Sentences with phrase «movies by a long shot»

While this isn't a perfect movie by a long shot.

It's not a silent movie by a long shot, but it does borrow a lot of silent cinema's language to guide viewers through a series of set pieces designed to jump - scare the fecal matter out of you.

Critics praised the film's commitment to humor, and the chemistry of its stars, with USAToday's Brian Truitt saying «Even tonal issues can't upend the magic this movie taps into putting Thor and Hulk together as new best buddies, whether they're throwing down in an arena or having a bromantic heart - to - heart,» while the AP's Lindsey Bahr said «Thor: Ragnarok is the most fun of the Thor movies by a long shot, but it is still very much a Thor movie for better or worse.»

Not exact matches

It was a mind bender that was filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki who made a bold choice to film the movie as if it's one long tracking shot that lasts for two hours.

Beautifully shot by cinematographer Benjamín Echazarreta, the movie slides into the surreal as Marina imagines herself in a dance club, a glittering version of the woman she longs to be.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

It should not be confused wit that other long - awaited (and still untitled) Terrence Malick movie shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, which also stars Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman.

D.P. Linus Sandgren shoots the many musical numbers, and numerous other scenes besides, in gorgeous widescreen long takes that privilege space and bodies in ways managed by few modern movie musicals.

That's bad enough, but removed from all of that, the movie itself is a slog of repetitious melodrama, unconvincing performances (One suspects Allen went with the first take of each long shot), and over-the-top, neon - based mood lighting (provided by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro).

Before long, Catrin's script has attracted the attention of the War Department (run by Jeremy Irons, who regales the writers with a wonderfully hammy rendition of the St. Crispin's Day speech); her movie might help nudge the United States into the war, which means they get to shoot it in color — and they have to find a role for the hopelessly untalented, but toothily photogenic, Yank war hero Carl Lundbeck (Jake Lacy).

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.

A movie that asks you to laugh at a creep (with whom you're also supposed to identify) murdering innocent young women out of some pathetic attempt at self - actualization better be damn funny, and Lucky isn't by an exceedingly long shot.

That isn't all that Square Enix has in store, not by a long shot; in fact, Square Enix has announced both an anime series, and a CG Movie (akin to Advent Children) based on events that will not be taking place in Final Fantasy XV but may be referenced or alluded to, and will contain backstory that will help fans get deeper into the lore of Final Fantasy XV.

His clips of light slowly crossing a table knife or leaves falling on an empty chair echo Hollis Frampton's shot of a lemon, a six - hour movie by Michael Snow that may at first seem more like an eternity, and the still longer underground film of the Empire State Building by Andy Warhol, and indeed Warhol's last decade corresponded with the Pictures generation.

That's right, Indy series executive producer Steven Spielberg says that the next Indiana Jones movie will likely be the last for aging mega-star Harrison Ford, but it won't be the last movie in the series — apparently by a long shot — and the next Indy could be a woman.