Sentences with phrase «nostalgia for»

But as off - kilter affecting as we found its nostalgia for a world of charm and dash that really only ever existed in the movies, and as terrific as almost all of the performances are, as a whole package it fell just slightly short of the promise of its parts.

Our introduction to the conflict in Syria is relatively brief — those looking for a comprehensive look at the recent history of the country should read up first — and filtered through our protagonists» nostalgia for the happy, carefree lives they lived there before fear and violence came to dominate their everyday existence.

This year, Warner Bros / Sony / Alcon's Blade Runner 2049 could shatter all records given nostalgia for the original 1982 Ridley Scott film.

Kudos for Shout Factory for not merely cashing in on thirtysomethinger males» nostalgia for a flick which afforded them their first illicit glimpse of some boobies with a quickie release.

The rest of the series doesn't hold quite the same nostalgia for me (although Halloween II comes close, due to it so often being screened back - to - back with the first movie in the weeks leading up to Halloween), but luckily every single one of the films — minus the anomaly of the third installment — feature Michael Myers, for my money the greatest of all slasher - movie killers.

Like the latter film, Something in the Air is shot through with wistful regret, and the nostalgia for political activism and radicalism is as thoroughly critiqued and undermined as the prior film's elegiac ode to the memory storage of everyday objects.

It's the kind of movie that will make some critics instantly want to go and write a long essay — but then we too are probably caught up in our own nostalgia for the 80s and the golden age of theorizing on the wonders of post-modernism.

Getting around the city as Spider - Man fueled my nostalgia for Treyarch's fantastic Spider - Man 2 even though the web slinging mechanic in LEGO Marvel lacks the other game's complexity.

The Pearl Button (El Botón de Nácar)-- Patricio Guzmán, Chile / France / Spain North American Premiere The great Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile, Nostalgia for the Light) chronicles the history of the indigenous peoples of Chilean Patagonia, whose decimation by colonial conquest prefigured the brutality of the Pinochet regime.

While nostalgia for the 1980s has run rampant for years now, in a post-Stranger Things world, movies looking to capture the spirit of the decade and still deliver some thrills and chills need to try a little bit harder to stand out.

I don't consider myself a Sonic fan and I really don't have any nostalgia for the series as a whole.

Ernest Cline's novel gave Halliday a consuming nostalgia for the 1980s, and who better to bring that to the screen?

In it,»80s on screen nostalgia meets a novel about video - game nostalgia for the 1980s.

Everything here — from the haphazard time - travel conceit to the broad plotting to characters whose emotional centers are entirely reliant on our nostalgia for them — is so imprecise that the stakes are virtually nonexistent.

In that way, the film aches with nostalgia for the days where genuinely good men fell into genuinely romantic relationships, not contrived meet - cutes in which the likes of Gerard Butler and Justin Long find themselves flung into... because, script.

Elder Scrolls Online was at E3 2012 in a big way this year, and our own Hillary «Pokket» Nicole caught up with the Game Director Matt Firor (of DAOC fame) to chat about everything from the PVP to the class progression, and nostalgia for past titles in the series.

Indeed, for all of Assayas's personal attachment to this material, Something in the Air isn't significantly more illuminating about the period than something like Almost Famous, which uses the titular song to roughly the same effect, evincing the same impossible nostalgia for a time when everyone was supposedly moving together on one big bus, so to speak.

Director Gil Kenan has resurrected 80s nostalgia for this Ontario, Canada shoot.

Put aside the nostalgia for the past and the optimism for the future for a second, and you'll find that each era provides its own ups and downs, some universal and some unique.

Filled with nostalgia for the kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme park in the 1950s, Bird's film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.

A sequel to 2008's spooky The Strangers in baby - doll masks alone, director Johannes Roberts's generic slasher film flaunts a deep nostalgia for John Carpenter's Halloween and Christine, but scant ideas of its own.

The soundtrack is superb, filled with doo - wop and R&B numbers that soar with nostalgia for a time gone by.

The recent nostalgia for the fighting games of yesteryear is a puzzling trend.

They're artistically conservative, rarely taking risks that would challenge corporate conventional wisdom, and typically harking back with nostalgia for the past.

Legendary documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light, The Battle of Chile) discusses memory, the poetic qualities of cinema, and why slow pacing returns us to the rhythm of life.

