Sentences with phrase «much earlier films»

Psycho II, Gregory's Two Girls and Texasville, to name only three disparate examples, were all superfluous post-scriptums to much venerated, much earlier films.

There's an odd sense of deja vu to Bruce LaBruce's latest provocation, recalling not just some of his own prior joints (notably 2004's «The Raspberry Reich») but tongue - in - cheek fantasies of much earlier films featuring the overthrow of patriarchy — the nearly half - century - old likes of John Waters» «Desperate Living» and the Warhol - Morrissey «Women in Revolt,» in particular.

There's an odd sense of deja vu to Bruce LaBruce's latest provocation, recalling not just some of his own prior joints (notably 2004's «The Raspberry Reich») but tongue - in - cheek fantasies of much earlier films featuring the overthrow of patriarchy — the nearly half - century - old likes of John Waters» «Desperate Living» and the Warhol - Morrissey «Women in Revolt,» in -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

«The reality is that film doesn't matter nearly as much to the stocks of media conglomerates as it previously had,» wrote Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and George Hawkey in a report earlier this year.

June says Lightwave now works with several other studios, «much earlier in the creative process» — during the making of the film as well as in the formation of marketing plans.

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

We spent so much time breastfeeding in those early months and I wanted to capture some of that special time on film.

Having just watched Microbirth I thought I would point out the much of the film is about microflora in the gut and on the skin and the longterm health outcomes of early immune system damage / lack of development.

I appears the programme will be filmed much earlier than usual, at around 17:00 BST.

I want to thank Bear from Lolli & Pops for sponsoring the candy bar, Joann and Marilyn for showing up early and helping, Emily for taking these photos and helping set up and clean up, Laura for filming the «get ready with me» video... (coming soon) Glam Squad for getting me ready - specifically Erik and Christopher who made me feel so beautiful and relieved a lot of stress, Roger for his undying support, all of my friends for coming and my beautiful mom for driving 6 hours to, not only come to my premier party, but to scrub my kitchen and help me set up... I am so grateful and genuinely touched that you all care and put so much effort into a big day for me.

(Er, well, this might not apply to Aardman's most recent film, Shaun the Sheep Movie, but even that one hangs together much better than Early Man does.)

The acting is stronger than the rest of the film itself, which sports far too much shaky camera work and a conclusion that is obviously foreshadowed by the appearance of a gun early on.

It comes in a thin, clear, plastic, protective case which houses a 3D Blu - ray case in the shape (the film's star) Emmett; much like that of earlier Simpson DVD releases.

But perhaps one of the reasons why this film is so fascinating is that it delves deeply into the formative episodes in Napoleon's early life and gives as much importance to them as to his later actions on the battlefield in Italy, his tenure as emperor, and his subsequent exile, return, and exile.

The Sword in the Stone painted Arthur as a reluctant weed more than forty years earlier, and for all the baggage that Wolfgang Reitherman brings with him, it is a much better film.

The film rightly gives much attention to the Cree - Canadian folk singer Buffy Sainte - Marie, who discusses the banning of her song Universal Soldier in the early 1960s, and how things have changed since then and how things have not.

Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Farhadi's latest pivots on a disappearance (in this case a kidnapping) much like his 2009 film About Elly, but CineVue's Joe Walsh believes it «lacks the subtlety of his early work, yet he still shows he has the ability to deliver devastating blows that leave you stunned.»

Perry has been prone to pretension in his earlier films like Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, and he hasn't shown much instinct for dramatic tension.

While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them — early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail — he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double - fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car.

All things considered, I got more fun out of the much maligned earlier attempt of bringing characters from the show to film, Boris and Natasha.

I was n`t actually expecting much from this film as I «d seen the trailer earlier, but as soon as I saw it, I took my words back.

The other major flaw is that so much time was spent in this movie on it's stylistic looks which as i said earlier were flawless but so much time and effort was spent on these that it seems to have taken away from the character development side of the film.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

Not quite the clean, elegant creation that his earlier films were, The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.

