Sentences with phrase «kindred films»

Not because they are great films (they aren't, even by the most generous stretch of the imagination) but because they are entertaining pieces from a distinctive period of B - movie filmmaking, as weirdly fun and perversely creative in their own exploitative way as kindred films from the forties and fifties and sixties.

The most kindred film in feeling I can think of would be Bachelor Party and while that early Tom Hanks vehicle played raunch and gender politics purely for laughs, this one wants you to think and feel about its men and their plight.

Not exact matches

Though in an entirely different time period (1910), the film shares that feeling of dread for the smallest citizens, unable to change what has gone on between their own kindred for generations.

Granted, Winstone shares a kindred spirit in the conflicted, star - glasses - wearing Bob Hoskins from Neil Jordan's equally undermining Mona Lisa, yet Glazer's film bravely favors a story of nominal stasis, allowing the focus to shift to the infantile yet complex characters Winstone's thug shares the film with.

Fans of Kelly Reichardt's minimalist gems, especially her comparable 2008 film Wendy and Lucy, will find a kindred spirit in writer / director Andrew Haigh.

Occupying the director's chair is Nimrod Antal, a kindred spirit of Rodriguez's whose «Vacancy» and «Armored» were genre films that turned out better than a lot of their genre - mates do — which describes «Predators,» too.

From Mathieu Kassovitz's homeless simpleton in See How They Fall, who must kill in order to protect Jean - Louis Trintignant's kindred wanderer, to Emmanuelle Devos» Carla, a deaf secretary and willing accomplice to Vincent Cassel's big money plans in Read My Lips, to Malik in A Prophet: every one of Audiard's films puts us in the often uncomfortable position of being in characters» shoes.

As the film progresses, his friendship and bond with Luke becomes stronger, as these two kindred spirits begin to realise their lives and past are not so different.

But in stunt coordinator Brian Smrz (with whom he worked on the rest of his Hollywood films), Woo found a Western - world kindred spirit with whom to click.

The film opens with Scorsese's Life Lessons (44:26), a product of the director's Bohemian phase and most kindred to his dark comedy After Hours.

First mentioned in the dining room during the film's opening, he is a hypothetical person whom Barton sees as a kindred spirit; one he searches for on blank pages and a typewriter.

There's also an entire subplot dedicated to the budding friendship between kindred spirits Jenko and Zook that has some really funny bits (like their sandwich and Q - tip derived «meet cute»), but it's played to death over the course of the film's unnecessarily long 112 - minute runtime.

Author Cline co-wrote the script with Zak Penn, and the two are kindred spirits, stuffing the film full of that era's references.

The Giver is less derivative as you fear it might be, which is only fair since its source significantly predates the kindred contemporary films.

His love for Werner Herzog and classic films cemented him as a kindred spirit to me (and I definitely want a bonus feature on the DVD involving his «remakes»).

While Leviathan «s win certainly squares perfectly with Lacrau «s personal, boundary - pushing approach — in a way they're kindred spirits — it also highlights the strong moment for American personal and independent film, with a massive presence across this year's program.

Deadline reports that the film «follows the unlikely friendship between a struggling L.A. comedian (Schwartz) who's forced to move back home to Long Island and finds an unlikely kindred spirit in his alcoholic dermatologist (Crystal).»

Bresson, as many writers have noted, looked for spiritual grace in the most misbegotten places and creatures, but, for all its pleasant side trips, War Horse begins as an archetypal Spielberg film, and ends like one, too: the affirmation of a preordained connection between two kindred souls, and the cathartic relief produced by a last - moment rescue.

This excellent film is a lot of things — a valentine to the harebrained fringes of showbiz, a buddy comedy about two kindred souls taking a bite out of Los Angeles, the first persuasive argument that Dave Franco might have a future in this «acting» racket — but foremost among them, it's an inquisition into the enigma that is Tommy Wiseau.

Meanwhile, though she may not be a particularly strong student (her school adviser cracks up when Lady Bird simply mentions Yale), the film never condescends to any of her dreams, be they falling in love or wishing to surround herself with kindred spirits in someplace like New York City.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

The film's greatest strengths are Eddie Redmayne, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score, Benoît Delhomme cinematography and, at risk of crowding the list of highlights, one must credit James Marsh's helming of the project entire, which echoes his previous Oscar - winning effort, Man on Wire, in a most joyful manner by presenting Professor Hawking as a man who's physically the yin to that films uber - athlete's (tightrope walker Phillipe Petit) yang and yet a kindred spirit in terms of sheer zest for life and experience.

Nicolas Winding Refn, Gosling's regular collaborator and creative kindred spirit, revealed in an interview with LWLies that every film he makes starts with a single image.

Yet, it doesn't resonate as strongly for me as other films do, even kindred other dramas from this significant baton - passing era.

The running themes in the year's best films are the terrible times we live in writ large and a reactionary, hard - won empathy, as if the movies were speaking to one another — a salve for the burns, or kindred spirits in tearing things down to build them back up again.

Going through Jack's film career with him, it was apparent that he had done his best work with a kindred gathering of «outcast» directors: Donald Cammell, Milos Forman, Paul Schrader, John Carpenter, Dennis Hopper, Sean Penn..