Much has been
made of the film shifting Hollywood's attention toward the middle - aged — meaning, in their terms, anyone 20 or older.
Not exact matches
After all, there's a reason why a movie about an eccentric scientist who transforms a beat - up DeLorean into a
make -
shift time machine has become one
of the most iconic
films of all time.
When rolls are being changed, say, once every 20 minutes, as may be the case with pre-applied zipper
film, that time adds up — over an hour and a half
of production time lost in a single 8 - hour
shift on a single line,» says Chris Graff, vice-president
of sales and marketing at the Massachusetts - based Butler Automatic Inc. «That's an hour and a half's worth
of packages not being
made, shipped and sold from that line during each
shift.»
Pre-applied zipper packaging
film makes reclosable feasible While many companies can benefit from packaging their products in reclosable packages, many may not consider
making the
shift from other types
of packages due to the perceived high cost.
While it's not a perfect
film by any means — a lack
of catchy musical numbers and a questionable
shift of focus in the
film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept
make it a fun time at the movies for viewers
of all ages.
Working with an insanely talented crew that also includes cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto («Babel,» «Brokeback Mountain»), Affleck has
made a
film that features multiple locations, dozens
of speaking roles, and the kind
of tonal
shifting that veterans routinely screw up and he's not only dodged the many potential pitfalls but
made a modern classic by doing so.
Making his
shift from stage theater and TV to
film, debuting director Rupert Goold, who wrote the screenplay with David Kajganich,
makes it clear that he trusts the facts and implications
of the story he's telling.
The Troma style perhaps predates the anything - gross - for - a-laugh approach
of the Farrelly Brothers (who also
made a
film called Stuck on You), but real seaminess between good - natured gags
makes for a
shifting tone that too often gets beyond the boundaries
of good bad taste into merely tiresome unpleasantness.
The many narrative layers
of this drama should fit reasonably snug in the context
of the plot's progression, but if there is a sense
of excess to the material, then it is stressed by a sense
of episodicity, which sees the
film spending too much time with each segment, yet not enough to flesh them out enough to
make the eventual focal
shifts smooth.
When the
film makes its unfortunate
shift from provocative comedy to drama, it begins to feel like a series
of maudlin music videos interrupted by romance and saccharine uplift.
The media's insistence on
making more
of the
film than a big, enjoyably dumb action movie only highlights the drastic
shift in representation in casting and marketing as a predatory -LSB-...]
Bogart would die less than a year after the
film's premiere, and his understated portrayal
of a reluctant hustler
makes for a rich contrast with Steiger's Method - informed bluster, marking a
shift in the tides
of American
film acting.
During the
making of (Johnny X), everything started
shifting over to digital, but I still wanted to finish it on
film because I feel that
film delivers something (organic) that you still can not quite replicate (digitally.)
The pieces fit together well enough for a cohesive single narrative, but the odd
shifts of interest lead one to imagine that DreamWorks split their resources into four groups and each were responsible for
making an entertaining quarter -
film.
This
shift from acquiring
films at festivals to using festivals to launch already acquired titles
makes perfect sense from a publicity point
of view, particularly for Amazon, which is committed to giving each
of its
films a theatrical release before they stream on its Prime Video service.
The sexuality might be a little less subtextual (though there's nothing explicit here), but the testy,
shifting power plays in the relationship between Tom and Frances, which serves as the heart
of the
film, bring to mind a contemporary update
of Highsmith's work, albeit seen through Dolan's lens,
making it
of a piece with his earlier
films, particularly once Sarah (Evelyne Brochu), the co-worker posing as the late Guillaume's girlfriend, arrives on the scene to complicate things further.
All
of this shows on the screen as The Wolfman comes across as a pieced - together
film of disjointed scenes with glaring tonal
shifts that
makes for unsatisfactory viewing — all sewn together like Frankenstein's monster.
WB has
shifted the release date for a 2020
film, a «Deadpool» featurette showing the
making -
of Colossus has surfaced and more.
The screenwriters
make the assumption that audiences will already have a vested interest in Bond's plight from the very first frame due to the events
of Casino Royale, though the
shift in the tone
of this
film to emphasize brutal action and CGI - laden stunt work
makes tying the two
films together a bit
of a chore.
Because the FDR / Daisy storyline is so inherently weak, the
film shifts its focus to the preposterous notion that a visit to Hyde Park by the King and Queen
of Britain in 1939 secured the freedom
of the world by
making firm allies
of the USA and Great Britain.
Putting this trio in this pressure cooker allows for allegiances to
shift back and forth, and so much
of what
makes the
film work is the attempt to suss out motivations and who might not be telling the truth.
Some
films expand your horizons, some
shift your paradigm, some
make your spirit soar with the possibilities inherent in the human condition and some are so awful that they
make you question the existence
of God.
However, the softness and slightly alien aspect
of an all - female romance within such a bygone era and the
shifts of tensions within the relationship dynamics
makes Carol stand apart from more universal
films of a similar nature.
Having
made dramas that were set in the small worlds
of arthouse film financing (Father Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awa
of arthouse
film financing (Father
Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awa
Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she
shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life
of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awa
of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many
of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awa
of the things that she's taken for granted crumble away.
