Sentences with phrase «minded viewing of the film»

An open - minded viewing of the film will give you an entertaining evening, especially now that the words «neighborhood watch» are safe to utter again.

Not exact matches

It was that old story that came to mind recently after I had spent two hours and 40 minutes viewing the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ.

I found the film to be an experience unlike any film in recent memory (though a grad - school viewing of «The Seventh Seal» c. 1990 comes to mind), and if it seems rote or (Chrissakes!)

The record of his visit to the nearby Klan stronghold of Cottonwood, for instance, consists mostly of brooding shots of trees — their past use was much on his mind, and he didn't expect the people would want to be filmed — followed by a view of the two - lane blacktop along which he fled after two boys approached him, called him by name, and instructed him to wait because some people were coming to see him.

Part wish fulfillment and part social moralizing, the film never resolves its point of view, but a few of the apocalyptic images stay in the mind.

Upon first viewing «Alice Sweet Alice» it comes across like you average Italian Gaillo / Slasher type film but as it slowly unfolds you begin to realize that it's an indictment of how religious fanaticism can effect the minds of those who are not that stable to begin with.

Illustrated by astounding color and black - and - white images, the book presents the best of this mind - bending genre, detailing through insightful commentary and behind - the - scenes stories why each film remains essential viewing.

While the majority of Irish films of recent years have been photographed beautifully, it is my view that, with a few notable exceptions (One Hundred Mornings and Garage leap to mind), they have suffered from undeveloped scripts.

The film certainly has quite a few problems (Lin Shaye's voice dubbing in the prologue and frequent lazily - written exposition dumps spring to mind), but on a repeat viewing I realized that it does plenty of things right (everything Patrick Wilson, the time travel reveal and the climax).

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

However, when it does work, it works well, touching all of the required bases in order to pay homage to the men and women of the Coast Guard, restoring its reputation in the minds of anyone that views the film that it is much more than a place to avoid more dangerous military service.

The primary reason the film works so well as horror is the same reason it works as the study of a deteriorating mind: Kent's dedication to the subjective point of view of the protagonist.

The ride to here has been somewhat uneven — keeping in mind that my views of each of the films seem to differ from the consensus — but this flick certainly couldn't exist without that which has come before.

I am not sure how a film of this kind may be viewed by the public though, as you need to be very open - minded for that, but....

Keeping in mind that this film has obviously gutted many of the bells and whistles that make reading a Rowling work such a pleasure for millions, as a movie — viewing it solely as a standalone cinematic work, rather than a mere adaptation — it's probably the most successful of the series thus far.

Parallax View is a loose collective of like - minded professional film writers in the Seattle area.

That, combined with the fact that over the years I've become unable to separate it in my mind from «Notting Hill», deemed it well worthy of another watch from my own point of view (although strangely, having now watched it another couple of times, I'm still struggling to pick out some of the differences between the two films).

I really hope that you and others like you (Jeffrey Wells comes to mind), will have some effect in giving this film a strong theatrical life, both here and abroad — it really deserves a bigger audience than films of this «size» usually get, in my view.

When viewing the film, students should keep in mind that the purpose of the film was to encourage American Jews to visit Poland.

From its inception, where you're sitting in a chair, presumably a patient, waiting to view a film projection that is part of your therapy, Rise of Insanity takes you on a thrilling and mind bending journey filled with enough atmospheric horror and tension to keep you on the edge of your seat.