Sentences with phrase «movie wide eyes»

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It is home to iconic signs from movies like Eyes Wide Shut, The Dark Knight, Judge Dredd, Superman, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

It's equally clear, however, that the film peaks with this section, which, given that the movie progresses for an additional hour or so, ensures that Eyes Wide Shut's second half suffers from a padded - out feel that is, to put it mildly, regrettable.

It's clear immediately that Eyes Wide Shut is dripping with Kubrick's distinctive, singular sense of style, as the movie boasts an extremely lush visual sensibility that's immediately hypnotic and also, at the outset, compensates for the decidedly deliberate storytelling.

Virtually all the ingredients that have made Studio Ghibli movies so appealing around the world — a wide - eyed young protagonist, a freewheeling supernatural adventure and clean, colorful animation drawn by hand — combine to form the first feature from Studio Ponoc, a new independent Japanese anime company formed by Ghibli veterans to carry on the -LSB-...]

The movie's overall impact is ultimately heightened by its extremely memorable (and extremely Kubrickian) atmosphere, which does, in the end, compensate for the various flaws contained within Eyes Wide Shut's 159 minute running time.

And after EYES WIDE SHUT, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, A STIR OF ECHOES, SOUTH PARK THE MOVIE and AUSTIN POWERS 2....

I've gotten to he age where movies like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, that I used to hate, seem MUCH more interesting than much of the stuff being put out today - Eyes Wide Shut included.

Meanwhile, the movie brews a fine tension between the limits of parental largesse and Chris's own independence, while a disquieting number of black servants look on like wide - eyed zombies.

The mood's mostly pretty dour, which leaves the audience particularly grateful for those who provide comic relief: Dave Bautista's growly Drax, who in one scene is practicing the underappreciated art of standing really, really still; Tom Holland's chipper Peter / Spidey, taking it all in with wide eyes; Robert Downey Jr.'s ever - grumpy Tony Stark / Iron Man, who's pretty sick of Peter's pop - culture references (particularly «a really old movie called «Alien»»).

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.

Eyes Wide Shut is often a funnier movie than its solemn critics appear to have recognized.

The Disaster Artist recasts The Room as a triumph of the human spirit — proof that two wide - eyed dreamers can make a movie, no matter how nonsensical the plot, how disjointed the dialogue, and how inexperienced its filmmaker.

But it could be sublimely stupid; I've enjoyed dumb movies before and will again, and this is the sort of premise that is so wide - eyed nuts that it could conceivably make for something entertaining were it constructed with a loose tone and fun action.

Until the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, no one in Hollywood had heard of Anya Taylor - Joy, a wide - eyed teenager from Miami, Florida starring in the low - budget horror movie The Witch.

Marvin Humes talks about JLS» new 3D movie Eyes Wide Open and reveals an unlikely fan - actress Judi Dench.

Noah Baumbach prefaced his bizarre, yet wildly intelligent selection by explaining, «When Jake [Perlin] asked me if there was a double feature I'd like to present at his new theater, I said, «That's easy, «Eyes Wide Shut» (1999) and «Babe: Pig in the City»... Both movies take place in strange alternate cities.

There's not much I need to say about Kubrick — he was a visionary in both form and content, constantly pushing the envelope on what he could put in movies, from the Cold War satire of Dr. Strangelove, the ultraviolence of A Clockwork Orange and the bloody glee of The Shining, to the sexual obsessions of Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut.

Join VIKAR (James Franco), a wide - eyed innocent in love with the movies, on one wicked trip to the heart of a pulsating, kaleidoscopic Hollywood.

Since none of the children exhibits a whit of charisma, the only thing that makes the movie even slightly bearable is Lewis Black's game performance as the exasperated Mr. Porter, a role which called for a combination of pratfalls, popping his cork and wide - eyed reaction shots.

Since earning an Oscar nomination on his first collaboration with Crowe, Cruise had tested his movie stardom on movies riskier than his running string of blockbusters: a supporting role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the lead in Stanley Kubrick's final work, Eyes Wide Shut.

Wright surrounds Oldman with masterful supporting players: Kristin Scott Thomas, who gets only enough time to make you wish that her arch Clemmie Churchill had a movie of her own (somebody please make this movie); Lily James as a wide - eyed young secretary to the prime minister; Ben Mendelsohn's King George VI, struggling with a speech impediment (which Mendelsohn is careful not to overplay) and with events he can not control.

The ever - resourceful actress transforms what could have been a thin character into the movie's tremulous, wide - eyed, honey - voiced heart.

In her very first movie, the 21 - year - old Béatrice Dalle delivered a career - defining performance which transcends mere pouting petulance to embody a wide - eyed, crockery - smashing, blade - wielding, bush - flashing rage to live.

Once the movie gets through explaining the rules of improv with a borderline - embarrassing wide - eyed earnestness, it settles into an exploration of what happens when one person from a tightly knit six - member comedy group gets close to a plum spot on Saturday Night Live (it's called Weekend Live, presumably for permission to speak freely, but the differences pretty much end with the name).

The realization that the movie misses the point comes fairly early, as we meet our constant narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire, eyes wide and mouth agape).

This doesn't necessarily mean he was always ahead of his time: one of the best things about Eyes Wide Shut — evident in such artisanal qualities as the old - fashioned sound track, the grainy photography, and the exquisite color balances (such as the dark blue lighting of a bathroom behind one of Kidman's monologues)-- is that it isn't a film of the 90s in most respects but something closer to what movies at their best used to be.

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The first trailer certainly looked to lean in to the wide - eyed sense of awe found in movies like Alice in Wonderland and The Chronicles of Narnia, and this image keeps that whole Wizard of Oz vibe going strong.

There are masks in «Minority Report,» «Eyes Wide Shut,» and «Vanilla Sky,» and they serve a key purpose in all four «Mission: Impossible» movies (movies, it just so happens, that Cruise also produces).

«As in a movie poster, using quick, hectic brushstrokes, Jacqueline de Jong sought to create a dramatic sketch of a situation, to capture the literally sensational of the criminal moment, with image and typography in shreds, concentrated into the classic mythical constellation of man and woman or trench coat and hat, coloured with the signs of fear — wide open eyes, the hand clutching the forbidden, blood on the knife blade, flame spewing from the barrel of the revolver, a last kiss between monster and victim.»

Just as how in the ancient movie «Eyes Wide Shut» the password «fidelio» gave access to a... Read More

No your eyes are not deceiving you... this is an extra wide width deckchair, with enough room for two — the ultimate open - air movie screening seating.