At the centre of the story is aspiring actress Lena (Penélope Cruz) who falls in
love with film director Mateo Blanco (Lluís Homar) on the set of her first film.
Not exact matches
Case in point: Proenza Schouler's front row, which welcomes the requisite editors and retailers, is also filled
with friends and supporters of the brand, from Vogue's Lisa
Love to the
film director and writer James Oakley.
I'm a writer and
director and I have a bit of an obsession
with film, and I also
love the theatre.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team
with that
film's
director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in
love and decide to marry.
Within Stone's oeuvre, Alexander ranks as his most exasperatingly off - target
film, completely lacking the
director's mordant, stick - in - the - eye humor (so apparent in Natural Born Killers and Salvador), his
love of Rubik's Cube-esque conspiracy (à la JFK), and even his able hand
with battlefield glory and its blackened flipside (as in Platoon).
Just like
director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last
film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled
with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Br
with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in
Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Br
With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
Director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama
with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the
love story at the
film's center is convincing.
Director and co-writer Carl Reiner worked
with Steve Martin in The Jerk, and if you're a fan of that
film, you'll
love this one too.
«Great Italian
Director's Collection» (Lorber Films) features Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature «Story of a
Love Affair» (1950), the anthology
film «Boccaccio» 70» (1962)
with contributions by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria De Sica and Mario Monicelli, and Monicelli's «Casanova» 70» (1966).
This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi
film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in
Director Joseph Kosinski's
love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.
Writer -
director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, The Night Before), who had just come off of a similar survivalist horror tale, Sole Survivor, imbues his
film with a tongue planted firmly in his cheek, and a genuine
love for the various B - movie genres that gives the
film the necessary sense of fun needed in order to not get bogged down in deadly seriousness that would have done the
film in for sure.
Said Focus World touting the feature:» Focus World acquired writer /
director Julia Ducournau's Raw out of Cannes where we fell in
love with her bold and original voice and the genre - bending style; Raw is a
film that both hard - core genre fans and art - house audiences will absolutely
love.»
New
films from Terrence Malick, whose The Tree of Life took the top prize last year, and There Will Be Blood
director Paul Thomas Anderson, were not ready in time for inclusion, while Woody Allen's latest, To Rome
with Love, is anticipated to be added to the lineup at a later date.
The Down
with Love director has more than a few advantages on the sequel than he did on the first
film.
9) Bang Gang (A Modern
Love Story) Directed by promising
director Eva Husson, this unflinching and mesmerizing French
film has early day Sofia Coppola's style mixed
with Larry Clark's Kids.
Another
film with lots of sex is Austrian
director Ulrich Seidl's «Paradise:
Love.»
Accordingly, the location of the
film has been shifted from France to Tunisia... Tilda Swinton reunites
with I Am
Love director Luca Guadagnino on an as yet untitled «sexy thriller» co-starring Ralph Fiennes, Margot Robbie, and Matthias Schoenaerts.
The trailers look impressive and have an energy, but first - time
director Rupert Sanders falls in
love with his own work that all that energy is sucked out of the
film like Ravenna sucking the life out of young maidens.
Kill Bill Vol.1 (2003) Continuing
with his
love for heroines the
director delivers his most ambitious project to date, a mixture of genres and visual styles that expanded over two
films.
From the
directors of Little Miss Sunshine comes Ruby Sparks, a whimsical
film about a struggling writer who falls in
love with a character he makes up.
The Face of an Angel centers on a
director (Bruhl), who is hired to make a
film about a murder trial in Italy, but ends up finding
love with a young bartender in the process.
director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl
With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie
film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of
love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan
film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.
Veteran Hungarian writer -
director Enyedi returns to feature
films after 18 years
with this unconventional
love story.
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino,
director) This
film has a very lush texture, as you would expect from the
director of I Am
Love, the
film he made
with Tilda Swinton in 2009.
Goofy and entertainingly cartoonish, the seriousness and the darkness of the original is nowhere to be found in this latest action - adventure bonanza — a strength and a weakness at the same time depending on your
love for the original
film —
with director Jake Kusdan ensuring that a steady pace of undertakings and jokes is kept throughout its reasonable runtime.
l
loved the way the
director moved between each character showing their foibles and lies and sense of self destruction.The 13 year old is the star of this
film with her sad, cold desperation but allied to a very sharp intelligence..
Not bad at all.this
film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror
director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror
film that actually deals
with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror
film, I consider this a drama / horror
film, cause that is what it is, and I
love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals
with the people he's after anf even deals
with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...
Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid,
Love) breathe life into the genre
with Focus, a frisky con
film with plenty of flashy diversion, compliments of leads Will Smith and Margot Robbie keeping you from seeing too far beneath the surface.
The cinematography was gorgeous and well deserving of the Oscar and no other
director around today could have made this as special as Marty did
with his
love for
film preservation.
