Sentences with phrase «longer screen films»

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It's these scenes which have the most emotional truth and where the film's most successful portions lie, especially when Streep and Jim Broadbent light up the screen with a portrait of a particularly British and unfussy kind of romantic longing.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Williamsburg's Nitehawk Cinema, the Prospect Park Alliance and Borough President Eric Adams are teaming up to bring four outdoor screenings to Prospect Park starting July 19, bringing family - friend films to the Long Meadow, they said.

«New flexible films for touch screen applications achieve longer lasting display.»

Writer and director, James Gray, recently said, «As THE LOST CITY OF Z made its long and arduous journey to the screen, the film became something of an obsession for me — fitting, I suppose, given its subject.

Haneke's methods are clear from the opening: after a long, quiet stretch of simple credits, followed by an extended black screen as silent as the grave, the film smash - cuts into its first scene with a terrifying jolt.

That movie took a long time to get off the ground and before she ever appeared as Nova, Harrison served as a stand - in in the role of Dr. Zira (the part ultimately played by Kim Hunter) in the screen tests and extensive make - up tests through which the project evolved, even participating in a test for Edward G. Robinson in the role of Dr. Zaius (Robinson was forced to withdraw from the project because of a heart condition that prevented him from working under the heavy make - up and in the high altitude location where much of the film was to be made).

Harrelson and Foster have great chemistry on screen together, both give amazing performances, and go a long way in making the movie the powerful film it is.

Following Orgazmo (1997), the Parker film that Stone produced, and BASEketball (1998), in which he starred with Parker, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut hit movie screens across the country during the summer of 1999.

There's not enough here for a full length feature film - something that becomes obvious the longer the movie is on the screen.

It's adapted by Tracy Letts from his 1993 play (Friedkin also turned Letts's play Bug into a film in 2006), and its theatrical origins do become obvious in the way certain characters are left disconcertingly off screen; the movie is concluded with a long, slow and single - location sequence, which makes it looks oddly like a filmed stage play.

When it premiered in Toronto last year, viewers experienced the dual perspectives as two separate films, subtitled «Him» and «Her,» each 90 minutes long and played back to back (with the order of the films switched for a second screening).

It's a story that has taken 10 years to get to the screen at least, but what kept it from the screen for so long was lost when it was finally filmed.

2008's «The Strangers» stayed with audiences long after screenings, causing homeowners to draw their curtains and avoid answering the door after dark, and earned its place as an incredibly unsettling film well - suited for the horror canon.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

In fact, there was not a stretch longer than about 2 minutes in the film in which I wasn't grabing my face, pulling my hair, or kicking the seat in front of me because of all the crazy / original sh*t going on on the screen.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

Full screen delivery at 2.35:1 and 16:9 enhanced portrays the full - scale cinema aspect (watching this film twice will take just longer than it actually lasted at cinemas).

Again, I happened to see this film in a public screening, and the long and sustained applause at the end by the very young audience made it clear that the message had hit home.

Now we have Scorsese's long - gestating screen adaptation of «Silence,» and it's a frustrating paradox: a carefully considered, dramatically blinkered chamber epic, written by Scorsese and his occasional collaborator, former film critic Jay Cocks.

Theater co-founder Kareem Tabsch screened the film to coincide with the release of «The Disaster Artist,» which follows the making of «The Room» and stars Franco as the long - haired, muscled Wiseau.

Thanking one of his collaborators in his acceptance speech, Östlund said, «We made a film that is 2 1/2 hours, and I think you're the only producer who said, after the screening last Sunday, «We have to make the film longer!»»

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Garland and actor Oscar Isaac, who plays a key role in the film, to talk to them about bringing this story to the big screen.

«Stoker» has yet to find a release date, but look for the film to screen at film festivals toward the end of the year, with the soundtrack hopefully not too long after.

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

As long as the Evil Queen and the Ice Queen are parading across the screen, the film remains watchable.

