Sentences with phrase «obscure films like»

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In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.

Given its pedigree, American Hustle could never be considered an obscure film, but it is that rare thing: a studio movie that feels like a revelation.

But while centering a film on the bad guys may sound like a cool idea, it's massively hampered by the fact that the Suicide Squad team is mostly comprised of D - list characters (like Killer Frost and Captain Boomerang) so obscure that they're every bit as expendable as Waller claims them to be.

Richard III's period cultural roots are rather cleverly laid out throughout the film, with Lady Anne's (Kristen Scott Thomas) first appearance on the screen evocative of the grand dames of the silver screen, like an Ingrid Bergman or Marlene Dietrich: a dark coat and a fur draped around her, a hat partially obscuring her face, and the morgue she walks through smoky and opaque.

Nonetheless, those redoubtable boutique labels like the Criterion Collection and Arrow Video are still fighting the good fight: dedicated to rescuing the oddball and the obscure, treating them to rejuvenating digital brush - ups, and leavening them with contextual supplements worthy of any film - school curriculum.

Clips of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and From the East (1993) are here, of course, but I was drawn to bits of more obscure films, like the black - and - white short film J'ai faim, j' ai froid (1984) and the TV film Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1993).

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

I appreciated the fact that emerging actors starred in the film, together with well known ones like The Rock or Jack Black, however, I must also say that the well known actors have not obscured the emerging ones, which is great!

I've often wondered how a film starring substantial, popular actors like John Cusack (One Crazy Summer, Stand by Me) and Tim Robbins (Bull Durham, Top Gun) could remain so obscure to the majority of video renters that the majority of video stores don't even carry it.

Popular titles like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Citizenfour from Johnson's frequent collaborator Laura Poitras, the latter of which makes a wonderfully obscure and unexplained appearance yet which only proves how impressively that doc was filmed.

The streaming giant has made waves with documentary series like Making a Murderer, been Oscar - nominated for riveting films like 13th and Virunga, and compiled hundreds and hundreds of the most obscure, emotional, and bizarre documentaries available in the world.

After all, other than Boyhood, the critics have mostly embraced either foreign films like Ida or movies way too obscure for Oscar voters, like Under the Skin.

I think I've been very vocal about films, however obscure or fringe, that I've liked over the years so I'd appreciate your not confusing the circumstances.

Into the White Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Since Harry Potter we've seen much of Hermione and Harry in various films, but Ron (Rupert Grint) has chosen much more obscure projects like this little indie about British and German airmen shot down over snow - covered Norway and forced to cohabitate in a small mountain cabin until it is safe to travel.

Shape, like almost every movie ever made in Hollywood, was hit with a lawsuit where someone thought the film was based on an obscure short.

True film buffs will want to hunt down the more obscure movie scenes too, like the medical supply store that doubled as Naomi Watts» newspaper office from The Ring Two, and the house where Ally Sheedy's character meets robot Number Five in Short Circuit.

AC Chronicles Russia, like any other Assassin's Creed game, focuses on an obscure character you might have seen from a comic book or film, in this case, Nikolai Orelov, the Russian assassin from the Assassin's Creed: The Fall and Assassin's Creed: The Chain comics.