Baby Houseman, bubbly sister Lisa (Sarah Hyland) and parents Marjorie (Debra Messing) and Jake (Bruce Greenwood) go up to Kellerman's Resort for a Catskills summer retreat that will make very little sense to a younger generation because somewhere in the nostalgia for an»80s nostalgic take on the»60s, any cultural context has been lost.

He's well spoken and prone to nostalgia for his and Cyril's long - dead mother.

While younger cinephiles may not have the most nostalgia for these actors, this is kind of a big deal for those of us with an unhealthy fascination toward these actors» careers.

For some, this 1973 tale of demonic possession will evoke tender nostalgia for a time when it was still shocking to watch a twelve - year - old girl (Linda Blair) stab her vagina with a crucifix in the presence of her movie - star mom (Ellen Burstyn) and tell a priest (Jason Miller) that his «mother sucks cocks in hell.»

For instance, one would expect the return of Legolas (Orlando Bloom) to kick in some much needed nostalgia for the series but he, worse so than Ian McKellen «s performance of Gandalf, seemingly lacks interest in the role and his apathy shines a bright hole where there ought to be life.

Woody Allen's Café Society is a sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d'ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro — yet always freighted with a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in both Hollywood and New York, nostalgia which the title itself rather coercively announces.

Pitch Perfect 3's main appeal is its fun music and dancing, supported by nostalgia for the first two movies in the trilogy.

Nostalgia for the 1980s has been too narrow in scope lately, focusing on genre pieces featuring kid characters in the horror remake «It» and Netflix sci - fi series «Stranger Things.»

When he walks around the museums and gardens of Paris, he takes in the beauty, but it also provides him with nostalgia for the 1920s and all the amazing writers and artists he never met.

It will also inspire nostalgia for anyone who spent any of their teenage years in the»90s.

Hollywood loves making movies about making movies, and even though Lone Scherfig «s World War II romantic dramedy Their Finest actually hails from across the pond, it's still looking for that sweet spot of nostalgia for classic filmmaking crossed with the hardships of war.

If you have nostalgia for the classic Locust weapon, or just need to have all of the guns, a pre-order will add it to your multiplayer arsenal along with some retailer - specific content.

An interesting theme on the cost of cultural pessimism runs through the creaky plot of Tomorrowland, along with vibrant nostalgia for the era of atoms for peace, the New Frontier and the space race.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, not surprisingly, plays as if it is the first in an intended franchise, though it's not likely to garner the fervor that Transformers generated, primarily due to the lessened nostalgia for G.I. Joe figures as well as Sommers not being as adept as Michael Bay in tapping into the requisite visual appeal and dumb wisecracks (is that an oxymoron?)

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

While this might sound great in theory if you have nostalgia for the 8 - bit era, reality tells a different story.

Now we have the Morrowind chapter of the story, which at $ 40 is decidedly not free, and aims to cash in on nostalgia for the 2002 original, a game which moved the Elder Scrolls IP and the open world RPG genre significantly forward.

What worked for the original was a sense of nostalgia for the»80s (if you get nostalgic for that sort of thing).

There was also a recurring presence of nostalgia for iconic films from the 1980s.

It helps mark a new wave of nostalgia for the «90s that pop culture will continue to pick up on.

In fact, the most interesting thing about Spaceballs circa 2005 is that what was once spectacularly stale — by the time it came out, the first wave of Star Wars mania had passed — now elicits nostalgia for a Star Wars saga that was so classical and (visually / narratively / allegorically) uncluttered as to lend itself to burlesque.

On the contrary, Truffaut publicly defended both his on - screen character and the film he was making, «claiming a nostalgia for films that are not afraid to tell a story and that have no qualms about being melodramatic» (1).

With «Robin Hood,» generations unfamiliar with the Technicolor look can get a really good sampling of why film historians and cinematographers rave and are overcome with a peculiar nostalgia for the color schemes that literally glow, as evidenced from interviews with cinematographers Jack Cardiff and Vittorio Storaro in the excellent documentary on Disc 2, «Glorious Technicolor,» an overview of the company and key personnel, derived from Fred Basten's 1980 book.

It carries an assured kind of natural nostalgia for an old form of animation.