Sentences with phrase «initial start of the film»

Perhaps it could've raised the stakes a little quicker early on, because the initial start of the film suggests something far more languid.

Not exact matches

This enables it to avoid the tiresome teen angst that hampered Part 1 and devote almost all its time to action and confrontation, starting with the film's initial image of the dread Voldemort -LRB-

STX's strategy of limited specialized initial play starting Christmas Day followed by a big national release on a slow week for new films has paid off with a decent if not spectacular second week.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

Full confession time: Newsarama didn't get to see Ragnarok until a press screening mid last week, days after the initial wave of reviews started to surface and it became readily apparent the film was another MCU critical hit.

It is a tough act, one that requires my initial compartmentalization of feelings between their S&M role playing and their otherwise normal relationship, and an inversion of that status quo as the compartmentalization starts to break down in the film's final third.

This inherent likability carries the film forwards in sections, in which Citizenfour could easily have started to drag, once the initial pace of the film tails off.

It's an honest initial thought to have, however, once the film starts rolling, the stylish cinematography on the bleak streets of New York City, the salient audio of gun shots ringing from a drunk cop's pistol and the slow unveiling of a nuanced plot proves otherwise.

As the film plays out, Dunford becomes a lot less interested in playing the hero and Garfield's initial amplification of the kid's weaselly super-confidence starts to make a bit more sense.

We had an initial discussion about the film festival at the beginning of the school year, and we started making more concrete plans later in the fall.