Director Richard Ayoade «s new
film is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky «s «The Double `, starring Jesse Eisenberg (who worked
with Allen on «To Rome
with Love «-RRB-.
From the washed - out greys and blues of its visual palette in the very opening moments, and
with nary a colour traditionally linked to passion present during its entire runtime, United States of
Love might seem like a deliberately ironic English title for Polish
director Tomas Wasilewski's latest
film.
LIFE marks his sixth project
with director Daniel Espinosa, having previously composed music for his
films Babylonsjukan, Outside
Love, Snabba Cash, and Child 44, and the Danish short
film The Boxer, which was his first work as a composer.
The rest of the DVD includes a commentary
with the
film's co - writers /
directors Friedberg and Seltzer (who continue to showcase their lack of humor), a separate audio track («Breaking Wind»)
with additional fart and burb sounds, several featurettes of the cast / crew riffing on - set («Everyone
Loves the Beaver,» «Epic Porn,» «Hot or Not,» «What Makes Aslo So Irresistible?»)
It's hard to believe that any
film that starts so promisingly,
with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the
film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a
director way, way too much in
love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.
This is really Tom Tykwer's (Perfume, Paris I
Love You) showcase, and what the
film lacks in terms of exciting and novel plotlines, it makes up for
with the
director's more realistic approach to the action, where the hero can get hurt, characters aren't always living or dying on cue, and one bullet isn't enough to kill every nameless henchman instantly.
«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature
director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like
Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the
film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea
with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.
There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the
director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in
love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his
films.
The
love was quite well spread
with Lee Chang - dong's «Burning» taking the FIPRESCI prize, Lukas Dhont's «Girl» the Camera d'Or (best first
film), Gaspar Noe's «Climax» winning the
Director's Fortnight section, and Ali Abbasi's Border» the Un Certain Regard award.
The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many
with the
director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal
with public attention regarding the violent content in their
films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his
love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).
Director James Ponsoldt gives us all of the teen awkwardness and curiosity
with none (or at least very little) of the melodrama, and Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley are spectacular leads; though the
film is primarily about Sutter, Woodley steals the show
with her quiet
love and concern that manifest themselves so plainly in her every expression.
Brad Liberti sits down
with James Bond himself, Pierce Brosnan, along
with his gorgeously talented costar, Trine Dyrholm, and Oscar - winning
director, Susanne Bier, to discuss their new
film, «
Love is All You Need».
And there were two
films, Barrier and Le Départ, from the Polish
director Jerzy Skolimowski, whose Deep End has become a much -
loved repertory pick (and whose Four Nights
with Anna screened in the 2008 edition of NYFF).
Allison Janney bumped into Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri writer -
director Martin McDonagh, who began regaling her
with how much he
loved her
film I, Tonya.
With a 30 minute running time, it goes by way too fast but it is a great documentary that highlights the joy that Scorsese had in making the film with his cast and crew and how much they all loved going to work with the masterful direc
With a 30 minute running time, it goes by way too fast but it is a great documentary that highlights the joy that Scorsese had in making the
film with his cast and crew and how much they all loved going to work with the masterful direc
with his cast and crew and how much they all
loved going to work
with the masterful direc
with the masterful
director.
Mijke de Jong (
Director / Writer, The Netherlands) has shown great social engagement in her work over the past 25 years: starting
with her co-authored feature
film debut,
LOVE HURTS (1992), which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno, through to her latest
film, LAYLA M. (2016).
He has worked
with Marshall in all of the
director's
films, beginning
with «Young Doctors in
Love» and going on to include «The Flamingo Kid,» «Nothing in Common,» «Runaway Bride,» «The Princess Diaries» and «The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement» and last year's hit «Valentine's Day.»
Some of the best - received
films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis
with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming
love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,»
with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best
director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan,
with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.
For Iranian - born Swiss
director Barbet Schroeder, venturing into the picturesque Mediterranean paradise that is Ibiza is something he is familiar
with, shooting his 1969 debut
film «More» in the country, now famed for its exuberant party life and strong
love dedication to the hypnotic epidemic of electronic dance music.
Luca Guadagnino's wonderful and erotic
love story Call Me by Your Name is in there
with solid recognitions for best
film and best
director, but again this
film might have to content itself
with what looks like, in footballing terms, mid-table respectability.
Now that
director Steven Soderbergh has established himself as a Prestigious and Important American Director with his message films Erin Brockovich and Traffic, he can get back to making the same top - notch entertainments that we loved him for in the first place, like Out of Sight and Th
director Steven Soderbergh has established himself as a Prestigious and Important American
Director with his message films Erin Brockovich and Traffic, he can get back to making the same top - notch entertainments that we loved him for in the first place, like Out of Sight and Th
Director with his message
films Erin Brockovich and Traffic, he can get back to making the same top - notch entertainments that we
loved him for in the first place, like Out of Sight and The Limey.