Not exact matches
The natives are quickly identified by the settlers and the
film as antagonists, perhaps the hostiles
of the
title, and before
long they've destroyed the family, their home, and stolen their horses, all seemingly out
of primal greed.
Certain images in the
film are memorable, such as Will's lingering glance at an empty, leaf - strewn swimming pool, which may inspire your
longing for an adaptation
of John Cheever's The Swimmer with Hamm in the
title role.
There follows a
long working out
of the
film's
title, as Jen transforms herself from victim to warrior and Ms. Fargeat turns her skills to suspense and gore.
After Panettiere showed up in such
films as Remember the Titans and Joe Somebody, her next notable role was Maddie Harrington, the
long - lost daughter
of the quirky
title character on Fox's Ally McBeal.
The
long time Transformers director also revealed that the
title of the next
film will be called Transformers: The Last Knight.
The next time someone tells you documentaries are dull, there's another
title you can add to the
long,
long list
of films that will prove them wrong.
As the
title implies, the focus
of this hour -
long live - action series is not on the larger than life costumed superheroes who turned The Avengers into the third highest - grossing
film of all time, but the employees
of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, the government agency
of espionage and law enforcement that has worked with and sometimes against the likes
of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk.
The
title of First Reformed, Paul Schrader's best
film in a very
long time, refers to an old abolitionist church in upstate New York, a metaphor for Christianity's neglected values.
In one
of them, the
film's vixenish flirt
of a bookseller, played by Elizabeth Banks, strips down in front
of Andy, the
long - standing virgin
of the
film's
title, gets into her tub, and proceeds to masturbate (underwater, well out
of the camera's direct view) with a flexible shower head.
Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series
of six musical
films he made with the singing team
of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two
of their features, including Maytime (1937),
long established as the uncontested favorite
of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected
film noir that is the only
film of its kind in Leonard's canon
of 161 known
titles.
In this Hallmark Hall
of Fame TV
film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the
title character, a New Yorker who has
long kept her Jewish heritage under wraps.
Added to this
film fest omnibus are a polychrome - tinted 1920 German version
of Hamlet starring the epicene Asta Nielsen, a new print
of Von Sternberg's
long - M.I.A. gangster ur - noir Underworld (celebrating its 80th anniversary with a potentially ill - advised score by the Alloy Orchestra), and the wishfully -
titled Blade Runner: The Final Cut.
Upon its release in 1974 this low - budget work, the only
film in Peckinpah's
long career over which he was allowed final cut, tanked at the box office — and merely invoking its
title has since become a kind
of joke, whether in Michael Ritchie's 1985
film Fletch or BBC Radio's «I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue».
I also would have preferred it if they had just made a
film of the first book, instead
of mixing up a whole bunch
of them into something with such a ridiculously
long title.
It's lyrical, sweet and even though it doesn't feature Jane Fonda's much talked about wild, scene - stealing turn, it manages to evoke the sense
of longing for the past that that lives up to the
film's
title.
«When Western culture came in, it was like a tsunami because we'd been closed off for so
long,» Zhao says, rattling off the
titles of films she remembers seeing: «True Lies,» «Sister Act,» «Aliens,» «Indecent Proposal,» «Pretty Woman.»
Other
titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about
longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense
of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere
of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration
of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere
of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives
of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay
film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove
of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives
of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere
of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story
of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE
OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY
OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale
of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of love, loss, memory and the mystical.
I caught some
of the
titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story
of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night
film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere
of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes
long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
; RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster
film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the record - breaking box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa's number one box office star, Leon Schuster; THE
LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler - Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY
OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book of the same titl
OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book
of the same titl
of the same
title.
Three or four regular readers
of The A.V. Club's TIFF coverage may remember The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, a
film with an ungodly
long title that I wrote about last year.
The box office
of the second
film suggests that formula can become a
long - term franchise, and builds its possibilities with the addition
of antihero teammates from Marvel Comics for the
title character, including Josh Brolin's Cable and Zazie Beetz's Domino.
There's a great running gag (relevant to the plot) involving a string
of «No Dogs Allowed» signs, and the
film is alternately humorous (love Snoopy at the library, cracking up over a book
titled The Bunnies) and heart - tugging (the farewell sequences seemingly run almost as
long as those in the final Lord
of the Rings flick!).
Asked what he thought
of the
title in an interview, Mark Hamill said he was relieved to no
longer have to keep it secret and joked about its similarity to 2003
film The Last Samurai.
Director Rachid Bouchareb, a
long time festival favorite, has taken the general story
of writer / director Jose Giovanni's 1973
film of the same
title and relocated it from France to a New Mexico border town.
