Sentences with phrase «into subsequent films»

Little is know about the story except that Lin Shaye will be back as parapsychologist Elise Rainier, who died in the first film, but has found her way back into subsequent films in various different ways.

Not exact matches

But perhaps one of the reasons why this film is so fascinating is that it delves deeply into the formative episodes in Napoleon's early life and gives as much importance to them as to his later actions on the battlefield in Italy, his tenure as emperor, and his subsequent exile, return, and exile.

Interwoven into this intense footage, adding context, the film also follows other embattled lives in the Occupied Territories and Israel: a mother and her four children living in the shadow of the wall abutting Gaza; an imprisoned Palestinian and the subsequent path he's taken; an Israeli survivor of a suicide bombing; and a daring Palestinian mother whose son's life is saved by an Israeli doctor.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

The studio turned heads when it picked up the actor's directorial debut for a record - breaking $ 18.5 million deal, but their clear - cut plan to turn «The Birth of a Nation» into their next Oscar powerhouse was derailed after Parker's college rape allegations and subsequent trial resurfaced just ahead of the film's fall festival launch.

First, a brief remembrance before we get into the year's best movies: The film world said its heartbroken goodbyes to Mike Nichols in November, an occasion for returning to the director's seismic The Graduate, along with four decades of subsequent work, much of it brilliant.

With little else to go on, the film looks to subsequent protests and rehashes at length the proposition that George W. Bush and Tony Blair misled the United States and Britain into war.

Based on Eric Danville's bio «The Complete Linda Lovelace,» the film follows Linda Boreman's rise to fame as iconic porn star Linda Lovelace of 1972's DEEP THROAT, and her subsequent transformation into feminist, anti-porn activist Linda Marchiano.

Viewed through the retrospective filter of both the US's Gitmo - ised» 2000s foreign policy and countless subsequent race - to - excess «torture porn» flicks, Audition's last reel might now seem a little tamer in its effect — but this just allows all that precedes it to come into sharper focus, revealing a film of two very distinct (and distinctly colour - coded) halves.

Moreover, there is talk of developing «Cicero» into a possible trilogy with the first film chronicling Capone's rise and the subsequent film (or films) tracking his reign and eventual downfall.

But Matthew Vaughn's punk - attitude action film had one of the year's best shots: Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl letting a true glint of fear, and subsequent heroism, flash into her eyes.

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

As opposed to the stark and direct tone of her earlier works, which were short and easily summarizable documentations of performance stunts, the films from this subsequent phase are ruminative and essayistic, and channel Chang's penchant for performative bizarrerie into intricate, large - scale meditations on a place or theme.