Found on the film's 1999 DVD but unsurprisingly absent here are a couple of minor text - based extras: production notes and long since dated on - screen biographies of the cast and filmmakers.

The film stars Anna Faris (playing a bubbly and ambitious blonde who mirrors her character on CBS» TV show Mom) and Eugenio Derbez (How to Be a Latin Lover) who never develop any believable or even appealing on - screen chemistry — especially not to the degree Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell achieved in the original, given their thirty - plus - year romance lasting long after the credits rolled.

Perhaps the reason for such rapidity is that the film condenses nearly 150 pages of Rowling's long text into so little screen time.

The novelty attraction here is Owen Wilson, making his first screen appearance since his suicide attempt — although this picture was filmed and wrapped long before that unhappy event.

Filmmaker Sean Baker has long been a favorite around these parts, so we are especially excited to be screening his latest film, «The Florida Project,» this Wednesday.

The payoff for his method comes in scenes like the film's two very long and unbroken takes, when he calls on his actors to use the disciplines of the stage as well as the screen.

This Land Is La La Land A throwback to the musical traditions of old, a showcase for charismatic screen idols, a shameless love letter to the film industry — La La Land has long been considered the year's Oscar slam dunk, and the nominations confirmed that it's going to be the behemoth to beat.

Some wag commented on Twitter during the festival that when a film is described as «soporific,» it means that the critic fell asleep during the screening, but here, we'd mean the word as a compliment; Tsai conjures up a surreal tone closest to the moments after waking where you try and work out if your dreams were real or not, and it's a feeling that lingers long after the credits roll.

The thrust of this film, though, is not the traditional circus circuit but rather the Oddities, characters on the outskirts who show their humanity: the Bearded Lady (Keala Settle) and Tom Thumb (Sam Humphrey) in addition to the likes of the Strong Man, Dog Boy and a glorious trapeze artist named Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), who is a love interest for Barnum's partner Phillip, played nicely by Zac Efron in his best screen outing in a long while.

At over two hours, it feels long, especially since the plot of the film is so standard, and will have many looking at their watches almost as much as they bother to look at the screen..

We tweeted not long after the screening that it was» an interesting failure,» but after a few days to ponder, it seemed to become more satisfying in retrospect, and it lingered in the memory long after more immediately rewarding films.

He began his directorial career with The Maltese Falcon, not simply an iconic detective film and a defining film noir but an adaptation so precise that the previous screen versions have been long forgotten.

Invited to Suwon for a screening of one of his films, arthouse director Ham Cheon - soo (Jeong Jae - yeong) finds himself spending the day hanging out with aspiring painter Hee - jeong (Kim Min - hee), leading to a checklist of Hong - isms: comically awkward conversations over food, followed by even more awkward scenes of people apologizing; strangely contentious interactions with new acquaintances; jumbled chronology; characters standing around in the cold for much longer than they should.

At a Q&A following the screening, Larson explained that the process of making the film, «felt like a really long drawn out game of laser tag.»

In - depth bonus features on the film's two Blu - ray releases takes viewers behind - the - scenes of director Spielberg's life - long fascination with Lincoln and the 12 years it took to bring the story of one of history's and mankind's greatest triumphs to the screen.

Three years later, he and I attended Spider - Man 3, and I remember so well, because the movie company for the second film had open concession for press, the reels were out of order so we had to wait a long time for the projectionist to reorder them, and when the villain, Venom, hit the screen, Case turned to me, took hold of my shirt and said «I am ready to go Meema» — his eyes wide.

This film made an indelible impression anchored by Robin's exceptional performance ---- one of the best we've seen on screen in a very long time.»

The Blu - ray also features an excellent 69 - minute documentary, The Soul of War: Making Hacksaw Ridge, which covers the film's long journey to the silver screen.

Filmed in the Czech Republic more than two years ago, the American Depression - era drama «Serena» took a long time to get to the big screen, during which time its stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence...

A former television film, based on Agatha Christie's most popular mystery novel, «Murder on the Orient Express» gets the big screen treatment with a cast as long as the train.