most certainly be films like «Beasts of Southern Wild ``, «Moonrise Kingdom» and even by a long shot «The Perks of Being a Wallflower ``,» The Dark Knight Rises ``, however, the race will be very tight and with all of the quality films being released in the upcoming weeks, it all comes down to how many films the Academy will select for Best Picture.

Toback is the brilliant wild child of indie cinema, now a wild man in his 50s, whose films sometimes seem half - baked, but you like them that way: The agony of invention is there on the screen.

Films like Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook and Amour got some extra exposure, which is nice (I wouldn't have seen Amour if not for its surprise nominations, and I loved the living hell out of that movie), and this is the first good Spielberg film in a decade, so there are worse Spielberg films to glorify.

In some ways, this reminds me of films like The Wild Bunch, where how we interpret the performance of the actors is directly informed by our long history watching them previously.

The first film felt like a cast of goofballs carrying out their wildest pranks in a reality where law and order is still a thing.

After having watched the first season of HBO's stellar new series Westworld and recent films like the Magnificent Seven remake, I am very eager to sink my teeth into a new Wild West game which is good since Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently scheduled to launch in fall 2017.

This highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy — the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours — and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment and, perhaps most impressively, a nonchalant awareness of its own modest importance in the bigger scheme of things.

Birthday Girl is a quirky yet likeable comedy that entertains despite the fact that it is derivative in theme of much better films like Something Wild or Out of Sight.

Films like I'm Not There, There Will Be Blood, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, and Into the Wild are autuer films in the studio system (calling them indie is to abuse the word too much, but they are certainly lower - priced productions than Rush Hour 3 and Evan Almighty).

But a film like Where the Wild Things Are, where they built the puppets and built a large part of the world they lived in, then went in and animated certain sequences.

With this being a film set in Vegas, you also know what to expect there too — gambling scenes, wild parties, sultry lounge singers, and comical sideshows like celebrity impersonators in drag.

If you have ever watched Jonathan Demme's 1986 film Something Wild, imagine what the characters of Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels would have been like in high school.

«Starting with «Humpday,» Magnolia has proven to us over and over again that genre and marquee names don't mean everything in indie film, and that they will passionately get behind a wild movie like Sean Baker's «Tangerine» simply because it is unique, inspired, and flat out entertaining,» Jay and Mark Duplass said in a joint statement.

Shot in September of 2016 in just nine days, we're thinking in the lines of the unseen Glitterati film from Roger Avary meets the Netflix and chill generation as on paper this «smells» like one of the most promising wild ride items to be offered in 2018 and will likely solidify Laia Costa as a must cast.

Master Obi Wan Kenobi getting his own flick The Star Wars universe is beginning to spread like wild fire and Disney is continuing their world building by shining a light on several key characters of the beloved franchise in their own spin off films.

Glazer had been making a name for himself with wild, imaginative music videos like Jamiroquai's «Virtual Insanity,» Radiohead's «Karma Police» or UNKLE's «Rabbit in Your Headlights» (the latter starring French film star Denis Lavant), and

Since that film is more a series of wild experiences than a strict narrative plot, Matsuya focuses on distinct background events, with art representing Robert Pattinson's character sprinting through it all, much like he does in the film.

But stand by, more unexpected things may happen to his work in the future — a wild card, perhaps, like a film or TV sale.

Everyone opened the letters and they are thinking about Kirby Anime back on the air with a ReBoot and a theatrical film by Toho Co. Ltd, Paper Mario, Mario Party 10 and Kirby game like Kirby's Return to Dreamland on Wii U, an R rated traditional film by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tom & Jerry, 3 shows by Klasky Csupo Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys and All Grown Up being moved to Disneytoon Studios with a Reboot while Tom & Jerry has a reboot for Cartoon Network in 2013, Rareware joining forces with Retro Studios, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Halloween Bash 2 in Finals Wars in cinemas, Mewtwo, Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Metal Sonic, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Rayman, Banjo and Kazooie, Conker, The Powerpuff Girls Blossom, Bubbles & Buttercup for Super Smash Bros. 4 for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

Discovered by a larger audience through 80's cult films like Wild Style and Style Wars, his artwork and performances has been exhibited world wide, in galleries and museums including P.S. 1 and the Venice Biennale, and the biggest museum of all: the train yard.