The earlier Walker began his screen career with pioneering film companies such as Kalem and Thanhouser and reached stardom as Viola Dana's leading man in Blue Jeans (1917), a charming bit of Americana directed by the much - neglected John D. Collins.

Tom Wilkinson's (Batman Begins, The Patriot) character was pushed too much earlier in the film so that you could almost predict his true intentions.

The only interesting aspect of the film are the Sommers regulars that pop up every now and again (Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor and Brendan Fraser), and it merely serves to remind us just how much better his earlier films were.

There's not much more to reveal, though the source also re-confirms earlier reports that Javier Bardem will play the movie's villain, adding that much of the filming will take place in South America.

As much as The Mummy's early scenes draw inspiration from the spirit of old Universal monster movies, the film's clearest touchstone is the 1999 reboot.

Greg Nava, Errol Morris, Mira Nair, John Sayles, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Robert Zemeckis, Jane Campion, Ramin Bahrani owe much of their careers to Roger's early — and sometimes relentless — advocacy for their films.

Alone among his critical colleagues who became filmmakers, he insisted from the beginning that his writing and filmmaking were essentially alternate vehicles for the same discourse; his early movies functioned as film criticism the same way his reviews anticipated much of his filmmaking.

This film, and his performance, have regained much of the momentum they lost early in Oscar season and now seem like strong threats all around.

I was a big fan of Eastwood's Unforgiven, because it was a gritty, violent film in which the actor effectively deconstructed the stylized superficiality present in much of his earlier Western filmography.

The trailer indicates that Ridley's film is as much a work of Impressionism about Hendrix's experience performing as part of the 1960s London music scene as anything else - a sentiment backed up by the early reviews, with the Seattle Times» Moira Macdonald calling the movie «a mood piece, not a biopic» in her overall positive critique.

However, it seems his general impatience and argumentative nature was as much to blame as his substance abuse for any unevenness in the later films (this problem was apparent in the earlier films too when he was, according to Hanna Schygulla, weary of drugs).

On the one hand, [modular narrative films] hark back to much earlier innovations of modernist literature and cinema.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

But — ironically for a film so concerned with repetition — too much of Limits feels recycled from Jarmusch's earlier, better films.»

This seemingly innocuous film is socializing young children into violence as a way to solve problems from a very early age, much like other animated films, such as «Wreck - It - Ralph» in 2012.

Unfortunately, it seems that this R4 version might have been mastered from an older video transfer - in fact, this looks very much like the original home video transfer of the film done back in the early 1990s, which at the time was state - of - the - art but pales in comparison to what's possible today.

But while that film, a teen romance set in the early 1970s, was a rather intimate, small - scale film, Assayas has come up with something much grander with «Something In The Air» (or «Apres Mai»).

Three elements in a long film, a film that wouldn't enlighten us much about Vietnam even if Platoon — or the earlier Go Tell the Spartans (soon to be released)-- did not exist.

The film was directed by Stan Dragoti (Love at First Bite) but was an Aaron Spelling production, so there's very much a late «70s, early «80s television sitcom feel to the film.

Perhaps more than a few Christians were heartened as much by Schrader's path to success as by the early films to which he contributed.

Achieving moments of lyrical beauty seldom before attempted, much less reached, in his earlier films, Rosi here appears to be moving beyond a politically - inspired cinema and more towards an investigation of private spheres of experience.

Based on one of the early cases taken up by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall when he was working for the NAACP, the film proceeds without much subtlety, though with a filigree of witty dialogue and Chadwick Boseman's panache as the wry, natty young attorney.

Cox's style is a step beyond camp into a comedy of pure disgust; much of the film is churlishly unpleasant, but there's a core of genuine anger that gives the project an emotional validation lacking in the flabby American comedies of the early 80s.

But curiously, Whannell (who scripted both prior «Insidious» films, as well as the Wan - directed «Saw» and «Dead Silence») sidelines those amiable folks for much of «Chapter 3,» which takes place «a few years» before the events of the earlier films.

Much preferred the director's earlier film «I Am Love».

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.