Penn is hilarious as the pompous Emmet, but even better is the «sweet» component
of the
film's
title: Samantha Morton, who plays Emmet's
long - suffering laundress girlfriend Hattie — who happens to be mute.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set
of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director
of the
film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International
Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International
Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes
of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening
title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most
of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures
of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story
of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC
of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last
of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son
of Alvin, Night
of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn
of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield,
Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next
of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return
of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession
of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set
of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
SPC sounds like an appropriate fit for the
film, given that they've had some success lately with female - skewing arthouse
titles like «Rachel Getting Married,» «I've Loved You So
Long» and their canny acquisition from last year's festival, «Frozen River» — even if those
films» campaigns have lost some steam over the course
of the season.
But Mes's
long - awaited book on Kaji connects directly to several
titles within Arrow's library, most notably its U.K. - only Blu - ray edition
of her Lady Snowblood
films (1973 - 4) and their box set featuring her most iconic performance, the four -
film Female Prisoner Scorpion series (1972 - 3).
Last year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse
title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind
of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror
title and a year
long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror
film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's PGAs.
I'd heard a bit about the movie — it would have been difficult, as a working
film reviewer to not have — but not orally, so I thought that the
title was pronounced with a
long «o» or even a sort
of «u,» so it rhymed with «Luke,» or, more pertinently, an obscure Italian - American slang word that Robert De Niro uses in «Raging Bull,» that word being «mamaluke.»
Not only for megastar filmmakers like the Dardennes and the Coens, but for Terence Davies («The
Long Day Closes»), Rian Johnson («Brick»), Ramin Bahrani («Chop Shop»), Katherine Bigelow («Blue Steel»), Jerzy Skolimowski («Deep End»), Kelly Reichardt («Old Joy»), Michael Winterbottom («A Cock and Bull Story» — who makes two or three movies a year, it seems)... Those parenthetical
titles,
of course, are earlier
films by these filmmakers.
Comparing the international and U.S. trailers offers some insight into the changes wrought on the version that washed up on Yankee shores; an extensive and vaguely repetitive posters and still gallery reminds that the
film's original
title was Kiss & Kill; a
long essay on the life and times
of Sax Rohmer offers sustenance for the pulp geek (and who ain't); and extensive biographies
of Lee and Franco illuminate not only their subjects, but the strong connection behind the scenes between Blue Underground and Anchor Bay.
All
of the original
film's voice talent is back, including Patrick Warburton in the
title role, David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, and in perhaps his final performance, John Fielder (the recently - deceased
long - time Disney actor best known for voicing Piglet).
Gloriously
filmed in 16 mm by cinematographer Sean Price Williams and set to a bare, haunting score by Keegan DeWitt, Queen
of Earth channels the psychological dramas
of the»60s and»70s, right down to spot - on
title cards in soft pink cursive that mark each day that passes in the week -
long story.
Double Dragon provided an important stepping stone that would lead to Capcom defining the beat»em up genre with Final Fight, as well as leading to its own
long franchise
of titles (including the profoundly depressing Double Dragon 2: The Revenge) and even a feature
film adaptation.
After the
titles end, there's a slow track across the natives relaxing to Max Steiner's Asian - influenced score (not unlike the opening
of another 1940
film, John Ford's The
Long Voyage Home).
Film Comment's movie showcase returns in its 18th edition with a selection
of titles curated by the magazine's editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres
of new
films and
long - unseen older
titles that deserve the big - screen treatment.
But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the
title character, Richmond High School (though actually
filmed at my alma mater,
Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school
filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game
of adult life.
«If things are going to change, we are going to have to be «Superman,»» he says, referring to the
title of the 2010 documentary
film Waiting for Superman, which drew attention to the
long waiting lists at many charter schools.
However, this isn't yet another huge
film franchise being given the yellow - faced treatment, nor a profitable toys to life game, but a completely new direction for Traveller's Tales and their
long line
of Lego
titles.
It won't last you
long and most certainly isn't awesome, but for fans
of LEGO
titles and definitely the
film there is certainly something enjoyable here.
Ryan Reynolds, the comedic actor most not too
long ago identified for his position as Deadpool within the
film of the identical identify, is reportedly taking up the voice
of the
title character from Legendary's upcoming Detective Pikachu
film.
His exhibition at the National Gallery
of Modern Art in Delhi,
titled «Shoonya Ghar (Empty House),» runs through March 6, 2016, and features, among other pieces, an hour -
long film and a sculptural installation featuring the sets from the
film.