Sentences with phrase «inspiration for their films more»

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Adolf Hitler and other such types may be the inspiration for horror films, but I believe there is something much more benign at work, too.

Livia Firth is an Italian film producer and is the creative director of Eco Age, a retail concept that offers inspiration and ideas for those wanting to lead a greener and more energy efficient life.

The final inspiring movie on my list of 10 More Movies for Fashion Inspiration is the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high... Read More

EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by director Travis Knight, there's a series of featurettes on making the film (from animating the monsters and water effects to composing the score), a closer look at the Japanese inspiration for the story and more.

The story is less about numerated psychopaths and more concerned with a writer, scouring reality for inspiration, exploring his own imaginings, and visualizing the film he pens.

Brandon and I later both met with and talked with director Derek Cianfrance about the 12 years of work he put into making this film, his real life inspirations for the screenplay, and so much more.

It's very important for us to stress that all profit we make through our Short Film Showcase section will go to making Cinephilia & Beyond a better, more powerful source of inspiration and motivation for film - lovers.

She and her late partner, Lady Jaye, who famously had repeated operations and plastic surgery procedures to look more and more like one another, were the inspiration for the fictional film.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

12:30 am (10th)-- TCM — The Hidden Fortress Perhaps best known as a major inspiration for Star Wars, but also a fine film in its own right — though I tended to find its two meandering servants (who C - 3PO and R2D2 are modeled on) more annoying than endearing.

Once you learn what the director's inspirations are for the live - action Disney film, his involvement in the project makes more sense.

This is a film where I actually wouldn't have minded a featurette to learn more about from where the inspiration for the story came.

The 1980 Borg — McEnroe marathon — one set was decided by an 18 — 16 tiebreaker — previously supplied inspiration for a ribald spoof, 7 Days in Hell, a very funny 2015 HBO special, starring Andy Samberg, that via comic hyperbole had more to say about the era than this film does, with its timid peek inside Studio 54 and its inconclusive scene about Borg and his bride being urged to sell access to their wedding to the tabloids.

More recently, I've loved what Alexandre Aja has been doing; «High Tension» was a huge inspiration for this film.

While most of his magical stories seem to be wholly impractical including the account of the fish that stole his wedding ring, which serves as the inspiration for the film's title, audience members will be fascinated when they discover there is more truth behind Ed's outrageous tales than his son believes.

Not bad at all if you're going to draw inspiration from the world of films, though the solid laughs, exciting thrills and the terrific comic interplay of its two leads are more like occasional chuckles, lots of noise and violence without much tension, and two passable comic performances from actors who aren't particularly known for their comedic chops in Russell Crowe (Noah, Winter's Tale) and Ryan Gosling (The Big Short, Gangster Squad).

The Quiet American — which Godard wrote about in 1958, declaring it the best film of that year — is not only a precedent for Godard's epigrammatic dialogue but, more important, the inspiration for casting Moll (who plays Mankiewicz's Vietnamese heroine) and for Godard's fascination with the process of translation.

Even if an Oscar - studded cast is hired (2 Oscar winners, 8 nominations), the guiding inspiration for a remake should be more than losing the subtitles and filming Julia Roberts without make - up.

With the film dedicated to both of her grandmothers, Martel says that she comes from a tradition of oral storytelling and finds this a source of inspiration; for structure, more so than for plot.

If the movies «Hot Fuzz» imitates are mostly surface pleasures, in a sense it's appropriate for «Hot Fuzz» to mimic that directly — though Wright's film is more enjoyable than most of its filmic inspirations because it is packed with comic detail, from the editing to the sound design to the songs on the soundtrack.

Being based on a story by Philip K. Dick, who also penned the inspiration for such sci - fi film classics as Blade Runner and Total Recall, I had some hopes that his intelligence would somehow be able to inspire more cinematic excellence.

With bulletproof performances of Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), De Palma told a highly cinematic, Hitchcockian mystery with style, class and more than enough unique quality for the film to be able to stand solidly on its own feet, regardless of the similarities it shares with Vertigo, an inspiration that both De Palma and his screenwriter Paul Schrader acknowledged from the very get - go.

This sleek look is Tom Ford, no surprise given Adams starred in the designer's Nocturnal Animals this year, and we suppose that made more sense than using Arrival (her other film this season) as inspiration for a Linguist Chic ensemble.

The exhibition features American artists for whom Blake was an important inspiration and includes more than 130 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and posters, as well as original Blake prints and illuminated books from collections throughout the United States.

The exhibition will feature American artists for whom Blake was an important inspiration and will include more than 130 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and posters, as well as original Blake prints and illuminated books from collections throughout the United States.

-- If the Oscar - winning fortune of Life of Pi didn't bring enough glory to Alexis Rockman, the painter who created the visual inspiration for the film, then the artist is about to encounter plenty more with a solo exhibition of new work inspired by the New York City's ecosystem opening at Sperone Westwater in mid-September, followed by an exhibition of his watercolors from the Ang Lee film at the Drawing Center later in the month.