Sentences with phrase «like ordinary film»
At 8 × 10 inches, Sherman's prints look like ordinary film stills: publicity images that stage scenes from a movie for press and other promotional uses.
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After Lake Bell's smart, unconventional debut, «In a World...» (2013), her new film, I Do... Until I Don't (she apparently likes ellipses in her titles), is disappointingly ordinary.
Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker star as «ordinary» parents who go to extraordinary lengths to protect their mutant children from organizations like Sentinel Services, which, if you've read any X-Men comics or seen one of co-EP Bryan Singer's films, you'll recognize as a real threat.
The real Desmond Tutu commented on the film: «This timely, compelling and intelligent film, movingly, and above all humanely, captures what it felt like to be working with those selfless members of the TRC who strove, often against the odds, to help bring both truth and reconciliation to the ordinary people of South Africa.»
Without that, all we're left with is just an ordinary film about an ordinary man, and for about 80 % of the film's running length, it sure feels like it.
The film opens on what seems like an ordinary day for fun - loving roommates Cowboy and Indian, but it's actually June 21st, which is their housemate Horse's birthday.
Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.
Like many traditional Westerns, Slow West ends in an explosive shootout that takes place around a little cabin abridging a wheat field, but the ending thwarts conventional expectations and lifts the film from the ordinary to the transcendent, suggesting that not only is there more to life than survival, but that the possibility of transformation is always present.
Like Benicio del Toro in How Our Pupils Dilated When the Things in Our Garage Caught Fire, he trusts, inhabits, and redefines a stock type — here a has - been author sheltered from the world and struggling to push out a new creation — making an ordinary film seem less so.
He could portray pathology — the ruthlessness of a villain, the torment of a ordinary man caught in a web of violence or corruption — like few players in the history of film noir.
Written by Ron Padgett, Paterson's poems — their words frequently superimposed over moving images — are, like the film, rooted in the ordinary, mirroring the push - pull of modernism and postmodernism of Paterson's favorite poet: William Carlos Williams.
Maybe it's because we've seen him play such ordinary guys in films like «Frank» and «Brooklyn», but young (too young) Domhnall Gleeson channelling a fascist leader as General Hux, one of the heads of The First Order (the movie's bad guys, successors to the Empire), didn't work for us.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION Moon in the 12th House (Israel 2016), directed by Dorit Hakim JURY STATEMENT: This film takes what seems like an ordinary story and transcends into a beautiful expression of pure cinema.
And although Blumhouse is best known for its horror films like The Purge and Get Out, the studio has often expanded its horizons with projects ranging from Split to Jem and the Holograms to Whiplash, so Stoner appears to be a unique albeit not completely - out - of - the - ordinary sort of film for the production company.
You can't shoot a film like you're making an ordinary salami sandwich.
But at the end of the day, they are just ordinary people like you and me, who are not affiliated with Nintendo, only difference is they're speaking out about what their thinking and most of the time, film themselves doing it.
Like fragments from a lost film, they hover between reality and fiction, mystery and paranoia, the ordinary and the absurd.
Starting from his early work Dwelling (2002), in which miniature airplanes fly around through everyday objects in an ordinary apartment, to one of the latest work Lineament (2012), beautiful, film noir - like work featuring amnesia man, Sawa's works have been presented at both solo and group shows all over the world.