Sentences with phrase «musical as a feature film»

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The wacky «Un Poco Loco» serves as the basis for the film's most purely joyful sequence, a show - stopping musical performance featuring Héctor whisking his bones around like a deranged marionette.

Best known as a big - band leader, Leighton Noble also occassionally acted in feature films, beginning with a small role as an orchestra leader in the musical Gift of Gab (1934).

Okamoto's boundary - pushing film can also be seen as the progenitor of further experimental musical films featured in the series.

In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012).

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

Mel Brooks, who made jaws drop with the audaciously tasteless «Springtime for Hitler» musical number at the climax of his 1968 slapstick comedy The Producers, will be on hand at Los Angeles's Aero Theatre this Saturday, May 5, to discuss both that film and Charlie Chaplin's wartime burlesque The Great Dictator, which are showing as a double feature.

The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).

Now, as the year closes out, Get Out has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

As this new trailer — which is more of a behind - the - scenes glimpse at the production than a proper narrative trailer — reveals, the film will feature a new song from talented musical boy Nick Jonas.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's best screenplays

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Not too many other newly featured things: The Girl on the Train on Monday on IFC, a trio of Judy Garland - Mickey Rooney musicals on TCM on Thursday, The Bishop's Wife getting us ready for Christmas on Sunday, and also Intolerance, which I would rank as my favorite Griffith film.

And as you'd expect from a film starring the Beatles, «A Hard Day's Night» also features some excellent musical performances, with director Richard Lester wisely shooting each one in a different style so that they don't become stale by the time the big finale rolls around.

Original music for «Muriel's Wedding the Musical» is being written by award - winning singer - songwriters Kate Miller - Heidke and Keir Nuttall, as their songs will be joined by the ABBA tunes so famously featured in popular Australian film (which were originally written for ABBA by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson).

· The 1972 original, which has never before been the subject of a feature film, was adapted to the small screen in 1990 as an HBO animated musical with music by composer Charles Strouse..

Eros's nice two - disc edition of the film includes a packed bonus disc featuring all the film's trailers and TV spots, behind - the - scenes featurettes on the film's action sequences and key musical numbers, as well as a collection of 30 complete (but, alas, unsubtitled) song scenes from other films by producer Boney Kapoor.

MS: You went from directing one of the most popular television films of all time («The Boy in the Plastic Bubble») to helming the most popular movie musical as a first time feature film director.

This is a very unique project that features Sanchez's drumming as the main musical ingredient in Iñarritu's film.

This musical drama, a remake of the 1976 film that starred Irene Cara and Lonette McKee, features Sparks in her movie debut as a budding songwriting genius who pens all the hits for her vocal trio that includes her two sisters.

Described as a musical about a stand - up comedian, the film stars Adam Driver and features original songs by brothers Ron and Russell Mael, also known as the cult art - pop duo Sparks.

A sing - along feature is a nifty idea but better known as a «pain - along» in this instance, while a sneak peek at the fresh hell of a stage version of this abortion evokes the modern spectacle musical born of Andrew Lloyd Weber's awful stuff as the soul mate of the Hollywood spectacle film.

Described as a musical about a stand - up comedian, the film stars Adam Driver and features original songs by...

Filmed in aqueous greens and blues, its period design dripping with kitschy nostalgia and retro - futurism, «The Shape of Water» takes its cues from Golden Age Hollywood, including musicals, Bible epics and 1950s creature features, as well as the sleekly optimistic advertising imagery of the early 1960s: Elisa's best friend and next - door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is a commercial artist working on a campaign for Jell - O, the shaky symbolic repository for the time period's most uncertain hopes and anxieties.

«Singin» in the Rain: The MGM Screenplay» also features page - accurate screenplay in text and image formats as well for the film that consistently tops lists as the greatest movie musical of all time.

O'Daniel's feature - length film Night Sky premiered at the Anthology Film Archive in conjunction with Performa 11 as part of the Walking Forward - Running Past show at Art in General, and has been presented with live musical or Sign Language accompaniment at venues including The Aspen Museum of Art; MOCAD (Detroit); NYU; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Museum of Jurassic Technology; and High Desert Test Sites.

It's part of an ongoing series that also surfaced in an iteration in Athen's The Breeder in April, which explores «different modes of storytelling through an improvisational structure of voice, movement, and musical score», and builds on the themes of Tsang's 2014 film, «A day in the life of bliss», which also features Boychild and was exhibited as part of ICA London's July 2015 group exhibition Looks.

This special program is presented in collaboration with Harlem Stage as a part of AFROPUNK The Takeover - Harlem, a week - long series of events featuring live musical performances, film screenings, comedy shows, jam sessions and frank discussions on identity, art and protest.