It's gruelling to see these young men turn on each other in progressively more blunt and bullying ways, yet there is an underlying sense
of jet - black irony that
makes the
film extra compelling, as the roles
of prisoner and guard, bully and victim, test subject and observer,
shift and reverse amorphously throughout.
With a collage
of interviews with real - life survivors following the end
of the
film, it
makes a strange
shift from narrative feature to an almost documentary - like structure that just feels misplaced.
Together with cinematographer Barry Peterson they give us the best use
of tilt -
shift in a comedy
film that
makes the locations look like a game board, and a one - take action scene to rival the one in Black Panther.
At moments, it feels like Tarantino is really trying to say something about the bizarre, angry jigsaw
of people who help
make this country the polarized mess it remains today, but once the
film shifts into an expected cacophony
of violence, whatever that might be slips through his gore - stained fingers.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that
make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling
of dread absent from American horror cinema which
shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple
of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's
film was not the buildup
of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.
However, we've recently seen a
shift in this kind
of thinking and actors who were predominantly known for
film work, such as Glenn Close, James Woods, and Alec Baldwin, have
made a successful transition to TV.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that
make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling
of dread, absent from American horror cinema which
shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple
of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's
film was not the buildup
of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.
Like most
of Linklater's
films, it's largely
made up
of people talking, but with the added interest
of the unique ever -
shifting, never - solid animation style (which he'd reuse with a slightly more standard sci - fi story in A Scanner Darkly).
I'm a defender
of the Oscar season in general — it's a rare chance to
shift the conversation away from superheroes and talking cartoon animals, and onto
films made for actual grown - up human beings.
Looking at Mike Figgis» resume, the bulk
of his
films has been dramatic character studies, so one would wonder why he would suddenly
shift gears and opt to
make a suspense thriller.
There is very little dialogue in the
film, with long stretches playing out in the relative quiet
of sound effects and sparse music that
made every cough and seat
shift in the theater a part
of the building tension.
«The Mangler» is a short story in King's oft - reaped collection Night
Shift (only seven
of its twenty stories haven't
made their way to the screen in some form or another), and revisiting it reveals the
film to be surprisingly faithful to the details
of the piece — another way
of saying that the movie and its source material are equally stupid in their attempts to mine horror from a possessed laundry machine.
The best news is that despite all the talk
of gloom and doom, and despite radical
shifts in marketing and distribution platforms, there are still so very many delightful US indies — and so many stunning original foreign
films — increasingly being
made around the globe.
Halloween III could stand to be much sharper in every respect — it isn't scary or even particularly exciting, and only the villains
make much
of an impression — but once the action
shifts to the dead - eyed denizens
of Santa Mira, the remote town that Silver Shamrock calls home, the
film becomes a sly and creepy indictment
of corporate engineering.
It's also short - sighted, for there are other, more substantial criticisms to be
made of this
film, primarily first - time writer - director Bryan Johnson's wild tonal
shifts.
From the celebrated
film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to
making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies
of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter
of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural
shift.
Presenting early
film footage together with souvenirs created by the artist and workshop participants from Ousedale School and Milton Keynes Arts Centre, the exhibition serves as a
make -
shift souvenir shop, designed to encourage a nostalgic look back at the early development
of The Point entertainment complex.
As reflected by Eric N. Mack, Simon Denny, and Mira Dancy in the
film above, tragedies like Charlie Hebdo and big
shifts from Black Lives Matter to the legalization
of gay marriage, have drawn artists to place renewed consideration into
making work that resonates with not just the art world but the wider world, too.
Addressing the «global, environmental and technological
shifts» changing the United States, here you will find artists like Ei Arakawa and his headpiece structures shaped like Hawaiian and Manhattan islands, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship, a series
of forty - six photographs, and Dashiell Manley's The Great Train Robbery, a multipart installation and video project inspired by the silent Western
film of the same name
made in 1903.
STATEMENT My practice for the past 15 years has been concerned with aspects
of intuitive abstraction which incorporates hard edge and organic abstraction as well
shifting methodologies
of mark
making and spatial narratives that are situated within paintings, collages, photographs, objects, Marquette's, books,
films, wall paintings and works on paper.
Following Los Angeles, Morris embarked on more intimate portrait
films, such as Robert Towne (2005) and 1972 (2008), which
shift the viewpoint from the panorama
of a city to an individual portrait
of one
of its protagonists, as a way
of examining it from the inside out.Following these works, Morris
made Beijing (2008), a
film about one
of the most intricate and ambiguous international broadcasted events
of past years — the 2008 Olympic Games.
In doing so, she creates a complex and multilayered synthesis
of various art forms —
film, dance, and sculpture — while simultaneously meditating on the process through which art is
made, and the
shifting sexual dynamics between men and women as embodied in both the sculpture and Halprin's performative re-imagination
of it.
Vimeo — City
of Samba — Jarbas Agnelli — Carnival's over, but here's a blast from the past (2011) in Rio, five minutes plus
of film given that «tilt
shift» treatment that
makes everything look toy.